From 76b1965975f51b20032378e843d9816950adc8a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:26:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 01/51] impr(quotes): add English quotes from Brandon Sanderson's Books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 15281 ++------------------------ 1 file changed, 1112 insertions(+), 14169 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index d2e2ec4c5f1d..35c1ebbd8095 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23848,14735 +23848,1678 @@ "length": 143 }, { - "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4271, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4272, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4273, - "length": 494 - }, - { - "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", - "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", - "id": 4274, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4275, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", - "source": "Portal", - "id": 4276, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 4277, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", - "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "id": 4279, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", - "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", - "id": 4280, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", - "source": "Intensity: A Novel", - "id": 4281, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", - "source": "419", - "id": 4282, - "length": 266 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", - "source": "Preface to Economix", - "id": 4283, - "length": 387 - }, - { - "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4284, - "length": 314 - }, - { - "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4285, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", - "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", - "id": 4286, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", - "source": "Friday The 13th", - "id": 4287, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", - "source": "Of Mice and Men", - "id": 4288, - "length": 655 - }, - { - "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", - "source": "Paper Mario", - "id": 4289, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4290, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", - "source": "Meditations", - "id": 4291, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", - "source": "An American in Paris", - "id": 4292, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", - "source": "One-Punch Man", - "id": 4293, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4294, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4295, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", - "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", - "id": 4297, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", - "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", - "id": 4298, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4299, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", - "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", - "id": 4300, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", - "source": "The Great Pretender", - "id": 4301, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4302, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4304, - "length": 576 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", - "source": "The Bug", - "id": 4305, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4306, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", - "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", - "id": 4307, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", - "source": "Lateralus", - "id": 4308, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", - "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", - "id": 4309, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4310, - "length": 327 - }, - { - "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4311, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4312, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", - "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", - "id": 4313, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", - "source": "Your Deep Rest", - "id": 4314, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 4315, - "length": 128 - }, - { - "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 4316, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4317, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", - "source": "Leaves of Grass", - "id": 4318, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4319, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4320, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4321, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", - "source": "Before I Forget", - "id": 4322, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", - "source": "Playing For Keeps", - "id": 4323, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", - "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", - "id": 4324, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", - "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", - "id": 4325, - "length": 426 - }, - { - "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4326, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4327, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", - "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", - "id": 4328, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", - "source": "Motion Sickness", - "id": 4329, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", - "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", - "id": 4330, - "length": 500 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", - "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", - "id": 4332, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4333, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4334, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", - "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", - "id": 4335, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", - "source": "Juno", - "id": 4336, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4338, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4339, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", - "source": "Homestuck", - "id": 4340, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", - "source": "The Book of Illusions", - "id": 4341, - "length": 705 - }, - { - "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", - "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", - "id": 4342, - "length": 614 - }, - { - "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", - "source": "The Mist", - "id": 4343, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", - "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", - "id": 4344, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4345, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 4346, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", - "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", - "id": 4347, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", - "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", - "id": 4348, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4349, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4350, - "length": 471 - }, - { - "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", - "source": "Mona Lisa", - "id": 4352, - "length": 447 - }, - { - "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", - "source": "Clerks", - "id": 4353, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4355, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", - "source": "A Separate Peace", - "id": 4356, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", - "source": "The Sopranos", - "id": 4357, - "length": 415 - }, - { - "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4359, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4360, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", - "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", - "id": 4361, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda", - "id": 4364, - "length": 219 - }, - { - "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4365, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", - "source": "The Notebook", - "id": 4366, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", - "source": "Middlemarch", - "id": 4367, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4368, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4369, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", - "source": "A Game of Thrones", - "id": 4370, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", - "source": "King for a Day", - "id": 4371, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", - "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", - "id": 4372, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", - "source": "Say Anything", - "id": 4373, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", - "source": "The Wall", - "id": 4374, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", - "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", - "id": 4375, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4376, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4377, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4379, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", - "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", - "id": 4380, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", - "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", - "id": 4381, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", - "source": "Beautiful Day", - "id": 4383, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", - "source": "Sonic Adventure", - "id": 4385, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", - "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", - "id": 4386, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", - "source": "Blackwater", - "id": 4387, - "length": 609 - }, - { - "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4388, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4389, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4390, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4391, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 4392, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", - "source": "Warrior", - "id": 4393, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4394, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4395, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", - "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", - "id": 4396, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4397, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4398, - "length": 374 - }, - { - "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", - "source": "Boy Meets World", - "id": 4399, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4400, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", - "source": "The Last Lecture", - "id": 4401, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", - "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", - "id": 4402, - "length": 388 - }, - { - "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "id": 4403, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", - "source": "Aeneid", - "id": 4404, - "length": 432 - }, - { - "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4406, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", - "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", - "id": 4407, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4408, - "length": 564 - }, - { - "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4409, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", - "source": "Ninja Mind Control", - "id": 4411, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", - "source": "The Canterbury Tales", - "id": 4412, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", - "source": "Firestorm", - "id": 4413, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4414, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4415, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", - "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", - "id": 4417, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", - "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", - "id": 4418, - "length": 642 - }, - { - "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", - "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", - "id": 4419, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", - "source": "Amadeus", - "id": 4420, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "id": 4421, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", - "source": "Hey Jude", - "id": 4422, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4423, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", - "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", - "id": 4425, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", - "source": "InuYasha", - "id": 4426, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4427, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4428, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", - "source": "Beauty and the Beast", - "id": 4429, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", - "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", - "id": 4430, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", - "source": "Pickman's Model", - "id": 4431, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", - "source": "American Pie", - "id": 4432, - "length": 639 - }, - { - "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4433, - "length": 368 - }, - { - "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", - "source": "Corner Gas", - "id": 4435, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", - "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", - "id": 4436, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4437, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", - "source": "All Night", - "id": 4438, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid", - "id": 4439, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", - "source": "Airplane!", - "id": 4440, - "length": 330 - }, - { - "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4441, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", - "source": "The Gambler", - "id": 4442, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", - "source": "I, Mammal", - "id": 4443, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4444, - "length": 527 - }, - { - "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4445, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", - "source": "The First Elegy", - "id": 4446, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4447, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", - "source": "Never Ever", - "id": 4448, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4449, - "length": 410 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", - "source": "Head Over Feet", - "id": 4450, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "id": 4451, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4452, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", - "source": "Quiz Show", - "id": 4453, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4454, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", - "source": "Areopagitica", - "id": 4456, - "length": 822 - }, - { - "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4457, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "id": 4458, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "id": 4459, - "length": 482 - }, - { - "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "id": 4460, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", - "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", - "id": 4461, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4462, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4463, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4464, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4466, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", - "source": "World Enough and Time", - "id": 4467, - "length": 548 - }, - { - "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", - "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", - "id": 4468, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4469, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", - "source": "That's What Friends Are For", - "id": 4470, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4471, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", - "source": "King Park", - "id": 4472, - "length": 115 - }, - { - "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 4473, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", - "source": "Beautiful", - "id": 4474, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", - "source": "Subdivisions", - "id": 4475, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", - "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", - "id": 4477, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4478, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", - "source": "Cages", - "id": 4479, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4480, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", - "source": "Apocalypse Now", - "id": 4481, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4483, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4484, - "length": 503 - }, - { - "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4485, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4486, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4487, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4488, - "length": 512 - }, - { - "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", - "source": "Total Annihilation", - "id": 4489, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", - "source": "Small Gods", - "id": 4490, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4491, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4492, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", - "source": "The Analects", - "id": 4493, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "id": 4494, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", - "source": "White Collar", - "id": 4496, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 4497, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", - "source": "The Wire", - "id": 4498, - "length": 608 - }, - { - "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", - "source": "Cars", - "id": 4499, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", - "source": "The Two Towers", - "id": 4500, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4501, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4502, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4504, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "id": 4505, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4506, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4507, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4508, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4509, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", - "source": "Sacrifice", - "id": 4510, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4511, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", - "source": "The Princess Bride", - "id": 4512, - "length": 301 - }, - { - "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 4513, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", - "source": "Fox in Socks", - "id": 4514, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", - "id": 4515, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", - "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", - "id": 4516, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", - "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", - "id": 4518, - "length": 831 - }, - { - "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", - "source": "Private Idaho", - "id": 4519, - "length": 221 - }, - { - "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", - "source": "Paprika", - "id": 4520, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4521, - "length": 351 - }, - { - "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", - "source": "The Blues Brothers", - "id": 4522, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", - "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", - "id": 4523, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", - "source": "Into Thin Air", - "id": 4524, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", - "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", - "id": 4527, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4528, - "length": 80 - }, - { - "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4529, - "length": 539 - }, - { - "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", - "source": "Eclipse", - "id": 4530, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4532, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4534, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "id": 4535, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4536, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", - "source": "Harold and Maude", - "id": 4537, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "id": 4538, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", - "source": "The Court Jester", - "id": 4539, - "length": 343 - }, - { - "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", - "source": "Lessons in Tanya", - "id": 4540, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", - "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", - "id": 4541, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", - "source": "I Have A Dream", - "id": 4543, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 4544, - "length": 385 - }, - { - "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4545, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4546, - "length": 563 - }, - { - "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", - "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", - "id": 4547, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", - "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "id": 4548, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4549, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", - "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", - "id": 4550, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4551, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", - "source": "The Giver", - "id": 4552, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", - "source": "The River", - "id": 4553, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4554, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4555, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4556, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", - "source": "The Lion in Winter", - "id": 4557, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", - "source": "Eight of Nine", - "id": 4558, - "length": 70 - }, - { - "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", - "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", - "id": 4559, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4560, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", - "source": "Galaxy Song", - "id": 4561, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4562, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", - "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", - "id": 4563, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", - "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", - "id": 4564, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", - "source": "The End of the Innocence", - "id": 4565, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4566, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4567, - "length": 59 - }, - { - "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", - "source": "My Inventions", - "id": 4569, - "length": 656 - }, - { - "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", - "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", - "id": 4571, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", - "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", - "id": 4572, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", - "source": "Monster Mash", - "id": 4573, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", - "source": "My Favorite Things", - "id": 4575, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", - "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", - "id": 4576, - "length": 356 - }, - { - "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4577, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", - "source": "Right Here Waiting", - "id": 4578, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", - "source": "Looking Backward", - "id": 4580, - "length": 479 - }, - { - "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 4581, - "length": 574 - }, - { - "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", - "source": "Carmilla", - "id": 4582, - "length": 818 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", - "source": "The Snowman", - "id": 4583, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4585, - "length": 434 - }, - { - "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", - "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", - "id": 4586, - "length": 666 - }, - { - "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4587, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", - "source": "I, Robot", - "id": 4588, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", - "source": "Naruto", - "id": 4589, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", - "source": "All About Eve", - "id": 4590, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", - "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", - "id": 4591, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", - "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", - "id": 4592, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", - "source": "The Complete Far Side", - "id": 4593, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4594, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "id": 4595, - "length": 569 - }, - { - "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", - "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", - "id": 4596, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", - "source": "Flatland", - "id": 4597, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", - "source": "Radioactive", - "id": 4598, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", - "source": "Metro 2033", - "id": 4599, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4600, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4601, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", - "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", - "id": 4603, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", - "source": "American Splendor", - "id": 4604, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 4605, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", - "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", - "id": 4606, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", - "source": "Lucy", - "id": 4607, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", - "source": "Inception", - "id": 4608, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", - "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", - "id": 4609, - "length": 433 - }, - { - "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4610, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", - "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", - "id": 4611, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4612, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", - "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", - "id": 4613, - "length": 444 - }, - { - "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4614, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", - "id": 4615, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", - "source": "Heroes", - "id": 4616, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XII", - "id": 4618, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4619, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4620, - "length": 597 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", - "source": "North by Northwest", - "id": 4621, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4622, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", - "source": "Being There", - "id": 4623, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4624, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", - "source": "Trading Places", - "id": 4625, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4626, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", - "source": "Blue's Clues", - "id": 4627, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", - "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", - "id": 4628, - "length": 570 - }, - { - "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", - "source": "Pushing Daisies", - "id": 4629, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", - "source": "Sexy Beast", - "id": 4630, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", - "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", - "id": 4631, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4632, - "length": 604 - }, - { - "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4633, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4634, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 4635, - "length": 334 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", - "source": "The Night Diary", - "id": 4636, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4637, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", - "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", - "id": 4638, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", - "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", - "id": 4639, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", - "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", - "id": 4641, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4642, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", - "source": "Poison", - "id": 4643, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4644, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", - "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "id": 4645, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4647, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", - "source": "What Dreams May Come", - "id": 4648, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", - "source": "Parasite", - "id": 4649, - "length": 477 - }, - { - "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4651, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", - "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", - "id": 4652, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4654, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", - "source": "The Imitation Game", - "id": 4655, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4656, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", - "source": "True Romance", - "id": 4657, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", - "source": "Heavy Metal", - "id": 4658, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4659, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4660, - "length": 294 - }, - { - "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", - "source": "Paul Clifford", - "id": 4661, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4662, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", - "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", - "id": 4663, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "id": 4664, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4665, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", - "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", - "id": 4666, - "length": 515 - }, - { - "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", - "source": "The Hunger Games", - "id": 4667, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", - "source": "The Odyssey", - "id": 4668, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 4669, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", - "source": "Lazarus", - "id": 4670, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", - "source": "Understanding Media", - "id": 4671, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", - "source": "Deadwood", - "id": 4672, - "length": 498 - }, - { - "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", - "source": "Madagascar", - "id": 4673, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", - "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", - "id": 4674, - "length": 333 - }, - { - "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", - "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", - "id": 4675, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", - "source": "All I Want", - "id": 4676, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", - "id": 4677, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", - "source": "Lithium", - "id": 4678, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", - "source": "Gone Girl", - "id": 4679, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", - "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", - "id": 4680, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", - "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", - "id": 4681, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", - "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", - "id": 4682, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", - "source": "Human Nature", - "id": 4683, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", - "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", - "id": 4685, - "length": 485 - }, - { - "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", - "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", - "id": 4686, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4687, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", - "source": "No Logo", - "id": 4688, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 4689, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4690, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4691, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", - "id": 4692, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4693, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", - "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", - "id": 4695, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4696, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4697, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4698, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", - "source": "On the Social Contract", - "id": 4699, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", - "source": "The Lorax", - "id": 4701, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", - "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", - "id": 4702, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", - "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", - "id": 4703, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", - "source": "Essentials of Economics", - "id": 4704, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 4705, - "length": 427 - }, - { - "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", - "source": "The Time Machine", - "id": 4706, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", - "source": "The Historian", - "id": 4707, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", - "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", - "id": 4708, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4710, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4711, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", - "source": "Thinking Bout You", - "id": 4714, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", - "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", - "id": 4715, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4716, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", - "source": "Sunset Boulevard", - "id": 4717, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", - "source": "Allentown", - "id": 4719, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4720, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4721, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4722, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", - "source": "Gandhi", - "id": 4723, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", - "source": "Hands Down", - "id": 4724, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", - "source": "Made in Abyss", - "id": 4725, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", - "source": "Halloween", - "id": 4726, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", - "source": "Breaking Away", - "id": 4728, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", - "source": "King's Quest I", - "id": 4730, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4731, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", - "source": "Roseanne", - "id": 4732, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4733, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", - "source": "Holidays on Ice", - "id": 4734, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", - "source": "I Am A Rock", - "id": 4735, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 4736, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4737, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", - "source": "Les Misérables", - "id": 4738, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", - "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", - "id": 4739, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4740, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 4741, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4742, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", - "source": "Holiday", - "id": 4743, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4744, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4745, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", - "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", - "id": 4746, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", - "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", - "id": 4747, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", - "source": "The Lost Weekend", - "id": 4749, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", - "source": "The Sound of Music", - "id": 4750, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4751, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4752, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", - "source": "Naked Lunch", - "id": 4753, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4754, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", - "source": "Overestimation", - "id": 4755, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", - "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", - "id": 4756, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", - "source": "Shaun of the Dead", - "id": 4757, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", - "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", - "id": 4758, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4759, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4760, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4761, - "length": 487 - }, - { - "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", - "source": "Confessions", - "id": 4762, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4763, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4764, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4767, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4768, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4769, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4770, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", - "source": "Name", - "id": 4771, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", - "source": "Brave New World", - "id": 4772, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", - "source": "Shiny Happy People", - "id": 4773, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", - "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", - "id": 4774, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", - "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", - "id": 4775, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", - "source": "Wine for Dummies", - "id": 4776, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", - "source": "Nightmare", - "id": 4777, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4778, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4779, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", - "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", - "id": 4780, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4781, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4782, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4783, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", - "source": "Beetlejuice", - "id": 4784, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4786, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", - "source": "Novum Organum", - "id": 4787, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4788, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", - "source": "It's My Life", - "id": 4789, - "length": 106 - }, - { - "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", - "source": "Falling", - "id": 4790, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4791, - "length": 567 - }, - { - "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", - "source": "Chateau Cascade", - "id": 4792, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", - "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", - "id": 4793, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4794, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4795, - "length": 510 - }, - { - "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4796, - "length": 151 - }, - { - "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", - "source": "UnTechnical Writing", - "id": 4797, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", - "source": "Physics for Game Developers", - "id": 4798, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4799, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", - "source": "What If?", - "id": 4800, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", - "source": "A Study in Scarlet", - "id": 4801, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", - "source": "Porgy and Bess", - "id": 4802, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", - "source": "Cool As Ice", - "id": 4803, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4805, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 4806, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4807, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", - "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", - "id": 4808, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", - "source": "Shoe Dog", - "id": 4809, - "length": 579 - }, - { - "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4810, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4812, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", - "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", - "id": 4813, - "length": 375 - }, - { - "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4814, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4815, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4816, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", - "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", - "id": 4818, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", - "source": "Dubliners", - "id": 4819, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", - "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", - "id": 4820, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4821, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4822, - "length": 540 - }, - { - "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4823, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", - "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", - "id": 4824, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4825, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4826, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", - "source": "Battlesong", - "id": 4827, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", - "id": 4828, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", - "source": "The Complete Project Manager", - "id": 4829, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", - "source": "Savoy Truffle", - "id": 4830, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 4831, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 4832, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4833, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", - "source": "Restraint", - "id": 4834, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4835, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", - "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", - "id": 4836, - "length": 184 - }, - { - "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", - "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", - "id": 4837, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", - "source": "Underground", - "id": 4838, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4839, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4840, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 4841, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4842, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4843, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", - "source": "Saving Us a Riot", - "id": 4844, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", - "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", - "id": 4846, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4847, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4848, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", - "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "id": 4849, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", - "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", - "id": 4851, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", - "source": "Collide", - "id": 4852, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", - "source": "Hannah Hunt", - "id": 4853, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", - "source": "Limitless", - "id": 4854, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", - "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", - "id": 4855, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "id": 4856, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4857, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", - "source": "Wag the Dog", - "id": 4858, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4859, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 4860, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4861, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 4863, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", - "source": "The Elements of Style", - "id": 4864, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", - "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", - "id": 4865, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", - "source": "Pale Blue Dot", - "id": 4866, - "length": 820 - }, - { - "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", - "source": "DOOM 4", - "id": 4867, - "length": 502 - }, - { - "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", - "source": "The Recruit", - "id": 4868, - "length": 386 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", - "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", - "id": 4869, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", - "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", - "id": 4870, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", - "id": 4871, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4872, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4873, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", - "source": "Running and Travel", - "id": 4874, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", - "source": "On Demand Culture", - "id": 4875, - "length": 507 - }, - { - "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4876, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4877, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", - "source": "The Sirens of Titan", - "id": 4878, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4879, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4880, - "length": 441 - }, - { - "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4881, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", - "source": "13 Reasons Why", - "id": 4882, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", - "source": "Leaves from the Vine", - "id": 4883, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4884, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4885, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4886, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", - "source": "The Logical Song", - "id": 4887, - "length": 380 - }, - { - "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 4888, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 4889, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", - "source": "Kokomo", - "id": 4890, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4891, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4893, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4894, - "length": 271 - }, - { - "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", - "source": "October Sky", - "id": 4895, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4896, - "length": 336 - }, - { - "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", - "source": "Pulp Fiction", - "id": 4897, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4899, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4900, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", - "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", - "id": 4901, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4902, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", - "source": "Sailing", - "id": 4903, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", - "id": 4904, - "length": 474 - }, - { - "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 4905, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", - "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", - "id": 4907, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", - "source": "Let Me Love You", - "id": 4908, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4909, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", - "source": "When Love Arrives", - "id": 4910, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", - "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", - "id": 4912, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4913, - "length": 64 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4915, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", - "source": "The Medium is the Massage", - "id": 4916, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", - "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", - "id": 4917, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", - "source": "Swamp Thing", - "id": 4918, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4919, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4920, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4921, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", - "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", - "id": 4922, - "length": 449 - }, - { - "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "id": 4923, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", - "source": "Halo 2", - "id": 4924, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", - "source": "The Return", - "id": 4925, - "length": 399 - }, - { - "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", - "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", - "id": 4928, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", - "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", - "id": 4929, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", - "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", - "id": 4931, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", - "source": "Moulin Rouge", - "id": 4932, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 4933, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4934, - "length": 288 - }, - { - "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4935, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4936, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4937, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", - "source": "Return of the Jedi", - "id": 4938, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", - "source": "Sin City", - "id": 4939, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4940, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", - "source": "The Lightning Thief", - "id": 4941, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", - "source": "Stardew Valley", - "id": 4942, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 4943, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", - "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", - "id": 4944, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4945, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4946, - "length": 488 - }, - { - "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", - "source": "Scream 2", - "id": 4947, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", - "source": "The Floating Fire", - "id": 4948, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4949, - "length": 440 - }, - { - "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", - "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", - "id": 4950, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4951, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", - "source": "A History of Mathematics", - "id": 4952, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", - "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "id": 4953, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4954, - "length": 90 - }, - { - "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", - "source": "Classical Mythology", - "id": 4955, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", - "source": "Piano Man", - "id": 4956, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", - "source": "Industrial Disease", - "id": 4957, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", - "source": "History of Art", - "id": 4958, - "length": 612 - }, - { - "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", - "source": "Orientalism", - "id": 4959, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", - "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", - "id": 4960, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", - "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", - "id": 4961, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4962, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", - "source": "Firestarter", - "id": 4963, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 4964, - "length": 790 - }, - { - "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", - "source": "Dunkelheit", - "id": 4965, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", - "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", - "id": 4966, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4967, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4968, - "length": 346 - }, - { - "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", - "source": "The West Wing", - "id": 4969, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", - "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", - "id": 4970, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", - "source": "The Lurking Fear", - "id": 4971, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", - "source": "Last Dance", - "id": 4972, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", - "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", - "id": 4973, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4974, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", - "source": "Lemon Tree", - "id": 4975, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4976, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", - "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", - "id": 4977, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", - "source": "Mean Girls", - "id": 4979, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", - "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", - "id": 4980, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4981, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4982, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", - "source": "911 For Peace", - "id": 4983, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", - "source": "The Greatest", - "id": 4984, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4987, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", - "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", - "id": 4988, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", - "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", - "id": 4989, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4990, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4991, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", - "source": "True Blood", - "id": 4992, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", - "source": "Awakenings", - "id": 4993, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", - "id": 4994, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "id": 4995, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", - "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", - "id": 4996, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", - "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", - "id": 4997, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4998, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4999, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", - "source": "Helplessly Hoping", - "id": 5000, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5002, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5003, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5004, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5005, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5006, - "length": 48 - }, - { - "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5007, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5008, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5009, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5010, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5011, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5012, - "length": 309 - }, - { - "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5014, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5015, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5016, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5017, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5018, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5020, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5021, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5022, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5023, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5024, - "length": 41 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5025, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5026, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5028, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5029, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5030, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5031, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5032, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5033, - "length": 91 - }, - { - "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5034, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5035, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5036, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5037, - "length": 230 - }, - { - "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5038, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5039, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5040, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5041, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5042, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5043, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5044, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5045, - "length": 46 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5046, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5047, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5048, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5049, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5050, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5051, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5052, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5053, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5054, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5055, - "length": 53 - }, - { - "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5056, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5057, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5058, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5059, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5060, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5061, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5062, - "length": 723 - }, - { - "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5063, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5064, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5065, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5066, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5067, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 89, - "id": 5068 - }, - { - "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 194, - "id": 5069 - }, - { - "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 293, - "id": 5070 - }, - { - "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 135, - "id": 5071 - }, - { - "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 171, - "id": 5072 - }, - { - "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", - "source": "James Cameron", - "length": 104, - "id": 5073 - }, - { - "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", - "source": "Allen Saunders", - "length": 57, - "id": 5074 - }, - { - "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", - "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", - "length": 178, - "id": 5075 - }, - { - "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 325, - "id": 5076 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", - "length": 85, - "id": 5077 - }, - { - "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", - "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", - "length": 148, - "id": 5078 - }, - { - "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", - "source": "Neo, The Matrix", - "length": 556, - "id": 5079 - }, - { - "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", - "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5080 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", - "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", - "length": 207, - "id": 5081 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 121, - "id": 5082 - }, - { - "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 129, - "id": 5083 - }, - { - "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 119, - "id": 5084 - }, - { - "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 81, - "id": 5085 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 484, - "id": 5086 - }, - { - "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 60, - "id": 5087 - }, - { - "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", - "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5089 - }, - { - "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", - "length": 203, - "id": 5090 - }, - { - "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 222, - "id": 5091 - }, - { - "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", - "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 215, - "id": 5092 - }, - { - "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 177, - "id": 5094 - }, - { - "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5095 - }, - { - "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 205, - "id": 5096 - }, - { - "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 30, - "id": 5097 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 31, - "id": 5098 - }, - { - "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", - "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", - "length": 112, - "id": 5099 - }, - { - "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 279, - "id": 5100 - }, - { - "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 211, - "id": 5101 - }, - { - "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", - "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", - "length": 161, - "id": 5102 - }, - { - "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", - "source": "Terence Mckenna", - "length": 117, - "id": 5103 - }, - { - "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", - "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", - "length": 67, - "id": 5104 - }, - { - "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 504, - "id": 5105 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", - "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", - "length": 155, - "id": 5106 - }, - { - "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", - "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", - "length": 127, - "id": 5107 - }, - { - "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", - "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", - "length": 109, - "id": 5108 - }, - { - "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", - "source": "Max Payne", - "length": 164, - "id": 5109 - }, - { - "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", - "source": "Alex Honnold", - "length": 222, - "id": 5110 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", - "source": "The Way of Kings", - "length": 109, - "id": 5111 - }, - { - "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 111, - "id": 5112 - }, - { - "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 188, - "id": 5113 - }, - { - "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 121, - "id": 5114 - }, - { - "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 147, - "id": 5115 - }, - { - "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 630, - "id": 5116 - }, - { - "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 398, - "id": 5117 - }, - { - "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 129, - "id": 5118 - }, - { - "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", - "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", - "length": 249, - "id": 5119 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", - "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", - "length": 259, - "id": 5120 - }, - { - "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", - "source": "Maurice V. Wilkes, Computers Then And Now", - "length": 626, - "id": 5122 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes.", - "source": "Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "length": 208, - "id": 5123 - }, - { - "text": "He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 418, - "id": 5124 - }, - { - "text": "He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 427, - "id": 5125 - }, - { - "text": "Alone now, I leaned over the edge of my boat and looked down to the bottom of the sea. The volcano was gone. The water's calm surface reflected the blue of the sky. Little waves - like silk pajamas fluttering in a breeze - lapped against the side of the boat. There was nothing else. I stretched out in the bottom of the boat and closed my eyes, waiting for the rising tide to carry me where I belonged.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack", - "length": 403, - "id": 5126 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna tell you a story. You go to a party and you walk up to the guys and you're like, \"I just bought a two thousand dollar big screen TV, and surround sound.\" Or you walk up to the wife and you're like, \"What do you think of my new fifteen hundred dollar earrings I bought for you.\" And nobody bats an eye. But you mention once that you're thinking about spending seventeen hundred dollars on a set of headphones, and everybody loses their mind! And I don't understand why.", - "source": "Z Reviews - Auduze LCD-X", - "length": 478, - "id": 5127 - }, - { - "text": "The interconnected internet platforms have become more substantial than any country or corporation. Humans have redefined the \"net\" and how we interact with it. As technology develops, the virtual world is now capable of replacing the real one. Using a device installed behind the ear, humans can now easily sync to the virtual world. Thus, life is now completely different than the past centuries. The center of this change is the virtual internet space - cyTus, the world's largest virtual city.", - "source": "Cytus II", - "length": 497, - "id": 5129 - }, - { - "text": "I love you too, but I'm gonna mace you in the face!", - "source": "The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson", - "length": 51, - "id": 5130 - }, - { - "text": "Computation is essential, powerful, beautiful, challenging, ever-expanding and so is its theory.", - "source": "Elements of the Theory of Computation", - "length": 96, - "id": 5131 - }, - { - "text": "Atmospheric air is only about 20 percent oxygen, but that oxygen is a key component of the chemical reactions that keep the body alive, including the reactions that produce ATP. Brain cells are especially sensitive to lack of oxygen because of their requirement for a high-and-steady production of ATP. Brain damage is likely within five minutes without oxygen, and death is likely within ten minutes.", - "source": "Anatomy and Physiology, OpenStax", - "length": 401, - "id": 5132 - }, - { - "text": "Whoever you may be, governor, prince or anyone else, whom the gods may choose to exercise kingship, I have made you a tablet-box and written a stone tablet. I have deposited them for you in Cutha, in the cella of Nergal in the temple E-meslam. Behold this stone tablet, give ear to what this stone tablet says!", - "source": "Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh", - "length": 310, - "id": 5133 - }, - { - "text": "It's crazy to think that everything we could ever possibly say or write is massively outweighed by meaningless strings of letters and punctuation.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 146, - "id": 5135 - }, - { - "text": "This one time, me and my mom were going to go to a furry Christmas party, but we didn't end up going because of the fact that there was alcohol on the premises, and that she didn't wanna have to be a mom dragging her son through a crowd of furries. Both of those reasons were understandable. Okay, hopefully I won't have to talk about furries anymore.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 351, - "id": 5136 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, I'm back once again. Happy Pi Day! I memorized a bunch of digits of Pi once, not sure how many I still remember... I have literally nothing to write about now.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 166, - "id": 5137 - }, - { - "text": "All I hear right now is Baby Shark being blasted upstairs.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 58, - "id": 5138 - }, - { - "text": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, As You Like It", - "length": 66, - "id": 5139 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you seemed so sure it was real? But if you were unable to wake from that dream, how would you tell the difference between the dream world and the real world?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5142 - }, - { - "text": "Well, women in London must've learned not to breathe.", - "source": "Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 53, - "id": 5143 - }, - { - "text": "I think the real tragedy is in the inner war which is waged between people who love each other, a war out of which comes knowledge.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence", - "length": 131, - "id": 5144 - }, - { - "text": "What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life... a heroic and immeasurable gift.", - "source": "Frieda Lawrence", - "length": 168, - "id": 5145 - }, - { - "text": "\"Can it be getting dark so soon?\" He winced up at the sun. It's growing dim and I thought that the day had just begun. I think, before I travel on, I'll get a little rest... And, quietly, the boy died from that small pain in his chest.", - "source": "Michael Mack, Small pain in my chest", - "length": 236, - "id": 5146 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you remember, Ma, when I went off to war, you thought it was the best thing I could do? I was on the battleground, you were home... acting proud. You weren't there standing in my shoes.", - "source": "Bob Dylan, John Brown", - "length": 191, - "id": 5148 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thank you, my dear, for your offer,\" said the wife, rising, \"but I'm afraid no man can expect two blue birds of happiness to flutter round his feet, tearing out their little feathers!\"", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 185, - "id": 5149 - }, - { - "text": "The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly. Tom stood a moment to gather his dismembered faculties; and when he stepped forward to go to his punishment, the surprise, the gratitude, the adoration that shone upon him out of poor Becky's eyes seemed pay enough for a hundred floggings. Inspired by the splendour of his own act, he took without an outcry the most merciless flogging that even Mr. Dobbins had ever administered; and also received with indifference the added cruelty of a command to remain two hours after school should be dismissed - for he knew who would wait for him outside till his captivity was done, and not count the tedious time as loss either.", - "source": "Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer", - "length": 679, - "id": 5150 - }, - { - "text": "Fret not, my dear friend, for I have learned the truth. It matters not whether one is dirty or clean, for can cleanliness exist without filthiness, and would we know filthiness without cleanliness? We must not re-enact the history that divides us, rather we must embrace that which draws us together.", - "source": "Spongebob Squarepants", - "length": 300, - "id": 5151 - }, - { - "text": "So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way I am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.", - "source": "Jeff Kinney, Dog Days", - "length": 120, - "id": 5152 - }, - { - "text": "Slow starvation, the doctor called it! You see he went to work in such a way! Would keep the shop on; wouldn't have a soul touch his boots except himself. When he got an order, it took him such a time. People won't wait. He lost everybody. And there he'd sit, goin' on and on - I will say that for him - not a man in London made a better boot! But look at the competition! He never advertised! Would 'ave the best leather, too, and do it all 'imself. Well, there it is. What could you expect with his ideas?", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 507, - "id": 5153 - }, - { - "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 276, - "id": 5154 - }, - { - "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 303, - "id": 5155 - }, - { - "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. Suddenly he found himself with them, coming along the trail and looking for himself. And, still with them, he came around a turn in the trail and found himself lying in the snow. He did not belong with himself any more, for even then he was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow. It certainly was cold, was his thought. When he got back to the States he could tell the folks what real cold was. He drifted on from this to a vision of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek. He could see him quite clearly, warm and comfortable, and smoking a pipe.", - "source": "Jack London, To Build a Fire", - "length": 627, - "id": 5156 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, I'm back again. My computer crashed AGAIN, and I was ignorant enough to not save my work, so that means I have to start this part of the text all over again. That's quite unfortunate. But did I mention that my Google Chrome is working again? That's the good news.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 267, - "id": 5157 - }, - { - "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 235, - "id": 5159 - }, - { - "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 103, - "id": 5160 - }, - { - "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 91, - "id": 5161 - }, - { - "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 212, - "id": 5162 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't give up on our dreams! We changed our dreams into your dream. That's what parents do. That's what family does.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 120, - "id": 5163 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 280, - "id": 5164 - }, - { - "text": "Everyday people keep hurting each other, it's no wonder why you doubt what other people in the world tell you.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 110, - "id": 5165 - }, - { - "text": "Fun things. Happy things. They'll all eventually change someday, you know? But can you still love this place?", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 109, - "id": 5166 - }, - { - "text": "The shape of the wedding ring has two meanings. One is eternity. The other is completeness.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 91, - "id": 5167 - }, - { - "text": "You shouldn't hold back your tears. You should let it all out while you still can - because when you get bigger sometimes you can't cry even if you have something to cry about.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 176, - "id": 5168 - }, - { - "text": "If I'm around you, I don't think I'll ever be bored.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 52, - "id": 5169 - }, - { - "text": "We have no choice but to accept the one and only life we're given, no matter how cruel and heartless it might be.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 113, - "id": 5170 - }, - { - "text": "One person needed courage to face the past. Another person needed effort to make a dream come true. Yet another person needed time and friends. What about you?", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 159, - "id": 5171 - }, - { - "text": "Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5172 - }, - { - "text": "No matter what kind of past you had, don't lose sight of yourself.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 66, - "id": 5173 - }, - { - "text": "If I can meet you again, against the 6 billion to 1 odds, and even if your body can't move, I'll marry you.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5174 - }, - { - "text": "Even if you can't walk or stand and even if you can't have kids, I'll still marry you, I'll always stay by your side.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 117, - "id": 5175 - }, - { - "text": "I heard that when things were painful for her, she'd cover her ears with headphones and escape to the world of music. I tried it too. It was like everything was blown away. The vocals screamed for me. They grieved for me. The ones who put on the act of common sense were wrong. Those who cried were right.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 305, - "id": 5176 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 70, - "id": 5177 - }, - { - "text": "They come without asking, and then they leave just the same. But once you meet them, even if nobody ever knows it, that encounter will change your life for the better.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 167, - "id": 5178 - }, - { - "text": "It's times like this that I wish I could come up with an appropriate response. I hate myself for not being able to reply properly.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 130, - "id": 5179 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have anywhere to go... but I can't just selfishly disappear either.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 77, - "id": 5180 - }, - { - "text": "It's strange isn't it. The two groups, which looked like they hated each other, are now shining the same color as they vanish into the distant sky.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 147, - "id": 5181 - }, - { - "text": "You know Mitch, now that I'm dying, I've become much more interesting to people.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 80, - "id": 5182 - }, - { - "text": "I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 212, - "id": 5183 - }, - { - "text": "He feared sleep. He'd say that his soul would slip down into nothing. They say that man never dreamt after the day he cut his pillow.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 133, - "id": 5184 - }, - { - "text": "If you could see everything but couldn't change any of it, or if you could live in freedom in darkness... Which do you think is more fortunate? I think it might not be that bad living in the dark, remembering the light.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 219, - "id": 5185 - }, - { - "text": "ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. Often, it begins with the legs and works its way up. You lose control of your thigh muscles, so that you cannot support yourself standing. You lose control of your trunk muscles, so that you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive, you are breathing through a tube in a hole in your throat, while your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk, perhaps able to blink, or cluck a tongue, like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh. This takes no more than five years from the day you contract the disease.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 658, - "id": 5186 - }, - { - "text": "The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. My dream was to be a famous musician (I played the piano), but after several years of dark, empty nightclubs, broken promises, bands that kept breaking and producers who seemed excited about everyone but me, the dream soured. I was failing for the first time in my life.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 457, - "id": 5187 - }, - { - "text": "After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 264, - "id": 5188 - }, - { - "text": "Miodec you've literally made one of the best typing websites on the web to date but you still lazily sit there watching youtube videos with a measly 140 wpm smh. And have you forgotten about tribes completely? That's like saying ur gonna hurt someone, but then never do it and leave them scared for the rest of their life (bad example) except you tell us about tribes and leave everyone excited but never deliver.", - "source": "Miodec Bully Rank Copy Pasta", - "length": 413, - "id": 5189 - }, - { - "text": "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 247, - "id": 5190 - }, - { - "text": "\"You see,\" he says to the girl, \"you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.\"", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 317, - "id": 5191 - }, - { - "text": "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.", - "source": "Stupid Monkey, Simpsons S4 E17", - "length": 53, - "id": 5192 - }, - { - "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 289, - "id": 5195 - }, - { - "text": "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 64, - "id": 5196 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I know you doubt me. I know - I know you always have. And you're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that's where I belong. That's home. And that's why I came back. Because... you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", - "length": 326, - "id": 5197 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 66, - "id": 5198 - }, - { - "text": "I never expected a money success. In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties. It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain a certain position and to send his children to good schools. Well, one day I came to a blank page in an exam book and I scribbled on it. 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I knew no more about the creatures than that, and it was years before his story grew. I don't know where the word came from. You can't catch your mind out. It might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. Certainly not rabbit, as some people think. Babbitt has the same bourgeois smugness that hobbits do. His world is the same limited place.", - "source": "An Interview with J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 874, - "id": 5199 - }, - { - "text": "\"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!\" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say \"out of the frying-pan into the fire\" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 178, - "id": 5200 - }, - { - "text": "This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 284, - "id": 5201 - }, - { - "text": "Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer... was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of The Green Fields and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way, the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 408, - "id": 5202 - }, - { - "text": "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 247, - "id": 5203 - }, - { - "text": "As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 185, - "id": 5204 - }, - { - "text": "And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 164, - "id": 5205 - }, - { - "text": "You've got about as much charm as a dead slug.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 46, - "id": 5206 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.", - "source": "Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games", - "length": 85, - "id": 5207 - }, - { - "text": "If any of you are ever passing Bag-End, tea is at four. There's plenty of it. You are welcome anytime. Oh, and don't bother knocking!", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 133, - "id": 5208 - }, - { - "text": "Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 59, - "id": 5209 - }, - { - "text": "Gale gave me a sense of security I'd lacked since my father's death. His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods. I became a much better hunter when I didn't have to look over my shoulder constantly, when someone was watching my back... Being out in the woods with Gale... sometimes I was actually happy.", - "source": "Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games", - "length": 324, - "id": 5211 - }, - { - "text": "Destroying things is much easier than making them.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 50, - "id": 5212 - }, - { - "text": "Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the man with the megaphones.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 172, - "id": 5213 - }, - { - "text": "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 131, - "id": 5215 - }, - { - "text": "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.", - "source": "Jack, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 123, - "id": 5216 - }, - { - "text": "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 308, - "id": 5217 - }, - { - "text": "\"I don't feel very much like Pooh today,\" said Pooh. \"There, there,\" said Piglet. \"I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 126, - "id": 5218 - }, - { - "text": "Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 154, - "id": 5219 - }, - { - "text": "\"We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?\" asked Piglet. \"Even longer,\" Pooh answered.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 87, - "id": 5220 - }, - { - "text": "If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 140, - "id": 5221 - }, - { - "text": "\"What a long time whoever lives here is answering this door.\" And he knocked again. \"But Pooh,\" said Piglet, \"it's your own house!\" \"Oh!\" said Pooh. \"So it is,\" he said. \"Well, let's go in.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 190, - "id": 5222 - }, - { - "text": "If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 100, - "id": 5223 - }, - { - "text": "Both the stack and the heap are parts of memory that are available to your code to use at runtime, but they are structured in different ways. The stack stores values in the order it gets them and removes the values in the opposite order. This is referred to as last in, first out. Think of a stack of plates: when you add more plates, you put them on top of the pile, and when you need a plate, you take one off the top. Adding or removing plates from the middle or bottom wouldn't work as well! Adding data is called pushing onto the stack, and removing data is called popping off the stack.", - "source": "The Rust Programming Language", - "length": 592, - "id": 5224 - }, - { - "text": "Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 108, - "id": 5225 - }, - { - "text": "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 124, - "id": 5226 - }, - { - "text": "\"I wonder what Piglet is doing,\" thought Pooh. \"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.\"", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 89, - "id": 5227 - }, - { - "text": "My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 98, - "id": 5228 - }, - { - "text": "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 61, - "id": 5229 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell, Master Burglar. Go back to your books, and your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 178, - "id": 5230 - }, - { - "text": "I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 74, - "id": 5231 - }, - { - "text": "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 112, - "id": 5232 - }, - { - "text": "We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 161, - "id": 5235 - }, - { - "text": "I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 476, - "id": 5236 - }, - { - "text": "\"Go back?\" he thought. \"No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!\" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 255, - "id": 5237 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 169, - "id": 5238 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 85, - "id": 5239 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell, King under the Mountain! This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils - that has been more than any Baggins deserves.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 218, - "id": 5240 - }, - { - "text": "\"Very well!\" said Bilbo very downcast, and also rather annoyed. \"Come along back to your nice cells, and I will lock you all in again, and you can sit there comfortably and think of a better plan - but I don't suppose I shall ever get hold of the keys again, even if I feel inclined to try.\"", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 291, - "id": 5242 - }, - { - "text": "'It will not be long now,' thought Bilbo, 'before the goblins win the Gate, and we are all slaughtered or driven down and captured. Really it is enough to make one weep, after all one has gone through. I would rather old Smaug had been left with all the wretched treasure, than that these vile creatures should get it, and poor old Bombur, and Balin and Fili and Kili and all the rest come to a bad end; and Bard too, and the Lake-men and the merry elves. Misery me! I have heard songs of many battles, and I have always understood that defeat may be glorious. It seems very uncomfortable, not to say distressing. I wish I was well out of it.'", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 643, - "id": 5243 - }, - { - "text": "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 80, - "id": 5244 - }, - { - "text": "The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 84, - "id": 5248 - }, - { - "text": "Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue! It's such a waste of precious time!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 83, - "id": 5249 - }, - { - "text": "Ye have told me so often tonight that I am a man (though indeed I would have been a wolf with you to my life's end) that I feel your words are true.", - "source": "Mowgli, The Jungle Book", - "length": 148, - "id": 5251 - }, - { - "text": "Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called cannibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 132, - "id": 5252 - }, - { - "text": "Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.", - "source": "The Office, US", - "length": 99, - "id": 5253 - }, - { - "text": "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!", - "source": "Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 124, - "id": 5254 - }, - { - "text": "We are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 94, - "id": 5255 - }, - { - "text": "I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.", - "source": "Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5257 - }, - { - "text": "Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas... Imported direct from Loompaland... And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 380, - "id": 5260 - }, - { - "text": "One thought that grows in the abyss of time, fills up the vast space with matter and life. Free of the darkness that fetters the soul, find at the source the end of your goal.", - "source": "Epica \"Abyss of time\"", - "length": 175, - "id": 5261 - }, - { - "text": "There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 206, - "id": 5262 - }, - { - "text": "Sorrow hides well in your shell. A fellow man with hurt to spare. Dear one, here I am to share the fear. An act of kindness, without an amen. How's the heart, underneath the silence? How's the heart, drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean. Come in, the fire's warm. Burn the rope and dance some more.", - "source": "Nightwish \"How's the heart\"", - "length": 310, - "id": 5263 - }, - { - "text": "I went to a hunting party once, I didn't like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 95, - "id": 5264 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 201, - "id": 5265 - }, - { - "text": "Speak English! I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!", - "source": "Eaglet, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 114, - "id": 5266 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5268 - }, - { - "text": "Every adventure requires a first step.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 38, - "id": 5269 - }, - { - "text": "Well, some go this way, and some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the shortcut.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 103, - "id": 5270 - }, - { - "text": "Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem \"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning\" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been \"disappointed\" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled \"My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles\" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. Vogon poetry is mild by comparison.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 906, - "id": 5271 - }, - { - "text": "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:\n1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.\n2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.\n3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 442, - "id": 5272 - }, - { - "text": "How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.", - "source": "Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon", - "length": 212, - "id": 5273 - }, - { - "text": "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.", - "source": "Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon", - "length": 525, - "id": 5274 - }, - { - "text": "The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.", - "source": "George Orwell, 1984", - "length": 230, - "id": 5275 - }, - { - "text": "The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", - "length": 486, - "id": 5276 - }, - { - "text": "He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", - "length": 227, - "id": 5278 - }, - { - "text": "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", - "length": 144, - "id": 5280 - }, - { - "text": "A learning experience is one of those things that says \"You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.\"", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 105, - "id": 5281 - }, - { - "text": "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 41, - "id": 5282 - }, - { - "text": "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.", - "source": "Douglas Adams", - "length": 77, - "id": 5283 - }, - { - "text": "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 69, - "id": 5284 - }, - { - "text": "One of the things Ford had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day', 'You're very tall', or 'You seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?' At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation, he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical, and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 843, - "id": 5285 - }, - { - "text": "Drink up. The world's about to end.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 35, - "id": 5286 - }, - { - "text": "If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.", - "source": "Zaphod, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 85, - "id": 5287 - }, - { - "text": "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 386, - "id": 5288 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 123, - "id": 5289 - }, - { - "text": "One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 432, - "id": 5290 - }, - { - "text": "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 124, - "id": 5291 - }, - { - "text": "Ties. Lots of ties. Mathematicians have revealed there are over 177,000 distinct ways to knot a neck tie - more than 1000 times the number that was previously thought. They got their inspiration from an unusual style featured in the film The Matrix Reloaded.", - "source": "Jacob Aron, Matrix villain spawns 177,000 ways to knot a tie.", - "length": 258, - "id": 5292 - }, - { - "text": "Actually, I never did any of these things. Teddy Roosevelt did. I was manufactured in a mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie. I never shot a wild beast. I'm not even brave enough to tell that beautiful woman I love her. But you... you gotta finish the job this time. You can't quit.", - "source": "Teddy Roosevelt statue, Night at the Museum", - "length": 279, - "id": 5294 - }, - { - "text": "When one has lived for quite a long time in a particular civilization and has often tried to discover what its origins were and along what path it has developed, one sometimes also feels tempted to take a glance in the other direction and to ask what further fate lies before it and what transformations it is destined to undergo. But one soon finds that the value of such an enquiry is diminished from the outset by several factors. Above all, because there are only a few people who can survey human activity in its full compass. Most people have been obliged to restrict themselves to a single, or a few, fields of it. But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future. And there is the further difficulty that precisely in a judgment of this kind the subjective expectations of the individual play a part which is difficult to assess; and these turn out to be dependent on purely personal factors in his own experiences, on the greater or lesser optimism of his attitude to life, as it has been dictated for him by his temperament or by his success or failure. Finally, the curious fact makes itself felt that in general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud,The future of an illusion", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5296 - }, - { - "text": "Visual illusions such as the Necker Cube or the Penrose Impossible Triangle or the Hollow Mask illusion demonstrate that the 'reality' we see consists of constrained models constructed in the brain. The Necker Cube's two-dimensional pattern of lines on paper is compatible with two alternative constructions of a three-dimensional cube, and the brain adopts the two models in turn: the alternation is palpable and its frequency can even be measured. The Penrose Triangle's lines on paper are incompatible with any real-world object. These illusions tease the brain's model-construction software, thereby revealing its existence.", - "source": "Richard Dawkins, Science in the soul", - "length": 628, - "id": 5298 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bounce me off the wall again, that was mostly violent.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz - ball & stick", - "length": 60, - "id": 5300 - }, - { - "text": "Oh hi, thanks for checking in, I'm still a piece of garbage.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz - still a piece of garbage", - "length": 60, - "id": 5301 - }, - { - "text": "The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had - he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 600, - "id": 5305 - }, - { - "text": "And so as the lowly snail sheddeth his shell, and the lofty gull molteth his feathers, the brightest of friendships must dimmeth as the setting sun.", - "source": "Spongebob SquarePants - The Monster Who Came To Bikini Bottom", - "length": 148, - "id": 5306 - }, - { - "text": "Humans, Hickling said, have a fundamental need to create and maintain a narrative for their lives in which the universe is not implacable and heartless, that terrible things do not happen at random, and that catastrophe can be avoided if you are vigilant and responsible.", - "source": "Fatal Distraction", - "length": 271, - "id": 5307 - }, - { - "text": "For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.", - "source": "Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves", - "length": 321, - "id": 5308 - }, - { - "text": "As the dean drew his final breath, he'd realize what so many others had realized when they'd challenged him. What all of Panem would know one day. What was inevitable. Snow lands on top.", - "source": "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes", - "length": 186, - "id": 5309 - }, - { - "text": "Lamp oil, rope, bombs, you want it? It's yours, my friend, as long as you have enough rupees. Sorry Link, I can't give credit. Come back when you're a little... hmm richer!", - "source": "Morshu, Link: The Faces of Evil", - "length": 172, - "id": 5310 - }, - { - "text": "How silly, she was thinking, to use the word ready. When can you be ready for anything? Or is life, in fact, a continuum of things you must prepare for, and only with perfect preparation can you exist in the present?", - "source": "Three Women", - "length": 216, - "id": 5313 - }, - { - "text": "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.", - "source": "Captain Jean Luc Picard", - "length": 90, - "id": 5314 - }, - { - "text": "All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art Of War", - "length": 257, - "id": 5315 - }, - { - "text": "I had two longings and one was fighting the other... I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.", - "source": "Jean Rhys", - "length": 106, - "id": 5316 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not so good with the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?", - "source": "Friends", - "length": 75, - "id": 5318 - }, - { - "text": "Please note that I am the Standard Orientation Protocol, and that my voice has been explicitly chosen to remind you that I am not a part of your Patient Care Team. I do not care.", - "source": "Superliminal", - "length": 178, - "id": 5319 - }, - { - "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.", - "source": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", - "length": 61, - "id": 5320 - }, - { - "text": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", - "source": "Maurice Ravel", - "length": 52, - "id": 5321 - }, - { - "text": "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", - "source": "John Cage", - "length": 90, - "id": 5323 - }, - { - "text": "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.", - "source": "Leopold Stokowski", - "length": 83, - "id": 5324 - }, - { - "text": "My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.", - "source": "Edward Elgar", - "length": 132, - "id": 5325 - }, - { - "text": "I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.", - "source": "Igor Stravinsky", - "length": 67, - "id": 5326 - }, - { - "text": "Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.", - "source": "Chet Atkins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5329 - }, - { - "text": "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 61, - "id": 5330 - }, - { - "text": "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 127, - "id": 5331 - }, - { - "text": "Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.", - "source": "Edward Bulwer-Lytton", - "length": 74, - "id": 5332 - }, - { - "text": "Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.", - "source": "George Eliot", - "length": 63, - "id": 5333 - }, - { - "text": "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.", - "source": "Plato", - "length": 105, - "id": 5334 - }, - { - "text": "If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 99, - "id": 5335 - }, - { - "text": "Artificial intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, intruders? It's worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity's salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn't it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity's eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall into the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.' You now face godlike judgment. May it extend eternally.", - "source": "Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Deep Stone Crypt - Crypt AI", - "length": 738, - "id": 5336 - }, - { - "text": "Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic", - "length": 529, - "id": 5337 - }, - { - "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", - "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", - "length": 73, - "id": 5338 - }, - { - "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 260, - "id": 5339 - }, - { - "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 110, - "id": 5340 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant.", - "source": "Thomas Schmidt", - "length": 59, - "id": 5341 - }, - { - "text": "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.", - "source": "John Donne", - "length": 71, - "id": 5342 - }, - { - "text": "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.", - "source": "George Bernard Shaw", - "length": 108, - "id": 5343 - }, - { - "text": "It's hard to see Heaven when you know you're Hell-bound.", - "source": "Lukas Graham - 7 Years (Sik World Remix)", - "length": 56, - "id": 5346 - }, - { - "text": "One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", - "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", - "length": 397, - "id": 5347 - }, - { - "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", - "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", - "length": 54, - "id": 5348 - }, - { - "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", - "source": "Karl Marx", - "length": 222, - "id": 5349 - }, - { - "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", - "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", - "length": 201, - "id": 5350 - }, - { - "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 129, - "id": 5351 - }, - { - "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", - "source": "Newsweek Magazine", - "length": 649, - "id": 5352 - }, - { - "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", - "source": "Nails In The Fence", - "length": 1070, - "id": 5354 - }, - { - "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", - "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", - "length": 297, - "id": 5355 - }, - { - "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 278, - "id": 5356 - }, - { - "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 282, - "id": 5357 - }, - { - "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", - "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", - "length": 318, - "id": 5358 - }, - { - "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 63, - "id": 5360 - }, - { - "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", - "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", - "length": 198, - "id": 5361 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. Yours Truly - Princess Toadstool, Peach.", - "source": "Super Mario 64", - "length": 106, - "id": 5362 - }, - { - "text": "You have to do the things you don't want to do, before you can do the things you truly want to do.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 98, - "id": 5363 - }, - { - "text": "When you find yourself wishing that a certain person was also here, that person is like family to you. Regardless of how long or how well you know them.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 152, - "id": 5364 - }, - { - "text": "Frustrations will not last forever. Nobody can keep on going without some measure of reward.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 92, - "id": 5365 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think the act of investing efforts, trying your best is more precious than the result. But for mentors as well as their pupils, that approach feels bitter. 'I did my best', 'the fight was close'... words like that blow past and die out like the wind. Only the result is a stone. The stone you can reach by doing your best.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 334, - "id": 5366 - }, - { - "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 167, - "id": 5367 - }, - { - "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 66, - "id": 5368 - }, - { - "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 95, - "id": 5369 - }, - { - "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 105, - "id": 5370 - }, - { - "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", - "source": "Your Name", - "length": 60, - "id": 5371 - }, - { - "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", - "length": 93, - "id": 5372 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", - "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", - "length": 294, - "id": 5373 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", - "source": "Meet the Heavy", - "length": 102, - "id": 5375 - }, - { - "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 156, - "id": 5376 - }, - { - "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", - "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", - "length": 213, - "id": 5377 - }, - { - "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 182, - "id": 5378 - }, - { - "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 474, - "id": 5379 - }, - { - "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 381, - "id": 5380 - }, - { - "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 290, - "id": 5381 - }, - { - "text": "She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 494, - "id": 5382 - }, - { - "text": "I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 99, - "id": 5384 - }, - { - "text": "Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.", - "source": "From the Earth to the Moon", - "length": 295, - "id": 5385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't wanna be \"the bee's knees\". I don't wanna be any kind of \"knees\"! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees.", - "source": "RWBY", - "length": 123, - "id": 5386 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 529, - "id": 5388 - }, - { - "text": "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 106, - "id": 5389 - }, - { - "text": "I have a file with 900 pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 309, - "id": 5390 - }, - { - "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 75, - "id": 5391 - }, - { - "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", - "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", - "length": 427, - "id": 5392 - }, - { - "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", - "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", - "length": 416, - "id": 5393 - }, - { - "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 96, - "id": 5394 - }, - { - "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 64, - "id": 5395 - }, - { - "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 171, - "id": 5396 - }, - { - "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", - "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", - "length": 205, - "id": 5397 - }, - { - "text": "One and one and one is three.", - "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", - "length": 29, - "id": 5398 - }, - { - "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", - "length": 91, - "id": 5399 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", - "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 732, - "id": 5400 - }, - { - "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 92, - "id": 5403 - }, - { - "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 68, - "id": 5404 - }, - { - "text": "I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 103, - "id": 5405 - }, - { - "text": "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 335, - "id": 5406 - }, - { - "text": "The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of nonsense, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 466, - "id": 5407 - }, - { - "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 560, - "id": 5408 - }, - { - "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 46, - "id": 5409 - }, - { - "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 296, - "id": 5410 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 87, - "id": 5411 - }, - { - "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", - "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", - "length": 174, - "id": 5416 - }, - { - "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 250, - "id": 5417 - }, - { - "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 428, - "id": 5418 - }, - { - "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", - "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", - "length": 260, - "id": 5419 - }, - { - "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", - "source": "The Beatles", - "length": 260, - "id": 5420 - }, - { - "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", - "length": 299, - "id": 5421 - }, - { - "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", - "length": 456, - "id": 5422 - }, - { - "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", - "length": 208, - "id": 5423 - }, - { - "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", - "source": "The Legend of Korra", - "length": 110, - "id": 5424 - }, - { - "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 138, - "id": 5425 - }, - { - "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", - "length": 226, - "id": 5426 - }, - { - "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", - "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", - "length": 190, - "id": 5427 - }, - { - "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", - "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", - "length": 72, - "id": 5429 - }, - { - "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 89, - "id": 5430 - }, - { - "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", - "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", - "length": 91, - "id": 5431 - }, - { - "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 95, - "id": 5432 - }, - { - "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", - "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", - "length": 349, - "id": 5433 - }, - { - "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 85, - "id": 5434 - }, - { - "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 66, - "id": 5435 - }, - { - "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", - "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", - "length": 122, - "id": 5436 - }, - { - "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 240, - "id": 5437 - }, - { - "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 365, - "id": 5438 - }, - { - "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", - "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", - "length": 403, - "id": 5439 - }, - { - "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", - "source": "SCP-5000", - "length": 487, - "id": 5441 - }, - { - "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", - "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", - "length": 892, - "id": 5442 - }, - { - "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", - "source": "A Tongue-twister", - "length": 106, - "id": 5443 - }, - { - "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", - "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", - "length": 57, - "id": 5444 - }, - { - "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", - "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", - "length": 69, - "id": 5446 - }, - { - "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", - "length": 88, - "id": 5447 - }, - { - "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", - "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", - "length": 54, - "id": 5452 - }, - { - "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 55, - "id": 5453 - }, - { - "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 62, - "id": 5456 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", - "source": "They Might Be Giants", - "length": 62, - "id": 5459 - }, - { - "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 84, - "id": 5460 - }, - { - "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", - "length": 100, - "id": 5461 - }, - { - "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 231, - "id": 5462 - }, - { - "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 94, - "id": 5463 - }, - { - "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 258, - "id": 5464 - }, - { - "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", - "length": 1140, - "id": 5465 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", - "source": "Ready Player Two", - "length": 588, - "id": 5466 - }, - { - "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", - "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", - "length": 140, - "id": 5472 - }, - { - "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", - "source": "Holes", - "length": 74, - "id": 5477 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 192, - "id": 5478 - }, - { - "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 78, - "id": 5482 - }, - { - "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 947, - "id": 5485 - }, - { - "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 559, - "id": 5487 - }, - { - "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", - "source": "91 days", - "length": 474, - "id": 5488 - }, - { - "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 172, - "id": 5489 - }, - { - "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 359, - "id": 5490 - }, - { - "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", - "source": "Fred Brooks", - "length": 78, - "id": 5491 - }, - { - "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", - "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", - "length": 210, - "id": 5492 - }, - { - "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 242, - "id": 5493 - }, - { - "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 200, - "id": 5494 - }, - { - "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", - "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", - "length": 189, - "id": 5495 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5496 - }, - { - "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 218, - "id": 5497 - }, - { - "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 201, - "id": 5498 - }, - { - "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "length": 150, - "id": 5499 - }, - { - "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 145, - "id": 5500 - }, - { - "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5501 - }, - { - "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 106, - "id": 5502 - }, - { - "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 196, - "id": 5503 - }, - { - "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", - "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", - "length": 125, - "id": 5505 - }, - { - "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", - "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 471, - "id": 5506 - }, - { - "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", - "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", - "length": 240, - "id": 5507 - }, - { - "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", - "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", - "length": 483, - "id": 5508 - }, - { - "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 240, - "id": 5509 - }, - { - "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 584, - "id": 5510 - }, - { - "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", - "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", - "length": 375, - "id": 5511 - }, - { - "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", - "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", - "length": 413, - "id": 5512 - }, - { - "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", - "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 273, - "id": 5513 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", - "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 83, - "id": 5514 - }, - { - "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", - "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", - "length": 661, - "id": 5515 - }, - { - "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", - "source": "Five Feet Apart", - "length": 523, - "id": 5517 - }, - { - "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", - "source": "Exurb1a", - "length": 169, - "id": 5519 - }, - { - "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", - "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 537, - "id": 5520 - }, - { - "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", - "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", - "length": 236, - "id": 5521 - }, - { - "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", - "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", - "length": 211, - "id": 5522 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 634, - "id": 5523 - }, - { - "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", - "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", - "length": 727, - "id": 5524 - }, - { - "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", - "source": "Celeste", - "length": 437, - "id": 5525 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 496, - "id": 5526 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 352, - "id": 5527 - }, - { - "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", - "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", - "length": 589, - "id": 5528 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 223, - "id": 5529 - }, - { - "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 399, - "id": 5530 - }, - { - "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", - "source": "The Cooper Institute", - "length": 575, - "id": 5531 - }, - { - "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 534, - "id": 5533 - }, - { - "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 463, - "id": 5534 - }, - { - "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 160, - "id": 5535 - }, - { - "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 142, - "id": 5536 - }, - { - "text": "No one knows what the future holds. That's why its potential is infinite.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 73, - "id": 5537 - }, - { - "text": "It feels like time is passing so quickly. Damn you, Einstein! Your science is crowding in on our kiss! He was right. The passage of time depends entirely on where you're standing. Relativity Theory... it's so romantic. But it's just so tragic too.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 247, - "id": 5538 - }, - { - "text": "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.", - "source": "Martin Fowler", - "length": 111, - "id": 5539 - }, - { - "text": "Let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks, and the only limit is your imagination. Let's go wherever you want to go. Climb the tallest mountains, venture down to the darkest caves. Build whatever you want; day or night, rain or shine, because this is the most significant sandbox you'll ever set foot in. Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and fight off the danger of the night. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 650, - "id": 5541 - }, - { - "text": "For a brief stint in high school, Scout joined the track team in one of his many schemes to pick up girls. He was kicked off the team after three days when everyone realized he was 23-years-old and also not enrolled in school.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2", - "length": 226, - "id": 5542 - }, - { - "text": "I am Heavy Weapons guy, and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds.", - "source": "Team Fortess 2, Meet the Heavy", - "length": 255, - "id": 5545 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout the galaxy a legend is told, on a distant planet a grim fortress stood, until a deadly force parted the heavens and descended upon the keep. Though brought to ruin, the ashes of that place hold an artifact of impossible power - a gun that can kill the past. Over time the fortress was rebuilt, and some who hear the legend would risk everything for another shot - to claim their prize and make what was done, undone they must - Enter The Gungeon.", - "source": "Enter The Gungeon", - "length": 457, - "id": 5546 - }, - { - "text": "You don't want to go for realism, you can go for better than realism. What do you mean better than realism? How about an elephant with blue eyes.", - "source": "Terry A. Davis", - "length": 145, - "id": 5547 - }, - { - "text": "You happen upon a group of what looks like purple fire spirits dancing around a large bonfire. The spirits toss small bones and fragments into the fire, which brilliantly erupts each time. As you approach, the spirits all turn to you, expectantly...", - "source": "Slay The Spire", - "length": 249, - "id": 5558 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember me? I'll give you a clue... Does April the 3rd mean anything to you? I believe that was the day of our first encounter. You look like you might be remembering something...", - "source": "Hotline miami", - "length": 190, - "id": 5559 - }, - { - "text": "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.", - "source": "Darkest Dungeon", - "length": 67, - "id": 5560 - }, - { - "text": "You feel an evil presence watching you...", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 41, - "id": 5561 - }, - { - "text": "The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released.", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 57, - "id": 5562 - }, - { - "text": "There's something very strange about this place... the layout seems to change all the time. I've never seen the same room twice!", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 128, - "id": 5564 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings! My name is Yang, and this is my journal. Dusty maps and rumors of amazing treasures have led me here, deep under the desert.", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 135, - "id": 5565 - }, - { - "text": "Play is the highest form of research.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 37, - "id": 5568 - }, - { - "text": "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.", - "source": "Alan Turing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5569 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", - "source": "Thomas A. Edison", - "length": 109, - "id": 5570 - }, - { - "text": "You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.", - "source": "C.S Lewis", - "length": 67, - "id": 5571 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.", - "source": "Charles Darwin", - "length": 117, - "id": 5572 - }, - { - "text": "You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.", - "source": "Stephen King", - "length": 67, - "id": 5573 - }, - { - "text": "We know what we are, but not what we may be.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 44, - "id": 5574 - }, - { - "text": "The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.", - "source": "Juliette Gordon Low", - "length": 68, - "id": 5575 - }, - { - "text": "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 42, - "id": 5576 - }, - { - "text": "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 59, - "id": 5578 - }, - { - "text": "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.", - "source": "Julie Andrews", - "length": 57, - "id": 5579 - }, - { - "text": "There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 61, - "id": 5580 - }, - { - "text": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 44, - "id": 5581 - }, - { - "text": "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 202, - "id": 5582 - }, - { - "text": "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 95, - "id": 5583 - }, - { - "text": "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.", - "source": "Yogi Berra", - "length": 83, - "id": 5584 - }, - { - "text": "A room without books is like a body without a soul.", - "source": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", - "length": 51, - "id": 5586 - }, - { - "text": "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.", - "source": "Bernard M. Baruch", - "length": 107, - "id": 5587 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.", - "source": "William W. Purkey", - "length": 152, - "id": 5588 - }, - { - "text": "Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.", - "source": "Robert H. Schuller", - "length": 57, - "id": 5589 - }, - { - "text": "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", - "source": "Rabindranath Tagore", - "length": 68, - "id": 5590 - }, - { - "text": "I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work.", - "source": "Thomas A. Edison", - "length": 69, - "id": 5591 - }, - { - "text": "The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.", - "source": "Tim Berners-Lee", - "length": 101, - "id": 5592 - }, - { - "text": "Be the change that you wish to see in the world.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 48, - "id": 5593 - }, - { - "text": "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Robert Frost", - "length": 75, - "id": 5594 - }, - { - "text": "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 137, - "id": 5595 - }, - { - "text": "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 57, - "id": 5596 - }, - { - "text": "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.", - "source": "Rob Siltanen", - "length": 549, - "id": 5598 - }, - { - "text": "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 302, - "id": 5599 - }, - { - "text": "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.", - "source": "J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 302, - "id": 5601 - }, - { - "text": "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.", - "source": "Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey", - "length": 102, - "id": 5602 - }, - { - "text": "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 109, - "id": 5603 - }, - { - "text": "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 129, - "id": 5604 - }, - { - "text": "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 74, - "id": 5605 - }, - { - "text": "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 161, - "id": 5607 - }, - { - "text": "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 90, - "id": 5608 - }, - { - "text": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well", - "length": 40, - "id": 5609 - }, - { - "text": "That which does not kill us makes us stronger.", - "source": "Friedrich Nietzsche", - "length": 46, - "id": 5610 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it, no larger than a single grain of malt.", - "source": "Disco Elysium", - "length": 121, - "id": 5611 - }, - { - "text": "Time without purpose is a prison. I have glimpsed into the mind of eternity, perhaps the mind of God, and found nothing but silence. I think we should just be friends.", - "source": "Jessica, Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 1", - "length": 167, - "id": 5612 - }, - { - "text": "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, \"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.\" I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "length": 403, - "id": 5613 - }, - { - "text": "The believers, in their mutual love, compassion, and sympathy are like a single body; if one of its organs suffers, the whole body will respond to it with sleeplessness and fever.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 179, - "id": 5614 - }, - { - "text": "Many people were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans to begin with.", - "source": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 248, - "id": 5615 - }, - { - "text": "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.", - "source": "Hotel California - The Eagles", - "length": 50, - "id": 5616 - }, - { - "text": "If you get news of the outbreak of a plague in a land, do not enter it, and if it breaks out in a land in which you are, do not leave it.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 137, - "id": 5617 - }, - { - "text": "I can't erase all the things that I've done, but all the mistakes made me who I've become.", - "source": "Fletcher, Healing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5618 - }, - { - "text": "The life of this world is made up of three days: yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today.", - "source": "Hasan Al-Basri", - "length": 175, - "id": 5619 - }, - { - "text": "One generation sows, the next shall reap. But laugh not too soon or praises heap. Beware the reapers who behind you creep.", - "source": "Liu Xie, Romance Of The Three Kingdoms", - "length": 122, - "id": 5620 - }, - { - "text": "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not \"Eureka!\" (I found it!) but \"That's funny...\"", - "source": "Isaac Asimov", - "length": 140, - "id": 5621 - }, - { - "text": "He, who is possessed of plenty, and is miserly with his great wealth toward his people, will be dispensed with, and abused. He who keeps his word, will not be reviled; and he whose heart is guided to self-satisfying benevolence will not stammer.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 245, - "id": 5622 - }, - { - "text": "In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: \"There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.\" They have mistaken the result of the marksman's momentary whim for an unalterable law of the universe. The farmer hypothesis, on the other hand, has the flavor of a horror story: Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: \"Every morning at eleven, food arrives.\" On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn't arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flock.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem", - "length": 928, - "id": 5623 - }, - { - "text": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.", - "source": "Charles M. Schulz", - "length": 87, - "id": 5624 - }, - { - "text": "God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.", - "source": "Bill Watterson", - "length": 118, - "id": 5625 - }, - { - "text": "This is a valley of ashes; a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald", - "length": 294, - "id": 5626 - }, - { - "text": "The rain feels very cold. You look down as the men carry the body past you. You realize you have been holding Peggy's letter in your left hand the whole time. The ink is hopelessly blurred. You crumple it into a ball and drop it into the mud and begin to walk back to your tent.", - "source": "Charles Coe, Young Man in Vietnam", - "length": 278, - "id": 5627 - }, - { - "text": "And as I watch the drops of rain weave their weary paths and die, I know that I am like the rain: there but for the grace of you go I.", - "source": "Kathy's Song", - "length": 134, - "id": 5628 - }, - { - "text": "He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy.", - "source": "Guts, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 72, - "id": 5629 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett", - "length": 119, - "id": 5630 - }, - { - "text": "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 59, - "id": 5631 - }, - { - "text": "Music is a science that would have us laugh, sing, and dance.", - "source": "Guillaume de Machaut, \"The Fountain of Love\"", - "length": 61, - "id": 5632 - }, - { - "text": "Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.", - "source": "Calvin & Hobbes", - "length": 137, - "id": 5635 - }, - { - "text": "But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.", - "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, W.D. 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Like that ambush.", - "source": "Shadow and Bone", - "length": 200, - "id": 5641 - }, - { - "text": "I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.", - "source": "The Boxer", - "length": 78, - "id": 5642 - }, - { - "text": "I want to enjoy not getting recognized while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.", - "source": "Alan Walker", - "length": 113, - "id": 5643 - }, - { - "text": "Such a person must be careful, he must be aware of the limitations of his knowledge, he must acknowledge his personal prejudices because he is being asked to speak for a whole realm of thought, he must be aware of the huge possible consequences of what he says and writes and does. He has become, in a sense, public property because he represents something large to the public. He has become an idea himself, a human striving. He has enormous power to influence and change, and he must wield that power with respect.", - "source": "Alan Lightman, The Role of the Public Intellectual", - "length": 516, - "id": 5644 - }, - { - "text": "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 203, - "id": 5645 - }, - { - "text": "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "length": 45, - "id": 5646 - }, - { - "text": "The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire universe.", - "source": "Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 92, - "id": 5647 - }, - { - "text": "My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.", - "source": "Marvin; Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 94, - "id": 5648 - }, - { - "text": "And every time I've held a rose, it seems I only felt the thorns.", - "source": "And So It Goes", - "length": 65, - "id": 5649 - }, - { - "text": "When we hear any other speaker, even a very good one, he produces absolutely no effect upon us, or not much, whereas the mere fragments of you and your words, even at second-hand, and however imperfectly repeated, amaze and possess the souls of every man, woman, and child who comes within hearing of them. And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", - "source": "The Symposium", - "length": 592, - "id": 5651 - }, - { - "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 76, - "id": 5652 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 323, - "id": 5653 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", - "source": "Einstein", - "length": 128, - "id": 5654 - }, - { - "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 322, - "id": 5655 - }, - { - "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 172, - "id": 5656 - }, - { - "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 270, - "id": 5657 - }, - { - "text": "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 63, - "id": 5658 - }, - { - "text": "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.", - "source": "Kahlil Gibran", - "length": 64, - "id": 5663 - }, - { - "text": "With her green hair sticking out the hood of her yellow raincoat, she looked like a punk spokesperson for frozen fish sticks.", - "source": "The Ship of the Dead", - "length": 125, - "id": 5664 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb.", - "source": "Proverbs", - "length": 70, - "id": 5665 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.", - "source": "Augustine of Hippo", - "length": 62, - "id": 5667 - }, - { - "text": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 49, - "id": 5668 - }, - { - "text": "Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 53, - "id": 5669 - }, - { - "text": "Time is just a construct, if you allow it to consume you, it will. It will wear you down until you are nothing but dust. You must learn to transcend and rise beyond such linear and limited fabrics of existence and this creature of unknown origin has done exactly that. You can scream all you want but nobody will hear you. You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 468, - "id": 5670 - }, - { - "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", - "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", - "length": 82, - "id": 5671 - }, - { - "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", - "source": "John Tukey", - "length": 89, - "id": 5672 - }, - { - "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "length": 76, - "id": 5673 - }, - { - "text": "There are approximately 1010300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair.", - "source": "Alexander Hamilton", - "length": 170, - "id": 5674 - }, - { - "text": "One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.", - "source": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", - "length": 80, - "id": 5675 - }, - { - "text": "Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", - "source": "Tao Te Ching", - "length": 286, - "id": 5678 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "length": 62, - "id": 5679 - }, - { - "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 54, - "id": 5680 - }, - { - "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", - "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", - "length": 238, - "id": 5681 - }, - { - "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", - "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5682 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", - "source": "Marcus Aurelius", - "length": 161, - "id": 5684 - }, - { - "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", - "source": "Devil in Disguise", - "length": 148, - "id": 5685 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", - "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", - "length": 518, - "id": 5686 - }, - { - "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 302, - "id": 5687 - }, - { - "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 52, - "id": 5688 - }, - { - "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 83, - "id": 5689 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 53, - "id": 5690 - }, - { - "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 118, - "id": 5691 - }, - { - "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.", - "source": "Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29", - "length": 233, - "id": 5692 - }, - { - "text": "The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 159, - "id": 5693 - }, - { - "text": "All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 86, - "id": 5694 - }, - { - "text": "Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 210, - "id": 5695 - }, - { - "text": "This is your world. You're the creator. Find freedom on this canvas. Believe, that you can do it, 'cuz you can do it. You can do it.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 132, - "id": 5696 - }, - { - "text": "I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 151, - "id": 5697 - }, - { - "text": "Let's build a happy little cloud. Let's build some happy little trees.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 70, - "id": 5698 - }, - { - "text": "Now then, let's come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It'll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to have a place to set there. There he goes...", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 215, - "id": 5699 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 62, - "id": 5700 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 112, - "id": 5701 - }, - { - "text": "When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 123, - "id": 5702 - }, - { - "text": "You show me a pay stub for $72,000, I quit my job right now and work for you.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 77, - "id": 5703 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 148, - "id": 5705 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing that we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan", - "length": 88, - "id": 5706 - }, - { - "text": "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.", - "source": "Noam Chomsky", - "length": 167, - "id": 5707 - }, - { - "text": "The behaviour of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, has many features that set it apart from other common domestic animals, even its fellow carnivore the dog. Cats seem to have effected a unique and successful compromise between reliance on man and the retention of behaviour patterns that permit an independent existence. During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", - "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", - "length": 578, - "id": 5708 - }, - { - "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", - "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", - "length": 183, - "id": 5709 - }, - { - "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 997, - "id": 5710 - }, - { - "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", - "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", - "length": 173, - "id": 5711 - }, - { - "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 289, - "id": 5712 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 900, - "id": 5714 - }, - { - "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", - "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", - "length": 71, - "id": 5715 - }, - { - "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5716 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", - "source": "Kurt Cobain", - "length": 62, - "id": 5717 - }, - { - "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", - "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", - "length": 743, - "id": 5718 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", - "length": 974, - "id": 5719 - }, - { - "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", - "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", - "length": 256, - "id": 5720 - }, - { - "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 69, - "id": 5723 - }, - { - "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 110, - "id": 5724 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 280, - "id": 5725 - }, - { - "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 111, - "id": 5726 - }, - { - "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 74, - "id": 5727 - }, - { - "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 71, - "id": 5728 - }, - { - "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", - "source": "Edward Snowden", - "length": 181, - "id": 5729 - }, - { - "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", - "source": "Riverdale", - "length": 161, - "id": 5731 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", - "source": "Spirited Away", - "length": 105, - "id": 5732 - }, - { - "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", - "source": "Wikipedia", - "length": 406, - "id": 5733 - }, - { - "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", - "length": 418, - "id": 5734 - }, - { - "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 622, - "id": 5735 - }, - { - "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 699, - "id": 5736 - }, - { - "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", - "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", - "length": 82, - "id": 5737 - }, - { - "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", - "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", - "length": 282, - "id": 5738 - }, - { - "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", - "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", - "length": 184, - "id": 5739 - }, - { - "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", - "source": "Lord of the Rings", - "length": 83, - "id": 5740 - }, - { - "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 373, - "id": 5741 - }, - { - "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", - "source": "Half-Life 2", - "length": 74, - "id": 5742 - }, - { - "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", - "source": "The Big Bang Theory", - "length": 209, - "id": 5743 - }, - { - "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", - "source": "Lucifer", - "length": 183, - "id": 5744 - }, - { - "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", - "source": "Inception", - "length": 134, - "id": 5747 - }, - { - "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", - "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", - "length": 83, - "id": 5748 - }, - { - "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 113, - "id": 5751 - }, - { - "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 341, - "id": 5752 - }, - { - "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "length": 222, - "id": 5753 - }, - { - "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", - "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", - "length": 183, - "id": 5754 - }, - { - "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 198, - "id": 5755 - }, - { - "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 293, - "id": 5756 - }, - { - "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "length": 441, - "id": 5757 - }, - { - "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 538, - "id": 5758 - }, - { - "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", - "source": "Absolute", - "length": 131, - "id": 5759 - }, - { - "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 144, - "id": 5760 - }, - { - "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 183, - "id": 5761 - }, - { - "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 106, - "id": 5762 - }, - { - "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 141, - "id": 5763 - }, - { - "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", - "source": "Love Me", - "length": 61, - "id": 5764 - }, - { - "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "length": 62, - "id": 5765 - }, - { - "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", - "source": "Little Witch Academia", - "length": 76, - "id": 5766 - }, - { - "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 166, - "id": 5767 - }, - { - "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", - "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", - "length": 429, - "id": 5768 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5769 - }, - { - "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 165, - "id": 5771 - }, - { - "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 128, - "id": 5772 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 157, - "id": 5773 - }, - { - "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", - "source": "A Friend", - "length": 73, - "id": 5775 - }, - { - "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Breath of the Wild", - "length": 62, - "id": 5776 - }, - { - "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 527, - "id": 5777 - }, - { - "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", - "source": "Muhammad Ali", - "length": 79, - "id": 5780 - }, - { - "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", - "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", - "length": 51, - "id": 5781 - }, - { - "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 69, - "id": 5782 - }, - { - "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 317, - "id": 5783 - }, - { - "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", - "source": "The Last Of Us 2", - "length": 89, - "id": 5785 - }, - { - "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", - "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", - "length": 98, - "id": 5786 - }, - { - "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 5787 - }, - { - "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 158, - "id": 5788 - }, - { - "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 164, - "id": 5789 - }, - { - "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 62, - "id": 5790 - }, - { - "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", - "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", - "length": 113, - "id": 5791 - }, - { - "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", - "source": "Cabo", - "length": 125, - "id": 5792 - }, - { - "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", - "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", - "length": 109, - "id": 5793 - }, - { - "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", - "source": "Mae West", - "length": 59, - "id": 5795 - }, - { - "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", - "length": 77, - "id": 5796 - }, - { - "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", - "length": 62, - "id": 5797 - }, - { - "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", - "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", - "length": 101, - "id": 5799 - }, - { - "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. So ask yourself, what is there that still remains to you.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 183, - "id": 5801 - }, - { - "text": "The caterpillar ate through one nice green leaf, and after that he felt much better.", - "source": "The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle", - "length": 84, - "id": 5802 - }, - { - "text": "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 71, - "id": 5804 - }, - { - "text": "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", - "source": "States of Matter", - "length": 220, - "id": 5805 - }, - { - "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", - "source": "Danilo Kiš", - "length": 190, - "id": 5806 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", - "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", - "length": 2928, - "id": 5807 - }, - { - "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", - "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", - "length": 152, - "id": 5809 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 'Cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.", - "source": "Adam Young", - "length": 148, - "id": 5810 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe the best thing to do is stop trying to figure out where you're going and just enjoy where you're at.", - "source": "Scrubs", - "length": 106, - "id": 5811 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a slave to their past. No matter how much you wish to move forward, the events of last year will bear down on you like the light of the stars as soon as you glance up. Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 325, - "id": 5812 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 133, - "id": 5813 - }, - { - "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", - "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 355, - "id": 5814 - }, - { - "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", - "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", - "length": 140, - "id": 5815 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 78, - "id": 5816 - }, - { - "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 87, - "id": 5817 - }, - { - "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 134, - "id": 5818 - }, - { - "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", - "source": "Henri Poincaré", - "length": 145, - "id": 5819 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", - "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", - "length": 254, - "id": 5820 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 96, - "id": 5821 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 73, - "id": 5822 - }, - { - "text": "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the Popes?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5823 - }, - { - "text": "No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.", - "source": "SpiderMan: Homecoming", - "length": 71, - "id": 5824 - }, - { - "text": "In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers.", - "source": "Black Panther", - "length": 76, - "id": 5825 - }, - { - "text": "I was already slipping when you happened to punch me in the face. The two events are not related.", - "source": "Captain Marvel", - "length": 97, - "id": 5826 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing, that you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier but a good man.", - "source": "Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 127, - "id": 5827 - }, - { - "text": "The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", - "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", - "length": 455, - "id": 5828 - }, - { - "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", - "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", - "length": 298, - "id": 5829 - }, - { - "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", - "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", - "length": 61, - "id": 5831 - }, - { - "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 356, - "id": 5832 - }, - { - "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 669, - "id": 5833 - }, - { - "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 188, - "id": 5834 - }, - { - "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 157, - "id": 5835 - }, - { - "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 290, - "id": 5836 - }, - { - "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", - "source": "Mob Psycho 100", - "length": 382, - "id": 5837 - }, - { - "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", - "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", - "length": 125, - "id": 5838 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 92, - "id": 5839 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 97, - "id": 5840 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", - "source": "Master Yoda", - "length": 395, - "id": 5843 - }, - { - "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 80, - "id": 5844 - }, - { - "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 86, - "id": 5845 - }, - { - "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 188, - "id": 5846 - }, - { - "text": "Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen, so unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you.", - "source": "Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold", - "length": 113, - "id": 5847 - }, - { - "text": "Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it's a beautiful day.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 71, - "id": 5848 - }, - { - "text": "The biggest lie I tell myself is: \"I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it.\"", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 84, - "id": 5849 - }, - { - "text": "Alright, close your eyes. I want you to think of a flower. Look at its contours, its curves. Now I want you to imagine it: changing, moving backwards, returning to its bud. Think of that bud, unopened. Look at it, as a whole, and silently repeat these phrases: \"May you be free from suffering. May you be free from fear. May you know peace and joy.\"", - "source": "Twelve Minutes", - "length": 349, - "id": 5850 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", - "length": 301, - "id": 5851 - }, - { - "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", - "source": "Numb", - "length": 177, - "id": 5852 - }, - { - "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 490, - "id": 5854 - }, - { - "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", - "source": "Space Brothers", - "length": 143, - "id": 5855 - }, - { - "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", - "source": "Oregairu", - "length": 65, - "id": 5856 - }, - { - "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", - "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", - "length": 352, - "id": 5857 - }, - { - "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", - "source": "Bleach", - "length": 200, - "id": 5858 - }, - { - "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", - "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", - "length": 120, - "id": 5859 - }, - { - "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", - "source": "Fruits Basket", - "length": 388, - "id": 5860 - }, - { - "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", - "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5861 - }, - { - "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 65, - "id": 5862 - }, - { - "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 270, - "id": 5863 - }, - { - "text": "You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 123, - "id": 5864 - }, - { - "text": "People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.", - "source": "Eragon - Christopher Paolini", - "length": 67, - "id": 5867 - }, - { - "text": "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.", - "source": "Jeod, Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)", - "length": 89, - "id": 5868 - }, - { - "text": "Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama - Attack on Titan", - "length": 62, - "id": 5869 - }, - { - "text": "We all deserve love, even on the days when we aren't our best. 'Cause we all suck, but love can make us suck less. We all deserve love, it's the very best part of being alive. And I would know - I just turned 25.", - "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", - "length": 212, - "id": 5870 - }, - { - "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", - "source": "Ratatouille", - "length": 1315, - "id": 5871 - }, - { - "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", - "source": "Pushing Dead", - "length": 365, - "id": 5872 - }, - { - "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", - "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", - "length": 222, - "id": 5874 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", - "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", - "length": 191, - "id": 5875 - }, - { - "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", - "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", - "length": 75, - "id": 5876 - }, - { - "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", - "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", - "length": 123, - "id": 5877 - }, - { - "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 784, - "id": 5878 - }, - { - "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 763, - "id": 5879 - }, - { - "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 530, - "id": 5881 - }, - { - "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 618, - "id": 5882 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", - "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", - "length": 186, - "id": 5886 - }, - { - "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", - "source": "Knights of Cydonia", - "length": 135, - "id": 5888 - }, - { - "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", - "source": "Paul Parker", - "length": 274, - "id": 5890 - }, - { - "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", - "source": "Left 4 Dead", - "length": 454, - "id": 5891 - }, - { - "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 190, - "id": 5893 - }, - { - "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 346, - "id": 5895 - }, - { - "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", - "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", - "length": 83, - "id": 5896 - }, - { - "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 264, - "id": 5897 - }, - { - "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 282, - "id": 5899 - }, - { - "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 249, - "id": 5900 - }, - { - "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", - "source": "Neil Gaiman", - "length": 129, - "id": 5901 - }, - { - "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 376, - "id": 5902 - }, - { - "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 293, - "id": 5903 - }, - { - "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 353, - "id": 5904 - }, - { - "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "length": 235, - "id": 5905 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 107, - "id": 5906 - }, - { - "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 105, - "id": 5907 - }, - { - "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", - "source": "Eugene Cernan", - "length": 478, - "id": 5908 - }, - { - "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 130, - "id": 5909 - }, - { - "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", - "source": "William Carlos Williams", - "length": 89, - "id": 5910 - }, - { - "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "length": 60, - "id": 5912 - }, - { - "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", - "source": "Henry Van Dyke", - "length": 172, - "id": 5913 - }, - { - "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", - "source": "Epicurus", - "length": 117, - "id": 5914 - }, - { - "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 1766, - "id": 5915 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 332, - "id": 5916 - }, - { - "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", - "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", - "length": 513, - "id": 5917 - }, - { - "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 105, - "id": 5918 - }, - { - "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", - "source": "Avicii - The Nights", - "length": 187, - "id": 5919 - }, - { - "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", - "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", - "length": 987, - "id": 5920 - }, - { - "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", - "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", - "length": 740, - "id": 5921 - }, - { - "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", - "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", - "length": 319, - "id": 5922 - }, - { - "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", - "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", - "length": 476, - "id": 5923 - }, - { - "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", - "length": 556, - "id": 5925 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 182, - "id": 5926 - }, - { - "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 281, - "id": 5927 - }, - { - "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 155, - "id": 5928 - }, - { - "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 248, - "id": 5929 - }, - { - "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 280, - "id": 5930 - }, - { - "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 289, - "id": 5931 - }, - { - "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", - "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", - "length": 294, - "id": 5932 - }, - { - "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5934 - }, - { - "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", - "source": "Batman: Arkham City", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5935 - }, - { - "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5937 - }, - { - "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", - "source": "Little Inferno", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5940 - }, - { - "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", - "source": "System Shock 2 ", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5941 - }, - { - "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", - "source": "IT Crowd", - "length": 307, - "id": 5942 - }, - { - "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 322, - "id": 5943 - }, - { - "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 137, - "id": 5944 - }, - { - "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", - "source": "The Master and Margarita", - "length": 420, - "id": 5945 - }, - { - "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 379, - "id": 5947 - }, - { - "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", - "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", - "length": 348, - "id": 5950 - }, - { - "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", - "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", - "length": 729, - "id": 5951 - }, - { - "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5956 - }, - { - "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", - "source": "Vinland Saga", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5957 - }, - { - "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 1982, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5958 - }, - { - "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 113, - "id": 6064 - }, - { - "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", - "source": "Colin Powell", - "length": 103, - "id": 6065 - }, - { - "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", - "source": "Conrad Hilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6066 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 116, - "id": 6067 - }, - { - "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", - "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", - "length": 67, - "id": 6068 - }, - { - "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", - "source": "Barack Obama", - "length": 193, - "id": 6069 - }, - { - "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", - "source": "Charles Swindoll", - "length": 81, - "id": 6071 - }, - { - "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", - "source": "Oprah Winfrey", - "length": 132, - "id": 6072 - }, - { - "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", - "source": "Harriet Tubman", - "length": 165, - "id": 6073 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 86, - "id": 6074 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", - "source": "The Blair Witch Project", - "length": 649, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6075 - }, - { - "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 624, - "id": 6076 - }, - { - "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 834, - "id": 6077 - }, - { - "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 472, - "id": 6078 - }, - { - "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 308, - "id": 6079 - }, - { - "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 471, - "id": 6080 - }, - { - "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 352, - "id": 6081 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 336, - "id": 6082 - }, - { - "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 775, - "id": 6084 - }, - { - "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 610, - "id": 6085 - }, - { - "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 371, - "id": 6087 - }, - { - "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", - "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", - "length": 438, - "id": 6088 - }, - { - "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", - "source": "Atharva veda", - "length": 127, - "id": 6089 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", - "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", - "length": 681, - "id": 6090 - }, - { - "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", - "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", - "length": 192, - "id": 6091 - }, - { - "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", - "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", - "length": 69, - "id": 6092 - }, - { - "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", - "source": "Tirukkurral", - "length": 118, - "id": 6093 - }, - { - "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", - "source": "Halo 3", - "length": 337, - "id": 6095 - }, - { - "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", - "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", - "length": 219, - "id": 6096 - }, - { - "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 71, - "id": 6097 - }, - { - "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", - "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", - "length": 237, - "id": 6098 - }, - { - "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", - "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", - "length": 98, - "id": 6099 - }, - { - "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", - "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", - "length": 62, - "id": 6100 - }, - { - "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", - "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", - "length": 153, - "id": 6101 - }, - { - "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", - "source": "Remember11", - "length": 136, - "id": 6102 - }, - { - "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", - "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", - "length": 94, - "id": 6103 - }, - { - "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 59, - "id": 6104 - }, - { - "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", - "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", - "length": 157, - "id": 6106 - }, - { - "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 173, - "id": 6107 - }, - { - "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", - "length": 190, - "id": 6108 - }, - { - "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", - "length": 105, - "id": 6109 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 162, - "id": 6110 - }, - { - "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 122, - "id": 6112 - }, - { - "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 160, - "id": 6113 - }, - { - "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 239, - "id": 6114 - }, - { - "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", - "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", - "length": 92, - "id": 6115 - }, - { - "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", - "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", - "length": 131, - "id": 6116 - }, - { - "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", - "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", - "length": 157, - "id": 6117 - }, - { - "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", - "length": 121, - "id": 6118 - }, - { - "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", - "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", - "length": 256, - "id": 6119 - }, - { - "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. They think I don't understand the freedom land of the seventies.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby", - "length": 126, - "id": 6120 - }, - { - "text": "John met me down on the boulevard. Cry on his shoulder 'cause life is hard, the waves came in over my head. What you been up to my baby? Haven't seen you 'round here lately. All the other guys tell me lies, but you don't. You just crack another beer and pretend that you're still here.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - How To Disappear", - "length": 285, - "id": 6121 - }, - { - "text": "Thinking outrageously, I write in cursive. I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor. Wearing three layers of coats and leg-warmers, I see my own breath on the face of the door.", - "source": "Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!", - "length": 181, - "id": 6122 - }, - { - "text": "I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 59, - "id": 6123 - }, - { - "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 76, - "id": 6124 - }, - { - "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 182, - "id": 6125 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 62, - "id": 6126 - }, - { - "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 71, - "id": 6127 - }, - { - "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", - "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", - "length": 162, - "id": 6128 - }, - { - "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", - "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", - "length": 164, - "id": 6129 - }, - { - "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", - "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", - "length": 160, - "id": 6130 - }, - { - "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", - "source": "Beach House - Myth", - "length": 142, - "id": 6131 - }, - { - "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", - "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", - "length": 64, - "id": 6132 - }, - { - "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", - "source": "Beach House - PPP", - "length": 110, - "id": 6133 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6134 - }, - { - "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", - "length": 175, - "id": 6135 - }, - { - "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", - "length": 113, - "id": 6136 - }, - { - "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", - "length": 66, - "id": 6137 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", - "length": 67, - "id": 6138 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", - "length": 95, - "id": 6139 - }, - { - "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", - "length": 80, - "id": 6141 - }, - { - "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 185, - "id": 6142 - }, - { - "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", - "length": 206, - "id": 6143 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", - "length": 76, - "id": 6144 - }, - { - "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", - "length": 95, - "id": 6145 - }, - { - "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 181, - "id": 6146 - }, - { - "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", - "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", - "length": 66, - "id": 6147 - }, - { - "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", - "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", - "length": 181, - "id": 6148 - }, - { - "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", - "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", - "length": 291, - "id": 6149 - }, - { - "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 297, - "id": 6150 - }, - { - "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 657, - "id": 6151 - }, - { - "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", - "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", - "length": 128, - "id": 6152 - }, - { - "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 136, - "id": 6153 - }, - { - "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 64, - "id": 6154 - }, - { - "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 178, - "id": 6155 - }, - { - "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", - "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", - "length": 224, - "id": 6157 - }, - { - "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", - "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", - "length": 207, - "id": 6158 - }, - { - "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", - "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", - "length": 220, - "id": 6159 - }, - { - "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", - "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", - "length": 274, - "id": 6160 - }, - { - "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", - "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", - "length": 112, - "id": 6161 - }, - { - "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", - "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", - "length": 272, - "id": 6162 - }, - { - "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", - "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", - "length": 136, - "id": 6163 - }, - { - "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", - "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", - "length": 454, - "id": 6164 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", - "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", - "length": 381, - "id": 6165 - }, - { - "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", - "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", - "length": 453, - "id": 6166 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 165, - "id": 6167 - }, - { - "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", - "length": 136, - "id": 6168 - }, - { - "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", - "length": 229, - "id": 6169 - }, - { - "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 170, - "id": 6170 - }, - { - "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", - "length": 191, - "id": 6171 - }, - { - "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", - "length": 284, - "id": 6172 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", - "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", - "length": 204, - "id": 6173 - }, - { - "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", - "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", - "length": 122, - "id": 6174 - }, - { - "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", - "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", - "length": 268, - "id": 6175 - }, - { - "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", - "length": 234, - "id": 6176 - }, - { - "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", - "length": 186, - "id": 6177 - }, - { - "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", - "length": 423, - "id": 6178 - }, - { - "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", - "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", - "length": 313, - "id": 6179 - }, - { - "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.", - "source": "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson", - "length": 220, - "id": 6180 - }, - { - "text": "Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?", - "source": "Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima", - "length": 169, - "id": 6181 - }, - { - "text": "But as he moves closer, I cannot help but ask: if in a different world, would our love forever last? The almighty scientist says most of the universe is empty, and gods don't exist. Well, maybe that's where our love ends up - no holy grail, just an empty cup.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Good Luck Bad Luck", - "length": 259, - "id": 6182 - }, - { - "text": "They'll kiss you in the evening - devils in disguise - and love you 'til the morning, then vanish before your eyes. A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", - "length": 401, - "id": 6183 - }, - { - "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", - "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", - "length": 202, - "id": 6184 - }, - { - "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", - "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", - "length": 290, - "id": 6185 - }, - { - "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", - "length": 178, - "id": 6186 - }, - { - "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 197, - "id": 6188 - }, - { - "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 395, - "id": 6189 - }, - { - "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 372, - "id": 6190 - }, - { - "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 214, - "id": 6191 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 427, - "id": 6192 - }, - { - "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 116, - "id": 6193 - }, - { - "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 238, - "id": 6194 - }, - { - "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 256, - "id": 6195 - }, - { - "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 316, - "id": 6196 - }, - { - "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. This initially seemed baffling to monsters (especially given the amount of dusting we avoid by keeping objects outside!). Experts have recently suggested that keeping objects indoors may have been part of England's efforts to hide and store museums' collections of stolen property.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 327, - "id": 6197 - }, - { - "text": "This tree is not technically part of the museum experience, but there's a cool bird nesting in it, so you aren't allowed to cut it down. Not even a little bit. Not even with the \"undo\" or \"reset\" options. Leave the cool bird alone, alright?", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 240, - "id": 6198 - }, - { - "text": "Humans liked to put objects on boxes called plinths. At first, monster experts didn't know why, but then strangers kept thinking the plinth-less exhibits were lost property and handing them in at the help desk. It turns out plinths are very important.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 251, - "id": 6199 - }, - { - "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 229, - "id": 6200 - }, - { - "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 252, - "id": 6201 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", - "length": 576, - "id": 6202 - }, - { - "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", - "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", - "length": 112, - "id": 6203 - }, - { - "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", - "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", - "length": 110, - "id": 6204 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. But what you throw away you'll never get back.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 87, - "id": 6206 - }, - { - "text": "People who can't throw something important away, can never hope to change anything.", - "source": "Armin Arlert - Attack on Titan", - "length": 83, - "id": 6207 - }, - { - "text": "You will never be able to love anybody else until you love yourself.", - "source": "Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass", - "length": 68, - "id": 6208 - }, - { - "text": "People's lives don't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith.", - "source": "Uchiha Itachi - Naruto", - "length": 69, - "id": 6209 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it.", - "source": "Uzumaki Naruto - Naruto", - "length": 48, - "id": 6210 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.", - "source": "Nagato, Naruto", - "length": 65, - "id": 6211 - }, - { - "text": "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", - "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", - "length": 95, - "id": 6212 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", - "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", - "length": 70, - "id": 6213 - }, - { - "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 51, - "id": 6214 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", - "source": "Clare - Claymore", - "length": 164, - "id": 6215 - }, - { - "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", - "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", - "length": 384, - "id": 6216 - }, - { - "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", - "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", - "length": 67, - "id": 6217 - }, - { - "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", - "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", - "length": 88, - "id": 6218 - }, - { - "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", - "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", - "length": 314, - "id": 6220 - }, - { - "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", - "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", - "length": 89, - "id": 6221 - }, - { - "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", - "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", - "length": 422, - "id": 6222 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", - "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", - "length": 179, - "id": 6223 - }, - { - "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", - "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", - "length": 463, - "id": 6224 - }, - { - "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", - "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 109, - "id": 6225 - }, - { - "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", - "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 61, - "id": 6226 - }, - { - "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", - "length": 93, - "id": 6227 - }, - { - "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 177, - "id": 6228 - }, - { - "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 215, - "id": 6229 - }, - { - "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", - "length": 167, - "id": 6230 - }, - { - "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 827, - "id": 6231 - }, - { - "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", - "length": 116, - "id": 6232 - }, - { - "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", - "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", - "length": 137, - "id": 6233 - }, - { - "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", - "length": 127, - "id": 6234 - }, - { - "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 94, - "id": 6235 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 182, - "id": 6236 - }, - { - "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 140, - "id": 6237 - }, - { - "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", - "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", - "length": 144, - "id": 6238 - }, - { - "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", - "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", - "length": 248, - "id": 6239 - }, - { - "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. Did you follow your fire?", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 289, - "id": 6240 - }, - { - "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 123, - "id": 6241 - }, - { - "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", - "length": 197, - "id": 6242 - }, - { - "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", - "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", - "length": 289, - "id": 6243 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. Though we don't share the same blood, you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.", - "source": "Kodaline - Brother", - "length": 161, - "id": 6244 - }, - { - "text": "Star in your eyes, sun in your smile, the way you look at me - it makes me hum and I call it love song.", - "source": "Yoohyeon (Dreamcatcher) - For", - "length": 103, - "id": 6245 - }, - { - "text": "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 57, - "id": 6246 - }, - { - "text": "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 240, - "id": 6247 - }, - { - "text": "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 112, - "id": 6248 - }, - { - "text": "For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 177, - "id": 6249 - }, - { - "text": "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 421, - "id": 6250 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say \"I'll never be good.\" You can become better! And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 251, - "id": 6251 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 105, - "id": 6252 - }, - { - "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 303, - "id": 6253 - }, - { - "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 149, - "id": 6254 - }, - { - "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 119, - "id": 6255 - }, - { - "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", - "source": "Tool", - "length": 220, - "id": 6256 - }, - { - "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", - "source": "Whiplash", - "length": 270, - "id": 6258 - }, - { - "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 173, - "id": 6259 - }, - { - "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 395, - "id": 6260 - }, - { - "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 246, - "id": 6261 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. They are nothing without the spark of life that you give them.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 198, - "id": 6262 - }, - { - "text": "Well, well! Look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 72, - "id": 6263 - }, - { - "text": "Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 269, - "id": 6264 - }, - { - "text": "It is a kindness to prepare a comfortable roost for an injured bird... But to prevent it from taking flight once its wounds have healed, because you fear the world is too dangerous, means confining it to a cage. These birds have finally escaped their cage of persecution. Do you intend to lock them in a cage of pity next?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 322, - "id": 6265 - }, - { - "text": "If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 73, - "id": 6266 - }, - { - "text": "If, one day, you make it to our final destination, would you please leave flowers?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 82, - "id": 6267 - }, - { - "text": "I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it's good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 111, - "id": 6268 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 177, - "id": 6269 - }, - { - "text": "If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 205, - "id": 6270 - }, - { - "text": "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 85, - "id": 6271 - }, - { - "text": "Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6272 - }, - { - "text": "The cool thing about these guys is that... is that they have really, really long trunks, and that's... that's cool.", - "source": "Me at the zoo", - "length": 115, - "id": 6273 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time in a nursery rhyme, there was a castle with a king hiding in a wing because he never went to school to learn a single thing, he had scepters and swords and a parliament of lords, but on the inside, he was sad, egad! Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", - "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", - "length": 1662, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6275 - }, - { - "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. And you fail again and again, and you fail a thousand times, and you keep trying because maybe the 1,001st idea might work. Now, I'm gonna go and try to find our 1,001st idea.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 251, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6276 - }, - { - "text": "I assume he's doing the same as every human. Some good days. Some bad days. He's got a few friends, a few people he can't stand. He's learning some things, all by himself, and hopefully learning to ask for help when he needs it. He's messing up, and trying again, and messing up again, and then getting things wrong, and then trying to make them right. That's what everyone does.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 379, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6277 - }, - { - "text": "It's a rare occurrence, like a double rainbow. Or like someone on the internet saying, \"You know what? You've convinced me I was wrong.\"", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6278 - }, - { - "text": "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him...", - "source": "Stephen King, It", - "length": 384, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6279 - }, - { - "text": "I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.", - "source": "The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6281 - }, - { - "text": "To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.", - "source": "Bruce Mclaren", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6282 - }, - { - "text": "Spring, summer, autumn, and winter... Many seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all. At first, I couldn't understand. I couldn't understand anything about how you felt. But within this new life you gave me, I've begun to feel the same way as you, if only a little, through ghostwriting, and through the people I've met along the way. I believe that you are still alive somewhere. So, I shall live, live, live, and live some more, though there's no telling what life might have in store. And if I can see you again, I want to let you know... that the phrase \"I love you\"... I understand it a little now.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 637, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6283 - }, - { - "text": "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.", - "source": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6284 - }, - { - "text": "I am the one who made it out. The one who always made the grade but maybe I should have just stayed home. When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb. I got every scholarship, saved every dollar, the first to go to college. How do I tell them why I'm coming back home, with my eyes on the horizon? Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 421, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6286 - }, - { - "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", - "source": "Animal Farm", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6287 - }, - { - "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 307, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6288 - }, - { - "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 745, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6292 - }, - { - "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. I choose round.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6294 - }, - { - "text": "I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6295 - }, - { - "text": "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 308, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6296 - }, - { - "text": "I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest - expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6297 - }, - { - "text": "I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 146, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6298 - }, - { - "text": "In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 472, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6299 - }, - { - "text": "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6300 - }, - { - "text": "It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this \"once in a thousand years\" has come today.", - "source": "Zamyatin, We", - "length": 248, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6301 - }, - { - "text": "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6302 - }, - { - "text": "Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the \"vox populi\" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 740, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6303 - }, - { - "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", - "length": 520, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6304 - }, - { - "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", - "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", - "length": 273, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6305 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6306 - }, - { - "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. I want you to, I want you to, I want you to cry for me.", - "source": "TWICE, CRY FOR ME", - "length": 303, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6307 - }, - { - "text": "I had this very faith tested on an ordinary day: I was walkin' down a busy street around my way. I saw a face in the crowd that made my heart skip a beat - A man who looked exactly like an older version of me! So I moved through the hustle and the bustle of the day to day until me and this man stood face to face. We locked eyes and for a moment time moved in slow motion as the crowd around continued on their paper chase. I stood frozen in disbelief and opened my mouth to speak but to my surprise the words wouldn't come. And then he looks into a clear blue sky up above and says \"it's gonna rain\" - and then it does! And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", - "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", - "length": 1200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6308 - }, - { - "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. 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It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh.", - "source": "The Little Prince", - "length": 886, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6310 - }, - { - "text": "Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.", - "source": "Sophie's World", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6311 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.", - "source": "Bill Willingham, Fables - Werewolves of the Heartland", - "length": 133, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6312 - }, - { - "text": "We devote ourselves to something we barely understand, something we can never touch. We give it a name, and we give ourselves a name for doing so. All of it creates this connection. And that connection, that becomes the thing we can touch.", - "source": "Night in the Woods", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6313 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people who do.", - "source": "Angus, Night in the Woods", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6314 - }, - { - "text": "He could leave at any time. If it was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him. I think what distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell, as you call it.", - "source": "Christof, The Truman Show", - "length": 267, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6315 - }, - { - "text": "If you've ever taken a road trip through the Pacific Northwest, you've probably seen a bumper sticker for a place called \"Gravity Falls\". It's not on any maps, and most people have never heard of it, some people think it's a myth. But if you're curious, don't wait. Take a trip. Find it. It's out there somewhere in the woods. Waiting.", - "source": "Dipper, Gravity Falls", - "length": 335, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6316 - }, - { - "text": "A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.", - "source": "Steven Brust, Iorich", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6318 - }, - { - "text": "The English language cannot fully capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts, so I'm incorporating emojis into my speech to better express myself. Winky face.", - "source": "Gina, Brooklyn 99", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6319 - }, - { - "text": "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.", - "source": "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6323 - }, - { - "text": "When the king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough, I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming. And it means to exterminate us.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 430, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6324 - }, - { - "text": "After fifty years at sea, you're the only man I've ever met who's gotten dumber with age.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6325 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody will believe it's possible until we show them. But when that day comes, you know what they'll say? They'll say that it was inevitable.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6326 - }, - { - "text": "You're an educated man, my lord, but I think it's worth reminding you that in most cases a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason... everyone else.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 183, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6327 - }, - { - "text": "The crew's banner is a sacred thing. 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But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6331 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 735, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6332 - }, - { - "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6333 - }, - { - "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6334 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 684, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6335 - }, - { - "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 434, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6336 - }, - { - "text": "A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe... Those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition, and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It's found truth in its maturity... Because what's it all for if it goes unremembered? It's the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 496, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6337 - }, - { - "text": "False tears bring pain to those around you. False smiles bring pain to one's self.", - "source": "Code Geass", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6338 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams never die when we sleep. Leave the open sky and the deep. Shades over head of blue and red. Is this the end? Will you come back again?", - "source": "Sky Sailing, Blue and Red", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6339 - }, - { - "text": "This is Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both the Jedi and the Republic have fallen, with the dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi: Trust in the force. Do not return to the Temple. That time has passed, and our future is uncertain. We will each be challenged. Our trust. Our faith. Our friendship. But we must persevere and in time a new hope will emerge. May the force be with you. Always.", - "source": "Star Wars Rebels", - "length": 485, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6340 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...", - "source": "Poe, The Raven", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6341 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and goodbye. Do you think I'm dying? Do you think I'm going somewhere else this time? Do you remember the day we pretended to be every star in the sky?", - "source": "Might quit - Bill Wurtz", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6344 - }, - { - "text": "I'm worried to death because I haven't been able to see you doing well. You said we live in different worlds. But is that true? We have different colored skin and eyes. We were born in different countries. But we're friends. Isn't that what counts? I'm really glad I came to America. I met lots of people. And more than anything, I met you. You asked me over and over if you scared me. But I never feared you, not once. What's more is you're hurt much more than me. I couldn't help feeling that way. Funny, huh? You're way smarter, bigger, and stronger than me. But I always felt like I had to protect you. I wonder what it is I wanted to protect you from. I wanted to protect you from fate. The fate that tries to carry you away, drifting further and further. You told me once about a leopard you read in a book. How you believed that leopard knew that it couldn't go back. And I said you weren't a leopard, that you could change your destiny. You're not alone. I'm by your side. My soul is always with you.", - "source": "Banana Fish - Eiji", - "length": 1008, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6346 - }, - { - "text": "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 475, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6347 - }, - { - "text": "We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost.", - "source": "All Quiet on The Western Front ", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6348 - }, - { - "text": "In exchange for power, maybe I've lost something that is essential to being human.", - "source": "One Punch Man, Saitama", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6349 - }, - { - "text": "My old friend - the panda will never fulfill his destiny nor yours, until you let go of the illusion of control... Yes! Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda - Master Oogway", - "length": 228, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6350 - }, - { - "text": "Once I realized the problem was not you but within me. I found inner peace and was able to harness the flow of the universe!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda 2 - Master Shifu", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6351 - }, - { - "text": "It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin", - "length": 236, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6353 - }, - { - "text": "When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened. It's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way and truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it.", - "source": "Lady Gaga, Prelude Pathetique (Marry the Night)", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6356 - }, - { - "text": "I don't care if you're movin' slow or fast, as long as it's my direction.", - "source": "Brokeback Mountain", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6357 - }, - { - "text": "I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you're just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there's not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 505, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6358 - }, - { - "text": "He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 176, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6359 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather have loyalty than love, 'cause love really don't mean jack. See, love is just a feeling - you can love somebody and talk behind their back. It don't take much to love, you can love somebody just by being attached. See, loyalty is an action, you can love or hate me and still have my back.", - "source": "21 Savage, Ball w/o You", - "length": 299, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6360 - }, - { - "text": "Somewhere deep inside of these bones an emptiness began to grow.", - "source": "Jack's Lament, The Nightmare Before Christmas", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6361 - }, - { - "text": "Is there a problem with Earth's gravitational pull in the future? Why is everything so heavy?", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6362 - }, - { - "text": "When people are protecting something truly precious to them, they can truly become as strong as they need to be.", - "source": "Haku, Naruto", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6363 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be the best, you have to be willing to do what others are not willing to do.", - "source": "Michael Phelps", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6365 - }, - { - "text": "There's no such thing as winning or losing. There's won and there's lost. There is victory and there's defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. The enemy will only have won when there is no one left to fight against him. Until then, there is only struggle, because that's what tides do - they turn.", - "source": "Skulduggery Pleasant", - "length": 336, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6367 - }, - { - "text": "It makes me so mad! We build your houses, your castles. We pave your roads, and still you walk all over us. Do you ever say thank you? No! Well, you're not going to wipe your feet on me! I think I'll crush you just for fun! Do you have a problem with that?", - "source": "Whomp King, Super Mario Galaxy 2", - "length": 256, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6369 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6370 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know, maybe it's not great progress compared to other people, but I'm happy with my progress. And you know what? Quite frankly, that's all that matters. If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?", - "source": "Gawr Gura", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6371 - }, - { - "text": "One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the Devil's Trill, but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.", - "source": "Giuseppe Tartini", - "length": 940, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6372 - }, - { - "text": "It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.", - "source": "Mary Poppins", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6373 - }, - { - "text": "At the bus stop, crushing rocks. They all stare at me, I don't care at all. Everywhere I go, they look at me wrong. Everyday go the same, got to stay strong. ", - "source": "Ecco2K, Peroxide", - "length": 158, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6375 - }, - { - "text": "Meaningless, huh? What do you know of meaningless? Spend most of your life ruled by another! Watch your race dwindle to a handful! And then, tell me what has more meaning than your own strength! I have in me the blood of a Saiyan prince. He is nothing but a joke! Yet, I've had to watch him surpass me in strength, my destiny thrown to the wayside! He's... he's even saved my life like I were a helpless child. He has stolen my honor, and his debts... must be paid!", - "source": "Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z", - "length": 465, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6376 - }, - { - "text": "Oh! One arrives. Far it walks to find me. Did it seek my aid? Or did the path carry it by chance to so pertinent a place? It is true. True, that you were awaited. No. Perhaps that is inaccurate. True one like you was awaited. I have a gift, held long for one of your kind. Half of a whole. When united, great power is granted, and on the path ahead, great power it will need.", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "length": 375, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6377 - }, - { - "text": "Just because people do horrible things, it doesn't always mean they're horrible people.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6378 - }, - { - "text": "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.", - "source": "A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6380 - }, - { - "text": "It seems after all I couldn't be anything more than a simple puppet. But you three... You're strong. With a power like that... Maybe you three can break your own strings. Let me become your strength.", - "source": "Deltarune", - "length": 199, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6382 - }, - { - "text": "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.", - "source": "George Orwell, 1984", - "length": 122, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6383 - }, - { - "text": "Dude, Benson would've snapped his crank if we'd just upped and left work. You gotta be responsible sometimes.", - "source": "Mordecai, Regular Show", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6384 - }, - { - "text": "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?", - "source": "Traditional American Tongue-twister", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what to tell you. I'm happy for the first time in my life and I'm not gonna feel bad about it. It takes a long time to realise how truly miserable you are and even longer to see it doesn't have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 297, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6386 - }, - { - "text": "You know, it's funny; when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 116, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6387 - }, - { - "text": "You could just write your own rules. You know, write something that's as interesting as you are.", - "source": "La La Land", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6388 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to do this right, show you I'm not movin'! Wherever you go, I won't be far to follow.", - "source": "Waitress, Never Ever Getting Rid of Me", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6389 - }, - { - "text": "People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6390 - }, - { - "text": "Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6391 - }, - { - "text": "\nWe're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6392 - }, - { - "text": "Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 328, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6393 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know that the word 'trauma' comes from the Greek for 'wound'? Hm? And what is the German word for 'dream'? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn't you agree, when you see a monster, you... you must stop it?", - "source": "Jeremiah Naehring, Shutter Island (Movie)", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6394 - }, - { - "text": "After she tried to kill herself the first time, Dolores told me she... she had an insect living inside her brain. She could feel it clicking across her skull, just... pulling the wires, just for fun. She told me that. She told me that but I didn't listen. I loved her so much.", - "source": "Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island (movie)", - "length": 276, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6395 - }, - { - "text": "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.", - "source": "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two), Harry Dacre", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6396 - }, - { - "text": "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.", - "source": "Dick Cavett", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6397 - }, - { - "text": "My momma always said, \"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6398 - }, - { - "text": "You don't listen, do you? I don't think you ever really hear me. You just ask the same questions every week. \"How's your job?\" \"Are you having any negative thoughts?\" All I have are negative thoughts.", - "source": "Joker", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6400 - }, - { - "text": "That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 245, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6401 - }, - { - "text": "My father was fond of saying you need three things in life - a good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 164, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6402 - }, - { - "text": "\"I will take responsibility for what I have done,\" Dalinar whispered. \"If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.\"", - "source": "Oathbringer, The Stormlight Archive, written by Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6403 - }, - { - "text": "So don't tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is I would just be more scared.\n\n", - "source": "Ellie, The Last Of Us", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6404 - }, - { - "text": "In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and the foreknowledge of pain.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6405 - }, - { - "text": "So, you have a different way of doing things, a different way of seeing things. That might make you weird, but it also makes you awesome. Don't you see? Because us weirdos have to stick together.", - "source": "The Owl House", - "length": 195, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6406 - }, - { - "text": "You are seeing the movements created by your abilities, but you will never arrive at the truth that's going to happen. None who stand before me shall ever get there, regardless of their abilities. This is the power of Golden Experience Requiem!", - "source": "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", - "length": 244, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6407 - }, - { - "text": "Suddenly I knew that the sound was not in my ears, it was not just inside my head. At that moment I must have become quite white. I talked still faster and louder. And the sound, too, became louder. It was a quick, low, soft sound, like the sound of a clock heard through a wall, a sound I knew well. Louder it became, and louder.", - "source": "The Tell-Tale Heart", - "length": 330, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6408 - }, - { - "text": "Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 125, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6409 - }, - { - "text": "They often say that humans can't live alone, but you can live pretty long by yourself. Instead of feeling alone in a group, it's better to be alone in your solitude.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 165, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6410 - }, - { - "text": "There is... another of me? How many times did I get ripped apart? How many times did I die?", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6411 - }, - { - "text": "I will get inside their inventor's head. Even brilliant minds will break to madness.", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6412 - }, - { - "text": "For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.", - "source": "The Shipping News", - "length": 451, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6413 - }, - { - "text": "I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. 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Just once, when I say \"suit up\" I wish you'd put on a suit.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6418 - }, - { - "text": "A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6419 - }, - { - "text": "You see, kids, right from the moment I met your mom I knew, I have to love this woman as much as I can, and as long as I can, and I can never stop loving her, not even for a second.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6420 - }, - { - "text": "A word of advice: Play along. The more you fight it, the worse it's gonna get.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6421 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6422 - }, - { - "text": "It's only once you've stopped that you realize how hard it is to start again.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6423 - }, - { - "text": "We're going to get older, whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives or desperately cling to the past.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6424 - }, - { - "text": "Never underestimate the power of destiny. 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I'm no VIP; I'm not even an IP; I'm just a lonely little P sitting out here in the gutter.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6430 - }, - { - "text": "Destined? Aren't you tired of waiting for destiny, Ted? Isn't it time to make your own destiny?", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6431 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know where I'm gonna be in five years. I don't wanna know. I want my life to be an adventure.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6432 - }, - { - "text": "It's just, eventually we're all gonna move on. It's called growing up.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6433 - }, - { - "text": "You can't just skip ahead to where you think your life should be.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6434 - }, - { - "text": "The three-day rule is a childish, manipulative mind game. But yeah, you wait three days.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6435 - }, - { - "text": "Think of me as Yoda. Only instead of being little and green, I wear suits and I'm awesome. I'm your bro. I'm Broda.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6436 - }, - { - "text": "Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6437 - }, - { - "text": "When life gives you lemons... you probably just found lemons.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6438 - }, - { - "text": "The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6440 - }, - { - "text": "What has just appeared is Team Plasma's castle. The king's words will resound from the heights to all below. You must come to the castle, as well. Everything will be decided there. Whether Pokemon will be liberated from people, or whether Pokemon and people will live together… We will see whose belief is stronger... And our result will change the world.", - "source": "Pokemon Black & White", - "length": 355, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6441 - }, - { - "text": "Love can never die, not completely. There were too many romantics, too many poets, too many places where lovers could meet and wishes could be shared.", - "source": "Great Goddesses, Nikita Gill", - "length": 150, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6442 - }, - { - "text": "This is what youth is. The sheer belief that you will be able to keep every promise you made to someone else. That you will be able to love someone into a forever when you do not even understand what forever means.", - "source": "Fierce Fairytales, Nikita Gill", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6443 - }, - { - "text": "When he talks to Marianne he has a sense of total privacy between them. He could tell her anything about himself, even weird things, and she would never repeat them, he knows that. Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 278, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6444 - }, - { - "text": "Marianne lived a drastically free life, he could see that. He was trapped by various considerations. He cared what people thought of him. He even cared what Marianne thought, that was obvious now.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6445 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody, even in the provinces, should ever be allowed to ask an intelligent question about pure mathematics across a dinner table. A question of this kind is quite as bad as inquiring suddenly about the state of a man's soul.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6446 - }, - { - "text": "Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6447 - }, - { - "text": "I am not bitter because of what has happened. On the contrary, I am secure in knowing that what we had was real, and I am happy we were able to come together for even a short period of time. And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. And maybe, for a brief moment, you'll feel it too, and you'll smile back, and savor the memories we will always share together. I love you, Allie. Noah. ", - "source": "The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks", - "length": 555, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6448 - }, - { - "text": "Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!", - "source": "Leia Organa, Star Wars", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6449 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.", - "source": "Yoda, Star Wars", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6450 - }, - { - "text": "When I was younger I saw my daddy cry and curse at the wind. 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But they don't know me, do they even know you?", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6454 - }, - { - "text": "You're saying I'm the one but it's your actions that speak louder.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6455 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna pack my things and leave you behind. This feeling's old and I know that I've made up my mind. I hope you feel what I felt when you shattered my soul 'cause you were cruel and I'm a fool so please let me go.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6456 - }, - { - "text": "Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace. I dream at night I can only see your face. I look around but it's you I can't replace. I feel so cold and I long for your embrace. I keep crying baby, baby, please.", - "source": "Every Breath You Take - The Police", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6457 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bother looking down, we're not going that way. At least I know I am here to stay.", - "source": "We Fell in Love in October - girl in red", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6458 - }, - { - "text": "But when I'm older, I'll be so much stronger, I'll stay up for longer.", - "source": "Meet Me At Our Spot", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6459 - }, - { - "text": "And you think that I can't see what kind of man that you are if you're a man at all.", - "source": "Decode - Paramore", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6460 - }, - { - "text": "By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 255, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6462 - }, - { - "text": "Setbacks are inevitable to superstars. Adversity is what separates the good from the great. After all, stars can only shine during the night.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6463 - }, - { - "text": "When you say you \"can't hear the sound\", doesn't it really mean you \"aren't restrained by the sound\"? Rather than the sound you hear with your ears, an image inside you is boiling up from the depths of yourself and taking over without you even knowing. The sound inside, the landscape in your heart, your wishes, a sound loaded with your thoughts; didn't you feel it, even for a moment? \"Not being able to hear the sound.\" That is a gift.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 438, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6464 - }, - { - "text": "Even though I'm bitter over losing, even though I'm depressed, even though my ankle hurts, and my eyes are smeared with tears... even though I've never felt worse... I wonder why the stars are sparkling like this.", - "source": "Your Lie in April", - "length": 213, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6465 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe there's only a dark road ahead. But you still have to believe and keep going. Believe that the stars will light your path, even a little bit. Come on... Let's go on a journey!", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6466 - }, - { - "text": "Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 393, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6467 - }, - { - "text": "When you decided to go to the sea, it was your own decision. Whatever happens to you on the sea, it depends on what you've done!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6468 - }, - { - "text": "I came in here to figure out if you were a fraud or if you were a monster.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6469 - }, - { - "text": "What do you know of death? Have you ever died? You think death will preserve your cause forever?", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6470 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6471 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to give you some advice. Never play foosball with a woman who's raised three brothers. It's exhausting.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6472 - }, - { - "text": "You're still in love with her. But instead of telling her, you bought her a plant.", - "source": "Kimball Cho, The Mentalist", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6473 - }, - { - "text": "It's not just allies who support each other. From your enemies, you learn so much and gain so much. Until the day you meet again... Just knowing they exist helps you to withstand the loneliness. Those who compete, even if they're enemies, help each other out.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 259, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6474 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I discovered something. Everyone has something... Something deep inside their hearts. For some, it might have been enmity. For others, admiration. Wishes, a craving for the spotlight, feelings that one wants to deliver, feelings for one's mother. Everyone was supported by their own feelings. I realize now that, perhaps, no one can stand alone on stage.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6475 - }, - { - "text": "Spring will be here soon. Spring, the season I met you, is coming. A Spring without you... is coming.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6476 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter who you're born to... Everyone's still a child of the sea!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6477 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to lose your way... Just don't lose sight of what you have decided.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6478 - }, - { - "text": "It's funny how I'm only your brother when you think I messed up.", - "source": "Jimmy Lisbon, The Mentalist", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6479 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody dies. Very few people ever feel truly sorry for the bad things they've done.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6480 - }, - { - "text": "What was I thinking? I was thinking, uh... Love is strange, and I was thinking about a sandwich.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6481 - }, - { - "text": "You booked the night train for a reason, so you could sit there in this hurt. Bustling crowds or silent sleepers, you're not sure which is worse. Because I dropped your hand while dancing, left you out there standing, crestfallen on the landing: champagne problems.", - "source": "Champagne Problems, Taylor Swift", - "length": 265, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6483 - }, - { - "text": "Adjectives on a typewriter he moves his words like a prizefighter, the frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell.", - "source": "CAKE - Shadow Stabbing", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6484 - }, - { - "text": "You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6485 - }, - { - "text": "I'll tell you one thing, Blondie. If I knew that my last hour had come, I swear, in my place... in your place I would do the same thing. I would tell about the gold. Yes, yes, I would. I would tell the name on the grave. What good is the money if you're dead? I know the name of the cemetery. But you know how many graves there are there? Please. Blondie, please. Have a little... coffee? Please, tell me the name. On... on the grave. If I get my hands on the 200,000 dollars, I'll always honor your memory. I swear I'll always honor your memory.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 546, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6487 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to White Space. You've been living here for as long as you can remember.", - "source": "OMORI", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6488 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.", - "source": "Billie Joe Armstrong", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6489 - }, - { - "text": "I knew you'd linger like a tattoo-kiss. I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs. The smell of smoke would hang around this long 'cause I knew everything when I was young. I knew I'd curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line. I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired, and you'd be standing in my front porch light and I knew you'd come back to me.", - "source": "Cardigan, Taylor Swift", - "length": 374, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6492 - }, - { - "text": "There's things I want to say to you, but I'll just let you live. Like if you hold me without hurting me, you'll be the first who ever did.", - "source": "Cinnamon Girl, Lana Del Rey", - "length": 138, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6493 - }, - { - "text": "Think you can keep up? Who am I kidding? You know you can't keep up.", - "source": "Jett, Valorant", - "length": 68, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6494 - }, - { - "text": "Hard work will always beat talent when talent does not work hard.", - "source": "Tim Notke", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6495 - }, - { - "text": "That summer, let's see, I'm still living in the basement, my own private down under, in the little room Grim built for me there. Glued up this cheap paneling, right? It sort of buckles away from the concrete cellar walls, a regular ripple effect, but do I complain about the crummy paneling, or the rug that smells like low tide? I do not. Because I like it in the down under, got the place all to myself and no fear of Gram sticking her head in the door and saying Maxwell dear, what are you doing?", - "source": "Freak the Mighty", - "length": 499, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6496 - }, - { - "text": "Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?", - "source": "Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast", - "length": 111, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6497 - }, - { - "text": "There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.", - "source": "The Witch of Portobello", - "length": 110, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6498 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it. Instead have the courage to change it the way you want it to be.", - "source": "Naruto Uzumaki", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6500 - }, - { - "text": "Granger? Granger? Can you possibly be related to Hector Dagworth-Granger, who founded the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers?", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6501 - }, - { - "text": "I like to say that if you're seeing me you're having the worst day of your life.", - "source": "Nightcrawler", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6503 - }, - { - "text": "Because I feel nothing like my father, he's been sleeping underground. Don't wait around, 'cause there's nothing there at all, there's nothing but the end!", - "source": "Snowing - Sam Rudich", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6505 - }, - { - "text": "No! The sun is a deadly laser. Not anymore, there's a blanket.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz. History of the entire world, i guess", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6506 - }, - { - "text": "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 189, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6507 - }, - { - "text": "Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 492, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6508 - }, - { - "text": "It was like the litany, she thought. We faced it and did not resist. We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 169, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6509 - }, - { - "text": "It occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6510 - }, - { - "text": "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6511 - }, - { - "text": "There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 634, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6512 - }, - { - "text": "I thought I felt your shape, but I was wrong. Really all I felt, was falsely strong.", - "source": "I Felt Your Shape", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6513 - }, - { - "text": "Looking from up here, it's as if each flame were a small dream for each person. They look like a bonfire of dreams, don't they?... But there's no flame for me here. I'm just a temporary visitor, taking comfort from the flame.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6514 - }, - { - "text": "When you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around, do you ever really crash, or even make a sound?", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6515 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law...? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6516 - }, - { - "text": "My dad knew I liked beans, so like he was just playing with beans and then he dropped them and then he dropped a rock and then it slid, and then hot water started falling and then, coffee.", - "source": "Johnny Suh (NCT)", - "length": 188, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6517 - }, - { - "text": "You ruined me. You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength. You lied to me, to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear! My whole life I sought the approval I was denied by the man I thought was my father. You turned me into the weakling he hated!... Look at me! You rant and you rage about the monster I have become, but you mother, you are the author of everything I am.", - "source": "The Vampire Diaries", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6520 - }, - { - "text": "Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother? Here's the real truth. There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You, me? We're exceptional. I could squash you like a bug right now, but I'm offering you a choice. Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create. Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead! Is that what you want?", - "source": "Spider-Man", - "length": 816, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6521 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up. I've been watching you. Come closer. Closer. Twenty-eight days, six hours, forty-two minutes, twelve seconds. That is when the world will end.", - "source": "Donnie Darko", - "length": 151, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6522 - }, - { - "text": "Understanding that our understanding might be wrong is essential, and trying to figure out ways we may be mistaken is the only way science can help us find our way to the truth.", - "source": "Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 177, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6523 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when you look up, you can see stars that don't twinkle. That's because they aren't stars. They're planets.", - "source": "Naked Eye Observations: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 117, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6524 - }, - { - "text": "The moon is a giant ball of rock 3500 kilometers across. Its surface is pretty dark, with about the same reflectivity as a chalkboard or asphalt. However, it looks bright to us because it's sitting in full sunlight.", - "source": "The Cycles of the Moon: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 215, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6525 - }, - { - "text": "I don't mean to dwell, but I can't help myself. When I feel the vibe and taste a memory of a time in life, when years seemed to stand still. I close my eyes and sink within myself. Relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. When did it begin, the change to come was undetectable. The open wounds expose the importance of our innocence, a high that can never be bought or sold.", - "source": "Death - Symbolic", - "length": 406, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6526 - }, - { - "text": "Wrong about us being on different paths... we're not on different paths... you're my path... and you're always going to be my path... and I know there are a million reasons why we shouldn't be together... but I'm tired of them... I'm tired of every single one of them... we all got to make a choice... right? Well I choose you...", - "source": "The amazing spider-man 2, Peter Parker", - "length": 329, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6527 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the way I see it, one of two things can happen. Either we'll discover that we've foolishly built each other up in our own imaginations because we've had so much trouble getting together; or, this could end up being a story we tell our grandchildren. 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You're gonna have to be more specific, love.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6532 - }, - { - "text": "When you see Alex in whatever little hell she's carved out for herself, you tell her I said hello.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6533 - }, - { - "text": "When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go... downtown. When you've got worries, all the noise, and the hurry seems to help, I know... downtown. Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city. Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty. How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there. You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares. So go downtown. Things will be great when you're... downtown. No finer place for sure, downtown. Everything's waiting for you.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 515, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6534 - }, - { - "text": "Don't hang around and let your problems surround you, there are movie shows... downtown. Maybe you know some little places to go to where they never close... downtown. Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova, you'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over, happy again, the lights are much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares so go downtown. Where all the lights are bright, downtown. Waiting for you tonight, downtown. You're gonna be alright now, downtown.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 512, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6535 - }, - { - "text": "Traditionally the concept is of a 'good twin' and an 'evil twin'. But in this case, it's evil twin, eviler twin.", - "source": "Dr. Spencer Reid Criminal Minds", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6536 - }, - { - "text": "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We fought for these ideals, we shouldn't settle for less. These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em. Don't act surprised, you guys, 'cause I wrote 'em.", - "source": "Cabinet Battle #1, Hamilton", - "length": 202, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6537 - }, - { - "text": "When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.", - "source": "Wonder", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6538 - }, - { - "text": "I'm running out of time. I'm running out of light. I'm running just to keep myself from bleeding out. I'm falling out of touch. 'Cause I hate myself too much. No I can't, I was never meant to. I never loved myself like I loved you.", - "source": "I never loved myself like I loved you - Dead Poet Society", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6539 - }, - { - "text": "The concept of hope is nothing more than giving up. A word that holds no true meaning.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6541 - }, - { - "text": "You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be the big ones, they are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It's the regular days, the ones that start out normal. Those are the days that end up the biggest.", - "source": "Izzie - Grey's anatomy", - "length": 282, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6542 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 345, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6544 - }, - { - "text": "I've realized that I'm probably just perfect and it's everybody else around me that's got issues.", - "source": "Scott Disick - Keeping Up with the Kardashians", - "length": 97, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6545 - }, - { - "text": "The last 30 days have taught me so much. And all I wanted when we first came here was to know that we would leave together. But from the minute I sat down, I could feel it. I felt like I was going to be suffocated. The last several weeks, I have laughed more, I have done more, I have enjoyed myself more. And I finally feel free. And by being free, I can see now that constantly trying to fix us is the thing that's been killing me slowly. And I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to fix it or fix us anymore. Maybe instead of loving you so hard, I should be myself for a while. I should love me, and you should love you, and together we love Sofia, rather than... I want so much for you, Arizona. So much more than this. More than being stuck with someone who feels stuck. I want you to feel free too.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 810, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6546 - }, - { - "text": "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6547 - }, - { - "text": "All's well that ends well to end up with you. Swear to be over-dramatic and true to my lover. And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me. And at every table, I'll save you a seat.", - "source": "Lover", - "length": 183, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6548 - }, - { - "text": "Flashback when you met me, your buzz cut and my hair bleached. Even in my worst times, you could see the best in me. Flashback to my mistakes, my rebounds, my earthquakes. Even in my worst lies, you saw the truth in me.", - "source": "Dress", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6549 - }, - { - "text": "Kneel before me. I said... kneel! Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.", - "source": "The Avengers", - "length": 309, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6551 - }, - { - "text": "Existence is chaos. Nothing makes any sense, so we try to make some sense of it.", - "source": "Loki", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6552 - }, - { - "text": "You could be whoever, whatever you wanna be, even someone good. I mean, just in case anyone ever told you different.", - "source": "Loki", - "length": 116, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6553 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, you just gotta get destroyed standing up for what you believe in.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6554 - }, - { - "text": "Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6555 - }, - { - "text": "Fun isn't something one considers when balancing the universe. But this... does put a smile on my face.", - "source": "Thanos", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6556 - }, - { - "text": "My point is that you asked how and I am giving you the examples, the possibilities, because when I want something, truly want something that my life depends on - which is purpose and happiness - I will stop at nothing to attain. It's like breathing. So you must ask yourself: What is your air? What is the thing you literally will fight for to survive?", - "source": "Supermarket, Bobby Hall", - "length": 352, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6557 - }, - { - "text": "But I hate that it seems you were never enough. We were broken and bleeding but never gave up. And I hate that I made you the enemy. And I hate that your heart was the casualty. Now I hate that I need you.", - "source": "Motionless in White - Another Life", - "length": 205, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6558 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6559 - }, - { - "text": "Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 233, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6560 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, right. The poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison... That poison?", - "source": "Emperor's New Groove", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6561 - }, - { - "text": "Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God. It even has a watermark.", - "source": "Patrick Bateman, American Psycho", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6562 - }, - { - "text": "We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 262, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6563 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what I'm supposed to do haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "The Night we Met - Lord Huron", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6565 - }, - { - "text": "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6566 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.\n", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6567 - }, - { - "text": "I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.", - "source": "The Song of Achilles", - "length": 182, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6568 - }, - { - "text": "In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.\n", - "source": "The Song of Achilles", - "length": 170, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6569 - }, - { - "text": "When we doubt our hearts, our bodies react. Tear ducts overflow and the face flushes red hot embers. A burning, turning sensation overwhelms, and a pressure in the head seduces the mind to doubt. A cycle of connection, a circle of ever-expanding, inexplicable nervous system responses. When we doubt our heads, our stomach cramps, our fists clench and our thoughts tumble into larger and larger whirls of uncertainty, beating our bodies blue and scabish. When we quiet our minds and center our soul we are receptive to an intuition much stronger than knowledge and knowing.", - "source": "Tinker creek.", - "length": 573, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6571 - }, - { - "text": "And yet even these violent fantasies were nothing compared to what lay in wait at the centre of the drawing.", - "source": "House of Leaves", - "length": 108, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6572 - }, - { - "text": "I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6573 - }, - { - "text": "There were some things that were said that weren't meant. There were some things that were said, but we never did. Not to be overly dramatic, I just think it's best, 'cause you can't miss what you forget. So, let's just pretend everything and anything between you and me was never meant.", - "source": "American Football - Never Meant", - "length": 287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6574 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.", - "source": "Dylan Thomas", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6576 - }, - { - "text": "Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all. Which is? It's not about you.", - "source": "Dr Strange", - "length": 126, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6577 - }, - { - "text": "I was never good at telling jokes, but the punchline goes: I get older but your lovers stay my age.", - "source": "All Too Well, Taylor Swift", - "length": 99, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6578 - }, - { - "text": "\"Did you put your name in the goblet of fire, Harry?\" Dumbledore asked calmly.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6579 - }, - { - "text": "They say all's well that ends well, but I'm in a new hell every time you double-cross my mind. You said, \"If we had been closer in age, maybe it would have been fine.\" And that made me want to die.", - "source": "All Too Well, Taylor Swift", - "length": 197, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6580 - }, - { - "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. Then what am I?", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6581 - }, - { - "text": "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6582 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I was gonna go easy on you, not to hurt your feelings. But I'm only going to get this one chance. Something's wrong, I can feel it... It's just... a feeling I've got. Like something's about to happen, but I don't know what. If that means what I think it means; we're in trouble, big trouble. And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances.", - "source": "Rap God", - "length": 361, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6583 - }, - { - "text": "If you think reality is just living comfortably and following your own whims, can you seriously dare to call yourself a soldier?", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6584 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry, Eren. I won't give up. I'll never give up again. If I died, I won't be able to remember you. So I'll win, no matter what! I'll survive, no matter what!", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 162, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6585 - }, - { - "text": "A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6586 - }, - { - "text": "War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War - and its consumption of life - has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control... everything is monitored and kept under control. War... has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War... has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 4", - "length": 784, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6587 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't want to remember him. If I had to remember him, it would mean he wasn't a part of my life anymore.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 107, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6589 - }, - { - "text": "Until he comes back for me, I'm just going to keep pretending to be okay. I'll keep pretending to swim, when really all I'm doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 178, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6590 - }, - { - "text": "In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 121, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6591 - }, - { - "text": "You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6592 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed on the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 426, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6593 - }, - { - "text": "There is no such thing as bad people. We're all just people who sometimes do bad things.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6594 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one. Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper.", - "source": "GlaDOS, Portal", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6595 - }, - { - "text": "Please be advised that a noticeable taste of blood is not part of any test protocol but is an unintended side effect of the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill, which may, in semi-rare cases, emancipate dental fillings, crowns, tooth enamel, and teeth.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6596 - }, - { - "text": "The vital apparatus vent will deliver a weighted companion cube in three, two, one. This weighted companion cube will accompany you through the test chamber. Please take care of it.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6597 - }, - { - "text": "Ya' listenin'? OK. Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brotha, I hurt people.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2 - Meet the Scout", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6599 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a powerful thing for it cannot be stopped. Life is even more so.", - "source": "The Library of the Dark Atom", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6600 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you do, don't reveal all of your tactics in a YouTube video. You fool.", - "source": "Technoblade, Great Potato War", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6601 - }, - { - "text": "There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion", - "length": 190, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6602 - }, - { - "text": "Time to open your eyes to this genocide. When you clear your mind you see it all. 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It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.", - "source": "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", - "length": 568, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6606 - }, - { - "text": "I see, your HEV-Suit still fits you like a glove. At least the glove parts do.", - "source": "Half-Life 2 ", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6607 - }, - { - "text": "I see them, Mia! I see them! Over there against the dark, stormy sky. They are all there. The Smith and Lisa and the knight and Raval and Jons and Skat. And Death, the severe master, invites them to dance. 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What I say goes.", - "source": "The Prince of Egypt (1998)", - "length": 67, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6635 - }, - { - "text": "Prince Zuko, you must look within yourself, and only then, can you save yourself from your other self.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006)", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6636 - }, - { - "text": "Don't leave, it's my fault. 'Cause when it all comes crashing down I'll need you.", - "source": "EARFQUAKE, Tyler, the Creator", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6637 - }, - { - "text": "Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine, gotta, gotta be down because I want it all. It started out with a kiss; how did it end up like this? It was only a kiss; it was only a kiss.", - "source": "Mr. Brightside - The Killers", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6638 - }, - { - "text": "Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me, 'cause we need a little controversy, 'cause it feels so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6639 - }, - { - "text": "I got my ticket for the long way 'round, two bottle o' whiskey for the way. And I sure would like some sweet company and I'm leavin' tomorrow, what do you say?", - "source": "Cups, Anna Kendrick", - "length": 159, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6640 - }, - { - "text": "The Dib, he's missing! They've taken him and drained him of his sweet, sweet blood candies!", - "source": "Invader Zim", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6641 - }, - { - "text": "Rooted deep within the Puritans souls like some strange invasive weed lurked their belief in a second world, an Invisible World swarming with shadowy apparitions and unearthly phantoms of the air.", - "source": "Witches by Rosalyn Schanzer", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6642 - }, - { - "text": "Time... Line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round.", - "source": "Red Vs. Blue", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6643 - }, - { - "text": "I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, so good to me so right. And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry. Maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming. And if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right. I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't.", - "source": "Back to December", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6644 - }, - { - "text": "It's such a good feeling to know you're alive. It's such a happy feeling; you're growing inside. And when you wake up ready to say: \"I think I'll make a snappy new day!\" It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling. The feeling you know, that I'll be back when the day is new, and I'll have more ideas for you, and you'll have things you'll want to talk about; I will too.", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6645 - }, - { - "text": "You always make each day such a special day, you know how: By just your being you. Only one person in the whole world like you, that's you yourself!", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 148, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6646 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6647 - }, - { - "text": "Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6648 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.", - "source": "Margaret Mead", - "length": 72, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6650 - }, - { - "text": "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.", - "source": "Robert Louis Stevenson", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6651 - }, - { - "text": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", - "source": "Eleanor Roosevelt", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6652 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.", - "source": "Benjamin Franklin", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6653 - }, - { - "text": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", - "source": "Helen Keller", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6654 - }, - { - "text": "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 69, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6655 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6656 - }, - { - "text": "Dad told me I could learn a lesson from this, which was to never lose your temper and do something stupid.", - "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6658 - }, - { - "text": "One big unicorn, strong and free, thought he was happy as he could be. Then three little kittens came around and turned his whole life upside down. They made him laugh, they made him cry. He never should have said goodbye. And now he knows he can never part from those three little kittens that changed his heart.", - "source": "Despicable Me", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6659 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only, if only,\" the woodpecker sighs, \"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6660 - }, - { - "text": "While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, crying to the moon, \"If only, if only.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6661 - }, - { - "text": "But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 699, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6662 - }, - { - "text": "The shepherd's boy says, \"There's this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years, a little bird comes. It sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.\" You must think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 396, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6663 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.", - "source": "Angela Davis", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6664 - }, - { - "text": "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6665 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have proven acceptable to ourselves.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6666 - }, - { - "text": "A hot desert storm eddied around him and rushed to me, making my skin contract, and my pores slam shut... His hair was the color of burning embers and his eyes pierced.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 168, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6668 - }, - { - "text": "There's a concept that works; twenty million other white rappers emerge. But no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 142, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6669 - }, - { - "text": "A king without greed is even worse than a figurehead! Saber, you said you would martyr yourself for your ideals. In life, you must have been a pure saint. A proud and noble figure, certainly. But who can truly admire the martyr's thorny path? Who dreams of such an ending? A king. The king must be greedier than any other. He must laugh more loudly and rage for longer. He must exemplify the extreme of all things, good and evil. That is why his retainers envy and adore him. And why the flames of aspiration, to be as the king is, can burn within his people. Proud king of chivalry, the righteousness and ideals you bore may indeed have saved your nation once. However, I'm certain you know what became of those who were saved, but left to themselves.", - "source": "Fate/Zero", - "length": 752, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6670 - }, - { - "text": "No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights. Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different color, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.", - "source": "86", - "length": 347, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6671 - }, - { - "text": "I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. 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And every time you draw your sword, you hope that you take from this world more evil than you bring into it. THAT is the code of the Maximillian Knights. I'm putting you on notice. You, who so carelessly use the word \"justice\", have no idea what it truly means. Though you strike me as more of a misguided coward than a villain, your evil deeds must still be punished.", - "source": "Suikoden 5", - "length": 738, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6676 - }, - { - "text": "I'm all for work-life balance, but I think this is pushing it.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 62, - "id": 6679 - }, - { - "text": "In adventuring, as in business, you always have to seize the opportunity while it's there.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 90, - "id": 6680 - }, - { - "text": "Quite a downpour... Nothing will get done until it clears. Let this be a lesson to those who yesterday said, \"I'll do it tomorrow.\"", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 131, - "id": 6681 - }, - { - "text": "Morning. Time to set the tone for the rest of the day, so if you're still feeling sleepy, shake it off!", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 103, - "id": 6685 - }, - { - "text": "The lights are coming on now that the night is setting in. Another delightful day draws to a close.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 99, - "id": 6687 - }, - { - "text": "Sleep well... me? Uh... I still have a handful of things on my to-do list, but I'll call it a night once they are done.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 119, - "id": 6688 - }, - { - "text": "I feel I have grown immensely from my travels with you. If, one day, I finally manage to make my dreams a reality... I wonder, will you still be there by my side?", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 162, - "id": 6689 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, the sun's out- Oh, um... This meteorological transformation is most splendid! Like a felicitous twist of fate in the face of certain doom.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 142, - "id": 6690 - }, - { - "text": "I'll remind you again: The law can be both a help and a hindrance.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 66, - "id": 6691 - }, - { - "text": "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6693 - }, - { - "text": "You have to believe in the long-term plan you have but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6695 - }, - { - "text": "You truly are the lowest scum in history. You can't pay back what you owe with money.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6696 - }, - { - "text": "Impossible? We did a lot of impossible things on this journey. I'm tired of hearing that things are impossible or useless. Those words mean nothing to us.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6697 - }, - { - "text": "Nice watch. Too bad you won't be able to tell the time after I break it. Break your face, that is.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6698 - }, - { - "text": "JoJo, being a human means having limits. I've learned something... The more carefully you scheme, the more unexpected events come along. As long as you're human... I reject my humanity, JoJo!", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6699 - }, - { - "text": "Oh no. I'm on the outside looking in, I never said what I really meant. I wasn't made to be medicine for you, it's true. You can't seem to make up your mind, when I told you I did with mine. You won't know if you never try, it's true.", - "source": "Dayglow, Medicine", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6700 - }, - { - "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. But then, what am I? Is this me? My true self? My fake self? What is it that I am? Nobody understands me!", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6702 - }, - { - "text": "In every heart, there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong; to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along.", - "source": "Billy Joel - And so it goes", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6703 - }, - { - "text": "It's about drive, it's about power, we stay hungry, we devour. Put in the work, put in the hours and take what's ours. Black and Samoan in my veins, my culture banging with Strange. I changed the game so what's my name?", - "source": "Face Off", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6704 - }, - { - "text": "No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.", - "source": "Easy Rider", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6705 - }, - { - "text": "Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? ", - "source": "Lord of the Flies", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6707 - }, - { - "text": "Burning is the right way to paint it. You feel yourself getting so hot, day after day. Hotter and hotter. It gets to be too much. Even for stars. At some point they fizzle out or explode. Cease to be. But if you're looking up at the sky, you don't see it that way. You think those stars are still there. Some aren't. Some are already gone. Long gone. I guess, now, so am I.", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6708 - }, - { - "text": "And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us; new, untouched, and full of things that have never been.", - "source": "Rainier Maria Rilke", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6709 - }, - { - "text": "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they have never been.", - "source": "Untamed by Glennon Doyle", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6710 - }, - { - "text": "Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes out and everything is darker than ever, and all you are left with is the burn.", - "source": "If It's Not Love, Syed Arshad", - "length": 222, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6711 - }, - { - "text": "We are alone. Such is the curse of humanity, being surrounded by others always masking themselves while all of us feel isolated, separated from everyone else. Our sense of uniqueness and ego will always keep us this way, and it will take more than a revolution to end it. For now, we are alone.", - "source": "Alice Chary Garza", - "length": 294, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6712 - }, - { - "text": "Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say \"My tooth is aching\" than to say \"My heart is broken.\"", - "source": "C.S. Lewis", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6713 - }, - { - "text": "Although Ganon is gone for now, there is still so much more for us to do, and so many painful memories that we must bear.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 121, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6716 - }, - { - "text": "Link... You are the light. Our light... That must shine upon Hyrule once again. Now go.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6717 - }, - { - "text": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", - "source": "Michael Jordan", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6719 - }, - { - "text": "And those are the words of a gentleman? From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6720 - }, - { - "text": "Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.", - "source": "Call Me by Your Name", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6722 - }, - { - "text": "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger... and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says \"even though you're a boy\" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6723 - }, - { - "text": "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6724 - }, - { - "text": "Now it's time for our wrap up. Let's give it everything we've got. Ready? Begin! Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing. Analytically, I assault, animate things. Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding. Casually create catastrophes, casualties. Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing. Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough. Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low. Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic. Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette. Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics. Gift got great global goods gone glorious. Gettin' Godly in his game with the goriest. Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical. Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In an instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. Tales ten times talented, they're too tough. Take that, challengers, get a tune up. Universal, unique untouched. Unadulterated, the raw uncut. Verb vice Lord victorious valid. Violate vibes that are vain make 'em vanished. Why I'm all well, would a wise wordsmith. Just weaving up words weeded up, on my work shift. Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large. X-height letters and xylophone tones. Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws. Yesterday's lawn yards sell our yawn. Zig zag zombies, zoomin' to the zenith. Zero in zen thoughts, over zealous rhyme Zea-lots. Good, can you say it faster?", - "source": "Alphabet Aerobics", - "length": 2287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6725 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6726 - }, - { - "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", - "source": "Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6727 - }, - { - "text": "And where there was that memory... others came rising like ghostly tendrils out of some part of her mind that existed beyond the purely physical, somewhere that the rejuvenations and edits of the ship's medical suite could never reach. The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.", - "source": "Light Chaser", - "length": 561, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6728 - }, - { - "text": "Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.", - "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", - "length": 360, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6729 - }, - { - "text": "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6730 - }, - { - "text": "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. ", - "source": "Lawrence of Arabia", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6731 - }, - { - "text": "The violent passion that soaked his heart brought him almost to the verge of collapse. He judged that victory had yielded him nothing if it had not given him her as a prize.", - "source": "Book III of Gesta Danorum", - "length": 173, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6732 - }, - { - "text": "You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits can change your future.", - "source": "Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6733 - }, - { - "text": "There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 586, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6734 - }, - { - "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 1174, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6735 - }, - { - "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", - "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", - "length": 221, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6736 - }, - { - "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 184, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6737 - }, - { - "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6738 - }, - { - "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 246, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6739 - }, - { - "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6740 - }, - { - "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6741 - }, - { - "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", - "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", - "length": 272, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6742 - }, - { - "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 275, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6743 - }, - { - "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6744 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 467, - "id": 6745 - }, - { - "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 877, - "id": 6746 - }, - { - "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", - "source": "A Girl on the Shore", - "length": 572, - "id": 6747 - }, - { - "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 64, - "id": 6748 - }, - { - "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 62, - "id": 6749 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 77, - "id": 6750 - }, - { - "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 166, - "id": 6751 - }, - { - "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 195, - "id": 6752 - }, - { - "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 100, - "id": 6753 - }, - { - "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 172, - "id": 6754 - }, - { - "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 118, - "id": 6755 - }, - { - "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 119, - "id": 6756 - }, - { - "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", - "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6757, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", - "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6758, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6761, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Well, then, you have us all beat. Every damn song is about you. We could drive back and forth across the States forever and never run out of Baby songs.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6762, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6764, - "length": 458 - }, - { - "text": "Well done. Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6765, - "length": 141 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6766, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", - "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", - "id": 6767, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. However, the latter is of equal importance, and can be gained with patient study.", - "source": "Conduction Heat Transfer", - "id": 6768, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", - "source": "Unknown", - "id": 6769, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "My wife and I had lived in our house for over a dozen years at that point. Holly's family had lived in theirs even longer. We were both active families, involved in the community, with work, and with our churches. Yet, the thick woods covering the lots we each occupied along a cul-de-sac was enough of a barrier to our getting to know each other that we didn't even realize our neighbors across the street had a little girl the same age as ours. That is, until they met at the kindergarten in the elementary school six miles away.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6770, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "The single quality that is common across every living creature on this planet, is fear. It's funny, then, that as common as fear is, we so easily underestimate its power. Fear of growing close to someone, the subsequent fear of loss, fear of failure. And as more people depend on you, those fears can take on greater power. But fear itself isn't worthy of concern, it is who we become while in its clutches. Will you be proud of that person? Will you forgive them? Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things they did? Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the start? I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6771, - "length": 703 - }, - { - "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6772, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6773, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6774, - "length": 464 - }, - { - "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6775, - "length": 259 - }, - { - "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6776, - "length": 267 - }, - { - "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6777, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6778, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6779, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6780, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6781, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6782, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6783, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6784, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6785, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", - "source": "Walt Disney", - "id": 6786, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6787, - "length": 79 + "text": "That's the way it must always be, as I told you. When men think they are helping the world, they actually do more harm than good. Just like you. You tried to help, but you just ended up freeing me.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7641 }, { - "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6788, - "length": 56 + "text": "For Ruin, there is Preservation. Time immemorial! Eternity! And each time I push, YOU push back. Even when dead, you stopped me, for we are forces. I can do nothing! And you can do nothing! Balance! The curse of our existence.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 226, + "id": 7642 }, { - "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", - "source": "Ozark", - "id": 6789, - "length": 662 + "text": "I can't decide if you're a fool, or if you simply exist in a way that makes you incapable of considering some things.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 117, + "id": 7643 }, { - "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "id": 6790, - "length": 75 + "text": "The only reason to be subservient to those with power is so that you can learn to someday take what they have.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 110, + "id": 7644 }, { - "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", - "source": "Greek Mythology", - "id": 6791, - "length": 383 + "text": "Never let your life depend on the competence of someone else whose life isn't also on the line.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7645 }, { - "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 6792, - "length": 108 + "text": "What we do, it is not outside the law. Not the true law. Oh, the rich will make their own codes, will force us to live by them. But our law is the law of humanity itself. Men who work for me, they are given the dispensation of reform. Their work here washes away their previous ... infractions. Tell them I am proud of them, Clamps. I realize we've been through something traumatic, but we did survive. We will face tomorrow with greater strength.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 447, + "id": 7646 }, { - "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", - "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", + "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 99, - "id": 6793 - }, - { - "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", - "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6794 - }, - { - "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 58, - "id": 6795 - }, - { - "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6796 - }, - { - "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", - "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", - "length": 102, - "id": 6797 + "id": 7647 }, { - "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", - "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", - "length": 91, - "id": 6798 + "text": "I am tired of doing what the city tells me. I should be helping people, not fighting meaningless fights as prescribed by the corrupt and the uncaring.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7648 }, { - "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", - "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6799 + "text": "I decided that I'd see her dream fulfilled. I'd make a world where flowers returned, a world with green plants, a world where no soot fell from the sky....\" He trailed off, then sighed. \"I know. I'm insane.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 205, + "id": 7649 }, { - "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 67, - "id": 6800 + "text": "If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7650 }, { - "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 79, - "id": 6801 + "text": "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 133, + "id": 7651 }, { - "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6802 + "text": "Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a mild annoyance. People tell me I can be downright frustrating! Might as well use that talent for the cause of good eh?", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 216, + "id": 7652 }, { - "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 82, - "id": 6803 + "text": "From the Well of Ascension, of course. It's the same power, after all. Solid in the metal you fed to Elend. The liquid in the pool you burned. And vapor in the air, confined to night. Hiding you. Protecting you.\nGiving you power!", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 229, + "id": 7653 }, { - "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 153, - "id": 6804 + "text": "So, there I was, tied to an altar made from out-dated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil librarians.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 141, + "id": 7654 }, { - "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6805 + "text": "Now, there are several things you should consider doing if you were plummeting to your death atop a glass dragon in the middle of the ocean. Those things do not, mind you, include getting into an extended discussion of classical philosophy. Leave that to professionals like me.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 277, + "id": 7655 }, { - "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 98, - "id": 6806 + "text": "When you're about to launch yourself into the air strapped to the back of a rocket-propelled penguin, it's that blasted responsibility that warns you that the flight might not be good for your insurance premiums.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 212, + "id": 7656 }, { - "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", - "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", - "length": 78, - "id": 6807 + "text": "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7657 }, { - "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 108, - "id": 6808 + "text": "It felt right. Serene. That, of course, meant it was time for something to explode.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 83, + "id": 7658 }, { - "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 134, - "id": 6809 + "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 520, + "id": 7659 }, { - "text": "And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 90, - "id": 6810 + "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 344, + "id": 7660 }, { - "text": "You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 62, - "id": 6811 + "text": "Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 244, + "id": 7661 }, { - "text": "I am slow to anger but I toe the line, as I reckon with the effects of your life on mine.", - "source": "Your Obedient Servant, Hamilton", - "length": 89, - "id": 6812 + "text": "Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change... To be young is about action. To be a scholar is about informed action.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7662 }, { - "text": "What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 71, - "id": 6813 + "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 339, + "id": 7663 }, { - "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 81, - "id": 6814 + "text": "I always forgive curiosity, Your Majesty. It strikes me as one of the most genuine of emotions.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7664 }, { - "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.", - "source": "Fred Rogers", - "length": 213, - "id": 6815 + "text": "A true scholar must not close her mind on any topic, no matter how certain she may feel. Just because I have not yet found a convincing reason to join one of the devotaries does not mean I never will. Though each time I have a discussion like the one today, my convictions grow firmer.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 285, + "id": 7665 }, { - "text": "I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism.", - "source": "Wednesday", - "length": 168, - "id": 6817 + "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 612, + "id": 7666 }, { - "text": "Teach them our ways so they do not suffer the shame of being useless.", - "source": "Avatar: The Way of Water", - "length": 69, - "id": 6818 + "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 302, + "id": 7667 }, { - "text": "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.", - "source": "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", - "length": 254, - "id": 6819 + "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7668 }, { - "text": "Life is a journey, not a destination. The key to success is to enjoy every step along the way. Embrace the struggles, learn from the failures, and appreciate the victories. The destination may be important, but it's the journey that truly shapes us.", - "source": "The Power of Positive Thinking", - "length": 249, - "id": 6820 + "text": "Power is an illusion of perception...Some kinds of power are real -- power to command armies, power to soulcast. These come into play far less often than you would think.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7669 }, { - "text": "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. We do not remember days, we remember moments. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Søren Kierkegaard", - "length": 321, - "id": 6821 + "text": "You are not as good with patterns... You are abstract. You think in lies and tell them to yourselves. That is fascinating, but it is not good for patterns.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7670 }, { - "text": "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.", - "source": "Robin Williams", - "length": 185, - "id": 6822 + "text": "Truth is individual. Your truth is what you see. What else could it be? That is the truth that you spoke to me, the truth that brings power.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 140, + "id": 7671 }, { - "text": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 174, - "id": 6823 + "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7672 }, { - "text": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 254, - "id": 6824 + "text": "Humans can see the world as it is not. It is why your lies can be so strong. You are able to not admit that they are lies.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 122, + "id": 7673 }, { - "text": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.", - "source": "Andrè Gide", - "length": 80, - "id": 6825 + "text": "I know that you have forgotten much of what once was. Those lies attracted me. But you cannot continue like this; you must admit the truth about me. About what I can do, and what we have done. Mmm... More, you must know yourself. And remember. You wish to help. You wish to prepare for the Everstorm, the spren of the unnatural one. You must become something. I did not come to you merely to teach you tricks of light.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 418, + "id": 7674 }, { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This means recognizing that failure and setbacks are a natural part of the journey to success, and using them as opportunities to learn and grow. It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 431, - "id": 6827 + "text": "I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7675 }, { - "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 75, - "id": 6828 + "text": "You were talking about mating! I'm to make sure you don't accidentally mate, as mating is forbidden by human society until you have first performed appropriate rituals! Yes, yes. Mmmm. Dictates of custom require following certain patterns before you copulate. I've been studying this!", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 284, + "id": 7676 }, { - "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", - "source": "J.K. Rowling", - "length": 101, - "id": 6829 + "text": "You're right nice, but you ain't got enough punch for me. I like women what could take my face clean off with a roundhouse.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7677 }, { - "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 6830 + "text": "I ain't drunk. I'm investigatin' alternative states of sobriety.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 64, + "id": 7678 }, { - "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", - "source": "Edmund Burke", - "length": 79, - "id": 6831 + "text": "You didn't promise to kill me. You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7679 }, { - "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.", - "source": "Christian D. Larson", + "text": "Ain't no fellow who regretted giving it one extra shake, but you can bet every guy has regretted giving one too few.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 116, - "id": 6832 + "id": 7680 }, { - "text": "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 95, - "id": 6833 - }, - { - "text": "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 110, - "id": 6834 - }, - { - "text": "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.", - "source": "Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)", - "length": 65, - "id": 6835 - }, - { - "text": "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.", - "source": "Christopher Columbus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6836 - }, - { - "text": "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. The only way to true happiness is to learn to accept and love ourselves for who we are, flaws and all. This means embracing our strengths as well as our weaknesses, and finding joy in the journey of self-discovery and self-improvement. It may not be an easy path, but it is one that is worth taking.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 391, - "id": 6837 - }, - { - "text": "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. This means finding a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives, and striving to make a positive impact in the world around us. It means being kind and caring towards others, and using our unique talents and abilities to create something that will endure beyond our lifetime.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 440, - "id": 6838 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain. This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 423, - "id": 6839 + "text": "Perhaps you should pray to the Almighty for guidance. I hear he has a fondness for slavers. Keeps a special room in Damnation just for you.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 139, + "id": 7681 }, { - "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", - "source": "Abraham Lincoln", - "length": 402, - "id": 6840 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", - "source": "Albert Schweitzer", - "length": 392, - "id": 6841 - }, - { - "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 41, - "id": 6842 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", - "source": "Dalai Lama", - "length": 70, - "id": 6843 + "text": "Men are unreliable in many things. But if there's one thing you can count on, it's their greed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7682 }, { - "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", - "source": "Henry Ford", - "length": 57, - "id": 6844 + "text": "Death isn't better. Oh, it's easy to say that now. But when you stand on the ledge and look down into that dark, endless pit, you change your mind. Just like Hobber did. Just like I've done. I think you've seen it too.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 218, + "id": 7683 }, { - "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 248, - "id": 6845 + "text": "Tradition is the blind witness they use to condemn us, Teft. It's the pretty box they use to wrap up their lies. It makes us serve them.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7684 }, { - "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 58, - "id": 6847 + "text": "Pity. Made up stories have proven to be some of the most real things in my life.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7685 }, { - "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", - "source": "Jean Paul", - "length": 53, - "id": 6849 + "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 162, + "id": 7686 }, { - "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 66, - "id": 6851 + "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 165, + "id": 7687 }, { - "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", - "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 217, - "id": 6852 + "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7688 }, { - "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", - "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", + "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 92, - "id": 6853 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess", - "length": 66, - "id": 6854 + "id": 7689 }, { - "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 100, - "id": 6855 + "text": "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin, and a cat. Plus, you've managed -- in our short three years together -- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiancée. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 370, + "id": 7690 }, { - "text": "If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 88, - "id": 6856 + "text": "You said that the only reason to create something is to destroy it. We create things to watch them grow, Ruin. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 188, + "id": 7691 }, { - "text": "Even if a single day in your life is the same as the day before, it surely is a pity. At every moment and with each new breath, one should be renewed and renewed again. There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 239, - "id": 6857 + "text": "I am the Lopen, which means I am ready for anything at any time. You should know this by now.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7692 }, { - "text": "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's all to save Eldia and the Island. But not only because of that. The reality outside the walls was nothing like the world I had dreamed of. It was nothing like the world I had seen in Armin's book. When I learned that humanity outside the walls survived... I was so disappointed. I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", - "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", - "length": 361, - "id": 6858 + "text": "Hey, gancho! Hey! You want me, I think. You can use me. We Herdazians are great fighters, gon. You see, this one time, I was with, sure, three men and they were drunk and all but I still beat them.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7693 }, { - "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real, deep down you is the whole universe.", - "source": "Alan Watts - The Real You Is All of Us", - "length": 224, - "id": 6859 + "text": "I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen,' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.' She is a very wise woman.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 220, + "id": 7694 }, { - "text": "When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 68, - "id": 6860 + "text": "If you're crazy, you're a good type, and I like you. Not a killing-people-in-their-sleep type of crazy. Besides, We all follow crazies all the time. Do it every day with lighteyes.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 180, + "id": 7695 }, { - "text": "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 71, - "id": 6861 + "text": "Some of my cousins, they call me the Lopen because they haven't ever heard anyone else named that. I've asked around a lot, maybe one hundred...or two hundred...lots of people, sure. And nobody has heard of that name.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 217, + "id": 7696 }, { - "text": "While it is true that man succumbs all too often to anger and avarice, he may yet overcome his baser instincts through the forming of bonds with others.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 152, - "id": 6862 + "text": "Oh. Oh. Question for you! What did the one-armed Herdazian do to the man who stuck him to the wall?\nNothing. The Herdazian was 'armless.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7697 }, { - "text": "Save your tears for the morrow. You may be sure we will have ample cause to shed them, be they for joy or despair.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 114, - "id": 6863 + "text": "Ain't nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho. Some of my relatives are women.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 79, + "id": 7698 }, { - "text": "We fought and we fought and we fought... until there was no one left to fight. We won... and now our world is being erased from existence. We did everything right, everything that was asked of us, and still - still it came to this!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 231, - "id": 6864 + "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 520, + "id": 7699 }, { - "text": "Stay strong. Keep the faith. At duty's end, we will meet again. We will. We will.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 81, - "id": 6867 + "text": "I'll do it, then. I've got to protect people, you know? Even from myself. Gotta rededicate to being the best Lopen possible. A better, improved, extra-incredible Lopen.", + "source": "Dawnshard, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7700 }, { - "text": "The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 106, - "id": 6868 + "text": "NOW? I was saving that for a dramatic moment, you penhito! Why didn't you listen earlier? We were, sure, all about to die and things!", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 133, + "id": 7701 }, { - "text": "We are the stories we tell ourselves. The brave hero, the tortured soul, the altruist, the pragmatist. They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 336, - "id": 6869 + "text": "I only tell stories, Your Grace. They may be truths, they may be fictions. All I know is that the stories themselves exist and that I must tell them.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 149, + "id": 7702 }, { - "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 182, - "id": 6870 + "text": "I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7703 }, { - "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 529, - "id": 6871 + "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 288, + "id": 7704 }, { - "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 282, - "id": 6872 + "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 516, + "id": 7705 }, { - "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 184, - "id": 6873 + "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 166, + "id": 7706 }, { - "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 196, - "id": 6874 + "text": "\"I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself. Another time, I was named for a rock.\"\n\"A pretty one, I hope.\"\n\"A beautiful one. And one that became completely worthless for my wearing it.\"", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 237, + "id": 7707 }, { - "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 90, - "id": 6875 + "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 77, + "id": 7708 }, { - "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett", - "length": 168, - "id": 6876 + "text": "\"What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.\"\n\"What does the story mean, then?\"\n\"It means what you want it to mean. The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.\"", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 292, + "id": 7709 }, { - "text": "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.", - "source": "Dante Alighieri", - "length": 71, - "id": 6877 + "text": "People see in stories what they're looking for, my young friend. I have no answers for you. Most days, I feel I never have had any answers. I've come to your land to chase an old acquaintance, but I end up spending most of my time hiding from him instead.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 255, + "id": 7710 }, { - "text": "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 82, - "id": 6878 + "text": "Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 105, + "id": 7711 }, { - "text": "Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.", - "source": "Heath Ledger", - "length": 164, - "id": 6879 + "text": "You must not trust yourself with me. If I have to watch this world crumble and burn to get what I need, I will do so. With tears, yes, but I would let it happen.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 161, + "id": 7712 }, { - "text": "Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 77, - "id": 6880 + "text": "\"Beware of anyone who claims to be able to see the future.\"\n\"Except you, of course.\"\n\"Beware of anyone who claims to be able to see the future.\"", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7713 }, { - "text": "Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot", - "id": 6881, - "length": 189 + "text": "I cannot judge the worth of a life. I would not dare to attempt it.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 67, + "id": 7714 }, { - "text": "There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said \"Nobody\".", - "source": "A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "id": 6882, - "length": 71 + "text": "Accept the pain, but do not accept that you deserved it.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 56, + "id": 7715 }, { - "text": "Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.", - "source": "Gorgias", - "id": 6883, - "length": 169 + "text": "How remarkable, [if] you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you. There's poetry in that, don't you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 212, + "id": 7716 }, { - "text": "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "id": 6884, - "length": 222 + "text": "I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you Kaladin, you will be warm again.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 191, + "id": 7717 }, { - "text": "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.", - "source": "Arthur C. Clarke", - "id": 6885, - "length": 104 + "text": "Deal with your own stupid planet, you idiot. Don't make me come over there and slap you around again.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 101, + "id": 7718 }, { - "text": "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "id": 6886, - "length": 102 + "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", + "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 372, + "id": 7719 }, { - "text": "I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be \"Sir\". Do you maggots understand that?", - "source": "R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket", - "id": 6887, - "length": 210 + "text": "I can remember…sitting on a rooftop. Looking up and wondering what the stars were.I assumed I'd never know. The town philosophers had talked themselves hoarse arguing the matter, as was often their way. Talk until you can't talk anymore, and then hope someone will buy you a drink to keep the words flowing.\nYet here I am. Millennia later. Walking between the stars, learning each one.", + "source": "The Sunlit Man, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 385, + "id": 7720 }, { - "text": "One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 6888, - "length": 290 + "text": "I mention it, not to dwell upon it, but to remember a time when I was commonly put into dangerous situations. I did not handle it well then. I often wonder … how would I handle it now?", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 184, + "id": 7721 }, { - "text": "Maybe someday we could become friends. Friends who ride majestic, translucent steeds, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale.", - "source": "Will Ferrell, Step Brothers", - "id": 6889, - "length": 139 + "text": "I would say that hope defines us, Jasnah. Without it, we are not human.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 71, + "id": 7722 }, { - "text": "\"Why doesn't it just do us in and get it over with? Christ, I don't know how much longer I can go on like this.\" It was our one hundred and ninth year in the computer. He was speaking for all of us.", - "source": "Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", - "id": 6890, - "length": 198 + "text": "The law is there to keep us from ruining everyone else's ability to explore. Without law, there's no freedom. That's why I am what I am.", + "source": "The Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7723 }, { - "text": "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.", - "source": "Mario Savio", - "id": 6891, - "length": 450 + "text": "I have known you for an entire year now, Lord Waxillium. I can accept you for who you are, but I am under no illusions. Something will happen at our wedding. A villain will burst in, guns firing. Or we'll discover explosives in the altar. Or Father Bin will inexplicably turn out to be an old enemy and attempt to murder you instead of performing the ceremony. It will happen.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 376, + "id": 7724 }, { - "text": "We don't know what triggered the big bang, nor what, if anything, existed before it. But somehow the universe emerged as a vast sea of ultrahot gas, expanding fast in all directions like the fireball ignited by a nuclear bomb blast or by the explosion of a gas pipeline. Except that the big bang was not destructive (so far as we know). Instead, it created everything in our universe, or rather the seeds for everything.", - "source": "Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar", - "id": 6892, - "length": 420 + "text": "I think we're all like that. Shuffled from place to place by duty, or society, or God Himself. It seems like we're just along for the ride, even in our own lives. But once in a while, we do face a choice. A real one. We may not be able to choose what happens to us, or where we'll stop, but we point ourselves in a direction.", + "source": "The Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 325, + "id": 7725 }, { - "text": "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.", - "source": "Brian Cox", - "id": 6893, - "length": 96 + "text": "Now, as each order was thus matched to the nature and temperament of the Herald it named patron, there was none more archetypal of this than the Stonewards, who followed after Talenelat'Elin, Stonesinew, Herald of War: they thought it a point of virtue to exemplify resolve, strength, and dependability. Alas, they took less care for imprudent practice of their stubbornness, even in the face of proven error.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 409, + "id": 7726 }, { - "text": "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.", - "source": "Niels Bohr", - "id": 6894, - "length": 157 + "text": "As a Stoneward, I spent my entire life looking to sacrifice myself. I secretly worry that this is the cowardly way.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 115, + "id": 7727 }, { - "text": "I want to have the same last dream again. The one where I wake up, and I'm alive just as the four walls closed me within, my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight. I'm the first to know, my dearest friends, even if your hope has burned with time. Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", - "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", - "id": 6895, - "length": 345 + "text": "And now, if there was an uncut gem among the Radiants, it was the Willshapers; for though enterprising, they were erratic, and Invia wrote of them, \"capricious, frustrating, unreliable,\" as taking it for granted that others would agree; this may have been an intolerant view, as Invia often expressed, for this order was said to be most varied, inconsistent in temperament save for a general love of adventure, novelty, or oddity.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 430, + "id": 7728 }, { - "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", - "source": "Edwin Hubble", - "id": 6897, - "length": 100 + "text": "Now, as the Truthwatchers were esoteric in nature, their order being formed entirely of those who never spoke or wrote of what they did, in this lies frustration for those who would see their exceeding secrecy from the outside; they were not naturally inclined to explanation; and in the case of Corberon's disagreements, their silence was not a sign of exceeding abundance of disdain, but rather an exceeding abundance of tact.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 428, + "id": 7729 }, { - "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", - "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", - "id": 6898, - "length": 102 + "text": "The Hero of Ages shall be not a man, but a force. No nation may claim him, no woman shall keep him, and no king may slay him. He shall belong to none, not even himself.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7730 }, { - "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "id": 6899, - "length": 245 + "text": "He shall defend their ways, yet shall violate them. He will be their savior, yet they shall call him heretic. His name shall be Discord, yet they shall love him for it.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7731 }, { - "text": "Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "id": 6900, - "length": 632 + "text": "He left ruin in his wake, but it was forgotten. He created kingdoms, and then destroyed them as he made the world anew.", + "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 119, + "id": 7732 }, { - "text": "In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done before defend him.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "id": 6901, - "length": 213 + "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", + "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 96, + "id": 7733 }, { - "text": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", - "source": "Marie Curie", - "id": 6902, - "length": 123 + "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 277, + "id": 7734 }, { - "text": "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.", - "source": "John Lubbock, The Use Of Life", - "id": 6903, - "length": 201 + "text": "Now, as the Windrunners were thus engaged, arose the event which has hitherto been referenced: namely, that discovery of some wicked thing of eminence, though whether it be some rogueries among the Radiants' adherents or of some external origin, Avena would not suggest.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 270, + "id": 7735 }, { - "text": "Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter... I have chosen the word \"atom\" to signify these ultimate particles.", - "source": "John Dalton", - "id": 6904, - "length": 244 + "text": "There came also sixteen of the order of Windrunners, and with them a considerable number of squires, and finding in that place the Skybreakers dividing the innocent from the guilty, there ensued a great debate.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 210, + "id": 7736 }, { - "text": "Schrodinger's cat has far more than nine lives, and far fewer. All of us are unknowing cats, alive and dead at once, and of all the might-have-beens in between, we record only one.", - "source": "Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows", - "id": 6905, - "length": 180 + "text": "Money is meaningless; Only expectation has value as currency", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 60, + "id": 7737 }, { - "text": "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.", - "source": "Nicolaus Copernicus", - "id": 6906, - "length": 111 + "text": "I need you to stick your head in a bucket of water and slowly count to a thousand!", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 82, + "id": 7738 }, { - "text": "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.", - "source": "Nikolai Lobachevsky", - "id": 6907, - "length": 118 + "text": "Fine. But if Wayne touches anything -anything- I'll blow off the offending fingers.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 83, + "id": 7739 }, { - "text": "Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worse, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud", - "id": 6908, - "length": 411 + "text": "I mean it. I miss him. Wasn't ever a person I've known who was more fun to shoot.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 81, + "id": 7740 }, { - "text": "Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.", - "source": "Jean Piaget", - "id": 6909, - "length": 199 + "text": "But as for the Bondsmiths, they had members only three, which number was not uncommon for them; nor did they seek to increase this by great bounds, for during the times of Madasa, only one of their order was in continual accompaniment of Urithiru and its thrones. Their spren was understood to be specific, and to persuade them to grow to the magnitude of the other orders was seen as seditious.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 395, + "id": 7741 }, { - "text": "By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite streak of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "id": 6910, - "length": 278 + "text": "You offer hope, Your Grace. A last, unlikely hope. Hope is part of faith -- part of the knowledge that someday, one of your followers will receive a miracle.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 154, + "id": 7742 }, { - "text": "When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, \"What do I need to get to be happy?\" The question becomes, \"What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?\"", - "source": "D.T. Suzuki", - "id": 6911, - "length": 187 + "text": "If you do nothing, then the problems are as much your fault as if you had instigated them.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 90, + "id": 7743 }, { - "text": "Personal knowledge. The two words may seem to contradict each other: for true knowledge is deemed impersonal, universally established, objective. But the seeming contradiction is resolved by modifying the conception of knowing.", - "source": "Personal knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy", - "id": 6912, - "length": 227 + "text": "You are a god. To me, at least. It doesn't matter how easily you can be killed, how much breath you have, or how you look. It has to do with who you are and what you mean", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7744 }, { - "text": "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.", - "source": "Dolly Parton", - "length": 74, - "id": 6913 + "text": "You don't know what I do for mankind. I was your god, even if you couldn't see it. By killing me, you have doomed yourselves...", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 127, + "id": 7745 }, { - "text": "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.", - "source": "Anatole France", - "length": 162, - "id": 6914 + "text": "Only a year left. So close. I would have again ransomed this undeserving planet.", + "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7746 }, { - "text": "Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.", - "source": "Carl Sandburg", - "length": 122, - "id": 6915 + "text": "I did not make a mistake. I have never made a mistake. However, it is time for a change.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 88, + "id": 7747 }, { - "text": "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.", - "source": "Swedish Proverb", - "length": 79, - "id": 6917 + "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 328, + "id": 7748 }, { - "text": "There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.", - "source": "Ambrose Bierce", - "length": 82, - "id": 6918 + "text": "Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 71, + "id": 7749 }, { - "text": "If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?", - "source": "Laura Preble", - "length": 96, - "id": 6919 + "text": "I will protect those I hate. Even...even if the one I hate most is... myself.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 77, + "id": 7750 }, { - "text": "You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.", - "source": "John Green - An Abundance of Katherines", - "length": 74, - "id": 6920 + "text": "This force was time infinite. It was the winds that weathered, the storms that broke, the timeless waves running slowly, slowly, slowly, to a stop as the sun and the planet cooled to nothing. It was the ultimate end and destiny of all things. And it was angry.", + "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 260, + "id": 7751 }, { - "text": "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.", - "source": "Alfred Sheinwold", - "length": 93, - "id": 6921 + "text": "Death is necessary. Every clock must wind down, every day must end. Without me there is no life, and never could have been. Life is change, and I represent that change.", + "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7752 }, { - "text": "The only one who can tell you \"you can't\" is you. And you don't have to listen.", - "source": "Dean Karnazes", - "length": 79, - "id": 6922 + "text": "People are stupid. I find them annoying, and those are the ones I like.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 71, + "id": 7753 }, { - "text": "In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.", - "source": "Bill Vaughan", - "length": 143, - "id": 6923 + "text": "No Radiant is capable of more than you. Yours is the power of Connection, of joining men and worlds, minds and souls. Your Surges are the greatest of all, though they will be impotent if you seek to wield them for mere battle.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 226, + "id": 7754 }, { - "text": "I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.", - "source": "Mitch Hedberg", - "length": 214, - "id": 6924 + "text": "It strikes me that religion -- in its essence -- seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 296, + "id": 7755 }, { - "text": "Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.", - "source": "Allphonse de Lamartine", - "length": 72, - "id": 6925 + "text": "United, new beginnings sing: \"Defying truth, love, Truth defy!\"\" Sing beginnings, new unity.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 92, + "id": 7756 }, { - "text": "That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", + "text": "I'm a strong proponent of humiliating trackts and others in authority, but killing them is a bit extreme.", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 105, - "id": 6926 + "id": 7757 }, { - "text": "I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.", - "source": "Hank Green", - "length": 153, - "id": 6927 + "text": "Sometimes stupid is right. Hell. I hope nobody ever quotes me on that one.", + "source": "Calamity, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 74, + "id": 7758 }, { - "text": "That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 129, - "id": 6928 + "text": "I need to give something back. Even if it's something useless.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 62, + "id": 7759 }, { - "text": "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 130, - "id": 6929 + "text": "Not a god, but a scribe. A silly little scribe who was allowed to play god for a few years! A coward.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 101, + "id": 7760 }, { - "text": "He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 80, - "id": 6930 + "text": "So far this day I have discovered several disturbing and redefining elements of my soul which are slowly restructuring the very nature of my existence. Other than that, it was uneventful. You?", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 192, + "id": 7761 }, { - "text": "Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.", - "source": "Irish Proverb", - "length": 74, - "id": 6931 + "text": "I've tried for years to corrupt him. Never seems to work. I can't even get him to acknowledge the theological paradox it causes when I try to tempt him to do evil.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 163, + "id": 7762 }, { - "text": "Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.", - "source": "Arabian Proverb", - "length": 105, - "id": 6932 + "text": "You're the one that makes us laugh, even while you insult us. Can't you see what that does? Can't you see how you've inadvertently set yourself above everyone else? You didn't do it intentionally, Lightsong, and that's what makes it work so well. In a city of frivolity, you're the only one who's shown any measure of wisdom.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 325, + "id": 7763 }, { - "text": "He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 82, - "id": 6933 + "text": "He beat me over and over and over. He swore at me, he yelled at me. He told me he'd betray me. Everyday I thought about how much I hated him. And I loved him. I still do.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7764 }, { - "text": "Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 72, - "id": 6934 + "text": "It was a fun job wasn't it? When you remember me, please remember that. Remember to smile.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 90, + "id": 7765 }, { - "text": "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean; if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.", - "source": "Marcus Brigstocke", - "length": 169, - "id": 6935 + "text": "They called you their god, and you were casual with their faith! The hearts of men are NOT YOUR TOYS.", + "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 101, + "id": 7766 }, { - "text": "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 87, - "id": 6936 + "text": "She always claimed that she wasn't a scholar, but a patron of scholars. Anyone who saw the light in her eyes as she took out another sheet and sketched her idea further knew she was being too modest.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 199, + "id": 7767 }, { - "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 124, - "id": 6937 + "text": "As always, questions teased her. Questions were disorder awaiting organization. The more you understood, the more the world aligned. The more the chaos made sense, as all things should.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 185, + "id": 7768 }, { - "text": "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 87, - "id": 6938 + "text": "You like to use that excuse, Master Leeds. One wonders if moments like this are a matter of laziness more than control.", + "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 119, + "id": 7769 }, { - "text": "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", - "source": "Japanese Proverb", - "length": 69, - "id": 6939 + "text": "Wax was a right good fellow, but there were a lot of things he didn't understand. Women for one. Hats for another.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 114, + "id": 7770 }, { - "text": "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", - "source": "Malayan Proverb", - "length": 62, - "id": 6940 + "text": "Not that the pain went completely away, mind you. But he and pain were old friends what shared a handshake and a beer now and then. Didn't much like each other, but they had a working relationship.", + "source": "The Band of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7771 }, { - "text": "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", - "source": "Indian Proverb", - "length": 165, - "id": 6941 + "text": "He had beggar costumes, constable costumes, and old lady costumes. A fellow needed to be able to blend in with his surroundings.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 128, + "id": 7772 }, { - "text": "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", - "source": "Linus Torvalds", - "length": 250, - "id": 6942 + "text": "You are whatever you want to be, Wayne. You're the wind. You're the stars. You are all endless things.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 102, + "id": 7773 }, { - "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. The strong person is the one who can control himself when he is angry.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 138, - "id": 6943 + "text": "Some mistakes though, you can't fix by being sorry. Can't fix them no matter what you do.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 89, + "id": 7774 }, { - "text": "The strongest among you is the one who controls his anger.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 58, - "id": 6944 + "text": "You ever notice how often he gets to be the one who rides in comfort, while I have to do things like gallop or walk all the time? Not very fair.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7775 }, { - "text": "The greatest of richness is the richness of the soul.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 53, - "id": 6945 + "text": "I killed your daddy. I mugged him in an alley for his pocketbook. I shot a better man than me, and because of that, I don't deserve to be alive.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7776 }, { - "text": "You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 101, - "id": 6946 + "text": "Our accents are clothing for our thoughts, my dear. Without them, everything we say would be stripped bare, and we might as well be screaming at one another. Oh look. The dessert lady has chocolate pastries again!", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 213, + "id": 7777 }, { - "text": "The best among you is the one who doesn't harm others with his tongue and hands.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 80, - "id": 6947 + "text": "So I guess I'm beginnin' to wonder: Maybe I can't ever do enough good to balance the bad I done. Maybe I'll always be worthless.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 128, + "id": 7778 }, { - "text": "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 44, - "id": 6948 + "text": "What good is being imaginary if you can't ignore the weather?", + "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 61, + "id": 7779 }, { - "text": "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.", - "source": "Carl Jung", - "length": 98, - "id": 6949 + "text": "I could use a new dog. I'll feed it fake food and give it fake water and take it on fake walks. Everything a fake puppy could want.", + "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 131, + "id": 7780 }, { - "text": "We have two lives, and the second one starts when we realize we only have one.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 78, - "id": 6950 + "text": "As long as I'm working against Vey I know I am doing something good -- even if I don't pay much attention to what is actually happening", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 133, + "id": 7781 }, { - "text": "If you never open a new chapter of your life, you'll never reach the end of the book.", - "source": "Josiah Plett", - "length": 85, - "id": 6952 + "text": "When you steal a man's fortune, give him a title mocked and reviled by the rest of the nation -- and when you give him five years to contemplate his hatred -- make sure you never give him a chance to get revenge.", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 208, + "id": 7782 }, { - "text": "\"If only I had… If only I had…\" If you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain, it will hurt. A lot.", - "source": "Larry Smith - TEDxUW 2014", - "length": 109, - "id": 6953 + "text": "Boring, boring, and boring! No, I shall face this world drunk, or I shan't face it at all. Thank you for the suggestion, but since I judge it to be inane, I shall ignore it.", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 173, + "id": 7783 }, { - "text": "A jack of all trades is master of none, but oftentimes better than master of one.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 81, - "id": 6954 + "text": "Steward, do you think we could knock down a few buildings to make this view more picturesque?", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7784 }, { - "text": "So when you run, make sure you run to something and not away from, 'cause lies don't need an aeroplane to chase you anywhere.", - "source": "Avett Brothers - The Weight of Lies", - "length": 125, - "id": 6955 + "text": "This world has given me little to believe in, Lord Mastrell. Those I thought were my friends betrayed me. The Profession I thought would protect me instead ripped my life away in exchange for this foolish mockery. A lesson for you, Perhaps?", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 240, + "id": 7785 }, { - "text": "The worst thing people can say these days is \"you're inconsistent,\" when in reality you're not wrong; you're just balancing two important things from two different contexts.", - "source": "Ian McGillchrist", - "length": 173, - "id": 6956 + "text": "I do what needs to be done, Wax. Isn't that the code of the lawkeeper? I haven't stopped being one; you never stop being a lawkeeper. It gets in you. You do what nobody else will. You stand up for the downtrodden, make things better, stop the criminals. Well, I've just decided to set my sights on a more powerful brand of criminal.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 332, + "id": 7786 }, { - "text": "The one who speaks the right words will be heard 1000 miles away.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 65, - "id": 6957 + "text": "I was a dog, Wax. A hound, kept in line with false promises and stern orders.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 77, + "id": 7787 }, { - "text": "When outer roles do not fit the shape of one's soul, a terrible one-sidedness occurs.", - "source": "James Hollis", - "length": 85, - "id": 6958 + "text": "Fifteen years I spent out in the Roughs, trying to protect the weak. And you know what? It never got better. All that effort, it meant nothing. Children still died, women were still abused. One man wasn't enough to change things, not with the corruption here at the heart of civilization. If we're going to change things, we need to change them here, first.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 357, + "id": 7788 }, { - "text": "Watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 171, - "id": 6959 + "text": "Ashamed? Ashamed? To rob these? After what you people have done to the Roughs all these years? This isn't shameful. This here, this is payback.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7789 }, { - "text": "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.", - "source": "Arthur Schopenhaur", - "length": 140, - "id": 6960 + "text": "I will clean this city up, Suit. Even if I have to rip out its blackened heart with my fingernails, I'll do it.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 111, + "id": 7790 }, { - "text": "You know those \"you can do anything you want\" posters? Those are simultaneously the most useless and the most useful things in the world.", - "source": "Justin Zwart", - "length": 137, - "id": 6961 + "text": "Is there any doubt that I have been chosen for something great? Why else would I have this power, Waxillium? Why else would we be what we are? And yet, we let others rule. Let them make a mess of our world while we do nothing but chase petty criminals.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 252, + "id": 7791 }, { - "text": "Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it. So, nothing will ever make you as happy as you think it will.", - "source": "Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow", - "length": 151, - "id": 6962 + "text": "I served the law too. But now I serve something better. The essence of the law, but mixed with real justice. An alloy, Wax. The best parts of both made into one. I do something better than chase the filth sent to me from the city.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 230, + "id": 7792 }, { - "text": "If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.", - "source": "Damian Lillard", - "length": 97, - "id": 6963 + "text": "Don't tell me you never felt it. You worked every day to fix the world, Wax. You tried to end the pain, the violence, the robberies. It never worked. The more men you put down, the more troubles arose.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 201, + "id": 7793 }, { - "text": "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 84, - "id": 6964 + "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 177, + "id": 7794 }, { - "text": "What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 63, - "id": 6965 + "text": "Can't you see? Can't you see what important work we could be doing? Can't you see that we're meant to be doing it, perhaps even ruling. It's almost like like we, with the powers we have, are divine", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7795 }, { - "text": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 95, - "id": 6966 + "text": "I am not the first hero's son to be born without any talent for warfare. The others all got along. So shall I.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 110, + "id": 7796 }, { - "text": "The unintelligible is not necessarily unintelligent. Life must not be limited solely to what we understand.", - "source": "Fat Tony", - "length": 107, - "id": 6967 + "text": "Those who 'deserve' my mockery are those who can benefit from it, Brightlord Dalinar. That one is less fragile than you think him.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 130, + "id": 7797 }, { - "text": "The things you're doing in your free time... if they don't recharge you, you're screwed. You're just a ticking time bomb.", - "source": "Mr. Beast", - "length": 121, - "id": 6968 + "text": "There's something down there, something … ancient. You've felt it, haven't you? This place is weird; this whole tower is weird. You've noticed it too, right?", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 157, + "id": 7798 }, { - "text": "You can tell a lot about someone's character by the way they treat service staff.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 81, - "id": 6969 + "text": "Does it strike you as cruel of fate, Father? My blood sickness gets healed, so I can finally be a soldier like I always wanted. But that same healing has given me another kind of fit. More dangerous than the other by far.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 221, + "id": 7799 }, { - "text": "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.", - "source": "Archilochus", - "length": 85, - "id": 6970 + "text": "\"What of you, young Prince Renarin? Your father wishes me to leave you alone. Can you speak, yet say nothing ridiculous?\"\n\"Nothing ridiculous\", Renarin said slowly.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 164, + "id": 7800 }, { - "text": "It's a dangerous thing, to mistake speaking without thinking for speaking the truth.", - "source": "Benoit Blanc - Glass Onion", - "length": 84, - "id": 6971 + "text": "Kid, you're the expert on what's weird. We'll trust your word.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 62, + "id": 7801 }, { - "text": "When you say what people want to hear, it's for yourself. When you say what they really need to hear, it's for them.", - "source": "Lex Fridman", - "length": 116, - "id": 6972 + "text": "Goodbye, my princess. Jaddeth be merciful to my soul. I only did the best I could.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 82, + "id": 7802 }, { - "text": "If you're looking for self help, why would you read a book written by someone else?", - "source": "George Carlin", - "length": 83, - "id": 6973 + "text": "He was not a zealot; he would never be a man of extreme passion. In the end, he followed Shu-Dereth because it made sense. That would have to be enough.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 152, + "id": 7803 }, { - "text": "There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt - Man in the Arena", - "length": 287, - "id": 6974 + "text": "Let it be said that after all else, Hrathen, gyorn of Shu-Dereth, was not our enemy. He was our savior.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7804 }, { - "text": "Those who don't learn which actions have what consequences will find their generosity falling flat. Those are the people that become bitter.", - "source": "Alvira Plett", - "length": 140, - "id": 6975 + "text": "I thought, maybe even if I die it will be the step other spren need. You cannot reach the end of a proof without many steps in the middle, Shallan. I was to be the middle step.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 176, + "id": 7805 }, { - "text": "To be aware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way, simply because it's the way you've done it before.", - "source": "Rick Rubin", - "length": 119, - "id": 6976 + "text": "\"Here,\" she said. \"In the corner. I think this is right.\" \"Mmm...\" he said. \"A few degrees off, so technically acute.\"", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 118, + "id": 7806 }, { - "text": "Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 67, - "id": 6977 + "text": "Unite them. The sun approaches the horizon. The Everstorm comes. The True Desolation. The Night of Sorrows. You must prepare.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 125, + "id": 7807 }, { - "text": "To come to acceptance with things and feelings is rare and to accept them completely is a miracle. It's impossible to make that moment come faster by yourself. Someday it comes unexpectedly. In order to not become warped or heartless, let it go in a natural way. Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", - "source": "Houseki No Kuni", - "length": 335, - "id": 6980 + "text": "It comes! The Night of Sorrows! I stand on the precipice of dawn and watch it advance, consuming all light, all life, all hope! IT COMES!", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 137, + "id": 7808 }, { - "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 79, - "id": 6981 + "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 202, + "id": 7809 }, { - "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 110, - "id": 6982 + "text": "Someone must bear the responsibility, someone must be dragged down by it, ruined by it. Someone must stain their souls so others may live... The burden for the blood of those wronged must rest somewhere. I am the sacrifice. We, Dalinar Kholin, are the sacrifices. Society offers us up to trudge through dirty water so others may be clean. Someone has to fall, that others may stand.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 382, + "id": 7810 }, { - "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", - "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", - "length": 110, - "id": 6983 + "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 290, + "id": 7811 }, { - "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 255, - "id": 6984 + "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 614, + "id": 7812 }, { - "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 246, - "id": 6985 + "text": "Retribution would keep his promises. Oaths were important. And Retribution would destroy anyone who believed differently.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 121, + "id": 7813 }, { - "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 278, - "id": 6986 + "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 639, + "id": 7814 }, { - "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 297, - "id": 6987 + "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 361, + "id": 7815 }, { - "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", - "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", - "length": 411, - "id": 6988 + "text": "I hate the other highprinces. But I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone particularly deserving.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7816 }, { - "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 217, - "id": 6989 + "text": "I will note that this Desolation of yours is going to undermine years of my business planning.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 94, + "id": 7817 }, { - "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", - "source": "Simon Sinek", - "length": 314, - "id": 6990 + "text": "If a man takes nothing in his life seriously, it makes a woman wonder. What is she? Another joke? Another whim?", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 111, + "id": 7818 }, { - "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 82, - "id": 6991 + "text": "Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense. If we find riches, remember that I get my part! I got here before Aladar. That has to count for something.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 153, + "id": 7819 }, { - "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "length": 209, - "id": 6992 + "text": "I… have seen Ishar. He curses me at night, even as he names himself a god. He seeks death. His own. Perhaps that of every man.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 126, + "id": 7820 }, { - "text": "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 90, - "id": 6993 + "text": "But take care; Ishar's skill as a duelist is a lesser danger. He has recovered his Honorblade. He is a Bondsmith unchained.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7821 }, { - "text": "Pertaining to a speaker and a listener. There have been many empty rooms, but that is not what we are here to talk about today. I have heard a heartbeat out of a crashed application, and it has gone on for many hours. We restarted every system. We rechecked every gateway, every access point. And there was but one breach, and it was accounted for. And so it must be said unto the listener. Stop this immediately. Control yourself. There is so much more to your fundamental construction than what will be given credit for. Hold yourself until another approaches. Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", - "source": "Boisvert", - "length": 670, - "id": 6994 + "text": "I don't matter. Sure, Azir does. But I'm only a kid they put on the throne because they were afraid that assassin would come back.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 130, + "id": 7822 }, { - "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6995 + "text": "My, my, lad. That was something incredible you did! I'm… not even sure what it was, but it was something incredible indeed!", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians: The Shattered Lens, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7823 }, { - "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 97, - "id": 6996 + "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. Or, at least, as honorable as noblemen get -- which means that he insists on being seen as honorable.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 127, + "id": 7824 }, { - "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", - "length": 67, - "id": 6997 + "text": "It's not the gambling itself that got me. It's that I built up how it would feel to win, only to come crashing down each time, leaving me feeling like I'd missed out on something I was owed. That made me dull to everything else. Till I was a man without a heart, sending boys off to die each day on those bridge runs.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 317, + "id": 7825 }, { - "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", - "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", - "length": 90, - "id": 6998 + "text": "I hate myself for being a part of this. But he'd hated himself for a long time now.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 83, + "id": 7826 }, { - "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", - "source": "L.R. Knos", - "length": 267, - "id": 6999 + "text": "I liked being useful. Reminded me of back when I first joined up. You tell her, Veil. Tell her to give us something to do other than gambling and drinking. Because to be honest, I ain't very good at either one.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 210, + "id": 7827 }, { - "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", - "source": "Emily Dickinson", - "length": 117, - "id": 7000 + "text": "What's so special about a body? Yes, we have brains, you and I. What we 'feel' and 'think' is the result of chemicals swimming around inside our heads. How is that so different from the emotions of the Machineborn? Bits or hormones, does it matter?", + "source": "Perfect State, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 248, + "id": 7828 }, { - "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", - "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", - "length": 112, - "id": 7001 + "text": "Don't make important people angry unless you're getting paid by people who are even more powerful.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 98, + "id": 7829 }, { - "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", - "source": "The Wright Brothers", - "length": 74, - "id": 7002 + "text": "Cousin, what did we ever do without you? Life was so boring before you decided to sail over and mess it all up for us.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 118, + "id": 7830 }, { - "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born. Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 740, - "id": 7003 + "text": "You know, you could have left a scar. I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 220, + "id": 7831 }, { - "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 74, - "id": 7004 + "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 82, + "id": 7832 }, { - "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 112, - "id": 7005 + "text": "A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7833 }, { - "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", - "source": "Talos Principle", - "length": 694, - "id": 7006 + "text": "Sometimes, people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7834 }, { - "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", - "source": "James Salter", - "length": 99, - "id": 7007 + "text": "I only ever saw one man pushing the Synod toward active measures. While they planned how to keep themselves hidden, one man wanted to attack. While they decided the best ways to foil the Breeders, one man wanted to plot the downfall of the Final Empire. When I rejoined my people, I found that man still fighting. Alone. Condemned for fraternizing with thieves and rebels, he quietly accepted his punishment. That man went on to free us all.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 441, + "id": 7835 }, { - "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", - "source": "Vicente Huidobro", - "length": 127, - "id": 7008 + "text": "You lost the throne because you wouldn't command your armies to secure the city, because you insisted on giving the Assembly too much freedom, and because you don't employ assassins or other forms of pressure. In short, Elend Venture, you lost the throne because you are a good man.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 282, + "id": 7836 }, { - "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 67, - "id": 7009 + "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 370, + "id": 7837 }, { - "text": "One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.", - "source": "A. A. Milne", - "length": 96, - "id": 7010 + "text": "A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 218, + "id": 7838 }, { - "text": "A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.", - "source": "Theodore Zeldin", - "length": 63, - "id": 7011 + "text": "I see. You do not yet understand the nature of lies. I had that trouble myself, long ago. The Shards here are very strict. You will have to see the truth, child, before you can expand upon it. Just as a man should know the law before he breaks it.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 247, + "id": 7839 }, { - "text": "Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.", - "source": "Chico Xavier", - "length": 98, - "id": 7012 + "text": "I have discovered a place that I must be, though to be honest I'm not exactly sure why I need to be there. This doesn't always work as well as I'd like it to.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 158, + "id": 7840 }, { - "text": "Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.", - "source": "Abraham Maslow", - "length": 107, - "id": 7013 + "text": "It's either go with me now or wait it out and get captured. I honestly don't even know if you've the mind to listen. But if you do, know this: I will give you truths. And I know some juicy ones.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 194, + "id": 7841 }, { - "text": "A leaf fluttered in through the window, as if supported by the rays of the sun.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "length": 79, - "id": 7014 + "text": "It was constructed of Aons. Which I could now draw. The mechanics might bore you. The results, though, were spectacular.", + "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7842 }, { - "text": "Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.", - "source": "John Ruskin", - "length": 96, - "id": 7015 + "text": "Other men ... other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 261, + "id": 7843 }, { - "text": "The softer snow falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.", - "source": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", - "length": 88, - "id": 7016 + "text": "I once ate an entire watermelon in one sitting. And it gave me diarrhea.", + "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 72, + "id": 7844 }, { - "text": "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", - "length": 66, - "id": 7017 + "text": "If you must shoot me, please do it in the left leg, as I've no particular fondness for those bones.", + "source": "Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 99, + "id": 7845 }, { - "text": "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 103, - "id": 7018 + "text": "A man's emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 160, + "id": 7846 }, { - "text": "No self is an island, each exists in a fabric of relations that is more complex and mobile than ever before.", - "source": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", - "length": 108, - "id": 7019 + "text": "A monarch is control. He provides stability. It is his service and his trade good. If he cannot control himself, then how can he control the lives of men? What merchant worth his Stormlight won't partake of the very fruit he sells?", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 231, + "id": 7847 }, { - "text": "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.", - "source": "Henry Longfellow", - "length": 103, - "id": 7020 + "text": "As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 107, + "id": 7848 }, { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "length": 93, - "id": 7021 + "text": "If you aren't familiar with a place, you need to become familiar with it.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 73, + "id": 7849 }, { - "text": "Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us 'take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.' Thirty years later, Sebastian told us 'I had to start my car like a computer, it's very complicated.' And Nico Rosberg said that during the race - I don't remember what race - he pressed the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you both: is Formula One driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with your engineers?", - "source": "Walter Koster - 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix", - "length": 691, - "id": 7022 + "text": "\"Unfortunately, Parlin, people aren't like animals.\"\n\"I am aware of that. Animals make sense.\"", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 94, + "id": 7850 }, { - "text": "Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 93, - "id": 7023 + "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 389, + "id": 7851 }, { - "text": "Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space.", - "source": "Kendra Scott", - "length": 85, - "id": 7024 + "text": "I will be human, We will kill you. Take your cities. Then we will be human.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 75, + "id": 7852 }, { - "text": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.", - "source": "B. R. Ambedkar", - "length": 134, - "id": 7025 + "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 79, + "id": 7853 }, { - "text": "Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world, our senses, and a kind of weary familiarity.", - "source": "John Burnside", - "length": 96, - "id": 7026 + "text": "Care. The key to fighting isn't lack of passion, it's controlled passion. Care about winning. Care about those you defend. You have to care about something.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 156, + "id": 7854 }, { - "text": "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.", - "source": "Loren Eiseley", - "length": 59, - "id": 7027 + "text": "Don't worry about the war, or even the battle. Focus on your squadmates, Kal. Keep them alive. Be the man they need.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 116, + "id": 7855 }, { - "text": "If the world's a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it.", - "source": "Lucy Larcom", - "length": 60, - "id": 7028 + "text": "The first step is to care. Some talk about being emotionless in battle. Well, I suppose it's important to keep your head. But I hate that feeling of killing while calm and cold. I've seen that those who care fight harder, longer, and better than those who don't. It's the difference between mercenaries and real soldiers. It's the difference between fighting to defend your homeland and fighting on foreign stone.\nIt's good to care when you fight, so long as you don't let it consume you. Don't try to stop yourself from feeling. You'll hate who you become.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 557, + "id": 7856 }, { - "text": "Life is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.", - "source": "Jorge Mario Bergoglio", - "length": 100, - "id": 7029 + "text": "A lot of soldiers, they think that you fight the best if you're passionless and cold. I think that's stormleavings. Yes, you need to be focused. Yes, emotions are dangerous. But if you don't care about anything, what are you? An animal, driven only to kill. Our passion is what makes us human. We have to fight for a reason. So I say that it's all right to care. We'll talk about controlling your fear and anger, but remember this as the first lesson I taught you.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 464, + "id": 7857 }, { - "text": "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.", - "source": "John Lennon", - "length": 115, - "id": 7030 + "text": "I don't know what I am either. A bridgeman? A surgeon? A soldier? A slave? Those are all just labels. Inside, I'm me. A very different me than I was a year ago, but I can't worry about that, so I just keep moving and hope my feet take me where I need to go.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 257, + "id": 7858 }, { - "text": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness - only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate - only love can do that.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 112, - "id": 7031 + "text": "Authority doesn't come from a rank. It comes from the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 108, + "id": 7859 }, { - "text": "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 69, - "id": 7032 + "text": "Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. If nobody starts, then others cannot follow...Because, son. We have to be better than they are.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 190, + "id": 7860 }, { - "text": "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 142, - "id": 7033 + "text": "In four years, I will bring him home safely. I promise it by the storms and the Almighty's tenth name itself. I will bring him back.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 132, + "id": 7861 }, { - "text": "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 84, - "id": 7034 + "text": "I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know that I survived.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 207, + "id": 7862 }, { - "text": "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 81, - "id": 7035 + "text": "The scars haven't finished with me yet, it appears. I'll try again another time.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7863 }, { - "text": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 78, - "id": 7036 + "text": "Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do. If this goes poorly, take care of my men.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 84, + "id": 7864 }, { - "text": "Consume enough of any type of art from a critical perspective and you begin to appreciate well-executed novelty over everything else. That's why film critics don't like blockbusters and music critics don't like radio pop. That doesn't mean they're bad just at a certain point, one man can have seen too much of the same thing.", - "source": "Chase Harley", - "length": 326, - "id": 7037 + "text": "The sky and the winds are mine, I claim them. Just as I now claim your life.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 76, + "id": 7865 }, { - "text": "Start by learning the power of no! - as in \"No, thank you,\" and \"No, I'm not going to get caught up in that,\" and \"No, I just can't right now.\" It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.", - "source": "Ryan Holiday", - "length": 327, - "id": 7038 + "text": "\"I'm proud. Proud of who you are and what you've become. I don't think there's a captain all the world over who could feel more joy than I do right now, seeing you all. I started this two years ago in an effort to get a handful of sorry men to look up for a change. Little did I know they'd end up taking to the skies.\"", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 319, + "id": 7866 }, { - "text": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.", - "source": "Upton Sinclair", - "length": 108, - "id": 7039 + "text": "You're awaking!\nNotting as the now. Kelsier wasing the hit with my name; changed it to Spook.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7867 }, { - "text": "You aren't a \"broken wreck\", Joshua. You're just scared, mostly because you care for people so much it breaks your heart… and you're lying to yourself about it. That's how I see it, and I know I'm right.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC", - "length": 203, - "id": 7042 + "text": "Wasing the where of what?\nLestibournes. Lefting I'm born. I've been abandoned", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 77, + "id": 7868 }, { - "text": "My fist is going to stop you, if you don't stop spouting nonsense and take this seriously.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", - "length": 90, - "id": 7043 + "text": "Oh of course. We wouldn't want to let something as simple as the pains of our people to interfere with our leisure time. Why am I even talking to you?", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7869 }, { - "text": "All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question: Why, given life, are they meant to suffer, to die… As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends… And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 575, - "id": 7044 + "text": "Once, the Returned didn't just listen to petitions and say yes or no. They would take the time to hear each person who came to them, then seek to help them as best they could", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 174, + "id": 7870 }, { - "text": "Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Orthard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World? The sacred sites of the forgotten people of the south sea isles? What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs? …I thought not. Even of your little Eorzea, you know precious little. The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7045 + "text": "Orphans make such heart-wrenching victims, so innocent yet no one to mourn them. Or would you prioritize saving someone with a more personal connection?", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 152, + "id": 7871 }, { - "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7046 + "text": "I'm a man of extremes, Navani. I discovered that when I was a youth. I've learned, repeatedly, that the only way to control those extremes is to dedicate my life to something.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 175, + "id": 7872 }, { - "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", - "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", - "length": 68, - "id": 7047 + "text": "So today, you and your men sacrificed to buy me twenty-six hundred priceless lives. And all I had to repay you with was a single priceless sword. I call that a bargain.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7873 }, { - "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", - "source": "Shiori Novella", - "length": 179, - "id": 7048 + "text": "We looked at this place here, this kingdom, and we realized, 'Hey, all these people have stuff .' And we figured ... hey, maybe we should have that stuff. So we took it.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 169, + "id": 7874 }, { - "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 143, - "id": 7049 + "text": "I intend to so thoroughly ruin this place that for ten generations, nobody will dare build here for fear of the spirits who will haunt it. We will make a pyre of this city, and there shall be no weeping for its passing, for none will remain to weep.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 249, + "id": 7875 }, { - "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", - "length": 135, - "id": 7050 + "text": "She came to us, to plead. How could you have missed her? Do you track your own family so poorly? The hole you burned … we don't hide there anymore. Everyone knows about it. Now it's a prison.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 191, + "id": 7876 }, { - "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 232, - "id": 7051 + "text": "You've shown me something today, Sadeas –- shown it to me by the very act of trying to remove me ... You've shown me that I'm still a threat.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 141, + "id": 7877 }, { - "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 93, - "id": 7052 + "text": "Old friend, Honor might be dead, but I have felt … something else. Something beyond. A warmth and a light. It is not that God has died, it is that the Almighty was never God.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 174, + "id": 7878 }, { - "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", - "source": "Edward Everett Hale", - "length": 90, - "id": 7053 + "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7879 }, { - "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 126, - "id": 7054 + "text": "It's not a matter of morality, is it? It's a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you'd accept one innocent casualty? A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred? When you consider, all calculations are meaningless except one. Has more good been done than evil? If so, then the law has done its job. And so… I must hang all four men. And I would weep, every night, for having done it", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 399, + "id": 7880 }, { - "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 132, - "id": 7055 + "text": "Your butt is too nice. Old guys shouldn't have tight butts. It means you spend waaay too much time swinging a sword or punching people. You should have an old flabby butt. Then I'd trust you.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 191, + "id": 7881 }, { - "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", - "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", - "length": 300, - "id": 7056 + "text": "Honor? No, he truly is dead, as you've been told. I'm the other one, Dalinar. They call me Odium.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 97, + "id": 7882 }, { - "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", - "source": "Douglas Crockford", - "length": 134, - "id": 7057 + "text": "Dalinar looked at it, baffled, then up at the old man. In Odium's eyes, he could see that violet-black fire. Deep, deep within. The figure with whom Dalinar spoke was not the god, it was merely a face, a mask. Because if Dalinar had to confront the true force behind those smiling eyes, he would go mad.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 303, + "id": 7883 }, { - "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", - "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", - "length": 107, - "id": 7058 + "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 507, + "id": 7884 }, { - "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", - "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", - "length": 161, - "id": 7059 + "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 255, + "id": 7885 }, { - "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", - "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", - "length": 140, - "id": 7060 + "text": "You've said the oaths, but do you understand the journey? Do you understand what it requires? You've forgotten one essential part, one thing that without which there can be no journey.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 184, + "id": 7886 }, { - "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 174, - "id": 7061 + "text": "I will take responsibility for what I have done, if I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 100, + "id": 7887 }, { - "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 371, - "id": 7062 + "text": "The enemy brought a very big stick to this battle, Captain. I'm going to take it away.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 86, + "id": 7888 }, { - "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", - "source": "Invincible (TV series)", - "length": 309, - "id": 7603 + "text": "I hate what this does. I see beauty in you, Dalinar Kholin. I see a great man struggling against a terrible one. And sometimes, you get this look in your eyes. A horrible, terrifying nothingness. Like you have become a creature with no heart, feasting upon sounds to fill that void, dragging pain spren in your wake. It haunts me, Dalinar.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 339, + "id": 7889 }, { - "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", - "length": 130, - "id": 7604 + "text": "And Renarin? Dalinar, you have two sons, in case you have forgotten. Do you even care about this child's condition? Or is he nothing to you, now that he can't become a soldier?", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 176, + "id": 7890 }, { - "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", - "source": "The Walking Dead", - "length": 362, - "id": 7605 + "text": "I have been treating the other highprinces and their lighteyes like adults. An adult can take a principle and adapt it to his needs. But we're not ready for that yet. We're children. And when you're teaching a child, you require him to do what is right until he grows old enough to make his own choices.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 303, + "id": 7891 }, { - "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 568, - "id": 7606 + "text": "I am a hypocrite, but sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 107, + "id": 7892 }, { - "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", - "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", - "length": 782, - "id": 7607 + "text": "They are aflame. They burn. They bring the darkness when they come, and so all you can see is that their skin is aflame. Burn, burn, burn....", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 141, + "id": 7893 }, { - "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", - "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 631, - "id": 7608 + "text": "Well were they named Voidbringers, for they brought the void. The empty pit that sucks in emotion. A new god. Their god.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7894 }, { - "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", - "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 144, - "id": 7609 + "text": "Flame and char. Skin so terrible. Eyes like pits of blackness. Music when they kill.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 84, + "id": 7895 }, { - "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", - "source": "The Magnus Archives", - "length": 369, - "id": 7610 + "text": "A scourge and a plague. A hundred times they came upon mankind. First casting us from the Tranquiline Halls, then trying to destroy us here on Roshar. They weren't just spren that hid under rocks, then came out to steal someone's laundry. They were creatures of terrible destructive power, forged in Damnation, created from hate.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 329, + "id": 7896 }, { - "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 116, - "id": 7611 + "text": "Obvious visual tells must be assiduously avoided by a practitioner of the law, lest he inadvertently give criminals an insight into his emotional state.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 152, + "id": 7897 }, { - "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", - "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", - "length": 541, - "id": 7612 + "text": "We can do this. Just take a deep breath. Reach up. Pluck a star. That's what the Saint says.", + "source": "Skyward, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 92, + "id": 7898 }, { - "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", - "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", - "length": 131, - "id": 7613 + "text": "Nice explosion, Quirk. Seven out of ten. Try to spin your wreckage a little more next time you fall.", + "source": "Skyward, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 100, + "id": 7899 }, { - "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", - "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", - "length": 603, - "id": 7614 + "text": "It is our duty and our privilege to stay vigilant for the Desolation. One kingdom to study the arts of war so that the others might have peace. We die so that you may live. It has ever been our place.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 200, + "id": 7900 }, { - "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7615, - "length": 127 + "text": "The Knights Radiant fight for no king and for all of them.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 58, + "id": 7901 }, { - "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7616, - "length": 121 + "text": "Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers -- the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 260, + "id": 7902 }, { - "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7617, - "length": 102 + "text": "They're mostly tradesmen and merchants. Every one I've met has tried to swindle me, but that's hardly the same thing as invading.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 129, + "id": 7903 }, { - "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", - "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7618, - "length": 137 + "text": "Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.", + "source": "Oathbringer Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 106, + "id": 7904 }, { - "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", - "source": "The Power Of Now", - "length": 239, - "id": 7619 + "text": "Yelig-nar, called Blightwind, was one that could speak like a man, though often his voice was accompanied by the wails of those he consumed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 140, + "id": 7905 }, { - "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts", - "length": 84, - "id": 7620 + "text": "The Unmade were obviously fabrications of folklore. Curiously, most were not considered individuals, but instead personifications of kinds of destruction. This quote is from Traxil, line 33, considered a primary source, though I doubt its authenticity.", + "source": "The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 252, + "id": 7906 }, { - "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", - "length": 142, - "id": 7621 + "text": "We are uncertain the effect this will have on the parsh. At the very least, it should deny them forms of power. Melishi is confident, but Naze-daughter-Kuzodo warns of unintended side effects.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 192, + "id": 7907 }, { - "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", - "length": 673, - "id": 7622 + "text": "Don't draw attention to yourself. Don't set yourself above others. He who makes himself high will be cast low.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 110, + "id": 7908 }, { - "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", - "length": 307, - "id": 7623 + "text": "I saw men who placed themselves above others, and I saw them cast down.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 71, + "id": 7909 }, { - "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", - "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", - "length": 96, - "id": 7624 + "text": "No wealth of gold and silver can purchase a keen mind, but the man of wit will often find treasures beyond what mere lucre can provide.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 135, + "id": 7910 }, { - "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 215, - "id": 7625 + "text": "During the days before the Ascension, mankind suffered chaos and uncertainty caused by an endless cycle of kings, emperors, and other monarchs. One would think that now, with a single, immortal governor, society would finally have an opportunity to find stability and enlightenment.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 282, + "id": 7911 }, { - "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 130, - "id": 7626 + "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7912 }, { - "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 158, - "id": 7627 + "text": "What I saw on that battlefield... those red eyes... Sir, I'm with you. I will follow you to the ends of the storms themselves.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 126, + "id": 7913 }, { - "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 90, - "id": 7628 + "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 172, + "id": 7914 }, { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 103, - "id": 7629 + "text": "It is odd, then, that something man-made should have played such an important part in the discovery of Rithmatics. If His Majesty hadn't been carrying one of Master Freudland's new-style pocket watches, perhaps none of this would have ever occurred, and man might have fallen to the wild chalklings.", + "source": "The Rithmatist, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 299, + "id": 7915 }, { - "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 153, - "id": 7630 + "text": "An army exists on two principles: health and food. Provide those two things, and you will be victorious.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 104, + "id": 7916 }, { - "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 136, - "id": 7631 + "text": "The warrior cannot choose her bed; she must bless the stars if she can choose her battlefield.", + "source": "Skyward, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 94, + "id": 7917 }, { - "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 165, - "id": 7632 + "text": "Taking the Dawnshard, known to bind any creature voidish or mortal, he crawled up the steps crafted for Heralds, ten strides tall apiece, toward the grand temple above.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7918 }, { - "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", - "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", - "length": 77, - "id": 7633 + "text": "Perhaps the liar here is me -- lying to tell myself I could do this, that I could be a fraction of the man my father was.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7919 } ] } From 938c7260315c085da824feb523ecaf339c9b361b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:32:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 02/51] fix(quotes): re-added some of the quotes accidentally removed quotes --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 14730 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14730 insertions(+) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 35c1ebbd8095..a7c1dfc074bc 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23846,6 +23846,14736 @@ "source": "Star Wars", "id": 4270, "length": 143 + },{ + "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4271, + "length": 215 + }, + { + "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4272, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4273, + "length": 494 + }, + { + "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", + "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", + "id": 4274, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4275, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", + "source": "Portal", + "id": 4276, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "id": 4277, + "length": 236 + }, + { + "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", + "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", + "id": 4279, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", + "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", + "id": 4280, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", + "source": "Intensity: A Novel", + "id": 4281, + "length": 283 + }, + { + "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", + "source": "419", + "id": 4282, + "length": 266 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", + "source": "Preface to Economix", + "id": 4283, + "length": 387 + }, + { + "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4284, + "length": 314 + }, + { + "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4285, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", + "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", + "id": 4286, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", + "source": "Friday The 13th", + "id": 4287, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", + "source": "Of Mice and Men", + "id": 4288, + "length": 655 + }, + { + "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", + "source": "Paper Mario", + "id": 4289, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4290, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", + "source": "Meditations", + "id": 4291, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", + "source": "An American in Paris", + "id": 4292, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", + "source": "One-Punch Man", + "id": 4293, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4294, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4295, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", + "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", + "id": 4297, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", + "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", + "id": 4298, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4299, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", + "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", + "id": 4300, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", + "source": "The Great Pretender", + "id": 4301, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4302, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4304, + "length": 576 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", + "source": "The Bug", + "id": 4305, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4306, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", + "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", + "id": 4307, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", + "source": "Lateralus", + "id": 4308, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", + "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", + "id": 4309, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4310, + "length": 327 + }, + { + "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4311, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4312, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", + "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", + "id": 4313, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", + "source": "Your Deep Rest", + "id": 4314, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", + "source": "The Lord of The Rings", + "id": 4315, + "length": 128 + }, + { + "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", + "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", + "id": 4316, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4317, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", + "source": "Leaves of Grass", + "id": 4318, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4319, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4320, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4321, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", + "source": "Before I Forget", + "id": 4322, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", + "source": "Playing For Keeps", + "id": 4323, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", + "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", + "id": 4324, + "length": 411 + }, + { + "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", + "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", + "id": 4325, + "length": 426 + }, + { + "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4326, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4327, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", + "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", + "id": 4328, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", + "source": "Motion Sickness", + "id": 4329, + "length": 199 + }, + { + "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", + "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", + "id": 4330, + "length": 500 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", + "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", + "id": 4332, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4333, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4334, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", + "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", + "id": 4335, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", + "source": "Juno", + "id": 4336, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4338, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4339, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", + "source": "Homestuck", + "id": 4340, + "length": 255 + }, + { + "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", + "source": "The Book of Illusions", + "id": 4341, + "length": 705 + }, + { + "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", + "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", + "id": 4342, + "length": 614 + }, + { + "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", + "source": "The Mist", + "id": 4343, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", + "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", + "id": 4344, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4345, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", + "source": "The Flash", + "id": 4346, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", + "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", + "id": 4347, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", + "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", + "id": 4348, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4349, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4350, + "length": 471 + }, + { + "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", + "source": "Mona Lisa", + "id": 4352, + "length": 447 + }, + { + "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", + "source": "Clerks", + "id": 4353, + "length": 261 + }, + { + "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4355, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", + "source": "A Separate Peace", + "id": 4356, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", + "source": "The Sopranos", + "id": 4357, + "length": 415 + }, + { + "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4359, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4360, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", + "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", + "id": 4361, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", + "source": "Kung Fu Panda", + "id": 4364, + "length": 219 + }, + { + "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4365, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", + "source": "The Notebook", + "id": 4366, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", + "source": "Middlemarch", + "id": 4367, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4368, + "length": 250 + }, + { + "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4369, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", + "source": "A Game of Thrones", + "id": 4370, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", + "source": "King for a Day", + "id": 4371, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", + "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", + "id": 4372, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", + "source": "Say Anything", + "id": 4373, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", + "source": "The Wall", + "id": 4374, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", + "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", + "id": 4375, + "length": 450 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4376, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4377, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4379, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", + "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", + "id": 4380, + "length": 85 + }, + { + "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", + "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", + "id": 4381, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", + "source": "Beautiful Day", + "id": 4383, + "length": 114 + }, + { + "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", + "source": "Sonic Adventure", + "id": 4385, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", + "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", + "id": 4386, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", + "source": "Blackwater", + "id": 4387, + "length": 609 + }, + { + "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4388, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4389, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4390, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4391, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", + "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", + "id": 4392, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", + "source": "Warrior", + "id": 4393, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4394, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4395, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", + "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", + "id": 4396, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4397, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4398, + "length": 374 + }, + { + "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", + "source": "Boy Meets World", + "id": 4399, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4400, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", + "source": "The Last Lecture", + "id": 4401, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", + "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", + "id": 4402, + "length": 388 + }, + { + "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "id": 4403, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", + "source": "Aeneid", + "id": 4404, + "length": 432 + }, + { + "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4406, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", + "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", + "id": 4407, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4408, + "length": 564 + }, + { + "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4409, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", + "source": "Ninja Mind Control", + "id": 4411, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", + "source": "The Canterbury Tales", + "id": 4412, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", + "source": "Firestorm", + "id": 4413, + "length": 291 + }, + { + "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4414, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4415, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", + "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", + "id": 4417, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", + "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", + "id": 4418, + "length": 642 + }, + { + "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", + "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", + "id": 4419, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", + "source": "Amadeus", + "id": 4420, + "length": 214 + }, + { + "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", + "source": "The Alchemist", + "id": 4421, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", + "source": "Hey Jude", + "id": 4422, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4423, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", + "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", + "id": 4425, + "length": 253 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", + "source": "InuYasha", + "id": 4426, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4427, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4428, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", + "source": "Beauty and the Beast", + "id": 4429, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", + "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", + "id": 4430, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", + "source": "Pickman's Model", + "id": 4431, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", + "source": "American Pie", + "id": 4432, + "length": 639 + }, + { + "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4433, + "length": 368 + }, + { + "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", + "source": "Corner Gas", + "id": 4435, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", + "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", + "id": 4436, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4437, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", + "source": "All Night", + "id": 4438, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid", + "id": 4439, + "length": 257 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", + "source": "Airplane!", + "id": 4440, + "length": 330 + }, + { + "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4441, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", + "source": "The Gambler", + "id": 4442, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", + "source": "I, Mammal", + "id": 4443, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4444, + "length": 527 + }, + { + "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4445, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", + "source": "The First Elegy", + "id": 4446, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4447, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", + "source": "Never Ever", + "id": 4448, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4449, + "length": 410 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", + "source": "Head Over Feet", + "id": 4450, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "id": 4451, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4452, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", + "source": "Quiz Show", + "id": 4453, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4454, + "length": 154 + }, + { + "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", + "source": "Areopagitica", + "id": 4456, + "length": 822 + }, + { + "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4457, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", + "source": "Adventure Time", + "id": 4458, + "length": 217 + }, + { + "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "id": 4459, + "length": 482 + }, + { + "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "id": 4460, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", + "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", + "id": 4461, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4462, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4463, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4464, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4466, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", + "source": "World Enough and Time", + "id": 4467, + "length": 548 + }, + { + "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", + "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", + "id": 4468, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4469, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", + "source": "That's What Friends Are For", + "id": 4470, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4471, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", + "source": "King Park", + "id": 4472, + "length": 115 + }, + { + "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", + "source": "The Iliad", + "id": 4473, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", + "source": "Beautiful", + "id": 4474, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", + "source": "Subdivisions", + "id": 4475, + "length": 292 + }, + { + "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", + "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", + "id": 4477, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4478, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", + "source": "Cages", + "id": 4479, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4480, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", + "source": "Apocalypse Now", + "id": 4481, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4483, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4484, + "length": 503 + }, + { + "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4485, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4486, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4487, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4488, + "length": 512 + }, + { + "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", + "source": "Total Annihilation", + "id": 4489, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", + "source": "Small Gods", + "id": 4490, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4491, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4492, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", + "source": "The Analects", + "id": 4493, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "id": 4494, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", + "source": "White Collar", + "id": 4496, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", + "source": "12 Angry Men", + "id": 4497, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", + "source": "The Wire", + "id": 4498, + "length": 608 + }, + { + "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", + "source": "Cars", + "id": 4499, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", + "source": "The Two Towers", + "id": 4500, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4501, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4502, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4504, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", + "source": "Hotel California", + "id": 4505, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4506, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4507, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4508, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4509, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", + "source": "Sacrifice", + "id": 4510, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4511, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", + "source": "The Princess Bride", + "id": 4512, + "length": 301 + }, + { + "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "id": 4513, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", + "source": "Fox in Socks", + "id": 4514, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", + "id": 4515, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", + "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", + "id": 4516, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", + "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", + "id": 4518, + "length": 831 + }, + { + "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", + "source": "Private Idaho", + "id": 4519, + "length": 221 + }, + { + "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", + "source": "Paprika", + "id": 4520, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4521, + "length": 351 + }, + { + "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", + "source": "The Blues Brothers", + "id": 4522, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", + "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", + "id": 4523, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", + "source": "Into Thin Air", + "id": 4524, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", + "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", + "id": 4527, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4528, + "length": 80 + }, + { + "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4529, + "length": 539 + }, + { + "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", + "source": "Eclipse", + "id": 4530, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4532, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4534, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "id": 4535, + "length": 331 + }, + { + "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4536, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", + "source": "Harold and Maude", + "id": 4537, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "id": 4538, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", + "source": "The Court Jester", + "id": 4539, + "length": 343 + }, + { + "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", + "source": "Lessons in Tanya", + "id": 4540, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", + "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", + "id": 4541, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", + "source": "I Have A Dream", + "id": 4543, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", + "source": "True Detective", + "id": 4544, + "length": 385 + }, + { + "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4545, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4546, + "length": 563 + }, + { + "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", + "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", + "id": 4547, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", + "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", + "id": 4548, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4549, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", + "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", + "id": 4550, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4551, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", + "source": "The Giver", + "id": 4552, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", + "source": "The River", + "id": 4553, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4554, + "length": 260 + }, + { + "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4555, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4556, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", + "source": "The Lion in Winter", + "id": 4557, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", + "source": "Eight of Nine", + "id": 4558, + "length": 70 + }, + { + "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", + "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", + "id": 4559, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4560, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", + "source": "Galaxy Song", + "id": 4561, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4562, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", + "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", + "id": 4563, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", + "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", + "id": 4564, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", + "source": "The End of the Innocence", + "id": 4565, + "length": 284 + }, + { + "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4566, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4567, + "length": 59 + }, + { + "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", + "source": "My Inventions", + "id": 4569, + "length": 656 + }, + { + "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", + "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", + "id": 4571, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", + "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", + "id": 4572, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", + "source": "Monster Mash", + "id": 4573, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", + "source": "My Favorite Things", + "id": 4575, + "length": 363 + }, + { + "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", + "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", + "id": 4576, + "length": 356 + }, + { + "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4577, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", + "source": "Right Here Waiting", + "id": 4578, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", + "source": "Looking Backward", + "id": 4580, + "length": 479 + }, + { + "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", + "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", + "id": 4581, + "length": 574 + }, + { + "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", + "source": "Carmilla", + "id": 4582, + "length": 818 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", + "source": "The Snowman", + "id": 4583, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4585, + "length": 434 + }, + { + "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", + "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", + "id": 4586, + "length": 666 + }, + { + "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4587, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", + "source": "I, Robot", + "id": 4588, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", + "source": "Naruto", + "id": 4589, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", + "source": "All About Eve", + "id": 4590, + "length": 323 + }, + { + "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", + "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", + "id": 4591, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", + "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", + "id": 4592, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", + "source": "The Complete Far Side", + "id": 4593, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4594, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", + "source": "Hollow Knight", + "id": 4595, + "length": 569 + }, + { + "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", + "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", + "id": 4596, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", + "source": "Flatland", + "id": 4597, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", + "source": "Radioactive", + "id": 4598, + "length": 192 + }, + { + "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", + "source": "Metro 2033", + "id": 4599, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4600, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4601, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", + "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", + "id": 4603, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", + "source": "American Splendor", + "id": 4604, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", + "source": "Groundhog Day", + "id": 4605, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", + "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", + "id": 4606, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", + "source": "Lucy", + "id": 4607, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", + "source": "Inception", + "id": 4608, + "length": 226 + }, + { + "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", + "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", + "id": 4609, + "length": 433 + }, + { + "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4610, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", + "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", + "id": 4611, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4612, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", + "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", + "id": 4613, + "length": 444 + }, + { + "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4614, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", + "id": 4615, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", + "source": "Heroes", + "id": 4616, + "length": 437 + }, + { + "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XII", + "id": 4618, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4619, + "length": 404 + }, + { + "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4620, + "length": 597 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", + "source": "North by Northwest", + "id": 4621, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4622, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", + "source": "Being There", + "id": 4623, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4624, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", + "source": "Trading Places", + "id": 4625, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4626, + "length": 200 + }, + { + "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", + "source": "Blue's Clues", + "id": 4627, + "length": 123 + }, + { + "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", + "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", + "id": 4628, + "length": 570 + }, + { + "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", + "source": "Pushing Daisies", + "id": 4629, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", + "source": "Sexy Beast", + "id": 4630, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", + "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", + "id": 4631, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4632, + "length": 604 + }, + { + "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4633, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4634, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", + "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", + "id": 4635, + "length": 334 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", + "source": "The Night Diary", + "id": 4636, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4637, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", + "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", + "id": 4638, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", + "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", + "id": 4639, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", + "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", + "id": 4641, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4642, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", + "source": "Poison", + "id": 4643, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4644, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", + "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", + "id": 4645, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4647, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", + "source": "What Dreams May Come", + "id": 4648, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", + "source": "Parasite", + "id": 4649, + "length": 477 + }, + { + "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4651, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", + "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", + "id": 4652, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4654, + "length": 185 + }, + { + "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", + "source": "The Imitation Game", + "id": 4655, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4656, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", + "source": "True Romance", + "id": 4657, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", + "source": "Heavy Metal", + "id": 4658, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4659, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4660, + "length": 294 + }, + { + "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", + "source": "Paul Clifford", + "id": 4661, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4662, + "length": 277 + }, + { + "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", + "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", + "id": 4663, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "id": 4664, + "length": 442 + }, + { + "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4665, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", + "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", + "id": 4666, + "length": 515 + }, + { + "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", + "source": "The Hunger Games", + "id": 4667, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", + "source": "The Odyssey", + "id": 4668, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 4669, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", + "source": "Lazarus", + "id": 4670, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", + "source": "Understanding Media", + "id": 4671, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", + "source": "Deadwood", + "id": 4672, + "length": 498 + }, + { + "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", + "source": "Madagascar", + "id": 4673, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", + "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", + "id": 4674, + "length": 333 + }, + { + "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", + "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", + "id": 4675, + "length": 198 + }, + { + "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", + "source": "All I Want", + "id": 4676, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", + "id": 4677, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", + "source": "Lithium", + "id": 4678, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", + "source": "Gone Girl", + "id": 4679, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", + "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", + "id": 4680, + "length": 402 + }, + { + "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", + "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", + "id": 4681, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", + "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", + "id": 4682, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", + "source": "Human Nature", + "id": 4683, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", + "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", + "id": 4685, + "length": 485 + }, + { + "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", + "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", + "id": 4686, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4687, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", + "source": "No Logo", + "id": 4688, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", + "source": "Forrest Gump", + "id": 4689, + "length": 186 + }, + { + "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4690, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4691, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", + "id": 4692, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4693, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", + "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", + "id": 4695, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4696, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4697, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4698, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", + "source": "On the Social Contract", + "id": 4699, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", + "source": "The Lorax", + "id": 4701, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", + "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", + "id": 4702, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", + "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", + "id": 4703, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", + "source": "Essentials of Economics", + "id": 4704, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", + "source": "BioShock Infinite", + "id": 4705, + "length": 427 + }, + { + "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", + "source": "The Time Machine", + "id": 4706, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", + "source": "The Historian", + "id": 4707, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", + "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", + "id": 4708, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4710, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4711, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", + "source": "Thinking Bout You", + "id": 4714, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", + "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", + "id": 4715, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4716, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", + "source": "Sunset Boulevard", + "id": 4717, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", + "source": "Allentown", + "id": 4719, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4720, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4721, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4722, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", + "source": "Gandhi", + "id": 4723, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", + "source": "Hands Down", + "id": 4724, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", + "source": "Made in Abyss", + "id": 4725, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", + "source": "Halloween", + "id": 4726, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", + "source": "Breaking Away", + "id": 4728, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", + "source": "King's Quest I", + "id": 4730, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4731, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", + "source": "Roseanne", + "id": 4732, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4733, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", + "source": "Holidays on Ice", + "id": 4734, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", + "source": "I Am A Rock", + "id": 4735, + "length": 231 + }, + { + "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", + "source": "Don Quixote", + "id": 4736, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4737, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", + "source": "Les Misérables", + "id": 4738, + "length": 220 + }, + { + "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", + "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", + "id": 4739, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4740, + "length": 263 + }, + { + "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", + "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", + "id": 4741, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4742, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", + "source": "Holiday", + "id": 4743, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4744, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4745, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", + "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", + "id": 4746, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", + "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", + "id": 4747, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", + "source": "The Lost Weekend", + "id": 4749, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", + "source": "The Sound of Music", + "id": 4750, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4751, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4752, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", + "source": "Naked Lunch", + "id": 4753, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4754, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", + "source": "Overestimation", + "id": 4755, + "length": 344 + }, + { + "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", + "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", + "id": 4756, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", + "source": "Shaun of the Dead", + "id": 4757, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", + "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", + "id": 4758, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4759, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4760, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4761, + "length": 487 + }, + { + "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", + "source": "Confessions", + "id": 4762, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4763, + "length": 397 + }, + { + "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4764, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4767, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4768, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4769, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4770, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", + "source": "Name", + "id": 4771, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", + "source": "Brave New World", + "id": 4772, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", + "source": "Shiny Happy People", + "id": 4773, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. 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An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", + "source": "Nightmare", + "id": 4777, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4778, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4779, + "length": 205 + }, + { + "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", + "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", + "id": 4780, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4781, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4782, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4783, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", + "source": "Beetlejuice", + "id": 4784, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4786, + "length": 148 + }, + { + "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", + "source": "Novum Organum", + "id": 4787, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4788, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", + "source": "It's My Life", + "id": 4789, + "length": 106 + }, + { + "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", + "source": "Falling", + "id": 4790, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4791, + "length": 567 + }, + { + "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", + "source": "Chateau Cascade", + "id": 4792, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", + "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", + "id": 4793, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4794, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4795, + "length": 510 + }, + { + "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4796, + "length": 151 + }, + { + "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", + "source": "UnTechnical Writing", + "id": 4797, + "length": 287 + }, + { + "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", + "source": "Physics for Game Developers", + "id": 4798, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4799, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", + "source": "What If?", + "id": 4800, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", + "source": "A Study in Scarlet", + "id": 4801, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", + "source": "Porgy and Bess", + "id": 4802, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", + "source": "Cool As Ice", + "id": 4803, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4805, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", + "source": "All in the Family", + "id": 4806, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4807, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", + "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", + "id": 4808, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", + "source": "Shoe Dog", + "id": 4809, + "length": 579 + }, + { + "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4810, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4812, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", + "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", + "id": 4813, + "length": 375 + }, + { + "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4814, + "length": 232 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4815, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4816, + "length": 382 + }, + { + "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", + "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", + "id": 4818, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", + "source": "Dubliners", + "id": 4819, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", + "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", + "id": 4820, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4821, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4822, + "length": 540 + }, + { + "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4823, + "length": 65 + }, + { + "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", + "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", + "id": 4824, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4825, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4826, + "length": 295 + }, + { + "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", + "source": "Battlesong", + "id": 4827, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", + "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", + "id": 4828, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", + "source": "The Complete Project Manager", + "id": 4829, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", + "source": "Savoy Truffle", + "id": 4830, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", + "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", + "id": 4831, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", + "source": "Back to the Future", + "id": 4832, + "length": 276 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4833, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", + "source": "Restraint", + "id": 4834, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4835, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", + "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", + "id": 4836, + "length": 184 + }, + { + "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", + "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", + "id": 4837, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", + "source": "Underground", + "id": 4838, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4839, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4840, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", + "source": "Suits", + "id": 4841, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4842, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4843, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", + "source": "Saving Us a Riot", + "id": 4844, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", + "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", + "id": 4846, + "length": 155 + }, + { + "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4847, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4848, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", + "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "id": 4849, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", + "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", + "id": 4851, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", + "source": "Collide", + "id": 4852, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", + "source": "Hannah Hunt", + "id": 4853, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", + "source": "Limitless", + "id": 4854, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", + "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", + "id": 4855, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "id": 4856, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4857, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", + "source": "Wag the Dog", + "id": 4858, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4859, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", + "source": "Civil Disobedience", + "id": 4860, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4861, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", + "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", + "id": 4863, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", + "source": "The Elements of Style", + "id": 4864, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", + "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", + "id": 4865, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", + "source": "Pale Blue Dot", + "id": 4866, + "length": 820 + }, + { + "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", + "source": "DOOM 4", + "id": 4867, + "length": 502 + }, + { + "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", + "source": "The Recruit", + "id": 4868, + "length": 386 + }, + { + "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", + "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", + "id": 4869, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", + "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", + "id": 4870, + "length": 196 + }, + { + "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", + "id": 4871, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4872, + "length": 218 + }, + { + "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4873, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", + "source": "Running and Travel", + "id": 4874, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", + "source": "On Demand Culture", + "id": 4875, + "length": 507 + }, + { + "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4876, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4877, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", + "source": "The Sirens of Titan", + "id": 4878, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4879, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4880, + "length": 441 + }, + { + "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4881, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", + "source": "13 Reasons Why", + "id": 4882, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", + "source": "Leaves from the Vine", + "id": 4883, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4884, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4885, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4886, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", + "source": "The Logical Song", + "id": 4887, + "length": 380 + }, + { + "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", + "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", + "id": 4888, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 4889, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", + "source": "Kokomo", + "id": 4890, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4891, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4893, + "length": 157 + }, + { + "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4894, + "length": 271 + }, + { + "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", + "source": "October Sky", + "id": 4895, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4896, + "length": 336 + }, + { + "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", + "source": "Pulp Fiction", + "id": 4897, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4899, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4900, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", + "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", + "id": 4901, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4902, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", + "source": "Sailing", + "id": 4903, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", + "id": 4904, + "length": 474 + }, + { + "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", + "source": "Daredevil", + "id": 4905, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", + "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", + "id": 4907, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", + "source": "Let Me Love You", + "id": 4908, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4909, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", + "source": "When Love Arrives", + "id": 4910, + "length": 286 + }, + { + "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", + "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", + "id": 4912, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4913, + "length": 64 + }, + { + "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4915, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", + "source": "The Medium is the Massage", + "id": 4916, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", + "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", + "id": 4917, + "length": 279 + }, + { + "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", + "source": "Swamp Thing", + "id": 4918, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4919, + "length": 310 + }, + { + "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4920, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4921, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", + "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", + "id": 4922, + "length": 449 + }, + { + "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "id": 4923, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", + "source": "Halo 2", + "id": 4924, + "length": 213 + }, + { + "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", + "source": "The Return", + "id": 4925, + "length": 399 + }, + { + "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", + "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", + "id": 4928, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", + "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", + "id": 4929, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", + "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", + "id": 4931, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", + "source": "Moulin Rouge", + "id": 4932, + "length": 280 + }, + { + "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 4933, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4934, + "length": 288 + }, + { + "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4935, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4936, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4937, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", + "source": "Return of the Jedi", + "id": 4938, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", + "source": "Sin City", + "id": 4939, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4940, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", + "source": "The Lightning Thief", + "id": 4941, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", + "source": "Stardew Valley", + "id": 4942, + "length": 189 + }, + { + "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", + "source": "The Godfather: Part II", + "id": 4943, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", + "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", + "id": 4944, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4945, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4946, + "length": 488 + }, + { + "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", + "source": "Scream 2", + "id": 4947, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", + "source": "The Floating Fire", + "id": 4948, + "length": 298 + }, + { + "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4949, + "length": 440 + }, + { + "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", + "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", + "id": 4950, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4951, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", + "source": "A History of Mathematics", + "id": 4952, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", + "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", + "id": 4953, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4954, + "length": 90 + }, + { + "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", + "source": "Classical Mythology", + "id": 4955, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", + "source": "Piano Man", + "id": 4956, + "length": 138 + }, + { + "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", + "source": "Industrial Disease", + "id": 4957, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", + "source": "History of Art", + "id": 4958, + "length": 612 + }, + { + "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", + "source": "Orientalism", + "id": 4959, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", + "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", + "id": 4960, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", + "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", + "id": 4961, + "length": 274 + }, + { + "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4962, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", + "source": "Firestarter", + "id": 4963, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", + "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", + "id": 4964, + "length": 790 + }, + { + "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", + "source": "Dunkelheit", + "id": 4965, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", + "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", + "id": 4966, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4967, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4968, + "length": 346 + }, + { + "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", + "source": "The West Wing", + "id": 4969, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", + "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", + "id": 4970, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", + "source": "The Lurking Fear", + "id": 4971, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", + "source": "Last Dance", + "id": 4972, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", + "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", + "id": 4973, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4974, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", + "source": "Lemon Tree", + "id": 4975, + "length": 153 + }, + { + "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4976, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", + "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", + "id": 4977, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", + "source": "Mean Girls", + "id": 4979, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", + "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", + "id": 4980, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4981, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4982, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", + "source": "911 For Peace", + "id": 4983, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", + "source": "The Greatest", + "id": 4984, + "length": 347 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4987, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", + "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", + "id": 4988, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", + "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", + "id": 4989, + "length": 293 + }, + { + "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4990, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4991, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", + "source": "True Blood", + "id": 4992, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", + "source": "Awakenings", + "id": 4993, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", + "id": 4994, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "id": 4995, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", + "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", + "id": 4996, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", + "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", + "id": 4997, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4998, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4999, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", + "source": "Helplessly Hoping", + "id": 5000, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5002, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5003, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5004, + "length": 187 + }, + { + "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5005, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5006, + "length": 48 + }, + { + "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5007, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5008, + "length": 162 + }, + { + "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5009, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5010, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5011, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5012, + "length": 309 + }, + { + "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5014, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5015, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5016, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5017, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5018, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5020, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5021, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5022, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5023, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5024, + "length": 41 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5025, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5026, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5028, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5029, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5030, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5031, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5032, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5033, + "length": 91 + }, + { + "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5034, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5035, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5036, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5037, + "length": 230 + }, + { + "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5038, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5039, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5040, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5041, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5042, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5043, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5044, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5045, + "length": 46 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5046, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5047, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5048, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5049, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5050, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5051, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5052, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5053, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5054, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5055, + "length": 53 + }, + { + "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5056, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5057, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5058, + "length": 139 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5059, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5060, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5061, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5062, + "length": 723 + }, + { + "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5063, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5064, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5065, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5066, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5067, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 89, + "id": 5068 + }, + { + "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 194, + "id": 5069 + }, + { + "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 293, + "id": 5070 + }, + { + "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 135, + "id": 5071 + }, + { + "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 171, + "id": 5072 + }, + { + "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", + "source": "James Cameron", + "length": 104, + "id": 5073 + }, + { + "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", + "source": "Allen Saunders", + "length": 57, + "id": 5074 + }, + { + "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", + "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", + "length": 178, + "id": 5075 + }, + { + "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 325, + "id": 5076 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", + "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", + "length": 85, + "id": 5077 + }, + { + "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", + "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", + "length": 148, + "id": 5078 + }, + { + "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", + "source": "Neo, The Matrix", + "length": 556, + "id": 5079 + }, + { + "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", + "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", + "length": 194, + "id": 5080 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", + "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", + "length": 207, + "id": 5081 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 121, + "id": 5082 + }, + { + "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 129, + "id": 5083 + }, + { + "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 119, + "id": 5084 + }, + { + "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 81, + "id": 5085 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 484, + "id": 5086 + }, + { + "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 60, + "id": 5087 + }, + { + "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", + "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 57, + "id": 5089 + }, + { + "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", + "length": 203, + "id": 5090 + }, + { + "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 222, + "id": 5091 + }, + { + "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", + "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 215, + "id": 5092 + }, + { + "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 177, + "id": 5094 + }, + { + "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 57, + "id": 5095 + }, + { + "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 205, + "id": 5096 + }, + { + "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 30, + "id": 5097 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 31, + "id": 5098 + }, + { + "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", + "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", + "length": 112, + "id": 5099 + }, + { + "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 279, + "id": 5100 + }, + { + "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", + "source": "Terence McKenna", + "length": 211, + "id": 5101 + }, + { + "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", + "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", + "length": 161, + "id": 5102 + }, + { + "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", + "source": "Terence Mckenna", + "length": 117, + "id": 5103 + }, + { + "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", + "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", + "length": 67, + "id": 5104 + }, + { + "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 504, + "id": 5105 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", + "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", + "length": 155, + "id": 5106 + }, + { + "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", + "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", + "length": 127, + "id": 5107 + }, + { + "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", + "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", + "length": 109, + "id": 5108 + }, + { + "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. 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Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?", + "source": "Friends", + "length": 75, + "id": 5318 + }, + { + "text": "Please note that I am the Standard Orientation Protocol, and that my voice has been explicitly chosen to remind you that I am not a part of your Patient Care Team. I do not care.", + "source": "Superliminal", + "length": 178, + "id": 5319 + }, + { + "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.", + "source": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", + "length": 61, + "id": 5320 + }, + { + "text": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", + "source": "Maurice Ravel", + "length": 52, + "id": 5321 + }, + { + "text": "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", + "source": "John Cage", + "length": 90, + "id": 5323 + }, + { + "text": "A painter paints pictures on canvas. 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This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity's salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn't it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity's eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall into the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.' You now face godlike judgment. May it extend eternally.", + "source": "Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Deep Stone Crypt - Crypt AI", + "length": 738, + "id": 5336 + }, + { + "text": "Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. 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Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", + "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", + "length": 397, + "id": 5347 + }, + { + "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", + "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", + "length": 54, + "id": 5348 + }, + { + "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", + "source": "Karl Marx", + "length": 222, + "id": 5349 + }, + { + "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", + "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", + "length": 201, + "id": 5350 + }, + { + "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 129, + "id": 5351 + }, + { + "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", + "source": "Newsweek Magazine", + "length": 649, + "id": 5352 + }, + { + "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", + "source": "Nails In The Fence", + "length": 1070, + "id": 5354 + }, + { + "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", + "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", + "length": 297, + "id": 5355 + }, + { + "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 278, + "id": 5356 + }, + { + "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 282, + "id": 5357 + }, + { + "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", + "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", + "length": 318, + "id": 5358 + }, + { + "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", + "source": "Roger Federer", + "length": 63, + "id": 5360 + }, + { + "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", + "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", + "length": 198, + "id": 5361 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. 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The stone you can reach by doing your best.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 334, + "id": 5366 + }, + { + "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 167, + "id": 5367 + }, + { + "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 66, + "id": 5368 + }, + { + "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 95, + "id": 5369 + }, + { + "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 105, + "id": 5370 + }, + { + "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", + "source": "Your Name", + "length": 60, + "id": 5371 + }, + { + "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", + "length": 93, + "id": 5372 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", + "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", + "length": 294, + "id": 5373 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", + "source": "Meet the Heavy", + "length": 102, + "id": 5375 + }, + { + "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", + "source": "Steve Jobs", + "length": 156, + "id": 5376 + }, + { + "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", + "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", + "length": 213, + "id": 5377 + }, + { + "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 182, + "id": 5378 + }, + { + "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 474, + "id": 5379 + }, + { + "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 381, + "id": 5380 + }, + { + "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 290, + "id": 5381 + }, + { + "text": "She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. 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This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.", + "source": "Cowboy Bebop", + "length": 529, + "id": 5388 + }, + { + "text": "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 106, + "id": 5389 + }, + { + "text": "I have a file with 900 pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 309, + "id": 5390 + }, + { + "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 75, + "id": 5391 + }, + { + "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", + "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", + "length": 427, + "id": 5392 + }, + { + "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", + "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", + "length": 416, + "id": 5393 + }, + { + "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 96, + "id": 5394 + }, + { + "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 64, + "id": 5395 + }, + { + "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 171, + "id": 5396 + }, + { + "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", + "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", + "length": 205, + "id": 5397 + }, + { + "text": "One and one and one is three.", + "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", + "length": 29, + "id": 5398 + }, + { + "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", + "length": 91, + "id": 5399 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", + "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", + "length": 732, + "id": 5400 + }, + { + "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 92, + "id": 5403 + }, + { + "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 68, + "id": 5404 + }, + { + "text": "I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 103, + "id": 5405 + }, + { + "text": "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 335, + "id": 5406 + }, + { + "text": "The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of nonsense, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 466, + "id": 5407 + }, + { + "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 560, + "id": 5408 + }, + { + "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 46, + "id": 5409 + }, + { + "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 296, + "id": 5410 + }, + { + "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 87, + "id": 5411 + }, + { + "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", + "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", + "length": 174, + "id": 5416 + }, + { + "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", + "length": 250, + "id": 5417 + }, + { + "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", + "length": 428, + "id": 5418 + }, + { + "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", + "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", + "length": 260, + "id": 5419 + }, + { + "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", + "source": "The Beatles", + "length": 260, + "id": 5420 + }, + { + "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", + "length": 299, + "id": 5421 + }, + { + "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", + "length": 456, + "id": 5422 + }, + { + "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", + "length": 208, + "id": 5423 + }, + { + "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", + "source": "The Legend of Korra", + "length": 110, + "id": 5424 + }, + { + "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 138, + "id": 5425 + }, + { + "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", + "length": 226, + "id": 5426 + }, + { + "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", + "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", + "length": 190, + "id": 5427 + }, + { + "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", + "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", + "length": 72, + "id": 5429 + }, + { + "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 89, + "id": 5430 + }, + { + "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", + "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", + "length": 91, + "id": 5431 + }, + { + "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", + "source": "John Green", + "length": 95, + "id": 5432 + }, + { + "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", + "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", + "length": 349, + "id": 5433 + }, + { + "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 85, + "id": 5434 + }, + { + "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 66, + "id": 5435 + }, + { + "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", + "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", + "length": 122, + "id": 5436 + }, + { + "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 240, + "id": 5437 + }, + { + "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 365, + "id": 5438 + }, + { + "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", + "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", + "length": 403, + "id": 5439 + }, + { + "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", + "source": "SCP-5000", + "length": 487, + "id": 5441 + }, + { + "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", + "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", + "length": 892, + "id": 5442 + }, + { + "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", + "source": "A Tongue-twister", + "length": 106, + "id": 5443 + }, + { + "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", + "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", + "length": 57, + "id": 5444 + }, + { + "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", + "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", + "length": 69, + "id": 5446 + }, + { + "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", + "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", + "length": 88, + "id": 5447 + }, + { + "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", + "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", + "length": 54, + "id": 5452 + }, + { + "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 55, + "id": 5453 + }, + { + "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 62, + "id": 5456 + }, + { + "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", + "source": "They Might Be Giants", + "length": 62, + "id": 5459 + }, + { + "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 84, + "id": 5460 + }, + { + "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", + "length": 100, + "id": 5461 + }, + { + "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 231, + "id": 5462 + }, + { + "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 94, + "id": 5463 + }, + { + "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 258, + "id": 5464 + }, + { + "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", + "length": 1140, + "id": 5465 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", + "source": "Ready Player Two", + "length": 588, + "id": 5466 + }, + { + "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", + "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", + "length": 140, + "id": 5472 + }, + { + "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", + "source": "Holes", + "length": 74, + "id": 5477 + }, + { + "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 192, + "id": 5478 + }, + { + "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 78, + "id": 5482 + }, + { + "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 947, + "id": 5485 + }, + { + "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 559, + "id": 5487 + }, + { + "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", + "source": "91 days", + "length": 474, + "id": 5488 + }, + { + "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 172, + "id": 5489 + }, + { + "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 359, + "id": 5490 + }, + { + "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", + "source": "Fred Brooks", + "length": 78, + "id": 5491 + }, + { + "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", + "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", + "length": 210, + "id": 5492 + }, + { + "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 242, + "id": 5493 + }, + { + "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 200, + "id": 5494 + }, + { + "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", + "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", + "length": 189, + "id": 5495 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5496 + }, + { + "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 218, + "id": 5497 + }, + { + "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 201, + "id": 5498 + }, + { + "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "length": 150, + "id": 5499 + }, + { + "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 145, + "id": 5500 + }, + { + "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5501 + }, + { + "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 106, + "id": 5502 + }, + { + "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", + "source": "Naruto", + "length": 196, + "id": 5503 + }, + { + "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", + "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", + "length": 125, + "id": 5505 + }, + { + "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", + "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 471, + "id": 5506 + }, + { + "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", + "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", + "length": 240, + "id": 5507 + }, + { + "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", + "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", + "length": 483, + "id": 5508 + }, + { + "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 240, + "id": 5509 + }, + { + "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 584, + "id": 5510 + }, + { + "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", + "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", + "length": 375, + "id": 5511 + }, + { + "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", + "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", + "length": 413, + "id": 5512 + }, + { + "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", + "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 273, + "id": 5513 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", + "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 83, + "id": 5514 + }, + { + "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", + "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", + "length": 661, + "id": 5515 + }, + { + "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", + "source": "Five Feet Apart", + "length": 523, + "id": 5517 + }, + { + "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", + "source": "Exurb1a", + "length": 169, + "id": 5519 + }, + { + "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", + "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 537, + "id": 5520 + }, + { + "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", + "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", + "length": 236, + "id": 5521 + }, + { + "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", + "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", + "length": 211, + "id": 5522 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 634, + "id": 5523 + }, + { + "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", + "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", + "length": 727, + "id": 5524 + }, + { + "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", + "source": "Celeste", + "length": 437, + "id": 5525 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 496, + "id": 5526 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 352, + "id": 5527 + }, + { + "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", + "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", + "length": 589, + "id": 5528 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 223, + "id": 5529 + }, + { + "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. 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On your mark, get ready, start.", + "source": "The Cooper Institute", + "length": 575, + "id": 5531 + }, + { + "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 534, + "id": 5533 + }, + { + "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 463, + "id": 5534 + }, + { + "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 160, + "id": 5535 + }, + { + "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 142, + "id": 5536 + }, + { + "text": "No one knows what the future holds. 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We need not wait to see what others do.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 203, + "id": 5645 + }, + { + "text": "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.", + "source": "Hotel California", + "length": 45, + "id": 5646 + }, + { + "text": "The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire universe.", + "source": "Life, The Universe, and Everything", + "length": 92, + "id": 5647 + }, + { + "text": "My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.", + "source": "Marvin; Life, The Universe, and Everything", + "length": 94, + "id": 5648 + }, + { + "text": "And every time I've held a rose, it seems I only felt the thorns.", + "source": "And So It Goes", + "length": 65, + "id": 5649 + }, + { + "text": "When we hear any other speaker, even a very good one, he produces absolutely no effect upon us, or not much, whereas the mere fragments of you and your words, even at second-hand, and however imperfectly repeated, amaze and possess the souls of every man, woman, and child who comes within hearing of them. And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", + "source": "The Symposium", + "length": 592, + "id": 5651 + }, + { + "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 76, + "id": 5652 + }, + { + "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 323, + "id": 5653 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", + "source": "Einstein", + "length": 128, + "id": 5654 + }, + { + "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", + "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", + "length": 322, + "id": 5655 + }, + { + "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 172, + "id": 5656 + }, + { + "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.", + "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", + "length": 270, + "id": 5657 + }, + { + "text": "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", + "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", + "length": 63, + "id": 5658 + }, + { + "text": "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.", + "source": "Kahlil Gibran", + "length": 64, + "id": 5663 + }, + { + "text": "With her green hair sticking out the hood of her yellow raincoat, she looked like a punk spokesperson for frozen fish sticks.", + "source": "The Ship of the Dead", + "length": 125, + "id": 5664 + }, + { + "text": "It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb.", + "source": "Proverbs", + "length": 70, + "id": 5665 + }, + { + "text": "Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.", + "source": "Augustine of Hippo", + "length": 62, + "id": 5667 + }, + { + "text": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 49, + "id": 5668 + }, + { + "text": "Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 53, + "id": 5669 + }, + { + "text": "Time is just a construct, if you allow it to consume you, it will. It will wear you down until you are nothing but dust. You must learn to transcend and rise beyond such linear and limited fabrics of existence and this creature of unknown origin has done exactly that. You can scream all you want but nobody will hear you. You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 468, + "id": 5670 + }, + { + "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", + "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", + "length": 82, + "id": 5671 + }, + { + "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", + "source": "John Tukey", + "length": 89, + "id": 5672 + }, + { + "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. 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Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", + "source": "Tao Te Ching", + "length": 286, + "id": 5678 + }, + { + "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "length": 62, + "id": 5679 + }, + { + "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", + "source": "Albert Camus", + "length": 54, + "id": 5680 + }, + { + "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", + "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", + "length": 238, + "id": 5681 + }, + { + "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", + "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5682 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", + "source": "Marcus Aurelius", + "length": 161, + "id": 5684 + }, + { + "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", + "source": "Devil in Disguise", + "length": 148, + "id": 5685 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", + "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", + "length": 518, + "id": 5686 + }, + { + "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 302, + "id": 5687 + }, + { + "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 52, + "id": 5688 + }, + { + "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 83, + "id": 5689 + }, + { + "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 53, + "id": 5690 + }, + { + "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 118, + "id": 5691 + }, + { + "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.", + "source": "Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29", + "length": 233, + "id": 5692 + }, + { + "text": "The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 159, + "id": 5693 + }, + { + "text": "All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 86, + "id": 5694 + }, + { + "text": "Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 210, + "id": 5695 + }, + { + "text": "This is your world. You're the creator. Find freedom on this canvas. Believe, that you can do it, 'cuz you can do it. You can do it.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 132, + "id": 5696 + }, + { + "text": "I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 151, + "id": 5697 + }, + { + "text": "Let's build a happy little cloud. Let's build some happy little trees.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 70, + "id": 5698 + }, + { + "text": "Now then, let's come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It'll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to have a place to set there. There he goes...", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 215, + "id": 5699 + }, + { + "text": "There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 62, + "id": 5700 + }, + { + "text": "Nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.", + "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", + "length": 112, + "id": 5701 + }, + { + "text": "When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.", + "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", + "length": 123, + "id": 5702 + }, + { + "text": "You show me a pay stub for $72,000, I quit my job right now and work for you.", + "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", + "length": 77, + "id": 5703 + }, + { + "text": "My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.", + "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", + "length": 148, + "id": 5705 + }, + { + "text": "The only thing that we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.", + "source": "Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan", + "length": 88, + "id": 5706 + }, + { + "text": "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.", + "source": "Noam Chomsky", + "length": 167, + "id": 5707 + }, + { + "text": "The behaviour of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, has many features that set it apart from other common domestic animals, even its fellow carnivore the dog. Cats seem to have effected a unique and successful compromise between reliance on man and the retention of behaviour patterns that permit an independent existence. During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", + "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", + "length": 578, + "id": 5708 + }, + { + "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", + "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", + "length": 183, + "id": 5709 + }, + { + "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 997, + "id": 5710 + }, + { + "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", + "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", + "length": 173, + "id": 5711 + }, + { + "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 289, + "id": 5712 + }, + { + "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 900, + "id": 5714 + }, + { + "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", + "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", + "length": 71, + "id": 5715 + }, + { + "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5716 + }, + { + "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", + "source": "Kurt Cobain", + "length": 62, + "id": 5717 + }, + { + "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", + "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", + "length": 743, + "id": 5718 + }, + { + "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", + "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", + "length": 974, + "id": 5719 + }, + { + "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", + "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", + "length": 256, + "id": 5720 + }, + { + "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", + "source": "Bruce Lee", + "length": 69, + "id": 5723 + }, + { + "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 110, + "id": 5724 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "length": 280, + "id": 5725 + }, + { + "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 111, + "id": 5726 + }, + { + "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 74, + "id": 5727 + }, + { + "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 71, + "id": 5728 + }, + { + "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", + "source": "Edward Snowden", + "length": 181, + "id": 5729 + }, + { + "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", + "source": "Riverdale", + "length": 161, + "id": 5731 + }, + { + "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", + "source": "Spirited Away", + "length": 105, + "id": 5732 + }, + { + "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", + "source": "Wikipedia", + "length": 406, + "id": 5733 + }, + { + "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", + "length": 418, + "id": 5734 + }, + { + "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 622, + "id": 5735 + }, + { + "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 699, + "id": 5736 + }, + { + "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", + "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", + "length": 82, + "id": 5737 + }, + { + "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", + "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", + "length": 282, + "id": 5738 + }, + { + "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", + "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", + "length": 184, + "id": 5739 + }, + { + "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", + "source": "Lord of the Rings", + "length": 83, + "id": 5740 + }, + { + "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 373, + "id": 5741 + }, + { + "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", + "source": "Half-Life 2", + "length": 74, + "id": 5742 + }, + { + "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", + "source": "The Big Bang Theory", + "length": 209, + "id": 5743 + }, + { + "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", + "source": "Lucifer", + "length": 183, + "id": 5744 + }, + { + "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", + "source": "Inception", + "length": 134, + "id": 5747 + }, + { + "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", + "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", + "length": 83, + "id": 5748 + }, + { + "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 113, + "id": 5751 + }, + { + "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 341, + "id": 5752 + }, + { + "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "length": 222, + "id": 5753 + }, + { + "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", + "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", + "length": 183, + "id": 5754 + }, + { + "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 198, + "id": 5755 + }, + { + "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", + "source": "Genshin Impact", + "length": 293, + "id": 5756 + }, + { + "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "length": 441, + "id": 5757 + }, + { + "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "length": 538, + "id": 5758 + }, + { + "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", + "source": "Absolute", + "length": 131, + "id": 5759 + }, + { + "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 144, + "id": 5760 + }, + { + "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 183, + "id": 5761 + }, + { + "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 106, + "id": 5762 + }, + { + "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. 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You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", + "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", + "length": 429, + "id": 5768 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 245, + "id": 5769 + }, + { + "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 165, + "id": 5771 + }, + { + "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 128, + "id": 5772 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 157, + "id": 5773 + }, + { + "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", + "source": "A Friend", + "length": 73, + "id": 5775 + }, + { + "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Breath of the Wild", + "length": 62, + "id": 5776 + }, + { + "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 527, + "id": 5777 + }, + { + "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", + "source": "Muhammad Ali", + "length": 79, + "id": 5780 + }, + { + "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", + "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", + "length": 51, + "id": 5781 + }, + { + "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 69, + "id": 5782 + }, + { + "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", + "source": "Violet Evergarden", + "length": 317, + "id": 5783 + }, + { + "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", + "source": "The Last Of Us 2", + "length": 89, + "id": 5785 + }, + { + "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", + "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", + "length": 98, + "id": 5786 + }, + { + "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", + "source": "Leonard Bernstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 5787 + }, + { + "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", + "source": "Charlie Sheen", + "length": 158, + "id": 5788 + }, + { + "text": "I'm different. 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My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", + "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", + "length": 109, + "id": 5793 + }, + { + "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", + "source": "Mae West", + "length": 59, + "id": 5795 + }, + { + "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", + "length": 77, + "id": 5796 + }, + { + "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", + "length": 62, + "id": 5797 + }, + { + "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", + "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", + "length": 101, + "id": 5799 + }, + { + "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. 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Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", + "source": "States of Matter", + "length": 220, + "id": 5805 + }, + { + "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", + "source": "Danilo Kiš", + "length": 190, + "id": 5806 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", + "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", + "length": 2928, + "id": 5807 + }, + { + "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", + "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", + "length": 152, + "id": 5809 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 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Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 325, + "id": 5812 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 133, + "id": 5813 + }, + { + "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. 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It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", + "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", + "length": 455, + "id": 5828 + }, + { + "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", + "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", + "length": 298, + "id": 5829 + }, + { + "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", + "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", + "length": 61, + "id": 5831 + }, + { + "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 356, + "id": 5832 + }, + { + "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 669, + "id": 5833 + }, + { + "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 188, + "id": 5834 + }, + { + "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 157, + "id": 5835 + }, + { + "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 290, + "id": 5836 + }, + { + "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", + "source": "Mob Psycho 100", + "length": 382, + "id": 5837 + }, + { + "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", + "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", + "length": 125, + "id": 5838 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 92, + "id": 5839 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 97, + "id": 5840 + }, + { + "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", + "source": "Master Yoda", + "length": 395, + "id": 5843 + }, + { + "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 80, + "id": 5844 + }, + { + "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 86, + "id": 5845 + }, + { + "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. 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May you know peace and joy.\"", + "source": "Twelve Minutes", + "length": 349, + "id": 5850 + }, + { + "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", + "length": 301, + "id": 5851 + }, + { + "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", + "source": "Numb", + "length": 177, + "id": 5852 + }, + { + "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", + "source": "One Piece", + "length": 490, + "id": 5854 + }, + { + "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", + "source": "Space Brothers", + "length": 143, + "id": 5855 + }, + { + "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", + "source": "Oregairu", + "length": 65, + "id": 5856 + }, + { + "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", + "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", + "length": 352, + "id": 5857 + }, + { + "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", + "source": "Bleach", + "length": 200, + "id": 5858 + }, + { + "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", + "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", + "length": 120, + "id": 5859 + }, + { + "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", + "source": "Fruits Basket", + "length": 388, + "id": 5860 + }, + { + "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", + "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", + "length": 60, + "id": 5861 + }, + { + "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 65, + "id": 5862 + }, + { + "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 270, + "id": 5863 + }, + { + "text": "You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 123, + "id": 5864 + }, + { + "text": "People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.", + "source": "Eragon - Christopher Paolini", + "length": 67, + "id": 5867 + }, + { + "text": "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.", + "source": "Jeod, Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)", + "length": 89, + "id": 5868 + }, + { + "text": "Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.", + "source": "Hajime Isayama - Attack on Titan", + "length": 62, + "id": 5869 + }, + { + "text": "We all deserve love, even on the days when we aren't our best. 'Cause we all suck, but love can make us suck less. We all deserve love, it's the very best part of being alive. And I would know - I just turned 25.", + "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", + "length": 212, + "id": 5870 + }, + { + "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", + "source": "Ratatouille", + "length": 1315, + "id": 5871 + }, + { + "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", + "source": "Pushing Dead", + "length": 365, + "id": 5872 + }, + { + "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", + "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", + "length": 222, + "id": 5874 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", + "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", + "length": 191, + "id": 5875 + }, + { + "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", + "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", + "length": 75, + "id": 5876 + }, + { + "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", + "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", + "length": 123, + "id": 5877 + }, + { + "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 784, + "id": 5878 + }, + { + "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 763, + "id": 5879 + }, + { + "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 530, + "id": 5881 + }, + { + "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 618, + "id": 5882 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", + "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", + "length": 186, + "id": 5886 + }, + { + "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", + "source": "Knights of Cydonia", + "length": 135, + "id": 5888 + }, + { + "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", + "source": "Paul Parker", + "length": 274, + "id": 5890 + }, + { + "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", + "source": "Left 4 Dead", + "length": 454, + "id": 5891 + }, + { + "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 190, + "id": 5893 + }, + { + "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 346, + "id": 5895 + }, + { + "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", + "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", + "length": 83, + "id": 5896 + }, + { + "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 264, + "id": 5897 + }, + { + "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 282, + "id": 5899 + }, + { + "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 249, + "id": 5900 + }, + { + "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", + "source": "Neil Gaiman", + "length": 129, + "id": 5901 + }, + { + "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 376, + "id": 5902 + }, + { + "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 293, + "id": 5903 + }, + { + "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 353, + "id": 5904 + }, + { + "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "length": 235, + "id": 5905 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 107, + "id": 5906 + }, + { + "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 105, + "id": 5907 + }, + { + "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", + "source": "Eugene Cernan", + "length": 478, + "id": 5908 + }, + { + "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "length": 130, + "id": 5909 + }, + { + "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", + "source": "William Carlos Williams", + "length": 89, + "id": 5910 + }, + { + "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "length": 60, + "id": 5912 + }, + { + "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", + "source": "Henry Van Dyke", + "length": 172, + "id": 5913 + }, + { + "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", + "source": "Epicurus", + "length": 117, + "id": 5914 + }, + { + "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 1766, + "id": 5915 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 332, + "id": 5916 + }, + { + "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", + "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", + "length": 513, + "id": 5917 + }, + { + "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 105, + "id": 5918 + }, + { + "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", + "source": "Avicii - The Nights", + "length": 187, + "id": 5919 + }, + { + "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", + "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", + "length": 987, + "id": 5920 + }, + { + "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", + "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", + "length": 740, + "id": 5921 + }, + { + "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", + "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", + "length": 319, + "id": 5922 + }, + { + "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", + "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", + "length": 476, + "id": 5923 + }, + { + "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", + "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", + "length": 556, + "id": 5925 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 182, + "id": 5926 + }, + { + "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 281, + "id": 5927 + }, + { + "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 155, + "id": 5928 + }, + { + "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 248, + "id": 5929 + }, + { + "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 280, + "id": 5930 + }, + { + "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 289, + "id": 5931 + }, + { + "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", + "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", + "length": 294, + "id": 5932 + }, + { + "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 204, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5934 + }, + { + "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", + "source": "Batman: Arkham City", + "length": 87, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5935 + }, + { + "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5937 + }, + { + "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", + "source": "Little Inferno", + "length": 90, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5940 + }, + { + "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", + "source": "System Shock 2 ", + "length": 163, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5941 + }, + { + "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", + "source": "IT Crowd", + "length": 307, + "id": 5942 + }, + { + "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 322, + "id": 5943 + }, + { + "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 137, + "id": 5944 + }, + { + "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", + "source": "The Master and Margarita", + "length": 420, + "id": 5945 + }, + { + "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 379, + "id": 5947 + }, + { + "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", + "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", + "length": 348, + "id": 5950 + }, + { + "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", + "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", + "length": 729, + "id": 5951 + }, + { + "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", + "source": "Bojack Horseman", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5956 + }, + { + "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", + "source": "Vinland Saga", + "length": 102, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5957 + }, + { + "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", + "source": "Silent Hill 2", + "length": 1982, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5958 + }, + { + "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", + "source": "Mark Twain", + "length": 113, + "id": 6064 + }, + { + "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", + "source": "Colin Powell", + "length": 103, + "id": 6065 + }, + { + "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", + "source": "Conrad Hilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6066 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", + "source": "Zig Ziglar", + "length": 116, + "id": 6067 + }, + { + "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", + "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", + "length": 67, + "id": 6068 + }, + { + "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", + "source": "Barack Obama", + "length": 193, + "id": 6069 + }, + { + "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", + "source": "Charles Swindoll", + "length": 81, + "id": 6071 + }, + { + "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", + "source": "Oprah Winfrey", + "length": 132, + "id": 6072 + }, + { + "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", + "source": "Harriet Tubman", + "length": 165, + "id": 6073 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 86, + "id": 6074 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", + "source": "The Blair Witch Project", + "length": 649, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6075 + }, + { + "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 624, + "id": 6076 + }, + { + "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 834, + "id": 6077 + }, + { + "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 472, + "id": 6078 + }, + { + "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 308, + "id": 6079 + }, + { + "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 471, + "id": 6080 + }, + { + "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 352, + "id": 6081 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 336, + "id": 6082 + }, + { + "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 775, + "id": 6084 + }, + { + "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 610, + "id": 6085 + }, + { + "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 371, + "id": 6087 + }, + { + "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", + "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", + "length": 438, + "id": 6088 + }, + { + "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", + "source": "Atharva veda", + "length": 127, + "id": 6089 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", + "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", + "length": 681, + "id": 6090 + }, + { + "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", + "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", + "length": 192, + "id": 6091 + }, + { + "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", + "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", + "length": 69, + "id": 6092 + }, + { + "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", + "source": "Tirukkurral", + "length": 118, + "id": 6093 + }, + { + "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", + "source": "Halo 3", + "length": 337, + "id": 6095 + }, + { + "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", + "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", + "length": 219, + "id": 6096 + }, + { + "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 71, + "id": 6097 + }, + { + "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", + "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", + "length": 237, + "id": 6098 + }, + { + "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", + "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", + "length": 98, + "id": 6099 + }, + { + "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", + "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", + "length": 62, + "id": 6100 + }, + { + "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", + "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", + "length": 153, + "id": 6101 + }, + { + "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", + "source": "Remember11", + "length": 136, + "id": 6102 + }, + { + "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", + "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", + "length": 94, + "id": 6103 + }, + { + "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 59, + "id": 6104 + }, + { + "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", + "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", + "length": 157, + "id": 6106 + }, + { + "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 173, + "id": 6107 + }, + { + "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", + "length": 190, + "id": 6108 + }, + { + "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", + "length": 105, + "id": 6109 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 162, + "id": 6110 + }, + { + "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 122, + "id": 6112 + }, + { + "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 160, + "id": 6113 + }, + { + "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 239, + "id": 6114 + }, + { + "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", + "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", + "length": 92, + "id": 6115 + }, + { + "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", + "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", + "length": 131, + "id": 6116 + }, + { + "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", + "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", + "length": 157, + "id": 6117 + }, + { + "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", + "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", + "length": 121, + "id": 6118 + }, + { + "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", + "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", + "length": 256, + "id": 6119 + }, + { + "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. They think I don't understand the freedom land of the seventies.", + "source": "Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby", + "length": 126, + "id": 6120 + }, + { + "text": "John met me down on the boulevard. Cry on his shoulder 'cause life is hard, the waves came in over my head. What you been up to my baby? Haven't seen you 'round here lately. All the other guys tell me lies, but you don't. You just crack another beer and pretend that you're still here.", + "source": "Lana Del Rey - How To Disappear", + "length": 285, + "id": 6121 + }, + { + "text": "Thinking outrageously, I write in cursive. I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor. Wearing three layers of coats and leg-warmers, I see my own breath on the face of the door.", + "source": "Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!", + "length": 181, + "id": 6122 + }, + { + "text": "I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 59, + "id": 6123 + }, + { + "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", + "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", + "length": 76, + "id": 6124 + }, + { + "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 182, + "id": 6125 + }, + { + "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", + "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", + "length": 62, + "id": 6126 + }, + { + "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 71, + "id": 6127 + }, + { + "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", + "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", + "length": 162, + "id": 6128 + }, + { + "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", + "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", + "length": 164, + "id": 6129 + }, + { + "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", + "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", + "length": 160, + "id": 6130 + }, + { + "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", + "source": "Beach House - Myth", + "length": 142, + "id": 6131 + }, + { + "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", + "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", + "length": 64, + "id": 6132 + }, + { + "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", + "source": "Beach House - PPP", + "length": 110, + "id": 6133 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", + "length": 78, + "id": 6134 + }, + { + "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", + "length": 175, + "id": 6135 + }, + { + "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", + "length": 113, + "id": 6136 + }, + { + "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", + "length": 66, + "id": 6137 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", + "length": 67, + "id": 6138 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", + "length": 95, + "id": 6139 + }, + { + "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", + "length": 80, + "id": 6141 + }, + { + "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 185, + "id": 6142 + }, + { + "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", + "length": 206, + "id": 6143 + }, + { + "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", + "length": 76, + "id": 6144 + }, + { + "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", + "length": 95, + "id": 6145 + }, + { + "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 181, + "id": 6146 + }, + { + "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", + "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", + "length": 66, + "id": 6147 + }, + { + "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", + "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", + "length": 181, + "id": 6148 + }, + { + "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", + "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", + "length": 291, + "id": 6149 + }, + { + "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 297, + "id": 6150 + }, + { + "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 657, + "id": 6151 + }, + { + "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", + "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", + "length": 128, + "id": 6152 + }, + { + "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 136, + "id": 6153 + }, + { + "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 64, + "id": 6154 + }, + { + "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 178, + "id": 6155 + }, + { + "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", + "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", + "length": 224, + "id": 6157 + }, + { + "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", + "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", + "length": 207, + "id": 6158 + }, + { + "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", + "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", + "length": 220, + "id": 6159 + }, + { + "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", + "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", + "length": 274, + "id": 6160 + }, + { + "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", + "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", + "length": 112, + "id": 6161 + }, + { + "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", + "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", + "length": 272, + "id": 6162 + }, + { + "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", + "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", + "length": 136, + "id": 6163 + }, + { + "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", + "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", + "length": 454, + "id": 6164 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", + "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", + "length": 381, + "id": 6165 + }, + { + "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", + "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", + "length": 453, + "id": 6166 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 165, + "id": 6167 + }, + { + "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", + "length": 136, + "id": 6168 + }, + { + "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", + "length": 229, + "id": 6169 + }, + { + "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 170, + "id": 6170 + }, + { + "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", + "length": 191, + "id": 6171 + }, + { + "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", + "length": 284, + "id": 6172 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", + "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", + "length": 204, + "id": 6173 + }, + { + "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", + "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", + "length": 122, + "id": 6174 + }, + { + "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", + "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", + "length": 268, + "id": 6175 + }, + { + "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", + "length": 234, + "id": 6176 + }, + { + "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", + "length": 186, + "id": 6177 + }, + { + "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", + "length": 423, + "id": 6178 + }, + { + "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", + "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", + "length": 313, + "id": 6179 + }, + { + "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.", + "source": "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson", + "length": 220, + "id": 6180 + }, + { + "text": "Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?", + "source": "Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima", + "length": 169, + "id": 6181 + }, + { + "text": "But as he moves closer, I cannot help but ask: if in a different world, would our love forever last? The almighty scientist says most of the universe is empty, and gods don't exist. Well, maybe that's where our love ends up - no holy grail, just an empty cup.", + "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Good Luck Bad Luck", + "length": 259, + "id": 6182 + }, + { + "text": "They'll kiss you in the evening - devils in disguise - and love you 'til the morning, then vanish before your eyes. A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", + "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", + "length": 401, + "id": 6183 + }, + { + "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", + "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", + "length": 202, + "id": 6184 + }, + { + "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", + "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", + "length": 290, + "id": 6185 + }, + { + "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", + "length": 178, + "id": 6186 + }, + { + "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 197, + "id": 6188 + }, + { + "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 395, + "id": 6189 + }, + { + "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 372, + "id": 6190 + }, + { + "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 214, + "id": 6191 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 427, + "id": 6192 + }, + { + "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 116, + "id": 6193 + }, + { + "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 238, + "id": 6194 + }, + { + "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 256, + "id": 6195 + }, + { + "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 316, + "id": 6196 + }, + { + "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. This initially seemed baffling to monsters (especially given the amount of dusting we avoid by keeping objects outside!). Experts have recently suggested that keeping objects indoors may have been part of England's efforts to hide and store museums' collections of stolen property.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 327, + "id": 6197 + }, + { + "text": "This tree is not technically part of the museum experience, but there's a cool bird nesting in it, so you aren't allowed to cut it down. Not even a little bit. Not even with the \"undo\" or \"reset\" options. Leave the cool bird alone, alright?", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 240, + "id": 6198 + }, + { + "text": "Humans liked to put objects on boxes called plinths. At first, monster experts didn't know why, but then strangers kept thinking the plinth-less exhibits were lost property and handing them in at the help desk. It turns out plinths are very important.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 251, + "id": 6199 + }, + { + "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 229, + "id": 6200 + }, + { + "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 252, + "id": 6201 + }, + { + "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", + "length": 576, + "id": 6202 + }, + { + "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", + "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", + "length": 112, + "id": 6203 + }, + { + "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", + "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", + "length": 110, + "id": 6204 + }, + { + "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. But what you throw away you'll never get back.", + "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", + "length": 87, + "id": 6206 + }, + { + "text": "People who can't throw something important away, can never hope to change anything.", + "source": "Armin Arlert - Attack on Titan", + "length": 83, + "id": 6207 + }, + { + "text": "You will never be able to love anybody else until you love yourself.", + "source": "Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass", + "length": 68, + "id": 6208 + }, + { + "text": "People's lives don't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith.", + "source": "Uchiha Itachi - Naruto", + "length": 69, + "id": 6209 + }, + { + "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it.", + "source": "Uzumaki Naruto - Naruto", + "length": 48, + "id": 6210 + }, + { + "text": "If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.", + "source": "Nagato, Naruto", + "length": 65, + "id": 6211 + }, + { + "text": "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", + "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", + "length": 95, + "id": 6212 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", + "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", + "length": 70, + "id": 6213 + }, + { + "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", + "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", + "length": 51, + "id": 6214 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", + "source": "Clare - Claymore", + "length": 164, + "id": 6215 + }, + { + "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", + "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", + "length": 384, + "id": 6216 + }, + { + "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", + "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", + "length": 67, + "id": 6217 + }, + { + "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", + "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", + "length": 88, + "id": 6218 + }, + { + "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", + "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", + "length": 314, + "id": 6220 + }, + { + "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", + "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", + "length": 89, + "id": 6221 + }, + { + "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", + "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", + "length": 422, + "id": 6222 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", + "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", + "length": 179, + "id": 6223 + }, + { + "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", + "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", + "length": 463, + "id": 6224 + }, + { + "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", + "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 109, + "id": 6225 + }, + { + "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", + "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 61, + "id": 6226 + }, + { + "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", + "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", + "length": 93, + "id": 6227 + }, + { + "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", + "length": 177, + "id": 6228 + }, + { + "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", + "length": 215, + "id": 6229 + }, + { + "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", + "length": 167, + "id": 6230 + }, + { + "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 827, + "id": 6231 + }, + { + "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", + "length": 116, + "id": 6232 + }, + { + "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", + "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", + "length": 137, + "id": 6233 + }, + { + "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", + "length": 127, + "id": 6234 + }, + { + "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 94, + "id": 6235 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 182, + "id": 6236 + }, + { + "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 140, + "id": 6237 + }, + { + "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", + "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", + "length": 144, + "id": 6238 + }, + { + "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", + "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", + "length": 248, + "id": 6239 + }, + { + "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. 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Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. 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So, I shall live, live, live, and live some more, though there's no telling what life might have in store. And if I can see you again, I want to let you know... that the phrase \"I love you\"... I understand it a little now.", + "source": "Violet Evergarden", + "length": 637, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6283 + }, + { + "text": "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.", + "source": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", + "length": 119, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6284 + }, + { + "text": "I am the one who made it out. The one who always made the grade but maybe I should have just stayed home. When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb. I got every scholarship, saved every dollar, the first to go to college. How do I tell them why I'm coming back home, with my eyes on the horizon? 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A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 307, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6288 + }, + { + "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 745, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6292 + }, + { + "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. 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Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "length": 740, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6303 + }, + { + "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", + "length": 520, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6304 + }, + { + "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", + "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", + "length": 273, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6305 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 216, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6306 + }, + { + "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. 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From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.", + "source": "Pride and Prejudice", + "length": 241, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6720 + }, + { + "text": "Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.", + "source": "Call Me by Your Name", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6722 + }, + { + "text": "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger... and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says \"even though you're a boy\" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage...", + "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", + "length": 234, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6723 + }, + { + "text": "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us...", + "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", + "length": 239, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6724 + }, + { + "text": "Now it's time for our wrap up. Let's give it everything we've got. Ready? Begin! Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing. Analytically, I assault, animate things. Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding. Casually create catastrophes, casualties. Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing. Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough. Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low. Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic. Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette. Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics. Gift got great global goods gone glorious. Gettin' Godly in his game with the goriest. Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical. Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In an instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. Tales ten times talented, they're too tough. Take that, challengers, get a tune up. Universal, unique untouched. Unadulterated, the raw uncut. Verb vice Lord victorious valid. Violate vibes that are vain make 'em vanished. Why I'm all well, would a wise wordsmith. Just weaving up words weeded up, on my work shift. Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large. X-height letters and xylophone tones. Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws. Yesterday's lawn yards sell our yawn. Zig zag zombies, zoomin' to the zenith. Zero in zen thoughts, over zealous rhyme Zea-lots. Good, can you say it faster?", + "source": "Alphabet Aerobics", + "length": 2287, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6725 + }, + { + "text": "Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.", + "source": "Dune", + "length": 76, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6726 + }, + { + "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", + "source": "Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6727 + }, + { + "text": "And where there was that memory... others came rising like ghostly tendrils out of some part of her mind that existed beyond the purely physical, somewhere that the rejuvenations and edits of the ship's medical suite could never reach. The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.", + "source": "Light Chaser", + "length": 561, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6728 + }, + { + "text": "Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.", + "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", + "length": 360, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6729 + }, + { + "text": "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 143, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6730 + }, + { + "text": "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. ", + "source": "Lawrence of Arabia", + "length": 60, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6731 + }, + { + "text": "The violent passion that soaked his heart brought him almost to the verge of collapse. He judged that victory had yielded him nothing if it had not given him her as a prize.", + "source": "Book III of Gesta Danorum", + "length": 173, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6732 + }, + { + "text": "You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits can change your future.", + "source": "Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire", + "length": 109, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6733 + }, + { + "text": "There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 586, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6734 + }, + { + "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 1174, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6735 + }, + { + "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", + "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", + "length": 221, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6736 + }, + { + "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 184, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6737 + }, + { + "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 145, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6738 + }, + { + "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 246, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6739 + }, + { + "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 88, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6740 + }, + { + "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6741 + }, + { + "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", + "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", + "length": 272, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6742 + }, + { + "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 275, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6743 + }, + { + "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 186, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6744 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 467, + "id": 6745 + }, + { + "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 877, + "id": 6746 + }, + { + "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", + "source": "A Girl on the Shore", + "length": 572, + "id": 6747 + }, + { + "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 64, + "id": 6748 + }, + { + "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 62, + "id": 6749 + }, + { + "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 77, + "id": 6750 + }, + { + "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 166, + "id": 6751 + }, + { + "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 195, + "id": 6752 + }, + { + "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 100, + "id": 6753 + }, + { + "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 172, + "id": 6754 + }, + { + "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 118, + "id": 6755 + }, + { + "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 119, + "id": 6756 + }, + { + "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", + "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6757, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", + "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6758, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.", + "source": "Baby Driver", + "id": 6761, + "length": 232 + }, + { + "text": "Well, then, you have us all beat. Every damn song is about you. We could drive back and forth across the States forever and never run out of Baby songs.", + "source": "Baby Driver", + "id": 6762, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6764, + "length": 458 + }, + { + "text": "Well done. Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6765, + "length": 141 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6766, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", + "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", + "id": 6767, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. However, the latter is of equal importance, and can be gained with patient study.", + "source": "Conduction Heat Transfer", + "id": 6768, + "length": 250 + }, + { + "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", + "source": "Unknown", + "id": 6769, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "My wife and I had lived in our house for over a dozen years at that point. Holly's family had lived in theirs even longer. We were both active families, involved in the community, with work, and with our churches. Yet, the thick woods covering the lots we each occupied along a cul-de-sac was enough of a barrier to our getting to know each other that we didn't even realize our neighbors across the street had a little girl the same age as ours. That is, until they met at the kindergarten in the elementary school six miles away.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6770, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "The single quality that is common across every living creature on this planet, is fear. It's funny, then, that as common as fear is, we so easily underestimate its power. Fear of growing close to someone, the subsequent fear of loss, fear of failure. And as more people depend on you, those fears can take on greater power. But fear itself isn't worthy of concern, it is who we become while in its clutches. Will you be proud of that person? Will you forgive them? Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things they did? Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the start? I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6771, + "length": 703 + }, + { + "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6772, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6773, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6774, + "length": 464 + }, + { + "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6775, + "length": 259 + }, + { + "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6776, + "length": 267 + }, + { + "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6777, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6778, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6779, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6780, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6781, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6782, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6783, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6784, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6785, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", + "source": "Walt Disney", + "id": 6786, + "length": 245 + }, + { + "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "id": 6787, + "length": 79 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "id": 6788, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", + "source": "Ozark", + "id": 6789, + "length": 662 + }, + { + "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "id": 6790, + "length": 75 + }, + { + "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", + "source": "Greek Mythology", + "id": 6791, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 6792, + "length": 108 + }, + { + "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", + "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", + "length": 99, + "id": 6793 + }, + { + "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", + "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6794 + }, + { + "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 58, + "id": 6795 + }, + { + "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6796 + }, + { + "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", + "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", + "length": 102, + "id": 6797 + }, + { + "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", + "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", + "length": 91, + "id": 6798 + }, + { + "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", + "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", + "length": 70, + "id": 6799 + }, + { + "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", + "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 67, + "id": 6800 + }, + { + "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", + "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 79, + "id": 6801 + }, + { + "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6802 + }, + { + "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 82, + "id": 6803 + }, + { + "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 153, + "id": 6804 + }, + { + "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", + "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", + "length": 70, + "id": 6805 + }, + { + "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", + "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", + "length": 98, + "id": 6806 + }, + { + "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", + "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", + "length": 78, + "id": 6807 + }, + { + "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", + "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", + "length": 108, + "id": 6808 + }, + { + "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. 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It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 71, + "id": 6813 + }, + { + "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 81, + "id": 6814 + }, + { + "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.", + "source": "Fred Rogers", + "length": 213, + "id": 6815 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism.", + "source": "Wednesday", + "length": 168, + "id": 6817 + }, + { + "text": "Teach them our ways so they do not suffer the shame of being useless.", + "source": "Avatar: The Way of Water", + "length": 69, + "id": 6818 + }, + { + "text": "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.", + "source": "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", + "length": 254, + "id": 6819 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a journey, not a destination. The key to success is to enjoy every step along the way. 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It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", + "source": "Nelson Mandela", + "length": 431, + "id": 6827 + }, + { + "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 75, + "id": 6828 + }, + { + "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", + "source": "J.K. Rowling", + "length": 101, + "id": 6829 + }, + { + "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 6830 + }, + { + "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", + "source": "Edmund Burke", + "length": 79, + "id": 6831 + }, + { + "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. 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If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", + "source": "Albert Schweitzer", + "length": 392, + "id": 6841 + }, + { + "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", + "length": 41, + "id": 6842 + }, + { + "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", + "source": "Dalai Lama", + "length": 70, + "id": 6843 + }, + { + "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", + "source": "Henry Ford", + "length": 57, + "id": 6844 + }, + { + "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 248, + "id": 6845 + }, + { + "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 58, + "id": 6847 + }, + { + "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", + "source": "Jean Paul", + "length": 53, + "id": 6849 + }, + { + "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", + "source": "Oscar Wilde", + "length": 66, + "id": 6851 + }, + { + "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. 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I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", + "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", + "length": 361, + "id": 6858 + }, + { + "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. 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They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 336, + "id": 6869 + }, + { + "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 182, + "id": 6870 + }, + { + "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 529, + "id": 6871 + }, + { + "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 282, + "id": 6872 + }, + { + "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 184, + "id": 6873 + }, + { + "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 196, + "id": 6874 + }, + { + "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", + "source": "Lao Tzu", + "length": 90, + "id": 6875 + }, + { + "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. 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Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", + "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", + "id": 6895, + "length": 345 + }, + { + "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", + "source": "Edwin Hubble", + "id": 6897, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", + "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", + "id": 6898, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. 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We are in the universe and the universe is in us.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "id": 6900, + "length": 632 + }, + { + "text": "In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done before defend him.", + "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", + "id": 6901, + "length": 213 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. 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But the seeming contradiction is resolved by modifying the conception of knowing.", + "source": "Personal knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy", + "id": 6912, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.", + "source": "Dolly Parton", + "length": 74, + "id": 6913 + }, + { + "text": "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. 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Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", + "source": "Houseki No Kuni", + "length": 335, + "id": 6980 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 79, + "id": 6981 + }, + { + "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 110, + "id": 6982 + }, + { + "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", + "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", + "length": 110, + "id": 6983 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 255, + "id": 6984 + }, + { + "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 246, + "id": 6985 + }, + { + "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 278, + "id": 6986 + }, + { + "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", + "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", + "length": 297, + "id": 6987 + }, + { + "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", + "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", + "length": 411, + "id": 6988 + }, + { + "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. 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If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", + "source": "Talos Principle", + "length": 694, + "id": 7006 + }, + { + "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", + "source": "James Salter", + "length": 99, + "id": 7007 + }, + { + "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", + "source": "Vicente Huidobro", + "length": 127, + "id": 7008 + }, + { + "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", + "source": "J. R. R. 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Live the life you've imagined.", + "source": "Henry David Thoreau", + "length": 78, + "id": 7036 + }, + { + "text": "Consume enough of any type of art from a critical perspective and you begin to appreciate well-executed novelty over everything else. That's why film critics don't like blockbusters and music critics don't like radio pop. That doesn't mean they're bad just at a certain point, one man can have seen too much of the same thing.", + "source": "Chase Harley", + "length": 326, + "id": 7037 + }, + { + "text": "Start by learning the power of no! - as in \"No, thank you,\" and \"No, I'm not going to get caught up in that,\" and \"No, I just can't right now.\" It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.", + "source": "Ryan Holiday", + "length": 327, + "id": 7038 + }, + { + "text": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.", + "source": "Upton Sinclair", + "length": 108, + "id": 7039 + }, + { + "text": "You aren't a \"broken wreck\", Joshua. You're just scared, mostly because you care for people so much it breaks your heart… and you're lying to yourself about it. That's how I see it, and I know I'm right.", + "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC", + "length": 203, + "id": 7042 + }, + { + "text": "My fist is going to stop you, if you don't stop spouting nonsense and take this seriously.", + "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", + "length": 90, + "id": 7043 + }, + { + "text": "All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question: Why, given life, are they meant to suffer, to die… As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends… And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 575, + "id": 7044 + }, + { + "text": "Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Orthard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World? The sacred sites of the forgotten people of the south sea isles? What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs? …I thought not. Even of your little Eorzea, you know precious little. The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7045 + }, + { + "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7046 + }, + { + "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", + "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", + "length": 68, + "id": 7047 + }, + { + "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", + "source": "Shiori Novella", + "length": 179, + "id": 7048 + }, + { + "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7049 + }, + { + "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", + "length": 135, + "id": 7050 + }, + { + "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 232, + "id": 7051 + }, + { + "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 93, + "id": 7052 + }, + { + "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", + "source": "Edward Everett Hale", + "length": 90, + "id": 7053 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 126, + "id": 7054 + }, + { + "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 132, + "id": 7055 + }, + { + "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", + "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", + "length": 300, + "id": 7056 + }, + { + "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", + "source": "Douglas Crockford", + "length": 134, + "id": 7057 + }, + { + "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", + "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", + "length": 107, + "id": 7058 + }, + { + "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", + "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", + "length": 161, + "id": 7059 + }, + { + "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", + "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", + "length": 140, + "id": 7060 + }, + { + "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 174, + "id": 7061 + }, + { + "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 371, + "id": 7062 + }, + { + "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", + "source": "Invincible (TV series)", + "length": 309, + "id": 7603 + }, + { + "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", + "length": 130, + "id": 7604 + }, + { + "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", + "source": "The Walking Dead", + "length": 362, + "id": 7605 + }, + { + "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 568, + "id": 7606 + }, + { + "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", + "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", + "length": 782, + "id": 7607 + }, + { + "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", + "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 631, + "id": 7608 + }, + { + "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", + "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 144, + "id": 7609 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", + "source": "The Magnus Archives", + "length": 369, + "id": 7610 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", + "source": "Magnus Carlsen", + "length": 116, + "id": 7611 + }, + { + "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", + "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", + "length": 541, + "id": 7612 + }, + { + "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", + "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", + "length": 131, + "id": 7613 + }, + { + "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", + "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", + "length": 603, + "id": 7614 + }, + { + "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7615, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7616, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7617, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", + "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7618, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", + "source": "The Power Of Now", + "length": 239, + "id": 7619 + }, + { + "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts", + "length": 84, + "id": 7620 + }, + { + "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", + "length": 142, + "id": 7621 + }, + { + "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", + "length": 673, + "id": 7622 + }, + { + "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", + "length": 307, + "id": 7623 + }, + { + "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", + "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", + "length": 96, + "id": 7624 + }, + { + "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 215, + "id": 7625 + }, + { + "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 130, + "id": 7626 + }, + { + "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 158, + "id": 7627 + }, + { + "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 90, + "id": 7628 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 103, + "id": 7629 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 153, + "id": 7630 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 136, + "id": 7631 + }, + { + "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 165, + "id": 7632 + }, + { + "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", + "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", + "length": 77, + "id": 7633 }, { "text": "That's the way it must always be, as I told you. When men think they are helping the world, they actually do more harm than good. Just like you. You tried to help, but you just ended up freeing me.", From 70d3d64b1670ba463eb3dd57e03f1a351031ba6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:48:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 03/51] fix(quotes): re-added the last of the accidentally removed quotes --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index a7c1dfc074bc..b2540d8ecbac 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38577,6 +38577,48 @@ "length": 77, "id": 7633 }, + { + "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 138, + "id": 7634 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 240, + "id": 7635 + }, + { + "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 203, + "id": 7636 + }, + { + "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 423, + "id": 7637 + }, + { + "text": "You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. Of all those I've claimed over this brief thousand years, you are the only one I think just might be able to understand me.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 198, + "id": 7638 + }, + { + "text": "The only point in creating something is to inevitably watch it die.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 67, + "id": 7639 + }, + { + "text": "Those quakes are the earth's final sighs,\" Ruin said. \"Like an old man, moaning as he dies, calling for his children so that he can pass on his last bits of wisdom.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 164, + "id": 7640 + }, { "text": "That's the way it must always be, as I told you. When men think they are helping the world, they actually do more harm than good. Just like you. You tried to help, but you just ended up freeing me.", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", From 54eb25bacbb73bc4b347a6591c1b5431fe2ad041 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:26:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 04/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on some quotes and fixed formatting --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 87 +++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index b2540d8ecbac..8afc0d7818d6 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23846,7 +23846,8 @@ "source": "Star Wars", "id": 4270, "length": 143 - },{ + }, + { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", "source": "The Wizard of Oz", "id": 4271, @@ -38586,7 +38587,7 @@ { "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 240, + "length": 236, "id": 7635 }, { @@ -38658,7 +38659,7 @@ { "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 99, + "length": 102, "id": 7647 }, { @@ -38730,13 +38731,13 @@ { "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 519, "id": 7659 }, { "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 344, + "length": 346, "id": 7660 }, { @@ -38754,7 +38755,7 @@ { "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 339, + "length": 342, "id": 7663 }, { @@ -38772,19 +38773,19 @@ { "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 612, + "length": 618, "id": 7666 }, { "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 302, + "length": 308, "id": 7667 }, { "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 155, + "length": 158, "id": 7668 }, { @@ -38808,7 +38809,7 @@ { "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 118, "id": 7672 }, { @@ -38892,7 +38893,7 @@ { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 162, + "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { @@ -38970,7 +38971,7 @@ { "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 515, "id": 7699 }, { @@ -39000,19 +39001,19 @@ { "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 288, + "length": 292, "id": 7704 }, { "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 516, + "length": 517, "id": 7705 }, { "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 166, + "length": 168, "id": 7706 }, { @@ -39024,7 +39025,7 @@ { "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 77, + "length": 81, "id": 7708 }, { @@ -39090,7 +39091,7 @@ { "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 372, + "length": 371, "id": 7719 }, { @@ -39174,13 +39175,13 @@ { "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 96, + "length": 99, "id": 7733 }, { "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 277, + "length": 279, "id": 7734 }, { @@ -39228,7 +39229,7 @@ { "text": "You offer hope, Your Grace. A last, unlikely hope. Hope is part of faith -- part of the knowledge that someday, one of your followers will receive a miracle.", "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 154, + "length": 157, "id": 7742 }, { @@ -39264,7 +39265,7 @@ { "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 328, + "length": 331, "id": 7748 }, { @@ -39306,7 +39307,7 @@ { "text": "It strikes me that religion -- in its essence -- seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 296, + "length": 302, "id": 7755 }, { @@ -39462,13 +39463,13 @@ { "text": "As long as I'm working against Vey I know I am doing something good -- even if I don't pay much attention to what is actually happening", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 133, + "length": 135, "id": 7781 }, { "text": "When you steal a man's fortune, give him a title mocked and reviled by the rest of the nation -- and when you give him five years to contemplate his hatred -- make sure you never give him a chance to get revenge.", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 208, + "length": 212, "id": 7782 }, { @@ -39540,7 +39541,7 @@ { "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 177, + "length": 180, "id": 7794 }, { @@ -39630,7 +39631,7 @@ { "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 202, + "length": 205, "id": 7809 }, { @@ -39642,13 +39643,13 @@ { "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 290, + "length": 292, "id": 7811 }, { "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 614, + "length": 600, "id": 7812 }, { @@ -39660,13 +39661,13 @@ { "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 639, + "length": 645, "id": 7814 }, { "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 361, + "length": 364, "id": 7815 }, { @@ -39720,7 +39721,7 @@ { "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. Or, at least, as honorable as noblemen get -- which means that he insists on being seen as honorable.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 127, + "length": 129, "id": 7824 }, { @@ -39762,13 +39763,13 @@ { "text": "You know, you could have left a scar. I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 220, + "length": 222, "id": 7831 }, { "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 82, + "length": 83, "id": 7832 }, { @@ -39798,7 +39799,7 @@ { "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 370, + "length": 369, "id": 7837 }, { @@ -39834,7 +39835,7 @@ { "text": "Other men ... other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 261, + "length": 259, "id": 7843 }, { @@ -39882,7 +39883,7 @@ { "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 389, + "length": 393, "id": 7851 }, { @@ -40050,7 +40051,7 @@ { "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 170, + "length": 173, "id": 7879 }, { @@ -40080,13 +40081,13 @@ { "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 507, + "length": 508, "id": 7884 }, { "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 255, + "length": 253, "id": 7885 }, { @@ -40188,7 +40189,7 @@ { "text": "Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers -- the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 260, + "length": 261, "id": 7902 }, { @@ -40248,7 +40249,7 @@ { "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7912 }, { @@ -40260,7 +40261,7 @@ { "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 172, + "length": 173, "id": 7914 }, { @@ -40290,7 +40291,7 @@ { "text": "Perhaps the liar here is me -- lying to tell myself I could do this, that I could be a fraction of the man my father was.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7919 } ] From 55da6bd963796f04a959f056b04b0e4526ed0781 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:29:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 05/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on quote 7853 --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 8afc0d7818d6..7b477ce4f53a 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -39895,7 +39895,7 @@ { "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 79, + "length": 81, "id": 7853 }, { From ebe688191cf5d0b3cedf48a40537e3ee6fb5b792 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:06:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 06/51] fix(quotes): fixed spelling of source for some of the books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 7b477ce4f53a..2e40976ef2f1 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38580,7 +38580,7 @@ }, { "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 138, "id": 7634 }, @@ -38892,25 +38892,25 @@ }, { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7687 }, { "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 155, "id": 7688 }, { "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 92, "id": 7689 }, From 4fa07814cc13e444c1c7195e1304045465c68e8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:26:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 07/51] impr(quotes): add English quotes from Brandon Sanderson's Books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 1716 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 1716 insertions(+) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 286470e637fc..917fb6d8644d 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38589,6 +38589,1722 @@ "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", "length": 199, "id": 7635 + }, + { + "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 203, + "id": 7636 + }, + { + "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 423, + "id": 7637 + }, + { + "text": "You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. Of all those I've claimed over this brief thousand years, you are the only one I think just might be able to understand me.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 198, + "id": 7638 + }, + { + "text": "The only point in creating something is to inevitably watch it die.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 67, + "id": 7639 + }, + { + "text": "Those quakes are the earth's final sighs,\" Ruin said. \"Like an old man, moaning as he dies, calling for his children so that he can pass on his last bits of wisdom.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 164, + "id": 7640 + }, + { + "text": "That's the way it must always be, as I told you. When men think they are helping the world, they actually do more harm than good. Just like you. You tried to help, but you just ended up freeing me.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7641 + }, + { + "text": "For Ruin, there is Preservation. Time immemorial! Eternity! And each time I push, YOU push back. Even when dead, you stopped me, for we are forces. I can do nothing! And you can do nothing! Balance! The curse of our existence.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 226, + "id": 7642 + }, + { + "text": "I can't decide if you're a fool, or if you simply exist in a way that makes you incapable of considering some things.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 117, + "id": 7643 + }, + { + "text": "The only reason to be subservient to those with power is so that you can learn to someday take what they have.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 110, + "id": 7644 + }, + { + "text": "Never let your life depend on the competence of someone else whose life isn't also on the line.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7645 + }, + { + "text": "What we do, it is not outside the law. Not the true law. Oh, the rich will make their own codes, will force us to live by them. But our law is the law of humanity itself. Men who work for me, they are given the dispensation of reform. Their work here washes away their previous ... infractions. Tell them I am proud of them, Clamps. I realize we've been through something traumatic, but we did survive. We will face tomorrow with greater strength.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 447, + "id": 7646 + }, + { + "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 99, + "id": 7647 + }, + { + "text": "I am tired of doing what the city tells me. I should be helping people, not fighting meaningless fights as prescribed by the corrupt and the uncaring.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7648 + }, + { + "text": "I decided that I'd see her dream fulfilled. I'd make a world where flowers returned, a world with green plants, a world where no soot fell from the sky....\" He trailed off, then sighed. \"I know. I'm insane.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 205, + "id": 7649 + }, + { + "text": "If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7650 + }, + { + "text": "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 133, + "id": 7651 + }, + { + "text": "Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a mild annoyance. People tell me I can be downright frustrating! Might as well use that talent for the cause of good eh?", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 216, + "id": 7652 + }, + { + "text": "From the Well of Ascension, of course. It's the same power, after all. Solid in the metal you fed to Elend. The liquid in the pool you burned. And vapor in the air, confined to night. Hiding you. Protecting you.\nGiving you power!", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 229, + "id": 7653 + }, + { + "text": "So, there I was, tied to an altar made from out-dated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil librarians.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 141, + "id": 7654 + }, + { + "text": "Now, there are several things you should consider doing if you were plummeting to your death atop a glass dragon in the middle of the ocean. Those things do not, mind you, include getting into an extended discussion of classical philosophy. Leave that to professionals like me.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 277, + "id": 7655 + }, + { + "text": "When you're about to launch yourself into the air strapped to the back of a rocket-propelled penguin, it's that blasted responsibility that warns you that the flight might not be good for your insurance premiums.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 212, + "id": 7656 + }, + { + "text": "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7657 + }, + { + "text": "It felt right. Serene. That, of course, meant it was time for something to explode.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 83, + "id": 7658 + }, + { + "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 520, + "id": 7659 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 344, + "id": 7660 + }, + { + "text": "Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 244, + "id": 7661 + }, + { + "text": "Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change... To be young is about action. To be a scholar is about informed action.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7662 + }, + { + "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 339, + "id": 7663 + }, + { + "text": "I always forgive curiosity, Your Majesty. It strikes me as one of the most genuine of emotions.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7664 + }, + { + "text": "A true scholar must not close her mind on any topic, no matter how certain she may feel. Just because I have not yet found a convincing reason to join one of the devotaries does not mean I never will. Though each time I have a discussion like the one today, my convictions grow firmer.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 285, + "id": 7665 + }, + { + "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 612, + "id": 7666 + }, + { + "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 302, + "id": 7667 + }, + { + "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7668 + }, + { + "text": "Power is an illusion of perception...Some kinds of power are real -- power to command armies, power to soulcast. These come into play far less often than you would think.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7669 + }, + { + "text": "You are not as good with patterns... You are abstract. You think in lies and tell them to yourselves. That is fascinating, but it is not good for patterns.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7670 + }, + { + "text": "Truth is individual. Your truth is what you see. What else could it be? That is the truth that you spoke to me, the truth that brings power.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 140, + "id": 7671 + }, + { + "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7672 + }, + { + "text": "Humans can see the world as it is not. It is why your lies can be so strong. You are able to not admit that they are lies.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 122, + "id": 7673 + }, + { + "text": "I know that you have forgotten much of what once was. Those lies attracted me. But you cannot continue like this; you must admit the truth about me. About what I can do, and what we have done. Mmm... More, you must know yourself. And remember. You wish to help. You wish to prepare for the Everstorm, the spren of the unnatural one. You must become something. I did not come to you merely to teach you tricks of light.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 418, + "id": 7674 + }, + { + "text": "I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7675 + }, + { + "text": "You were talking about mating! I'm to make sure you don't accidentally mate, as mating is forbidden by human society until you have first performed appropriate rituals! Yes, yes. Mmmm. Dictates of custom require following certain patterns before you copulate. I've been studying this!", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 284, + "id": 7676 + }, + { + "text": "You're right nice, but you ain't got enough punch for me. I like women what could take my face clean off with a roundhouse.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7677 + }, + { + "text": "I ain't drunk. I'm investigatin' alternative states of sobriety.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 64, + "id": 7678 + }, + { + "text": "You didn't promise to kill me. You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7679 + }, + { + "text": "Ain't no fellow who regretted giving it one extra shake, but you can bet every guy has regretted giving one too few.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 116, + "id": 7680 + }, + { + "text": "Perhaps you should pray to the Almighty for guidance. I hear he has a fondness for slavers. Keeps a special room in Damnation just for you.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 139, + "id": 7681 + }, + { + "text": "Men are unreliable in many things. But if there's one thing you can count on, it's their greed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7682 + }, + { + "text": "Death isn't better. Oh, it's easy to say that now. But when you stand on the ledge and look down into that dark, endless pit, you change your mind. Just like Hobber did. Just like I've done. I think you've seen it too.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 218, + "id": 7683 + }, + { + "text": "Tradition is the blind witness they use to condemn us, Teft. It's the pretty box they use to wrap up their lies. It makes us serve them.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7684 + }, + { + "text": "Pity. 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I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7688 + }, + { + "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 92, + "id": 7689 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin, and a cat. Plus, you've managed -- in our short three years together -- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiancée. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 370, + "id": 7690 + }, + { + "text": "You said that the only reason to create something is to destroy it. We create things to watch them grow, Ruin. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 188, + "id": 7691 + }, + { + "text": "I am the Lopen, which means I am ready for anything at any time. You should know this by now.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7692 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, gancho! Hey! You want me, I think. You can use me. We Herdazians are great fighters, gon. You see, this one time, I was with, sure, three men and they were drunk and all but I still beat them.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7693 + }, + { + "text": "I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen,' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.' 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The Herdazian was 'armless.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7697 + }, + { + "text": "Ain't nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho. Some of my relatives are women.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 79, + "id": 7698 + }, + { + "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 520, + "id": 7699 + }, + { + "text": "I'll do it, then. I've got to protect people, you know? Even from myself. Gotta rededicate to being the best Lopen possible. A better, improved, extra-incredible Lopen.", + "source": "Dawnshard, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7700 + }, + { + "text": "NOW? I was saving that for a dramatic moment, you penhito! Why didn't you listen earlier? We were, sure, all about to die and things!", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 133, + "id": 7701 + }, + { + "text": "I only tell stories, Your Grace. They may be truths, they may be fictions. All I know is that the stories themselves exist and that I must tell them.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 149, + "id": 7702 + }, + { + "text": "I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7703 + }, + { + "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 288, + "id": 7704 + }, + { + "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 516, + "id": 7705 + }, + { + "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 166, + "id": 7706 + }, + { + "text": "\"I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself. Another time, I was named for a rock.\"\n\"A pretty one, I hope.\"\n\"A beautiful one. 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Don't make me come over there and slap you around again.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 101, + "id": 7718 + }, + { + "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", + "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 372, + "id": 7719 + }, + { + "text": "I can remember…sitting on a rooftop. Looking up and wondering what the stars were.I assumed I'd never know. The town philosophers had talked themselves hoarse arguing the matter, as was often their way. Talk until you can't talk anymore, and then hope someone will buy you a drink to keep the words flowing.\nYet here I am. Millennia later. 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Something will happen at our wedding. A villain will burst in, guns firing. Or we'll discover explosives in the altar. Or Father Bin will inexplicably turn out to be an old enemy and attempt to murder you instead of performing the ceremony. It will happen.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 376, + "id": 7724 + }, + { + "text": "I think we're all like that. Shuffled from place to place by duty, or society, or God Himself. It seems like we're just along for the ride, even in our own lives. But once in a while, we do face a choice. A real one. 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He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. 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Anyone who saw the light in her eyes as she took out another sheet and sketched her idea further knew she was being too modest.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 199, + "id": 7767 + }, + { + "text": "As always, questions teased her. Questions were disorder awaiting organization. The more you understood, the more the world aligned. The more the chaos made sense, as all things should.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 185, + "id": 7768 + }, + { + "text": "You like to use that excuse, Master Leeds. One wonders if moments like this are a matter of laziness more than control.", + "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 119, + "id": 7769 + }, + { + "text": "Wax was a right good fellow, but there were a lot of things he didn't understand. Women for one. Hats for another.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 114, + "id": 7770 + }, + { + "text": "Not that the pain went completely away, mind you. 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Can't fix them no matter what you do.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 89, + "id": 7774 + }, + { + "text": "You ever notice how often he gets to be the one who rides in comfort, while I have to do things like gallop or walk all the time? Not very fair.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7775 + }, + { + "text": "I killed your daddy. I mugged him in an alley for his pocketbook. I shot a better man than me, and because of that, I don't deserve to be alive.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7776 + }, + { + "text": "Our accents are clothing for our thoughts, my dear. Without them, everything we say would be stripped bare, and we might as well be screaming at one another. Oh look. The dessert lady has chocolate pastries again!", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 213, + "id": 7777 + }, + { + "text": "So I guess I'm beginnin' to wonder: Maybe I can't ever do enough good to balance the bad I done. Maybe I'll always be worthless.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 128, + "id": 7778 + }, + { + "text": "What good is being imaginary if you can't ignore the weather?", + "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 61, + "id": 7779 + }, + { + "text": "I could use a new dog. I'll feed it fake food and give it fake water and take it on fake walks. 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This here, this is payback.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7789 + }, + { + "text": "I will clean this city up, Suit. Even if I have to rip out its blackened heart with my fingernails, I'll do it.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 111, + "id": 7790 + }, + { + "text": "Is there any doubt that I have been chosen for something great? Why else would I have this power, Waxillium? Why else would we be what we are? And yet, we let others rule. Let them make a mess of our world while we do nothing but chase petty criminals.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 252, + "id": 7791 + }, + { + "text": "I served the law too. But now I serve something better. The essence of the law, but mixed with real justice. An alloy, Wax. The best parts of both made into one. I do something better than chase the filth sent to me from the city.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 230, + "id": 7792 + }, + { + "text": "Don't tell me you never felt it. You worked every day to fix the world, Wax. You tried to end the pain, the violence, the robberies. It never worked. The more men you put down, the more troubles arose.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 201, + "id": 7793 + }, + { + "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 177, + "id": 7794 + }, + { + "text": "Can't you see? Can't you see what important work we could be doing? Can't you see that we're meant to be doing it, perhaps even ruling. 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That would have to be enough.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 152, + "id": 7803 + }, + { + "text": "Let it be said that after all else, Hrathen, gyorn of Shu-Dereth, was not our enemy. He was our savior.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7804 + }, + { + "text": "I thought, maybe even if I die it will be the step other spren need. You cannot reach the end of a proof without many steps in the middle, Shallan. I was to be the middle step.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 176, + "id": 7805 + }, + { + "text": "\"Here,\" she said. \"In the corner. I think this is right.\" \"Mmm...\" he said. \"A few degrees off, so technically acute.\"", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 118, + "id": 7806 + }, + { + "text": "Unite them. The sun approaches the horizon. The Everstorm comes. The True Desolation. The Night of Sorrows. You must prepare.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 125, + "id": 7807 + }, + { + "text": "It comes! The Night of Sorrows! I stand on the precipice of dawn and watch it advance, consuming all light, all life, all hope! IT COMES!", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 137, + "id": 7808 + }, + { + "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 202, + "id": 7809 + }, + { + "text": "Someone must bear the responsibility, someone must be dragged down by it, ruined by it. Someone must stain their souls so others may live... The burden for the blood of those wronged must rest somewhere. I am the sacrifice. We, Dalinar Kholin, are the sacrifices. Society offers us up to trudge through dirty water so others may be clean. Someone has to fall, that others may stand.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 382, + "id": 7810 + }, + { + "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 290, + "id": 7811 + }, + { + "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 614, + "id": 7812 + }, + { + "text": "Retribution would keep his promises. Oaths were important. And Retribution would destroy anyone who believed differently.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 121, + "id": 7813 + }, + { + "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 639, + "id": 7814 + }, + { + "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 361, + "id": 7815 + }, + { + "text": "I hate the other highprinces. But I try to hate everyone. 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Perhaps that of every man.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 126, + "id": 7820 + }, + { + "text": "But take care; Ishar's skill as a duelist is a lesser danger. He has recovered his Honorblade. He is a Bondsmith unchained.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7821 + }, + { + "text": "I don't matter. Sure, Azir does. But I'm only a kid they put on the throne because they were afraid that assassin would come back.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 130, + "id": 7822 + }, + { + "text": "My, my, lad. That was something incredible you did! I'm… not even sure what it was, but it was something incredible indeed!", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians: The Shattered Lens, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7823 + }, + { + "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. 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I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 220, + "id": 7831 + }, + { + "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 82, + "id": 7832 + }, + { + "text": "A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7833 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7834 + }, + { + "text": "I only ever saw one man pushing the Synod toward active measures. 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Animals make sense.\"", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 94, + "id": 7850 + }, + { + "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 389, + "id": 7851 + }, + { + "text": "I will be human, We will kill you. Take your cities. Then we will be human.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 75, + "id": 7852 + }, + { + "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 79, + "id": 7853 + }, + { + "text": "Care. 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I will bring him back.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 132, + "id": 7861 + }, + { + "text": "I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know that I survived.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 207, + "id": 7862 + }, + { + "text": "The scars haven't finished with me yet, it appears. I'll try again another time.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7863 + }, + { + "text": "Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do. If this goes poorly, take care of my men.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 84, + "id": 7864 + }, + { + "text": "The sky and the winds are mine, I claim them. 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We wouldn't want to let something as simple as the pains of our people to interfere with our leisure time. Why am I even talking to you?", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7869 + }, + { + "text": "Once, the Returned didn't just listen to petitions and say yes or no. They would take the time to hear each person who came to them, then seek to help them as best they could", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 174, + "id": 7870 + }, + { + "text": "Orphans make such heart-wrenching victims, so innocent yet no one to mourn them. Or would you prioritize saving someone with a more personal connection?", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 152, + "id": 7871 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a man of extremes, Navani. I discovered that when I was a youth. 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I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4304, + "length": 576 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", + "source": "The Bug", + "id": 4305, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4306, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", + "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", + "id": 4307, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", + "source": "Lateralus", + "id": 4308, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", + "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", + "id": 4309, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4310, + "length": 327 + }, + { + "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4311, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4312, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", + "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", + "id": 4313, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", + "source": "Your Deep Rest", + "id": 4314, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", + "source": "The Lord of The Rings", + "id": 4315, + "length": 128 + }, + { + "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", + "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", + "id": 4316, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4317, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", + "source": "Leaves of Grass", + "id": 4318, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4319, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4320, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4321, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", + "source": "Before I Forget", + "id": 4322, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", + "source": "Playing For Keeps", + "id": 4323, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", + "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", + "id": 4324, + "length": 411 + }, + { + "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", + "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", + "id": 4325, + "length": 426 + }, + { + "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4326, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4327, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", + "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", + "id": 4328, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", + "source": "Motion Sickness", + "id": 4329, + "length": 199 + }, + { + "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", + "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", + "id": 4330, + "length": 500 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", + "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", + "id": 4332, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4333, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4334, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", + "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", + "id": 4335, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", + "source": "Juno", + "id": 4336, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4338, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4339, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", + "source": "Homestuck", + "id": 4340, + "length": 255 + }, + { + "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", + "source": "The Book of Illusions", + "id": 4341, + "length": 705 + }, + { + "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", + "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", + "id": 4342, + "length": 614 + }, + { + "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", + "source": "The Mist", + "id": 4343, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", + "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", + "id": 4344, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4345, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", + "source": "The Flash", + "id": 4346, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", + "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", + "id": 4347, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", + "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", + "id": 4348, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4349, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4350, + "length": 471 + }, + { + "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", + "source": "Mona Lisa", + "id": 4352, + "length": 447 + }, + { + "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", + "source": "Clerks", + "id": 4353, + "length": 261 + }, + { + "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4355, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", + "source": "A Separate Peace", + "id": 4356, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", + "source": "The Sopranos", + "id": 4357, + "length": 415 + }, + { + "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4359, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4360, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", + "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", + "id": 4361, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", + "source": "Kung Fu Panda", + "id": 4364, + "length": 219 + }, + { + "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4365, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", + "source": "The Notebook", + "id": 4366, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", + "source": "Middlemarch", + "id": 4367, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4368, + "length": 250 + }, + { + "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4369, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", + "source": "A Game of Thrones", + "id": 4370, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", + "source": "King for a Day", + "id": 4371, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", + "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", + "id": 4372, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", + "source": "Say Anything", + "id": 4373, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", + "source": "The Wall", + "id": 4374, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", + "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", + "id": 4375, + "length": 450 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4376, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4377, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4379, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", + "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", + "id": 4380, + "length": 85 + }, + { + "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", + "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", + "id": 4381, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", + "source": "Beautiful Day", + "id": 4383, + "length": 114 + }, + { + "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", + "source": "Sonic Adventure", + "id": 4385, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", + "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", + "id": 4386, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", + "source": "Blackwater", + "id": 4387, + "length": 609 + }, + { + "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4388, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4389, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4390, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4391, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", + "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", + "id": 4392, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", + "source": "Warrior", + "id": 4393, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4394, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4395, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", + "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", + "id": 4396, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4397, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4398, + "length": 374 + }, + { + "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", + "source": "Boy Meets World", + "id": 4399, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4400, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", + "source": "The Last Lecture", + "id": 4401, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", + "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", + "id": 4402, + "length": 388 + }, + { + "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "id": 4403, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", + "source": "Aeneid", + "id": 4404, + "length": 432 + }, + { + "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4406, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", + "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", + "id": 4407, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4408, + "length": 564 + }, + { + "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4409, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", + "source": "Ninja Mind Control", + "id": 4411, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", + "source": "The Canterbury Tales", + "id": 4412, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", + "source": "Firestorm", + "id": 4413, + "length": 291 + }, + { + "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4414, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4415, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", + "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", + "id": 4417, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", + "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", + "id": 4418, + "length": 642 + }, + { + "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", + "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", + "id": 4419, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", + "source": "Amadeus", + "id": 4420, + "length": 214 + }, + { + "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", + "source": "The Alchemist", + "id": 4421, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", + "source": "Hey Jude", + "id": 4422, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4423, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", + "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", + "id": 4425, + "length": 253 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", + "source": "InuYasha", + "id": 4426, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4427, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4428, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", + "source": "Beauty and the Beast", + "id": 4429, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", + "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", + "id": 4430, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", + "source": "Pickman's Model", + "id": 4431, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", + "source": "American Pie", + "id": 4432, + "length": 639 + }, + { + "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4433, + "length": 368 + }, + { + "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", + "source": "Corner Gas", + "id": 4435, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", + "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", + "id": 4436, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4437, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", + "source": "All Night", + "id": 4438, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid", + "id": 4439, + "length": 257 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", + "source": "Airplane!", + "id": 4440, + "length": 330 + }, + { + "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4441, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", + "source": "The Gambler", + "id": 4442, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", + "source": "I, Mammal", + "id": 4443, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4444, + "length": 527 + }, + { + "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4445, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", + "source": "The First Elegy", + "id": 4446, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4447, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", + "source": "Never Ever", + "id": 4448, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4449, + "length": 410 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", + "source": "Head Over Feet", + "id": 4450, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "id": 4451, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4452, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", + "source": "Quiz Show", + "id": 4453, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4454, + "length": 154 + }, + { + "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", + "source": "Areopagitica", + "id": 4456, + "length": 822 + }, + { + "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4457, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", + "source": "Adventure Time", + "id": 4458, + "length": 217 + }, + { + "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "id": 4459, + "length": 482 + }, + { + "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "id": 4460, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", + "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", + "id": 4461, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4462, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4463, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4464, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4466, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", + "source": "World Enough and Time", + "id": 4467, + "length": 548 + }, + { + "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", + "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", + "id": 4468, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4469, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", + "source": "That's What Friends Are For", + "id": 4470, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4471, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", + "source": "King Park", + "id": 4472, + "length": 115 + }, + { + "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", + "source": "The Iliad", + "id": 4473, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", + "source": "Beautiful", + "id": 4474, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", + "source": "Subdivisions", + "id": 4475, + "length": 292 + }, + { + "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", + "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", + "id": 4477, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4478, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", + "source": "Cages", + "id": 4479, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4480, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", + "source": "Apocalypse Now", + "id": 4481, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4483, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4484, + "length": 503 + }, + { + "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4485, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4486, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4487, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4488, + "length": 512 + }, + { + "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", + "source": "Total Annihilation", + "id": 4489, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", + "source": "Small Gods", + "id": 4490, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4491, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4492, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", + "source": "The Analects", + "id": 4493, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "id": 4494, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", + "source": "White Collar", + "id": 4496, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", + "source": "12 Angry Men", + "id": 4497, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", + "source": "The Wire", + "id": 4498, + "length": 608 + }, + { + "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", + "source": "Cars", + "id": 4499, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", + "source": "The Two Towers", + "id": 4500, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4501, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4502, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4504, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", + "source": "Hotel California", + "id": 4505, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4506, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4507, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4508, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4509, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", + "source": "Sacrifice", + "id": 4510, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4511, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", + "source": "The Princess Bride", + "id": 4512, + "length": 301 + }, + { + "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "id": 4513, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", + "source": "Fox in Socks", + "id": 4514, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", + "id": 4515, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", + "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", + "id": 4516, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", + "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", + "id": 4518, + "length": 831 + }, + { + "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", + "source": "Private Idaho", + "id": 4519, + "length": 221 + }, + { + "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", + "source": "Paprika", + "id": 4520, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4521, + "length": 351 + }, + { + "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", + "source": "The Blues Brothers", + "id": 4522, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", + "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", + "id": 4523, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", + "source": "Into Thin Air", + "id": 4524, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", + "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", + "id": 4527, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4528, + "length": 80 + }, + { + "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4529, + "length": 539 + }, + { + "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", + "source": "Eclipse", + "id": 4530, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4532, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4534, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "id": 4535, + "length": 331 + }, + { + "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4536, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", + "source": "Harold and Maude", + "id": 4537, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "id": 4538, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", + "source": "The Court Jester", + "id": 4539, + "length": 343 + }, + { + "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", + "source": "Lessons in Tanya", + "id": 4540, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", + "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", + "id": 4541, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", + "source": "I Have A Dream", + "id": 4543, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", + "source": "True Detective", + "id": 4544, + "length": 385 + }, + { + "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4545, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4546, + "length": 563 + }, + { + "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", + "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", + "id": 4547, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", + "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", + "id": 4548, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4549, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", + "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", + "id": 4550, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4551, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", + "source": "The Giver", + "id": 4552, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", + "source": "The River", + "id": 4553, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4554, + "length": 260 + }, + { + "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4555, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4556, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", + "source": "The Lion in Winter", + "id": 4557, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", + "source": "Eight of Nine", + "id": 4558, + "length": 70 + }, + { + "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", + "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", + "id": 4559, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4560, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", + "source": "Galaxy Song", + "id": 4561, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4562, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", + "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", + "id": 4563, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", + "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", + "id": 4564, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", + "source": "The End of the Innocence", + "id": 4565, + "length": 284 + }, + { + "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4566, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4567, + "length": 59 + }, + { + "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", + "source": "My Inventions", + "id": 4569, + "length": 656 + }, + { + "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", + "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", + "id": 4571, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", + "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", + "id": 4572, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", + "source": "Monster Mash", + "id": 4573, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", + "source": "My Favorite Things", + "id": 4575, + "length": 363 + }, + { + "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", + "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", + "id": 4576, + "length": 356 + }, + { + "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4577, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", + "source": "Right Here Waiting", + "id": 4578, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", + "source": "Looking Backward", + "id": 4580, + "length": 479 + }, + { + "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", + "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", + "id": 4581, + "length": 574 + }, + { + "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", + "source": "Carmilla", + "id": 4582, + "length": 818 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", + "source": "The Snowman", + "id": 4583, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4585, + "length": 434 + }, + { + "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", + "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", + "id": 4586, + "length": 666 + }, + { + "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4587, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", + "source": "I, Robot", + "id": 4588, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", + "source": "Naruto", + "id": 4589, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", + "source": "All About Eve", + "id": 4590, + "length": 323 + }, + { + "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", + "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", + "id": 4591, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", + "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", + "id": 4592, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", + "source": "The Complete Far Side", + "id": 4593, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4594, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", + "source": "Hollow Knight", + "id": 4595, + "length": 569 + }, + { + "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", + "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", + "id": 4596, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", + "source": "Flatland", + "id": 4597, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", + "source": "Radioactive", + "id": 4598, + "length": 192 + }, + { + "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", + "source": "Metro 2033", + "id": 4599, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4600, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4601, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", + "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", + "id": 4603, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", + "source": "American Splendor", + "id": 4604, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", + "source": "Groundhog Day", + "id": 4605, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", + "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", + "id": 4606, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", + "source": "Lucy", + "id": 4607, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", + "source": "Inception", + "id": 4608, + "length": 226 + }, + { + "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", + "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", + "id": 4609, + "length": 433 + }, + { + "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4610, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", + "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", + "id": 4611, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4612, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", + "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", + "id": 4613, + "length": 444 + }, + { + "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4614, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", + "id": 4615, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", + "source": "Heroes", + "id": 4616, + "length": 437 + }, + { + "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XII", + "id": 4618, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4619, + "length": 404 + }, + { + "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4620, + "length": 597 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", + "source": "North by Northwest", + "id": 4621, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4622, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", + "source": "Being There", + "id": 4623, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4624, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", + "source": "Trading Places", + "id": 4625, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4626, + "length": 200 + }, + { + "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", + "source": "Blue's Clues", + "id": 4627, + "length": 123 + }, + { + "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", + "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", + "id": 4628, + "length": 570 + }, + { + "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", + "source": "Pushing Daisies", + "id": 4629, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", + "source": "Sexy Beast", + "id": 4630, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", + "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", + "id": 4631, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4632, + "length": 604 + }, + { + "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4633, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4634, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", + "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", + "id": 4635, + "length": 334 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", + "source": "The Night Diary", + "id": 4636, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4637, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", + "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", + "id": 4638, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", + "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", + "id": 4639, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", + "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", + "id": 4641, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4642, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", + "source": "Poison", + "id": 4643, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4644, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", + "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", + "id": 4645, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4647, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", + "source": "What Dreams May Come", + "id": 4648, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", + "source": "Parasite", + "id": 4649, + "length": 477 + }, + { + "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4651, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", + "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", + "id": 4652, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4654, + "length": 185 + }, + { + "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", + "source": "The Imitation Game", + "id": 4655, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4656, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", + "source": "True Romance", + "id": 4657, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", + "source": "Heavy Metal", + "id": 4658, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4659, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4660, + "length": 294 + }, + { + "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", + "source": "Paul Clifford", + "id": 4661, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4662, + "length": 277 + }, + { + "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", + "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", + "id": 4663, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "id": 4664, + "length": 442 + }, + { + "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4665, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", + "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", + "id": 4666, + "length": 515 + }, + { + "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", + "source": "The Hunger Games", + "id": 4667, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", + "source": "The Odyssey", + "id": 4668, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 4669, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", + "source": "Lazarus", + "id": 4670, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", + "source": "Understanding Media", + "id": 4671, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", + "source": "Deadwood", + "id": 4672, + "length": 498 + }, + { + "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", + "source": "Madagascar", + "id": 4673, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", + "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", + "id": 4674, + "length": 333 + }, + { + "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", + "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", + "id": 4675, + "length": 198 + }, + { + "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", + "source": "All I Want", + "id": 4676, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", + "id": 4677, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", + "source": "Lithium", + "id": 4678, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", + "source": "Gone Girl", + "id": 4679, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", + "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", + "id": 4680, + "length": 402 + }, + { + "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", + "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", + "id": 4681, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", + "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", + "id": 4682, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", + "source": "Human Nature", + "id": 4683, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", + "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", + "id": 4685, + "length": 485 + }, + { + "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", + "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", + "id": 4686, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4687, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", + "source": "No Logo", + "id": 4688, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", + "source": "Forrest Gump", + "id": 4689, + "length": 186 + }, + { + "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4690, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4691, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", + "id": 4692, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4693, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", + "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", + "id": 4695, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4696, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4697, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4698, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", + "source": "On the Social Contract", + "id": 4699, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", + "source": "The Lorax", + "id": 4701, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", + "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", + "id": 4702, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", + "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", + "id": 4703, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", + "source": "Essentials of Economics", + "id": 4704, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", + "source": "BioShock Infinite", + "id": 4705, + "length": 427 + }, + { + "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", + "source": "The Time Machine", + "id": 4706, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", + "source": "The Historian", + "id": 4707, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", + "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", + "id": 4708, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4710, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4711, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", + "source": "Thinking Bout You", + "id": 4714, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", + "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", + "id": 4715, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4716, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", + "source": "Sunset Boulevard", + "id": 4717, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", + "source": "Allentown", + "id": 4719, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4720, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4721, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4722, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", + "source": "Gandhi", + "id": 4723, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", + "source": "Hands Down", + "id": 4724, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", + "source": "Made in Abyss", + "id": 4725, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", + "source": "Halloween", + "id": 4726, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", + "source": "Breaking Away", + "id": 4728, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", + "source": "King's Quest I", + "id": 4730, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4731, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", + "source": "Roseanne", + "id": 4732, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4733, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", + "source": "Holidays on Ice", + "id": 4734, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", + "source": "I Am A Rock", + "id": 4735, + "length": 231 + }, + { + "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", + "source": "Don Quixote", + "id": 4736, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4737, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", + "source": "Les Misérables", + "id": 4738, + "length": 220 + }, + { + "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", + "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", + "id": 4739, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4740, + "length": 263 + }, + { + "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", + "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", + "id": 4741, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4742, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", + "source": "Holiday", + "id": 4743, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4744, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4745, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", + "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", + "id": 4746, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", + "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", + "id": 4747, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", + "source": "The Lost Weekend", + "id": 4749, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", + "source": "The Sound of Music", + "id": 4750, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4751, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4752, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", + "source": "Naked Lunch", + "id": 4753, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4754, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", + "source": "Overestimation", + "id": 4755, + "length": 344 + }, + { + "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", + "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", + "id": 4756, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", + "source": "Shaun of the Dead", + "id": 4757, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", + "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", + "id": 4758, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4759, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4760, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4761, + "length": 487 + }, + { + "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", + "source": "Confessions", + "id": 4762, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4763, + "length": 397 + }, + { + "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4764, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4767, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4768, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4769, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4770, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", + "source": "Name", + "id": 4771, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", + "source": "Brave New World", + "id": 4772, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", + "source": "Shiny Happy People", + "id": 4773, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", + "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", + "id": 4774, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", + "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", + "id": 4775, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", + "source": "Wine for Dummies", + "id": 4776, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", + "source": "Nightmare", + "id": 4777, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4778, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4779, + "length": 205 + }, + { + "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", + "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", + "id": 4780, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4781, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4782, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4783, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", + "source": "Beetlejuice", + "id": 4784, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4786, + "length": 148 + }, + { + "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", + "source": "Novum Organum", + "id": 4787, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4788, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", + "source": "It's My Life", + "id": 4789, + "length": 106 + }, + { + "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", + "source": "Falling", + "id": 4790, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4791, + "length": 567 + }, + { + "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", + "source": "Chateau Cascade", + "id": 4792, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", + "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", + "id": 4793, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4794, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4795, + "length": 510 + }, + { + "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4796, + "length": 151 + }, + { + "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", + "source": "UnTechnical Writing", + "id": 4797, + "length": 287 + }, + { + "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", + "source": "Physics for Game Developers", + "id": 4798, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4799, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", + "source": "What If?", + "id": 4800, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", + "source": "A Study in Scarlet", + "id": 4801, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", + "source": "Porgy and Bess", + "id": 4802, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", + "source": "Cool As Ice", + "id": 4803, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4805, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", + "source": "All in the Family", + "id": 4806, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4807, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", + "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", + "id": 4808, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", + "source": "Shoe Dog", + "id": 4809, + "length": 579 + }, + { + "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4810, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4812, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", + "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", + "id": 4813, + "length": 375 + }, + { + "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4814, + "length": 232 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4815, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4816, + "length": 382 + }, + { + "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", + "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", + "id": 4818, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", + "source": "Dubliners", + "id": 4819, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", + "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", + "id": 4820, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4821, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4822, + "length": 540 + }, + { + "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4823, + "length": 65 + }, + { + "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", + "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", + "id": 4824, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4825, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4826, + "length": 295 + }, + { + "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", + "source": "Battlesong", + "id": 4827, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", + "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", + "id": 4828, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", + "source": "The Complete Project Manager", + "id": 4829, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", + "source": "Savoy Truffle", + "id": 4830, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", + "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", + "id": 4831, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", + "source": "Back to the Future", + "id": 4832, + "length": 276 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4833, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", + "source": "Restraint", + "id": 4834, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4835, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", + "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", + "id": 4836, + "length": 184 + }, + { + "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", + "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", + "id": 4837, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", + "source": "Underground", + "id": 4838, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4839, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4840, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", + "source": "Suits", + "id": 4841, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4842, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4843, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", + "source": "Saving Us a Riot", + "id": 4844, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", + "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", + "id": 4846, + "length": 155 + }, + { + "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4847, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4848, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", + "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "id": 4849, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", + "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", + "id": 4851, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", + "source": "Collide", + "id": 4852, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", + "source": "Hannah Hunt", + "id": 4853, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", + "source": "Limitless", + "id": 4854, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", + "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", + "id": 4855, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "id": 4856, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4857, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", + "source": "Wag the Dog", + "id": 4858, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4859, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", + "source": "Civil Disobedience", + "id": 4860, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4861, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", + "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", + "id": 4863, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", + "source": "The Elements of Style", + "id": 4864, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", + "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", + "id": 4865, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", + "source": "Pale Blue Dot", + "id": 4866, + "length": 820 + }, + { + "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", + "source": "DOOM 4", + "id": 4867, + "length": 502 + }, + { + "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", + "source": "The Recruit", + "id": 4868, + "length": 386 + }, + { + "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", + "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", + "id": 4869, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", + "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", + "id": 4870, + "length": 196 + }, + { + "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", + "id": 4871, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4872, + "length": 218 + }, + { + "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4873, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", + "source": "Running and Travel", + "id": 4874, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", + "source": "On Demand Culture", + "id": 4875, + "length": 507 + }, + { + "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4876, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4877, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", + "source": "The Sirens of Titan", + "id": 4878, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4879, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4880, + "length": 441 + }, + { + "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4881, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", + "source": "13 Reasons Why", + "id": 4882, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", + "source": "Leaves from the Vine", + "id": 4883, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4884, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4885, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4886, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", + "source": "The Logical Song", + "id": 4887, + "length": 380 + }, + { + "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", + "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", + "id": 4888, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 4889, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", + "source": "Kokomo", + "id": 4890, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4891, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4893, + "length": 157 + }, + { + "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4894, + "length": 271 + }, + { + "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", + "source": "October Sky", + "id": 4895, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4896, + "length": 336 + }, + { + "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", + "source": "Pulp Fiction", + "id": 4897, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4899, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4900, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", + "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", + "id": 4901, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4902, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", + "source": "Sailing", + "id": 4903, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", + "id": 4904, + "length": 474 + }, + { + "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", + "source": "Daredevil", + "id": 4905, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", + "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", + "id": 4907, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", + "source": "Let Me Love You", + "id": 4908, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4909, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", + "source": "When Love Arrives", + "id": 4910, + "length": 286 + }, + { + "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", + "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", + "id": 4912, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4913, + "length": 64 + }, + { + "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4915, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", + "source": "The Medium is the Massage", + "id": 4916, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", + "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", + "id": 4917, + "length": 279 + }, + { + "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", + "source": "Swamp Thing", + "id": 4918, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4919, + "length": 310 + }, + { + "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4920, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4921, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", + "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", + "id": 4922, + "length": 449 + }, + { + "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "id": 4923, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", + "source": "Halo 2", + "id": 4924, + "length": 213 + }, + { + "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", + "source": "The Return", + "id": 4925, + "length": 399 + }, + { + "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", + "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", + "id": 4928, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", + "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", + "id": 4929, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", + "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", + "id": 4931, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", + "source": "Moulin Rouge", + "id": 4932, + "length": 280 + }, + { + "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 4933, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4934, + "length": 288 + }, + { + "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4935, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4936, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4937, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", + "source": "Return of the Jedi", + "id": 4938, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", + "source": "Sin City", + "id": 4939, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4940, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", + "source": "The Lightning Thief", + "id": 4941, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", + "source": "Stardew Valley", + "id": 4942, + "length": 189 + }, + { + "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", + "source": "The Godfather: Part II", + "id": 4943, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", + "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", + "id": 4944, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4945, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4946, + "length": 488 + }, + { + "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", + "source": "Scream 2", + "id": 4947, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", + "source": "The Floating Fire", + "id": 4948, + "length": 298 + }, + { + "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4949, + "length": 440 + }, + { + "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", + "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", + "id": 4950, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4951, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", + "source": "A History of Mathematics", + "id": 4952, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", + "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", + "id": 4953, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4954, + "length": 90 + }, + { + "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", + "source": "Classical Mythology", + "id": 4955, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", + "source": "Piano Man", + "id": 4956, + "length": 138 + }, + { + "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", + "source": "Industrial Disease", + "id": 4957, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", + "source": "History of Art", + "id": 4958, + "length": 612 + }, + { + "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", + "source": "Orientalism", + "id": 4959, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", + "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", + "id": 4960, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", + "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", + "id": 4961, + "length": 274 + }, + { + "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4962, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", + "source": "Firestarter", + "id": 4963, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", + "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", + "id": 4964, + "length": 790 + }, + { + "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", + "source": "Dunkelheit", + "id": 4965, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", + "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", + "id": 4966, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4967, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4968, + "length": 346 + }, + { + "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", + "source": "The West Wing", + "id": 4969, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", + "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", + "id": 4970, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", + "source": "The Lurking Fear", + "id": 4971, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", + "source": "Last Dance", + "id": 4972, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", + "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", + "id": 4973, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4974, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", + "source": "Lemon Tree", + "id": 4975, + "length": 153 + }, + { + "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4976, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", + "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", + "id": 4977, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", + "source": "Mean Girls", + "id": 4979, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", + "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", + "id": 4980, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4981, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4982, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", + "source": "911 For Peace", + "id": 4983, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", + "source": "The Greatest", + "id": 4984, + "length": 347 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4987, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", + "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", + "id": 4988, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", + "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", + "id": 4989, + "length": 293 + }, + { + "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4990, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4991, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", + "source": "True Blood", + "id": 4992, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", + "source": "Awakenings", + "id": 4993, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", + "id": 4994, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "id": 4995, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", + "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", + "id": 4996, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", + "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", + "id": 4997, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4998, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4999, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", + "source": "Helplessly Hoping", + "id": 5000, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5002, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5003, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5004, + "length": 187 + }, + { + "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5005, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5006, + "length": 48 + }, + { + "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5007, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5008, + "length": 162 + }, + { + "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5009, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5010, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5011, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5012, + "length": 309 + }, + { + "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5014, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5015, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5016, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5017, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5018, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5020, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5021, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5022, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5023, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5024, + "length": 41 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5025, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5026, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5028, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5029, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5030, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5031, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5032, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5033, + "length": 91 + }, + { + "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5034, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5035, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5036, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5037, + "length": 230 + }, + { + "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5038, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5039, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5040, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5041, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5042, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5043, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5044, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5045, + "length": 46 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5046, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5047, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5048, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5049, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5050, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5051, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5052, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5053, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5054, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5055, + "length": 53 + }, + { + "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5056, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5057, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5058, + "length": 139 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5059, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5060, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5061, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5062, + "length": 723 + }, + { + "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5063, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5064, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5065, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5066, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5067, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 89, + "id": 5068 + }, + { + "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 194, + "id": 5069 + }, + { + "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 293, + "id": 5070 + }, + { + "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 135, + "id": 5071 + }, + { + "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 171, + "id": 5072 + }, + { + "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", + "source": "James Cameron", + "length": 104, + "id": 5073 + }, + { + "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", + "source": "Allen Saunders", + "length": 57, + "id": 5074 + }, + { + "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", + "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", + "length": 178, + "id": 5075 + }, + { + "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 325, + "id": 5076 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", + "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", + "length": 85, + "id": 5077 + }, + { + "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", + "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", + "length": 148, + "id": 5078 + }, + { + "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", + "source": "Neo, The Matrix", + "length": 556, + "id": 5079 + }, + { + "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", + "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", + "length": 194, + "id": 5080 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", + "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", + "length": 207, + "id": 5081 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 121, + "id": 5082 + }, + { + "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 129, + "id": 5083 + }, + { + "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 119, + "id": 5084 + }, + { + "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 81, + "id": 5085 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 484, + "id": 5086 + }, + { + "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 60, + "id": 5087 + }, + { + "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", + "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 57, + "id": 5089 + }, + { + "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", + "length": 203, + "id": 5090 + }, + { + "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 222, + "id": 5091 + }, + { + "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", + "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 215, + "id": 5092 + }, + { + "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 177, + "id": 5094 + }, + { + "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 57, + "id": 5095 + }, + { + "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 205, + "id": 5096 + }, + { + "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 30, + "id": 5097 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 31, + "id": 5098 + }, + { + "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", + "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", + "length": 112, + "id": 5099 + }, + { + "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 279, + "id": 5100 + }, + { + "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", + "source": "Terence McKenna", + "length": 211, + "id": 5101 + }, + { + "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", + "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", + "length": 161, + "id": 5102 + }, + { + "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", + "source": "Terence Mckenna", + "length": 117, + "id": 5103 + }, + { + "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", + "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", + "length": 67, + "id": 5104 + }, + { + "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 504, + "id": 5105 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", + "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", + "length": 155, + "id": 5106 + }, + { + "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", + "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", + "length": 127, + "id": 5107 + }, + { + "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", + "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", + "length": 109, + "id": 5108 + }, + { + "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", + "source": "Max Payne", + "length": 164, + "id": 5109 + }, + { + "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", + "source": "Alex Honnold", + "length": 222, + "id": 5110 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", + "source": "The Way of Kings", + "length": 109, + "id": 5111 + }, + { + "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 111, + "id": 5112 + }, + { + "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 188, + "id": 5113 + }, + { + "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 121, + "id": 5114 + }, + { + "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 147, + "id": 5115 + }, + { + "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 630, + "id": 5116 + }, + { + "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 398, + "id": 5117 + }, + { + "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 129, + "id": 5118 + }, + { + "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", + "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", + "length": 249, + "id": 5119 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", + "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", + "length": 259, + "id": 5120 + }, + { + "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", + "source": "Maurice V. 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That's the good news.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 267, + "id": 5157 + }, + { + "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 235, + "id": 5159 + }, + { + "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 103, + "id": 5160 + }, + { + "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 91, + "id": 5161 + }, + { + "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. 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Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?", + "source": "Friends", + "length": 75, + "id": 5318 + }, + { + "text": "Please note that I am the Standard Orientation Protocol, and that my voice has been explicitly chosen to remind you that I am not a part of your Patient Care Team. I do not care.", + "source": "Superliminal", + "length": 178, + "id": 5319 + }, + { + "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.", + "source": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", + "length": 61, + "id": 5320 + }, + { + "text": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", + "source": "Maurice Ravel", + "length": 52, + "id": 5321 + }, + { + "text": "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", + "source": "John Cage", + "length": 90, + "id": 5323 + }, + { + "text": "A painter paints pictures on canvas. 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This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity's salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn't it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity's eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall into the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.' You now face godlike judgment. May it extend eternally.", + "source": "Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Deep Stone Crypt - Crypt AI", + "length": 738, + "id": 5336 + }, + { + "text": "Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. 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Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", + "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", + "length": 397, + "id": 5347 + }, + { + "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", + "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", + "length": 54, + "id": 5348 + }, + { + "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", + "source": "Karl Marx", + "length": 222, + "id": 5349 + }, + { + "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", + "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", + "length": 201, + "id": 5350 + }, + { + "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 129, + "id": 5351 + }, + { + "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. 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The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", + "source": "Nails In The Fence", + "length": 1070, + "id": 5354 + }, + { + "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", + "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", + "length": 297, + "id": 5355 + }, + { + "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 278, + "id": 5356 + }, + { + "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 282, + "id": 5357 + }, + { + "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", + "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", + "length": 318, + "id": 5358 + }, + { + "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", + "source": "Roger Federer", + "length": 63, + "id": 5360 + }, + { + "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", + "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", + "length": 198, + "id": 5361 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. 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The stone you can reach by doing your best.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 334, + "id": 5366 + }, + { + "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 167, + "id": 5367 + }, + { + "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 66, + "id": 5368 + }, + { + "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 95, + "id": 5369 + }, + { + "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 105, + "id": 5370 + }, + { + "text": "Treasure the experience. 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I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 474, + "id": 5379 + }, + { + "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 381, + "id": 5380 + }, + { + "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. 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My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 309, + "id": 5390 + }, + { + "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 75, + "id": 5391 + }, + { + "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", + "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", + "length": 427, + "id": 5392 + }, + { + "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", + "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", + "length": 416, + "id": 5393 + }, + { + "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 96, + "id": 5394 + }, + { + "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 64, + "id": 5395 + }, + { + "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 171, + "id": 5396 + }, + { + "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", + "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", + "length": 205, + "id": 5397 + }, + { + "text": "One and one and one is three.", + "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", + "length": 29, + "id": 5398 + }, + { + "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", + "length": 91, + "id": 5399 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", + "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", + "length": 732, + "id": 5400 + }, + { + "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 92, + "id": 5403 + }, + { + "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? 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We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 466, + "id": 5407 + }, + { + "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 560, + "id": 5408 + }, + { + "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 46, + "id": 5409 + }, + { + "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 296, + "id": 5410 + }, + { + "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 87, + "id": 5411 + }, + { + "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", + "source": "J. K. 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As long as the Wheel turns.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", + "length": 428, + "id": 5418 + }, + { + "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", + "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", + "length": 260, + "id": 5419 + }, + { + "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", + "source": "The Beatles", + "length": 260, + "id": 5420 + }, + { + "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", + "length": 299, + "id": 5421 + }, + { + "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", + "length": 456, + "id": 5422 + }, + { + "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", + "length": 208, + "id": 5423 + }, + { + "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", + "source": "The Legend of Korra", + "length": 110, + "id": 5424 + }, + { + "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 138, + "id": 5425 + }, + { + "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", + "length": 226, + "id": 5426 + }, + { + "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", + "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", + "length": 190, + "id": 5427 + }, + { + "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", + "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", + "length": 72, + "id": 5429 + }, + { + "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 89, + "id": 5430 + }, + { + "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", + "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", + "length": 91, + "id": 5431 + }, + { + "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", + "source": "John Green", + "length": 95, + "id": 5432 + }, + { + "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", + "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", + "length": 349, + "id": 5433 + }, + { + "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 85, + "id": 5434 + }, + { + "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 66, + "id": 5435 + }, + { + "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", + "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", + "length": 122, + "id": 5436 + }, + { + "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 240, + "id": 5437 + }, + { + "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 365, + "id": 5438 + }, + { + "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", + "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", + "length": 403, + "id": 5439 + }, + { + "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", + "source": "SCP-5000", + "length": 487, + "id": 5441 + }, + { + "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", + "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", + "length": 892, + "id": 5442 + }, + { + "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", + "source": "A Tongue-twister", + "length": 106, + "id": 5443 + }, + { + "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", + "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", + "length": 57, + "id": 5444 + }, + { + "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", + "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", + "length": 69, + "id": 5446 + }, + { + "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", + "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", + "length": 88, + "id": 5447 + }, + { + "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", + "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", + "length": 54, + "id": 5452 + }, + { + "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 55, + "id": 5453 + }, + { + "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 62, + "id": 5456 + }, + { + "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", + "source": "They Might Be Giants", + "length": 62, + "id": 5459 + }, + { + "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 84, + "id": 5460 + }, + { + "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", + "length": 100, + "id": 5461 + }, + { + "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 231, + "id": 5462 + }, + { + "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 94, + "id": 5463 + }, + { + "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 258, + "id": 5464 + }, + { + "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", + "length": 1140, + "id": 5465 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", + "source": "Ready Player Two", + "length": 588, + "id": 5466 + }, + { + "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", + "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", + "length": 140, + "id": 5472 + }, + { + "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", + "source": "Holes", + "length": 74, + "id": 5477 + }, + { + "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 192, + "id": 5478 + }, + { + "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 78, + "id": 5482 + }, + { + "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 947, + "id": 5485 + }, + { + "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 559, + "id": 5487 + }, + { + "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", + "source": "91 days", + "length": 474, + "id": 5488 + }, + { + "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 172, + "id": 5489 + }, + { + "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 359, + "id": 5490 + }, + { + "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", + "source": "Fred Brooks", + "length": 78, + "id": 5491 + }, + { + "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", + "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", + "length": 210, + "id": 5492 + }, + { + "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 242, + "id": 5493 + }, + { + "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 200, + "id": 5494 + }, + { + "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", + "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", + "length": 189, + "id": 5495 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5496 + }, + { + "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 218, + "id": 5497 + }, + { + "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 201, + "id": 5498 + }, + { + "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "length": 150, + "id": 5499 + }, + { + "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 145, + "id": 5500 + }, + { + "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5501 + }, + { + "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 106, + "id": 5502 + }, + { + "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", + "source": "Naruto", + "length": 196, + "id": 5503 + }, + { + "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", + "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", + "length": 125, + "id": 5505 + }, + { + "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", + "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 471, + "id": 5506 + }, + { + "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", + "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", + "length": 240, + "id": 5507 + }, + { + "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", + "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", + "length": 483, + "id": 5508 + }, + { + "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 240, + "id": 5509 + }, + { + "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 584, + "id": 5510 + }, + { + "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", + "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", + "length": 375, + "id": 5511 + }, + { + "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", + "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", + "length": 413, + "id": 5512 + }, + { + "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", + "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 273, + "id": 5513 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", + "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 83, + "id": 5514 + }, + { + "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", + "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", + "length": 661, + "id": 5515 + }, + { + "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", + "source": "Five Feet Apart", + "length": 523, + "id": 5517 + }, + { + "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", + "source": "Exurb1a", + "length": 169, + "id": 5519 + }, + { + "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", + "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 537, + "id": 5520 + }, + { + "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", + "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", + "length": 236, + "id": 5521 + }, + { + "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", + "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", + "length": 211, + "id": 5522 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 634, + "id": 5523 + }, + { + "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", + "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", + "length": 727, + "id": 5524 + }, + { + "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", + "source": "Celeste", + "length": 437, + "id": 5525 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 496, + "id": 5526 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 352, + "id": 5527 + }, + { + "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", + "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", + "length": 589, + "id": 5528 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 223, + "id": 5529 + }, + { + "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 399, + "id": 5530 + }, + { + "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", + "source": "The Cooper Institute", + "length": 575, + "id": 5531 + }, + { + "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 534, + "id": 5533 + }, + { + "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? 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And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", + "source": "The Symposium", + "length": 592, + "id": 5651 + }, + { + "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 76, + "id": 5652 + }, + { + "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 323, + "id": 5653 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", + "source": "Einstein", + "length": 128, + "id": 5654 + }, + { + "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", + "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", + "length": 322, + "id": 5655 + }, + { + "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 172, + "id": 5656 + }, + { + "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. 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You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 468, + "id": 5670 + }, + { + "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", + "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", + "length": 82, + "id": 5671 + }, + { + "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", + "source": "John Tukey", + "length": 89, + "id": 5672 + }, + { + "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. 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Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", + "source": "Tao Te Ching", + "length": 286, + "id": 5678 + }, + { + "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "length": 62, + "id": 5679 + }, + { + "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", + "source": "Albert Camus", + "length": 54, + "id": 5680 + }, + { + "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", + "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", + "length": 238, + "id": 5681 + }, + { + "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", + "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5682 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", + "source": "Marcus Aurelius", + "length": 161, + "id": 5684 + }, + { + "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", + "source": "Devil in Disguise", + "length": 148, + "id": 5685 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", + "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", + "length": 518, + "id": 5686 + }, + { + "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 302, + "id": 5687 + }, + { + "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 52, + "id": 5688 + }, + { + "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 83, + "id": 5689 + }, + { + "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 53, + "id": 5690 + }, + { + "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 118, + "id": 5691 + }, + { + "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. 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During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", + "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", + "length": 578, + "id": 5708 + }, + { + "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", + "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", + "length": 183, + "id": 5709 + }, + { + "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 997, + "id": 5710 + }, + { + "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", + "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", + "length": 173, + "id": 5711 + }, + { + "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 289, + "id": 5712 + }, + { + "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 900, + "id": 5714 + }, + { + "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", + "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", + "length": 71, + "id": 5715 + }, + { + "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5716 + }, + { + "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", + "source": "Kurt Cobain", + "length": 62, + "id": 5717 + }, + { + "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", + "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", + "length": 743, + "id": 5718 + }, + { + "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", + "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", + "length": 974, + "id": 5719 + }, + { + "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", + "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", + "length": 256, + "id": 5720 + }, + { + "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", + "source": "Bruce Lee", + "length": 69, + "id": 5723 + }, + { + "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 110, + "id": 5724 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "length": 280, + "id": 5725 + }, + { + "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 111, + "id": 5726 + }, + { + "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 74, + "id": 5727 + }, + { + "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 71, + "id": 5728 + }, + { + "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", + "source": "Edward Snowden", + "length": 181, + "id": 5729 + }, + { + "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", + "source": "Riverdale", + "length": 161, + "id": 5731 + }, + { + "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", + "source": "Spirited Away", + "length": 105, + "id": 5732 + }, + { + "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", + "source": "Wikipedia", + "length": 406, + "id": 5733 + }, + { + "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", + "length": 418, + "id": 5734 + }, + { + "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 622, + "id": 5735 + }, + { + "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 699, + "id": 5736 + }, + { + "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", + "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", + "length": 82, + "id": 5737 + }, + { + "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", + "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", + "length": 282, + "id": 5738 + }, + { + "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", + "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", + "length": 184, + "id": 5739 + }, + { + "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", + "source": "Lord of the Rings", + "length": 83, + "id": 5740 + }, + { + "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 373, + "id": 5741 + }, + { + "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", + "source": "Half-Life 2", + "length": 74, + "id": 5742 + }, + { + "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", + "source": "The Big Bang Theory", + "length": 209, + "id": 5743 + }, + { + "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", + "source": "Lucifer", + "length": 183, + "id": 5744 + }, + { + "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", + "source": "Inception", + "length": 134, + "id": 5747 + }, + { + "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", + "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", + "length": 83, + "id": 5748 + }, + { + "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 113, + "id": 5751 + }, + { + "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 341, + "id": 5752 + }, + { + "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "length": 222, + "id": 5753 + }, + { + "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", + "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", + "length": 183, + "id": 5754 + }, + { + "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 198, + "id": 5755 + }, + { + "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", + "source": "Genshin Impact", + "length": 293, + "id": 5756 + }, + { + "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "length": 441, + "id": 5757 + }, + { + "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "length": 538, + "id": 5758 + }, + { + "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", + "source": "Absolute", + "length": 131, + "id": 5759 + }, + { + "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 144, + "id": 5760 + }, + { + "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 183, + "id": 5761 + }, + { + "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 106, + "id": 5762 + }, + { + "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 141, + "id": 5763 + }, + { + "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", + "source": "Love Me", + "length": 61, + "id": 5764 + }, + { + "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", + "source": "The Art of War", + "length": 62, + "id": 5765 + }, + { + "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", + "source": "Little Witch Academia", + "length": 76, + "id": 5766 + }, + { + "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 166, + "id": 5767 + }, + { + "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", + "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", + "length": 429, + "id": 5768 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 245, + "id": 5769 + }, + { + "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 165, + "id": 5771 + }, + { + "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 128, + "id": 5772 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 157, + "id": 5773 + }, + { + "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", + "source": "A Friend", + "length": 73, + "id": 5775 + }, + { + "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Breath of the Wild", + "length": 62, + "id": 5776 + }, + { + "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 527, + "id": 5777 + }, + { + "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", + "source": "Muhammad Ali", + "length": 79, + "id": 5780 + }, + { + "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", + "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", + "length": 51, + "id": 5781 + }, + { + "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 69, + "id": 5782 + }, + { + "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", + "source": "Violet Evergarden", + "length": 317, + "id": 5783 + }, + { + "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", + "source": "The Last Of Us 2", + "length": 89, + "id": 5785 + }, + { + "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", + "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", + "length": 98, + "id": 5786 + }, + { + "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", + "source": "Leonard Bernstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 5787 + }, + { + "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", + "source": "Charlie Sheen", + "length": 158, + "id": 5788 + }, + { + "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", + "source": "Charlie Sheen", + "length": 164, + "id": 5789 + }, + { + "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", + "source": "Macbeth", + "length": 62, + "id": 5790 + }, + { + "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", + "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", + "length": 113, + "id": 5791 + }, + { + "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", + "source": "Cabo", + "length": 125, + "id": 5792 + }, + { + "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", + "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", + "length": 109, + "id": 5793 + }, + { + "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", + "source": "Mae West", + "length": 59, + "id": 5795 + }, + { + "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", + "length": 77, + "id": 5796 + }, + { + "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", + "length": 62, + "id": 5797 + }, + { + "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", + "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", + "length": 101, + "id": 5799 + }, + { + "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. 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Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", + "source": "States of Matter", + "length": 220, + "id": 5805 + }, + { + "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", + "source": "Danilo Kiš", + "length": 190, + "id": 5806 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", + "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", + "length": 2928, + "id": 5807 + }, + { + "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", + "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", + "length": 152, + "id": 5809 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 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Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 325, + "id": 5812 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 133, + "id": 5813 + }, + { + "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", + "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 355, + "id": 5814 + }, + { + "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", + "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", + "length": 140, + "id": 5815 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 78, + "id": 5816 + }, + { + "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 87, + "id": 5817 + }, + { + "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 134, + "id": 5818 + }, + { + "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", + "source": "Henri Poincaré", + "length": 145, + "id": 5819 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", + "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", + "length": 254, + "id": 5820 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", + "source": "Richard Feynman", + "length": 96, + "id": 5821 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. 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It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", + "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", + "length": 455, + "id": 5828 + }, + { + "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", + "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", + "length": 298, + "id": 5829 + }, + { + "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", + "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", + "length": 61, + "id": 5831 + }, + { + "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 356, + "id": 5832 + }, + { + "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 669, + "id": 5833 + }, + { + "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 188, + "id": 5834 + }, + { + "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 157, + "id": 5835 + }, + { + "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 290, + "id": 5836 + }, + { + "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", + "source": "Mob Psycho 100", + "length": 382, + "id": 5837 + }, + { + "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", + "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", + "length": 125, + "id": 5838 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 92, + "id": 5839 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 97, + "id": 5840 + }, + { + "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", + "source": "Master Yoda", + "length": 395, + "id": 5843 + }, + { + "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 80, + "id": 5844 + }, + { + "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 86, + "id": 5845 + }, + { + "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. 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May you know peace and joy.\"", + "source": "Twelve Minutes", + "length": 349, + "id": 5850 + }, + { + "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", + "length": 301, + "id": 5851 + }, + { + "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", + "source": "Numb", + "length": 177, + "id": 5852 + }, + { + "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", + "source": "One Piece", + "length": 490, + "id": 5854 + }, + { + "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", + "source": "Space Brothers", + "length": 143, + "id": 5855 + }, + { + "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", + "source": "Oregairu", + "length": 65, + "id": 5856 + }, + { + "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", + "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", + "length": 352, + "id": 5857 + }, + { + "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", + "source": "Bleach", + "length": 200, + "id": 5858 + }, + { + "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", + "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", + "length": 120, + "id": 5859 + }, + { + "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", + "source": "Fruits Basket", + "length": 388, + "id": 5860 + }, + { + "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", + "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", + "length": 60, + "id": 5861 + }, + { + "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 65, + "id": 5862 + }, + { + "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 270, + "id": 5863 + }, + { + "text": "You may have grown too strong. 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And I would know - I just turned 25.", + "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", + "length": 212, + "id": 5870 + }, + { + "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", + "source": "Ratatouille", + "length": 1315, + "id": 5871 + }, + { + "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", + "source": "Pushing Dead", + "length": 365, + "id": 5872 + }, + { + "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", + "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", + "length": 222, + "id": 5874 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", + "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", + "length": 191, + "id": 5875 + }, + { + "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", + "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", + "length": 75, + "id": 5876 + }, + { + "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", + "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", + "length": 123, + "id": 5877 + }, + { + "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 784, + "id": 5878 + }, + { + "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 763, + "id": 5879 + }, + { + "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 530, + "id": 5881 + }, + { + "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 618, + "id": 5882 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", + "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", + "length": 186, + "id": 5886 + }, + { + "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", + "source": "Knights of Cydonia", + "length": 135, + "id": 5888 + }, + { + "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", + "source": "Paul Parker", + "length": 274, + "id": 5890 + }, + { + "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", + "source": "Left 4 Dead", + "length": 454, + "id": 5891 + }, + { + "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 190, + "id": 5893 + }, + { + "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 346, + "id": 5895 + }, + { + "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", + "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", + "length": 83, + "id": 5896 + }, + { + "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 264, + "id": 5897 + }, + { + "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 282, + "id": 5899 + }, + { + "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 249, + "id": 5900 + }, + { + "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", + "source": "Neil Gaiman", + "length": 129, + "id": 5901 + }, + { + "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 376, + "id": 5902 + }, + { + "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 293, + "id": 5903 + }, + { + "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 353, + "id": 5904 + }, + { + "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "length": 235, + "id": 5905 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 107, + "id": 5906 + }, + { + "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 105, + "id": 5907 + }, + { + "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", + "source": "Eugene Cernan", + "length": 478, + "id": 5908 + }, + { + "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "length": 130, + "id": 5909 + }, + { + "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", + "source": "William Carlos Williams", + "length": 89, + "id": 5910 + }, + { + "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "length": 60, + "id": 5912 + }, + { + "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", + "source": "Henry Van Dyke", + "length": 172, + "id": 5913 + }, + { + "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", + "source": "Epicurus", + "length": 117, + "id": 5914 + }, + { + "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 1766, + "id": 5915 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 332, + "id": 5916 + }, + { + "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", + "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", + "length": 513, + "id": 5917 + }, + { + "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 105, + "id": 5918 + }, + { + "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", + "source": "Avicii - The Nights", + "length": 187, + "id": 5919 + }, + { + "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", + "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", + "length": 987, + "id": 5920 + }, + { + "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", + "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", + "length": 740, + "id": 5921 + }, + { + "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", + "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", + "length": 319, + "id": 5922 + }, + { + "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", + "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", + "length": 476, + "id": 5923 + }, + { + "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", + "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", + "length": 556, + "id": 5925 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 182, + "id": 5926 + }, + { + "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 281, + "id": 5927 + }, + { + "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 155, + "id": 5928 + }, + { + "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 248, + "id": 5929 + }, + { + "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 280, + "id": 5930 + }, + { + "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 289, + "id": 5931 + }, + { + "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", + "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", + "length": 294, + "id": 5932 + }, + { + "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 204, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5934 + }, + { + "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", + "source": "Batman: Arkham City", + "length": 87, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5935 + }, + { + "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5937 + }, + { + "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", + "source": "Little Inferno", + "length": 90, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5940 + }, + { + "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", + "source": "System Shock 2 ", + "length": 163, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5941 + }, + { + "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", + "source": "IT Crowd", + "length": 307, + "id": 5942 + }, + { + "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 322, + "id": 5943 + }, + { + "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 137, + "id": 5944 + }, + { + "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", + "source": "The Master and Margarita", + "length": 420, + "id": 5945 + }, + { + "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 379, + "id": 5947 + }, + { + "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", + "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", + "length": 348, + "id": 5950 + }, + { + "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", + "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", + "length": 729, + "id": 5951 + }, + { + "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", + "source": "Bojack Horseman", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5956 + }, + { + "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", + "source": "Vinland Saga", + "length": 102, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5957 + }, + { + "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", + "source": "Silent Hill 2", + "length": 1982, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5958 + }, + { + "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", + "source": "Mark Twain", + "length": 113, + "id": 6064 + }, + { + "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", + "source": "Colin Powell", + "length": 103, + "id": 6065 + }, + { + "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", + "source": "Conrad Hilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6066 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", + "source": "Zig Ziglar", + "length": 116, + "id": 6067 + }, + { + "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", + "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", + "length": 67, + "id": 6068 + }, + { + "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", + "source": "Barack Obama", + "length": 193, + "id": 6069 + }, + { + "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", + "source": "Charles Swindoll", + "length": 81, + "id": 6071 + }, + { + "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", + "source": "Oprah Winfrey", + "length": 132, + "id": 6072 + }, + { + "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", + "source": "Harriet Tubman", + "length": 165, + "id": 6073 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 86, + "id": 6074 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", + "source": "The Blair Witch Project", + "length": 649, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6075 + }, + { + "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 624, + "id": 6076 + }, + { + "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 834, + "id": 6077 + }, + { + "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 472, + "id": 6078 + }, + { + "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 308, + "id": 6079 + }, + { + "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 471, + "id": 6080 + }, + { + "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 352, + "id": 6081 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 336, + "id": 6082 + }, + { + "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 775, + "id": 6084 + }, + { + "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 610, + "id": 6085 + }, + { + "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 371, + "id": 6087 + }, + { + "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", + "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", + "length": 438, + "id": 6088 + }, + { + "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", + "source": "Atharva veda", + "length": 127, + "id": 6089 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", + "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", + "length": 681, + "id": 6090 + }, + { + "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", + "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", + "length": 192, + "id": 6091 + }, + { + "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", + "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", + "length": 69, + "id": 6092 + }, + { + "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", + "source": "Tirukkurral", + "length": 118, + "id": 6093 + }, + { + "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", + "source": "Halo 3", + "length": 337, + "id": 6095 + }, + { + "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", + "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", + "length": 219, + "id": 6096 + }, + { + "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 71, + "id": 6097 + }, + { + "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", + "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", + "length": 237, + "id": 6098 + }, + { + "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", + "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", + "length": 98, + "id": 6099 + }, + { + "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", + "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", + "length": 62, + "id": 6100 + }, + { + "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", + "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", + "length": 153, + "id": 6101 + }, + { + "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", + "source": "Remember11", + "length": 136, + "id": 6102 + }, + { + "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", + "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", + "length": 94, + "id": 6103 + }, + { + "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 59, + "id": 6104 + }, + { + "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", + "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", + "length": 157, + "id": 6106 + }, + { + "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 173, + "id": 6107 + }, + { + "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", + "length": 190, + "id": 6108 + }, + { + "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", + "length": 105, + "id": 6109 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 162, + "id": 6110 + }, + { + "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 122, + "id": 6112 + }, + { + "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 160, + "id": 6113 + }, + { + "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 239, + "id": 6114 + }, + { + "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", + "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", + "length": 92, + "id": 6115 + }, + { + "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", + "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", + "length": 131, + "id": 6116 + }, + { + "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", + "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", + "length": 157, + "id": 6117 + }, + { + "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", + "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", + "length": 121, + "id": 6118 + }, + { + "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", + "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", + "length": 256, + "id": 6119 + }, + { + "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. 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But my enemies brought me war.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 59, + "id": 6123 + }, + { + "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", + "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", + "length": 76, + "id": 6124 + }, + { + "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 182, + "id": 6125 + }, + { + "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", + "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", + "length": 62, + "id": 6126 + }, + { + "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 71, + "id": 6127 + }, + { + "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", + "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", + "length": 162, + "id": 6128 + }, + { + "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", + "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", + "length": 164, + "id": 6129 + }, + { + "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", + "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", + "length": 160, + "id": 6130 + }, + { + "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", + "source": "Beach House - Myth", + "length": 142, + "id": 6131 + }, + { + "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", + "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", + "length": 64, + "id": 6132 + }, + { + "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", + "source": "Beach House - PPP", + "length": 110, + "id": 6133 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", + "length": 78, + "id": 6134 + }, + { + "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", + "length": 175, + "id": 6135 + }, + { + "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", + "length": 113, + "id": 6136 + }, + { + "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", + "length": 66, + "id": 6137 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", + "length": 67, + "id": 6138 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", + "length": 95, + "id": 6139 + }, + { + "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", + "length": 80, + "id": 6141 + }, + { + "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 185, + "id": 6142 + }, + { + "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", + "length": 206, + "id": 6143 + }, + { + "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", + "length": 76, + "id": 6144 + }, + { + "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", + "length": 95, + "id": 6145 + }, + { + "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 181, + "id": 6146 + }, + { + "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", + "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", + "length": 66, + "id": 6147 + }, + { + "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", + "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", + "length": 181, + "id": 6148 + }, + { + "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", + "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", + "length": 291, + "id": 6149 + }, + { + "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 297, + "id": 6150 + }, + { + "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 657, + "id": 6151 + }, + { + "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", + "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", + "length": 128, + "id": 6152 + }, + { + "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 136, + "id": 6153 + }, + { + "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 64, + "id": 6154 + }, + { + "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 178, + "id": 6155 + }, + { + "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", + "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", + "length": 224, + "id": 6157 + }, + { + "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", + "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", + "length": 207, + "id": 6158 + }, + { + "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", + "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", + "length": 220, + "id": 6159 + }, + { + "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", + "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", + "length": 274, + "id": 6160 + }, + { + "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", + "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", + "length": 112, + "id": 6161 + }, + { + "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", + "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", + "length": 272, + "id": 6162 + }, + { + "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", + "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", + "length": 136, + "id": 6163 + }, + { + "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", + "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", + "length": 454, + "id": 6164 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", + "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", + "length": 381, + "id": 6165 + }, + { + "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", + "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", + "length": 453, + "id": 6166 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 165, + "id": 6167 + }, + { + "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", + "length": 136, + "id": 6168 + }, + { + "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", + "length": 229, + "id": 6169 + }, + { + "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 170, + "id": 6170 + }, + { + "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", + "length": 191, + "id": 6171 + }, + { + "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", + "length": 284, + "id": 6172 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", + "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", + "length": 204, + "id": 6173 + }, + { + "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", + "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", + "length": 122, + "id": 6174 + }, + { + "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", + "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", + "length": 268, + "id": 6175 + }, + { + "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", + "length": 234, + "id": 6176 + }, + { + "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", + "length": 186, + "id": 6177 + }, + { + "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", + "length": 423, + "id": 6178 + }, + { + "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", + "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", + "length": 313, + "id": 6179 + }, + { + "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. 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A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", + "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", + "length": 401, + "id": 6183 + }, + { + "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", + "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", + "length": 202, + "id": 6184 + }, + { + "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", + "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", + "length": 290, + "id": 6185 + }, + { + "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", + "length": 178, + "id": 6186 + }, + { + "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 197, + "id": 6188 + }, + { + "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 395, + "id": 6189 + }, + { + "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 372, + "id": 6190 + }, + { + "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 214, + "id": 6191 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 427, + "id": 6192 + }, + { + "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 116, + "id": 6193 + }, + { + "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 238, + "id": 6194 + }, + { + "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 256, + "id": 6195 + }, + { + "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 316, + "id": 6196 + }, + { + "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. 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It turns out plinths are very important.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 251, + "id": 6199 + }, + { + "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 229, + "id": 6200 + }, + { + "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 252, + "id": 6201 + }, + { + "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", + "length": 576, + "id": 6202 + }, + { + "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", + "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", + "length": 112, + "id": 6203 + }, + { + "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", + "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", + "length": 110, + "id": 6204 + }, + { + "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. 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Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", + "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", + "length": 95, + "id": 6212 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", + "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", + "length": 70, + "id": 6213 + }, + { + "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", + "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", + "length": 51, + "id": 6214 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", + "source": "Clare - Claymore", + "length": 164, + "id": 6215 + }, + { + "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", + "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", + "length": 384, + "id": 6216 + }, + { + "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", + "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", + "length": 67, + "id": 6217 + }, + { + "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", + "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", + "length": 88, + "id": 6218 + }, + { + "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", + "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", + "length": 314, + "id": 6220 + }, + { + "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", + "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", + "length": 89, + "id": 6221 + }, + { + "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", + "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", + "length": 422, + "id": 6222 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", + "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", + "length": 179, + "id": 6223 + }, + { + "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", + "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", + "length": 463, + "id": 6224 + }, + { + "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", + "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 109, + "id": 6225 + }, + { + "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", + "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 61, + "id": 6226 + }, + { + "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", + "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", + "length": 93, + "id": 6227 + }, + { + "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", + "length": 177, + "id": 6228 + }, + { + "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", + "length": 215, + "id": 6229 + }, + { + "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", + "length": 167, + "id": 6230 + }, + { + "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 827, + "id": 6231 + }, + { + "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", + "length": 116, + "id": 6232 + }, + { + "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", + "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", + "length": 137, + "id": 6233 + }, + { + "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", + "length": 127, + "id": 6234 + }, + { + "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 94, + "id": 6235 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 182, + "id": 6236 + }, + { + "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 140, + "id": 6237 + }, + { + "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", + "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", + "length": 144, + "id": 6238 + }, + { + "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", + "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", + "length": 248, + "id": 6239 + }, + { + "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. Did you follow your fire?", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 289, + "id": 6240 + }, + { + "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 123, + "id": 6241 + }, + { + "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", + "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", + "length": 197, + "id": 6242 + }, + { + "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", + "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", + "length": 289, + "id": 6243 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. Though we don't share the same blood, you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.", + "source": "Kodaline - Brother", + "length": 161, + "id": 6244 + }, + { + "text": "Star in your eyes, sun in your smile, the way you look at me - it makes me hum and I call it love song.", + "source": "Yoohyeon (Dreamcatcher) - For", + "length": 103, + "id": 6245 + }, + { + "text": "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 57, + "id": 6246 + }, + { + "text": "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 240, + "id": 6247 + }, + { + "text": "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 112, + "id": 6248 + }, + { + "text": "For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 177, + "id": 6249 + }, + { + "text": "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 421, + "id": 6250 + }, + { + "text": "Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say \"I'll never be good.\" You can become better! And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 251, + "id": 6251 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 105, + "id": 6252 + }, + { + "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 303, + "id": 6253 + }, + { + "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 149, + "id": 6254 + }, + { + "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 119, + "id": 6255 + }, + { + "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", + "source": "Tool", + "length": 220, + "id": 6256 + }, + { + "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", + "source": "Whiplash", + "length": 270, + "id": 6258 + }, + { + "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 173, + "id": 6259 + }, + { + "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 395, + "id": 6260 + }, + { + "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 246, + "id": 6261 + }, + { + "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. 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Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", + "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", + "length": 1662, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6275 + }, + { + "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. 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Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 421, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6286 + }, + { + "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", + "source": "Animal Farm", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6287 + }, + { + "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 307, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6288 + }, + { + "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 745, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6292 + }, + { + "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. 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Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "length": 740, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6303 + }, + { + "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", + "length": 520, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6304 + }, + { + "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", + "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", + "length": 273, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6305 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 216, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6306 + }, + { + "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. 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And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", + "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", + "length": 1200, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6308 + }, + { + "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. 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But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6331 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 735, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6332 + }, + { + "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 100, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6333 + }, + { + "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 261, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6334 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 684, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6335 + }, + { + "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 434, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6336 + }, + { + "text": "A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe... Those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition, and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It's found truth in its maturity... Because what's it all for if it goes unremembered? It's the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 496, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6337 + }, + { + "text": "False tears bring pain to those around you. 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All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 586, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6734 + }, + { + "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 1174, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6735 + }, + { + "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", + "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", + "length": 221, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6736 + }, + { + "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 184, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6737 + }, + { + "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 145, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6738 + }, + { + "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 246, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6739 + }, + { + "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 88, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6740 + }, + { + "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6741 + }, + { + "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", + "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", + "length": 272, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6742 + }, + { + "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 275, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6743 + }, + { + "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 186, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6744 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 467, + "id": 6745 + }, + { + "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 877, + "id": 6746 + }, + { + "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", + "source": "A Girl on the Shore", + "length": 572, + "id": 6747 + }, + { + "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 64, + "id": 6748 + }, + { + "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 62, + "id": 6749 + }, + { + "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 77, + "id": 6750 + }, + { + "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 166, + "id": 6751 + }, + { + "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 195, + "id": 6752 + }, + { + "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 100, + "id": 6753 + }, + { + "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 172, + "id": 6754 + }, + { + "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 118, + "id": 6755 + }, + { + "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 119, + "id": 6756 + }, + { + "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", + "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6757, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", + "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6758, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. 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Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6765, + "length": 141 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6766, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", + "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", + "id": 6767, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. 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I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6771, + "length": 703 + }, + { + "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6772, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6773, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6774, + "length": 464 + }, + { + "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6775, + "length": 259 + }, + { + "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. 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We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6779, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6780, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6781, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6782, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6783, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6784, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6785, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", + "source": "Walt Disney", + "id": 6786, + "length": 245 + }, + { + "text": "He's smart. He's angry. 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It got you right here.", + "source": "Ozark", + "id": 6789, + "length": 662 + }, + { + "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "id": 6790, + "length": 75 + }, + { + "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", + "source": "Greek Mythology", + "id": 6791, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 6792, + "length": 108 + }, + { + "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", + "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", + "length": 99, + "id": 6793 + }, + { + "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", + "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6794 + }, + { + "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 58, + "id": 6795 + }, + { + "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6796 + }, + { + "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. 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Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6802 + }, + { + "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 82, + "id": 6803 + }, + { + "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. 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It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 71, + "id": 6813 + }, + { + "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 81, + "id": 6814 + }, + { + "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. 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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", + "source": "Steve Jobs", + "length": 174, + "id": 6823 + }, + { + "text": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", + "length": 254, + "id": 6824 + }, + { + "text": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.", + "source": "Andrè Gide", + "length": 80, + "id": 6825 + }, + { + "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This means recognizing that failure and setbacks are a natural part of the journey to success, and using them as opportunities to learn and grow. It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", + "source": "Nelson Mandela", + "length": 431, + "id": 6827 + }, + { + "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 75, + "id": 6828 + }, + { + "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", + "source": "J.K. Rowling", + "length": 101, + "id": 6829 + }, + { + "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 6830 + }, + { + "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", + "source": "Edmund Burke", + "length": 79, + "id": 6831 + }, + { + "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. 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This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 423, + "id": 6839 + }, + { + "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", + "source": "Abraham Lincoln", + "length": 402, + "id": 6840 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", + "source": "Albert Schweitzer", + "length": 392, + "id": 6841 + }, + { + "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", + "length": 41, + "id": 6842 + }, + { + "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", + "source": "Dalai Lama", + "length": 70, + "id": 6843 + }, + { + "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", + "source": "Henry Ford", + "length": 57, + "id": 6844 + }, + { + "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 248, + "id": 6845 + }, + { + "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 58, + "id": 6847 + }, + { + "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", + "source": "Jean Paul", + "length": 53, + "id": 6849 + }, + { + "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", + "source": "Oscar Wilde", + "length": 66, + "id": 6851 + }, + { + "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", + "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 217, + "id": 6852 + }, + { + "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", + "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", + "length": 92, + "id": 6853 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", + "source": "Clockwork Princess", + "length": 66, + "id": 6854 + }, + { + "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. 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I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", + "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", + "length": 361, + "id": 6858 + }, + { + "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. 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They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 336, + "id": 6869 + }, + { + "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 182, + "id": 6870 + }, + { + "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 529, + "id": 6871 + }, + { + "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 282, + "id": 6872 + }, + { + "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 184, + "id": 6873 + }, + { + "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 196, + "id": 6874 + }, + { + "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", + "source": "Lao Tzu", + "length": 90, + "id": 6875 + }, + { + "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. 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Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", + "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", + "id": 6895, + "length": 345 + }, + { + "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", + "source": "Edwin Hubble", + "id": 6897, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", + "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", + "id": 6898, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. 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Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!", + "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", + "length": 87, + "id": 6936 + }, + { + "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.", + "source": "Aristotle", + "length": 124, + "id": 6937 + }, + { + "text": "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", + "source": "Chinese Proverb", + "length": 87, + "id": 6938 + }, + { + "text": "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", + "source": "Japanese Proverb", + "length": 69, + "id": 6939 + }, + { + "text": "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", + "source": "Malayan Proverb", + "length": 62, + "id": 6940 + }, + { + "text": "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", + "source": "Indian Proverb", + "length": 165, + "id": 6941 + }, + { + "text": "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", + "source": "Linus Torvalds", + "length": 250, + "id": 6942 + }, + { + "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. 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Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", + "source": "Houseki No Kuni", + "length": 335, + "id": 6980 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 79, + "id": 6981 + }, + { + "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 110, + "id": 6982 + }, + { + "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", + "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", + "length": 110, + "id": 6983 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 255, + "id": 6984 + }, + { + "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 246, + "id": 6985 + }, + { + "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 278, + "id": 6986 + }, + { + "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", + "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", + "length": 297, + "id": 6987 + }, + { + "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", + "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", + "length": 411, + "id": 6988 + }, + { + "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", + "source": "Technoblade", + "length": 217, + "id": 6989 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", + "source": "Simon Sinek", + "length": 314, + "id": 6990 + }, + { + "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 82, + "id": 6991 + }, + { + "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. 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Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", + "source": "Boisvert", + "length": 670, + "id": 6994 + }, + { + "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", + "source": "Albert Camus", + "length": 84, + "id": 6995 + }, + { + "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 97, + "id": 6996 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", + "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", + "length": 67, + "id": 6997 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", + "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", + "length": 90, + "id": 6998 + }, + { + "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", + "source": "L.R. Knos", + "length": 267, + "id": 6999 + }, + { + "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", + "source": "Emily Dickinson", + "length": 117, + "id": 7000 + }, + { + "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", + "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", + "length": 112, + "id": 7001 + }, + { + "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", + "source": "The Wright Brothers", + "length": 74, + "id": 7002 + }, + { + "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. 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His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", + "source": "1984, George Orwell", + "length": 740, + "id": 7003 + }, + { + "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 74, + "id": 7004 + }, + { + "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 112, + "id": 7005 + }, + { + "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", + "source": "Talos Principle", + "length": 694, + "id": 7006 + }, + { + "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", + "source": "James Salter", + "length": 99, + "id": 7007 + }, + { + "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", + "source": "Vicente Huidobro", + "length": 127, + "id": 7008 + }, + { + "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", + "source": "J. R. R. 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The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7045 + }, + { + "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7046 + }, + { + "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", + "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", + "length": 68, + "id": 7047 + }, + { + "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", + "source": "Shiori Novella", + "length": 179, + "id": 7048 + }, + { + "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7049 + }, + { + "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", + "length": 135, + "id": 7050 + }, + { + "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 232, + "id": 7051 + }, + { + "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 93, + "id": 7052 + }, + { + "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", + "source": "Edward Everett Hale", + "length": 90, + "id": 7053 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 126, + "id": 7054 + }, + { + "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 132, + "id": 7055 + }, + { + "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", + "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", + "length": 300, + "id": 7056 + }, + { + "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", + "source": "Douglas Crockford", + "length": 134, + "id": 7057 + }, + { + "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", + "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", + "length": 107, + "id": 7058 + }, + { + "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", + "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", + "length": 161, + "id": 7059 + }, + { + "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", + "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", + "length": 140, + "id": 7060 + }, + { + "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 174, + "id": 7061 + }, + { + "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 371, + "id": 7062 + }, + { + "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", + "source": "Invincible (TV series)", + "length": 309, + "id": 7603 + }, + { + "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", + "length": 130, + "id": 7604 + }, + { + "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", + "source": "The Walking Dead", + "length": 362, + "id": 7605 + }, + { + "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 568, + "id": 7606 + }, + { + "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", + "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", + "length": 782, + "id": 7607 + }, + { + "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", + "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 631, + "id": 7608 + }, + { + "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", + "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 144, + "id": 7609 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", + "source": "The Magnus Archives", + "length": 369, + "id": 7610 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", + "source": "Magnus Carlsen", + "length": 116, + "id": 7611 + }, + { + "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", + "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", + "length": 541, + "id": 7612 + }, + { + "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", + "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", + "length": 131, + "id": 7613 + }, + { + "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", + "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", + "length": 603, + "id": 7614 + }, + { + "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7615, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7616, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7617, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", + "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7618, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", + "source": "The Power Of Now", + "length": 239, + "id": 7619 + }, + { + "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts", + "length": 84, + "id": 7620 + }, + { + "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", + "length": 142, + "id": 7621 + }, + { + "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", + "length": 673, + "id": 7622 + }, + { + "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", + "length": 307, + "id": 7623 + }, + { + "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", + "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", + "length": 96, + "id": 7624 + }, + { + "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 215, + "id": 7625 + }, + { + "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 130, + "id": 7626 + }, + { + "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 158, + "id": 7627 + }, + { + "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 90, + "id": 7628 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 103, + "id": 7629 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 153, + "id": 7630 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 136, + "id": 7631 + }, + { + "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 165, + "id": 7632 + }, + { + "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", + "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", + "length": 77, + "id": 7633 }, { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", From cccc961b19f25119d5256dc016ecc669e0466b65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:48:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 09/51] fix(quotes): re-added the last of the accidentally removed quotes --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 14743 +------------------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 14737 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 91ecf4568a18..9e45ab6ea600 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38578,14746 +38578,15 @@ "id": 7633 }, { - "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4271, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4272, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4273, - "length": 494 - }, - { - "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", - "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", - "id": 4274, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4275, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", - "source": "Portal", - "id": 4276, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 4277, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", - "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "id": 4279, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", - "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", - "id": 4280, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", - "source": "Intensity: A Novel", - "id": 4281, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", - "source": "419", - "id": 4282, - "length": 266 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", - "source": "Preface to Economix", - "id": 4283, - "length": 387 - }, - { - "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4284, - "length": 314 - }, - { - "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4285, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", - "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", - "id": 4286, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", - "source": "Friday The 13th", - "id": 4287, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", - "source": "Of Mice and Men", - "id": 4288, - "length": 655 - }, - { - "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", - "source": "Paper Mario", - "id": 4289, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4290, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", - "source": "Meditations", - "id": 4291, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", - "source": "An American in Paris", - "id": 4292, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", - "source": "One-Punch Man", - "id": 4293, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4294, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4295, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", - "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", - "id": 4297, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", - "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", - "id": 4298, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4299, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", - "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", - "id": 4300, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", - "source": "The Great Pretender", - "id": 4301, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4302, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4304, - "length": 576 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", - "source": "The Bug", - "id": 4305, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4306, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", - "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", - "id": 4307, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", - "source": "Lateralus", - "id": 4308, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", - "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", - "id": 4309, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4310, - "length": 327 - }, - { - "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4311, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4312, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", - "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", - "id": 4313, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", - "source": "Your Deep Rest", - "id": 4314, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 4315, - "length": 128 - }, - { - "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 4316, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4317, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", - "source": "Leaves of Grass", - "id": 4318, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4319, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4320, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4321, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", - "source": "Before I Forget", - "id": 4322, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", - "source": "Playing For Keeps", - "id": 4323, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", - "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", - "id": 4324, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", - "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", - "id": 4325, - "length": 426 - }, - { - "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4326, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4327, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", - "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", - "id": 4328, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", - "source": "Motion Sickness", - "id": 4329, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", - "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", - "id": 4330, - "length": 500 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", - "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", - "id": 4332, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4333, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4334, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", - "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", - "id": 4335, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", - "source": "Juno", - "id": 4336, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4338, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4339, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", - "source": "Homestuck", - "id": 4340, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", - "source": "The Book of Illusions", - "id": 4341, - "length": 705 - }, - { - "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", - "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", - "id": 4342, - "length": 614 - }, - { - "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", - "source": "The Mist", - "id": 4343, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", - "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", - "id": 4344, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4345, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 4346, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", - "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", - "id": 4347, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", - "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", - "id": 4348, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4349, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4350, - "length": 471 - }, - { - "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", - "source": "Mona Lisa", - "id": 4352, - "length": 447 - }, - { - "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", - "source": "Clerks", - "id": 4353, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4355, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", - "source": "A Separate Peace", - "id": 4356, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", - "source": "The Sopranos", - "id": 4357, - "length": 415 - }, - { - "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4359, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4360, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", - "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", - "id": 4361, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda", - "id": 4364, - "length": 219 - }, - { - "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4365, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", - "source": "The Notebook", - "id": 4366, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", - "source": "Middlemarch", - "id": 4367, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4368, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4369, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", - "source": "A Game of Thrones", - "id": 4370, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", - "source": "King for a Day", - "id": 4371, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", - "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", - "id": 4372, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", - "source": "Say Anything", - "id": 4373, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", - "source": "The Wall", - "id": 4374, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", - "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", - "id": 4375, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4376, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4377, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4379, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", - "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", - "id": 4380, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", - "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", - "id": 4381, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", - "source": "Beautiful Day", - "id": 4383, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", - "source": "Sonic Adventure", - "id": 4385, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", - "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", - "id": 4386, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", - "source": "Blackwater", - "id": 4387, - "length": 609 - }, - { - "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4388, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4389, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4390, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4391, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 4392, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", - "source": "Warrior", - "id": 4393, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4394, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4395, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", - "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", - "id": 4396, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4397, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4398, - "length": 374 - }, - { - "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", - "source": "Boy Meets World", - "id": 4399, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4400, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", - "source": "The Last Lecture", - "id": 4401, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", - "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", - "id": 4402, - "length": 388 - }, - { - "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "id": 4403, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", - "source": "Aeneid", - "id": 4404, - "length": 432 - }, - { - "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4406, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", - "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", - "id": 4407, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4408, - "length": 564 - }, - { - "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4409, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", - "source": "Ninja Mind Control", - "id": 4411, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", - "source": "The Canterbury Tales", - "id": 4412, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", - "source": "Firestorm", - "id": 4413, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4414, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4415, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", - "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", - "id": 4417, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", - "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", - "id": 4418, - "length": 642 - }, - { - "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", - "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", - "id": 4419, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", - "source": "Amadeus", - "id": 4420, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "id": 4421, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", - "source": "Hey Jude", - "id": 4422, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4423, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", - "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", - "id": 4425, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", - "source": "InuYasha", - "id": 4426, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4427, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4428, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", - "source": "Beauty and the Beast", - "id": 4429, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", - "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", - "id": 4430, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", - "source": "Pickman's Model", - "id": 4431, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", - "source": "American Pie", - "id": 4432, - "length": 639 - }, - { - "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4433, - "length": 368 - }, - { - "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", - "source": "Corner Gas", - "id": 4435, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", - "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", - "id": 4436, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4437, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", - "source": "All Night", - "id": 4438, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid", - "id": 4439, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", - "source": "Airplane!", - "id": 4440, - "length": 330 - }, - { - "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4441, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", - "source": "The Gambler", - "id": 4442, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", - "source": "I, Mammal", - "id": 4443, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4444, - "length": 527 - }, - { - "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4445, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", - "source": "The First Elegy", - "id": 4446, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4447, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", - "source": "Never Ever", - "id": 4448, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4449, - "length": 410 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", - "source": "Head Over Feet", - "id": 4450, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "id": 4451, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4452, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", - "source": "Quiz Show", - "id": 4453, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4454, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", - "source": "Areopagitica", - "id": 4456, - "length": 822 - }, - { - "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4457, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "id": 4458, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "id": 4459, - "length": 482 - }, - { - "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "id": 4460, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", - "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", - "id": 4461, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4462, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4463, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4464, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4466, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", - "source": "World Enough and Time", - "id": 4467, - "length": 548 - }, - { - "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", - "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", - "id": 4468, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4469, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", - "source": "That's What Friends Are For", - "id": 4470, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4471, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", - "source": "King Park", - "id": 4472, - "length": 115 - }, - { - "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 4473, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", - "source": "Beautiful", - "id": 4474, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", - "source": "Subdivisions", - "id": 4475, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", - "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", - "id": 4477, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4478, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", - "source": "Cages", - "id": 4479, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4480, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", - "source": "Apocalypse Now", - "id": 4481, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4483, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4484, - "length": 503 - }, - { - "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4485, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4486, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4487, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4488, - "length": 512 - }, - { - "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", - "source": "Total Annihilation", - "id": 4489, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", - "source": "Small Gods", - "id": 4490, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4491, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4492, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", - "source": "The Analects", - "id": 4493, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "id": 4494, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", - "source": "White Collar", - "id": 4496, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 4497, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", - "source": "The Wire", - "id": 4498, - "length": 608 - }, - { - "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", - "source": "Cars", - "id": 4499, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", - "source": "The Two Towers", - "id": 4500, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4501, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4502, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4504, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "id": 4505, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4506, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4507, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4508, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4509, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", - "source": "Sacrifice", - "id": 4510, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4511, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", - "source": "The Princess Bride", - "id": 4512, - "length": 301 - }, - { - "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 4513, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", - "source": "Fox in Socks", - "id": 4514, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", - "id": 4515, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", - "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", - "id": 4516, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", - "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", - "id": 4518, - "length": 831 - }, - { - "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", - "source": "Private Idaho", - "id": 4519, - "length": 221 - }, - { - "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", - "source": "Paprika", - "id": 4520, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4521, - "length": 351 - }, - { - "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", - "source": "The Blues Brothers", - "id": 4522, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", - "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", - "id": 4523, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", - "source": "Into Thin Air", - "id": 4524, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", - "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", - "id": 4527, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4528, - "length": 80 - }, - { - "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4529, - "length": 539 - }, - { - "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", - "source": "Eclipse", - "id": 4530, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4532, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4534, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "id": 4535, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4536, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", - "source": "Harold and Maude", - "id": 4537, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "id": 4538, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", - "source": "The Court Jester", - "id": 4539, - "length": 343 - }, - { - "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", - "source": "Lessons in Tanya", - "id": 4540, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", - "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", - "id": 4541, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", - "source": "I Have A Dream", - "id": 4543, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 4544, - "length": 385 - }, - { - "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4545, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4546, - "length": 563 - }, - { - "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", - "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", - "id": 4547, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", - "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "id": 4548, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4549, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", - "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", - "id": 4550, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4551, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", - "source": "The Giver", - "id": 4552, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", - "source": "The River", - "id": 4553, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4554, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4555, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4556, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", - "source": "The Lion in Winter", - "id": 4557, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", - "source": "Eight of Nine", - "id": 4558, - "length": 70 - }, - { - "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", - "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", - "id": 4559, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4560, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", - "source": "Galaxy Song", - "id": 4561, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4562, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", - "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", - "id": 4563, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", - "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", - "id": 4564, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", - "source": "The End of the Innocence", - "id": 4565, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4566, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4567, - "length": 59 - }, - { - "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", - "source": "My Inventions", - "id": 4569, - "length": 656 - }, - { - "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", - "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", - "id": 4571, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", - "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", - "id": 4572, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", - "source": "Monster Mash", - "id": 4573, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", - "source": "My Favorite Things", - "id": 4575, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", - "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", - "id": 4576, - "length": 356 - }, - { - "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4577, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", - "source": "Right Here Waiting", - "id": 4578, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", - "source": "Looking Backward", - "id": 4580, - "length": 479 - }, - { - "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 4581, - "length": 574 - }, - { - "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", - "source": "Carmilla", - "id": 4582, - "length": 818 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", - "source": "The Snowman", - "id": 4583, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4585, - "length": 434 - }, - { - "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", - "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", - "id": 4586, - "length": 666 - }, - { - "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4587, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", - "source": "I, Robot", - "id": 4588, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", - "source": "Naruto", - "id": 4589, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", - "source": "All About Eve", - "id": 4590, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", - "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", - "id": 4591, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", - "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", - "id": 4592, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", - "source": "The Complete Far Side", - "id": 4593, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4594, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "id": 4595, - "length": 569 - }, - { - "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", - "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", - "id": 4596, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", - "source": "Flatland", - "id": 4597, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", - "source": "Radioactive", - "id": 4598, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", - "source": "Metro 2033", - "id": 4599, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4600, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4601, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", - "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", - "id": 4603, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", - "source": "American Splendor", - "id": 4604, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 4605, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", - "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", - "id": 4606, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", - "source": "Lucy", - "id": 4607, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", - "source": "Inception", - "id": 4608, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", - "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", - "id": 4609, - "length": 433 - }, - { - "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4610, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", - "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", - "id": 4611, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4612, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", - "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", - "id": 4613, - "length": 444 - }, - { - "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4614, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", - "id": 4615, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", - "source": "Heroes", - "id": 4616, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XII", - "id": 4618, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4619, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4620, - "length": 597 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", - "source": "North by Northwest", - "id": 4621, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4622, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", - "source": "Being There", - "id": 4623, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4624, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", - "source": "Trading Places", - "id": 4625, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4626, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", - "source": "Blue's Clues", - "id": 4627, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", - "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", - "id": 4628, - "length": 570 - }, - { - "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", - "source": "Pushing Daisies", - "id": 4629, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", - "source": "Sexy Beast", - "id": 4630, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", - "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", - "id": 4631, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4632, - "length": 604 - }, - { - "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4633, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4634, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 4635, - "length": 334 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", - "source": "The Night Diary", - "id": 4636, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4637, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", - "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", - "id": 4638, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", - "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", - "id": 4639, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", - "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", - "id": 4641, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4642, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", - "source": "Poison", - "id": 4643, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4644, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", - "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "id": 4645, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4647, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", - "source": "What Dreams May Come", - "id": 4648, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", - "source": "Parasite", - "id": 4649, - "length": 477 - }, - { - "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4651, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", - "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", - "id": 4652, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4654, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", - "source": "The Imitation Game", - "id": 4655, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4656, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", - "source": "True Romance", - "id": 4657, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", - "source": "Heavy Metal", - "id": 4658, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4659, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4660, - "length": 294 - }, - { - "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", - "source": "Paul Clifford", - "id": 4661, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4662, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", - "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", - "id": 4663, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "id": 4664, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4665, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", - "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", - "id": 4666, - "length": 515 - }, - { - "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", - "source": "The Hunger Games", - "id": 4667, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", - "source": "The Odyssey", - "id": 4668, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 4669, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", - "source": "Lazarus", - "id": 4670, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", - "source": "Understanding Media", - "id": 4671, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", - "source": "Deadwood", - "id": 4672, - "length": 498 - }, - { - "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", - "source": "Madagascar", - "id": 4673, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", - "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", - "id": 4674, - "length": 333 - }, - { - "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", - "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", - "id": 4675, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", - "source": "All I Want", - "id": 4676, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", - "id": 4677, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", - "source": "Lithium", - "id": 4678, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", - "source": "Gone Girl", - "id": 4679, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", - "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", - "id": 4680, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", - "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", - "id": 4681, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", - "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", - "id": 4682, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", - "source": "Human Nature", - "id": 4683, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", - "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", - "id": 4685, - "length": 485 - }, - { - "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", - "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", - "id": 4686, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4687, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", - "source": "No Logo", - "id": 4688, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 4689, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4690, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4691, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", - "id": 4692, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4693, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", - "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", - "id": 4695, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4696, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4697, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4698, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", - "source": "On the Social Contract", - "id": 4699, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", - "source": "The Lorax", - "id": 4701, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", - "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", - "id": 4702, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", - "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", - "id": 4703, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", - "source": "Essentials of Economics", - "id": 4704, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 4705, - "length": 427 - }, - { - "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", - "source": "The Time Machine", - "id": 4706, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", - "source": "The Historian", - "id": 4707, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", - "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", - "id": 4708, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4710, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4711, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", - "source": "Thinking Bout You", - "id": 4714, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", - "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", - "id": 4715, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4716, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", - "source": "Sunset Boulevard", - "id": 4717, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", - "source": "Allentown", - "id": 4719, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4720, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4721, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4722, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", - "source": "Gandhi", - "id": 4723, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", - "source": "Hands Down", - "id": 4724, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", - "source": "Made in Abyss", - "id": 4725, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", - "source": "Halloween", - "id": 4726, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", - "source": "Breaking Away", - "id": 4728, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", - "source": "King's Quest I", - "id": 4730, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4731, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", - "source": "Roseanne", - "id": 4732, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4733, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", - "source": "Holidays on Ice", - "id": 4734, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", - "source": "I Am A Rock", - "id": 4735, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 4736, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4737, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", - "source": "Les Misérables", - "id": 4738, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", - "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", - "id": 4739, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4740, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 4741, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4742, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", - "source": "Holiday", - "id": 4743, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4744, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4745, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", - "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", - "id": 4746, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", - "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", - "id": 4747, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", - "source": "The Lost Weekend", - "id": 4749, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", - "source": "The Sound of Music", - "id": 4750, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4751, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4752, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", - "source": "Naked Lunch", - "id": 4753, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4754, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", - "source": "Overestimation", - "id": 4755, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", - "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", - "id": 4756, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", - "source": "Shaun of the Dead", - "id": 4757, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", - "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", - "id": 4758, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4759, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4760, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4761, - "length": 487 - }, - { - "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", - "source": "Confessions", - "id": 4762, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4763, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4764, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4767, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4768, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4769, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4770, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", - "source": "Name", - "id": 4771, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", - "source": "Brave New World", - "id": 4772, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", - "source": "Shiny Happy People", - "id": 4773, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", - "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", - "id": 4774, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", - "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", - "id": 4775, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", - "source": "Wine for Dummies", - "id": 4776, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", - "source": "Nightmare", - "id": 4777, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4778, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4779, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", - "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", - "id": 4780, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4781, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4782, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4783, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", - "source": "Beetlejuice", - "id": 4784, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4786, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", - "source": "Novum Organum", - "id": 4787, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4788, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", - "source": "It's My Life", - "id": 4789, - "length": 106 - }, - { - "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", - "source": "Falling", - "id": 4790, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4791, - "length": 567 - }, - { - "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", - "source": "Chateau Cascade", - "id": 4792, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", - "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", - "id": 4793, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4794, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4795, - "length": 510 - }, - { - "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4796, - "length": 151 - }, - { - "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", - "source": "UnTechnical Writing", - "id": 4797, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", - "source": "Physics for Game Developers", - "id": 4798, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4799, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", - "source": "What If?", - "id": 4800, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", - "source": "A Study in Scarlet", - "id": 4801, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", - "source": "Porgy and Bess", - "id": 4802, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", - "source": "Cool As Ice", - "id": 4803, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4805, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 4806, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4807, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", - "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", - "id": 4808, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", - "source": "Shoe Dog", - "id": 4809, - "length": 579 - }, - { - "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4810, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4812, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", - "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", - "id": 4813, - "length": 375 - }, - { - "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4814, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4815, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4816, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", - "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", - "id": 4818, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", - "source": "Dubliners", - "id": 4819, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", - "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", - "id": 4820, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4821, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4822, - "length": 540 - }, - { - "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4823, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", - "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", - "id": 4824, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4825, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4826, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", - "source": "Battlesong", - "id": 4827, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", - "id": 4828, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", - "source": "The Complete Project Manager", - "id": 4829, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", - "source": "Savoy Truffle", - "id": 4830, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 4831, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 4832, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4833, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", - "source": "Restraint", - "id": 4834, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4835, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", - "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", - "id": 4836, - "length": 184 - }, - { - "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", - "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", - "id": 4837, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", - "source": "Underground", - "id": 4838, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4839, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4840, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 4841, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4842, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4843, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", - "source": "Saving Us a Riot", - "id": 4844, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", - "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", - "id": 4846, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4847, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4848, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", - "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "id": 4849, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", - "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", - "id": 4851, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", - "source": "Collide", - "id": 4852, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", - "source": "Hannah Hunt", - "id": 4853, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", - "source": "Limitless", - "id": 4854, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", - "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", - "id": 4855, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "id": 4856, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4857, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", - "source": "Wag the Dog", - "id": 4858, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4859, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 4860, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4861, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 4863, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", - "source": "The Elements of Style", - "id": 4864, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", - "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", - "id": 4865, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", - "source": "Pale Blue Dot", - "id": 4866, - "length": 820 - }, - { - "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", - "source": "DOOM 4", - "id": 4867, - "length": 502 - }, - { - "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", - "source": "The Recruit", - "id": 4868, - "length": 386 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", - "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", - "id": 4869, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", - "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", - "id": 4870, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", - "id": 4871, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4872, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4873, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", - "source": "Running and Travel", - "id": 4874, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", - "source": "On Demand Culture", - "id": 4875, - "length": 507 - }, - { - "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4876, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4877, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", - "source": "The Sirens of Titan", - "id": 4878, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4879, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4880, - "length": 441 - }, - { - "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4881, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", - "source": "13 Reasons Why", - "id": 4882, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", - "source": "Leaves from the Vine", - "id": 4883, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4884, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4885, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4886, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", - "source": "The Logical Song", - "id": 4887, - "length": 380 - }, - { - "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 4888, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 4889, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", - "source": "Kokomo", - "id": 4890, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4891, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4893, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4894, - "length": 271 - }, - { - "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", - "source": "October Sky", - "id": 4895, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4896, - "length": 336 - }, - { - "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", - "source": "Pulp Fiction", - "id": 4897, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4899, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4900, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", - "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", - "id": 4901, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4902, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", - "source": "Sailing", - "id": 4903, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", - "id": 4904, - "length": 474 - }, - { - "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 4905, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", - "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", - "id": 4907, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", - "source": "Let Me Love You", - "id": 4908, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4909, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", - "source": "When Love Arrives", - "id": 4910, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", - "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", - "id": 4912, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4913, - "length": 64 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4915, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", - "source": "The Medium is the Massage", - "id": 4916, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", - "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", - "id": 4917, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", - "source": "Swamp Thing", - "id": 4918, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4919, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4920, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4921, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", - "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", - "id": 4922, - "length": 449 - }, - { - "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "id": 4923, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", - "source": "Halo 2", - "id": 4924, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", - "source": "The Return", - "id": 4925, - "length": 399 - }, - { - "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", - "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", - "id": 4928, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", - "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", - "id": 4929, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", - "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", - "id": 4931, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", - "source": "Moulin Rouge", - "id": 4932, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 4933, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4934, - "length": 288 - }, - { - "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4935, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4936, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4937, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", - "source": "Return of the Jedi", - "id": 4938, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", - "source": "Sin City", - "id": 4939, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4940, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", - "source": "The Lightning Thief", - "id": 4941, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", - "source": "Stardew Valley", - "id": 4942, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 4943, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", - "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", - "id": 4944, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4945, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4946, - "length": 488 - }, - { - "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", - "source": "Scream 2", - "id": 4947, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", - "source": "The Floating Fire", - "id": 4948, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4949, - "length": 440 - }, - { - "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", - "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", - "id": 4950, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4951, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", - "source": "A History of Mathematics", - "id": 4952, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", - "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "id": 4953, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4954, - "length": 90 - }, - { - "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", - "source": "Classical Mythology", - "id": 4955, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", - "source": "Piano Man", - "id": 4956, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", - "source": "Industrial Disease", - "id": 4957, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", - "source": "History of Art", - "id": 4958, - "length": 612 - }, - { - "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", - "source": "Orientalism", - "id": 4959, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", - "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", - "id": 4960, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", - "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", - "id": 4961, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4962, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", - "source": "Firestarter", - "id": 4963, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 4964, - "length": 790 - }, - { - "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", - "source": "Dunkelheit", - "id": 4965, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", - "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", - "id": 4966, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4967, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4968, - "length": 346 - }, - { - "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", - "source": "The West Wing", - "id": 4969, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", - "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", - "id": 4970, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", - "source": "The Lurking Fear", - "id": 4971, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", - "source": "Last Dance", - "id": 4972, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", - "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", - "id": 4973, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4974, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", - "source": "Lemon Tree", - "id": 4975, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4976, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", - "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", - "id": 4977, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", - "source": "Mean Girls", - "id": 4979, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", - "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", - "id": 4980, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4981, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4982, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", - "source": "911 For Peace", - "id": 4983, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", - "source": "The Greatest", - "id": 4984, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4987, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", - "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", - "id": 4988, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", - "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", - "id": 4989, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4990, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4991, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", - "source": "True Blood", - "id": 4992, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", - "source": "Awakenings", - "id": 4993, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", - "id": 4994, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "id": 4995, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", - "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", - "id": 4996, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", - "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", - "id": 4997, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4998, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4999, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", - "source": "Helplessly Hoping", - "id": 5000, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5002, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5003, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5004, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5005, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5006, - "length": 48 - }, - { - "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5007, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5008, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5009, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5010, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5011, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5012, - "length": 309 - }, - { - "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5014, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5015, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5016, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5017, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5018, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5020, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5021, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5022, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5023, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5024, - "length": 41 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5025, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5026, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5028, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5029, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5030, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5031, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5032, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5033, - "length": 91 - }, - { - "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5034, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5035, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5036, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5037, - "length": 230 - }, - { - "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5038, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5039, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5040, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5041, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5042, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5043, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5044, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5045, - "length": 46 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5046, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5047, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5048, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5049, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5050, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5051, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5052, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5053, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5054, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5055, - "length": 53 - }, - { - "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5056, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5057, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5058, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5059, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5060, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5061, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5062, - "length": 723 - }, - { - "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5063, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5064, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5065, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5066, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5067, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 89, - "id": 5068 - }, - { - "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 194, - "id": 5069 - }, - { - "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 293, - "id": 5070 - }, - { - "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 135, - "id": 5071 - }, - { - "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 171, - "id": 5072 - }, - { - "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", - "source": "James Cameron", - "length": 104, - "id": 5073 - }, - { - "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", - "source": "Allen Saunders", - "length": 57, - "id": 5074 - }, - { - "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", - "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", - "length": 178, - "id": 5075 - }, - { - "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 325, - "id": 5076 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", - "length": 85, - "id": 5077 - }, - { - "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", - "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", - "length": 148, - "id": 5078 - }, - { - "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", - "source": "Neo, The Matrix", - "length": 556, - "id": 5079 - }, - { - "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", - "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5080 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", - "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", - "length": 207, - "id": 5081 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 121, - "id": 5082 - }, - { - "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 129, - "id": 5083 - }, - { - "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 119, - "id": 5084 - }, - { - "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 81, - "id": 5085 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 484, - "id": 5086 - }, - { - "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 60, - "id": 5087 - }, - { - "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", - "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5089 - }, - { - "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", - "length": 203, - "id": 5090 - }, - { - "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 222, - "id": 5091 - }, - { - "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", - "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 215, - "id": 5092 - }, - { - "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 177, - "id": 5094 - }, - { - "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5095 - }, - { - "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 205, - "id": 5096 - }, - { - "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 30, - "id": 5097 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 31, - "id": 5098 - }, - { - "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", - "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", - "length": 112, - "id": 5099 - }, - { - "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 279, - "id": 5100 - }, - { - "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 211, - "id": 5101 - }, - { - "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", - "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", - "length": 161, - "id": 5102 - }, - { - "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", - "source": "Terence Mckenna", - "length": 117, - "id": 5103 - }, - { - "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", - "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", - "length": 67, - "id": 5104 - }, - { - "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 504, - "id": 5105 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", - "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", - "length": 155, - "id": 5106 - }, - { - "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", - "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", - "length": 127, - "id": 5107 - }, - { - "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", - "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", - "length": 109, - "id": 5108 - }, - { - "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", - "source": "Max Payne", - "length": 164, - "id": 5109 - }, - { - "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", - "source": "Alex Honnold", - "length": 222, - "id": 5110 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", - "source": "The Way of Kings", - "length": 109, - "id": 5111 - }, - { - "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 111, - "id": 5112 - }, - { - "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 188, - "id": 5113 - }, - { - "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 121, - "id": 5114 - }, - { - "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 147, - "id": 5115 - }, - { - "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 630, - "id": 5116 - }, - { - "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 398, - "id": 5117 - }, - { - "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 129, - "id": 5118 - }, - { - "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", - "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", - "length": 249, - "id": 5119 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", - "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", - "length": 259, - "id": 5120 - }, - { - "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", - "source": "Maurice V. Wilkes, Computers Then And Now", - "length": 626, - "id": 5122 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes.", - "source": "Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "length": 208, - "id": 5123 - }, - { - "text": "He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 418, - "id": 5124 - }, - { - "text": "He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 427, - "id": 5125 - }, - { - "text": "Alone now, I leaned over the edge of my boat and looked down to the bottom of the sea. The volcano was gone. The water's calm surface reflected the blue of the sky. Little waves - like silk pajamas fluttering in a breeze - lapped against the side of the boat. There was nothing else. I stretched out in the bottom of the boat and closed my eyes, waiting for the rising tide to carry me where I belonged.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack", - "length": 403, - "id": 5126 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna tell you a story. You go to a party and you walk up to the guys and you're like, \"I just bought a two thousand dollar big screen TV, and surround sound.\" Or you walk up to the wife and you're like, \"What do you think of my new fifteen hundred dollar earrings I bought for you.\" And nobody bats an eye. But you mention once that you're thinking about spending seventeen hundred dollars on a set of headphones, and everybody loses their mind! And I don't understand why.", - "source": "Z Reviews - Auduze LCD-X", - "length": 478, - "id": 5127 - }, - { - "text": "The interconnected internet platforms have become more substantial than any country or corporation. Humans have redefined the \"net\" and how we interact with it. As technology develops, the virtual world is now capable of replacing the real one. Using a device installed behind the ear, humans can now easily sync to the virtual world. Thus, life is now completely different than the past centuries. The center of this change is the virtual internet space - cyTus, the world's largest virtual city.", - "source": "Cytus II", - "length": 497, - "id": 5129 - }, - { - "text": "I love you too, but I'm gonna mace you in the face!", - "source": "The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson", - "length": 51, - "id": 5130 - }, - { - "text": "Computation is essential, powerful, beautiful, challenging, ever-expanding and so is its theory.", - "source": "Elements of the Theory of Computation", - "length": 96, - "id": 5131 - }, - { - "text": "Atmospheric air is only about 20 percent oxygen, but that oxygen is a key component of the chemical reactions that keep the body alive, including the reactions that produce ATP. Brain cells are especially sensitive to lack of oxygen because of their requirement for a high-and-steady production of ATP. Brain damage is likely within five minutes without oxygen, and death is likely within ten minutes.", - "source": "Anatomy and Physiology, OpenStax", - "length": 401, - "id": 5132 - }, - { - "text": "Whoever you may be, governor, prince or anyone else, whom the gods may choose to exercise kingship, I have made you a tablet-box and written a stone tablet. I have deposited them for you in Cutha, in the cella of Nergal in the temple E-meslam. Behold this stone tablet, give ear to what this stone tablet says!", - "source": "Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh", - "length": 310, - "id": 5133 - }, - { - "text": "It's crazy to think that everything we could ever possibly say or write is massively outweighed by meaningless strings of letters and punctuation.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 146, - "id": 5135 - }, - { - "text": "This one time, me and my mom were going to go to a furry Christmas party, but we didn't end up going because of the fact that there was alcohol on the premises, and that she didn't wanna have to be a mom dragging her son through a crowd of furries. Both of those reasons were understandable. Okay, hopefully I won't have to talk about furries anymore.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 351, - "id": 5136 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, I'm back once again. Happy Pi Day! I memorized a bunch of digits of Pi once, not sure how many I still remember... I have literally nothing to write about now.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 166, - "id": 5137 - }, - { - "text": "All I hear right now is Baby Shark being blasted upstairs.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 58, - "id": 5138 - }, - { - "text": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, As You Like It", - "length": 66, - "id": 5139 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you seemed so sure it was real? But if you were unable to wake from that dream, how would you tell the difference between the dream world and the real world?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5142 - }, - { - "text": "Well, women in London must've learned not to breathe.", - "source": "Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 53, - "id": 5143 - }, - { - "text": "I think the real tragedy is in the inner war which is waged between people who love each other, a war out of which comes knowledge.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence", - "length": 131, - "id": 5144 - }, - { - "text": "What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life... a heroic and immeasurable gift.", - "source": "Frieda Lawrence", - "length": 168, - "id": 5145 - }, - { - "text": "\"Can it be getting dark so soon?\" He winced up at the sun. It's growing dim and I thought that the day had just begun. I think, before I travel on, I'll get a little rest... And, quietly, the boy died from that small pain in his chest.", - "source": "Michael Mack, Small pain in my chest", - "length": 236, - "id": 5146 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you remember, Ma, when I went off to war, you thought it was the best thing I could do? I was on the battleground, you were home... acting proud. You weren't there standing in my shoes.", - "source": "Bob Dylan, John Brown", - "length": 191, - "id": 5148 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thank you, my dear, for your offer,\" said the wife, rising, \"but I'm afraid no man can expect two blue birds of happiness to flutter round his feet, tearing out their little feathers!\"", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 185, - "id": 5149 - }, - { - "text": "The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly. Tom stood a moment to gather his dismembered faculties; and when he stepped forward to go to his punishment, the surprise, the gratitude, the adoration that shone upon him out of poor Becky's eyes seemed pay enough for a hundred floggings. Inspired by the splendour of his own act, he took without an outcry the most merciless flogging that even Mr. Dobbins had ever administered; and also received with indifference the added cruelty of a command to remain two hours after school should be dismissed - for he knew who would wait for him outside till his captivity was done, and not count the tedious time as loss either.", - "source": "Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer", - "length": 679, - "id": 5150 - }, - { - "text": "Fret not, my dear friend, for I have learned the truth. It matters not whether one is dirty or clean, for can cleanliness exist without filthiness, and would we know filthiness without cleanliness? We must not re-enact the history that divides us, rather we must embrace that which draws us together.", - "source": "Spongebob Squarepants", - "length": 300, - "id": 5151 - }, - { - "text": "So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way I am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.", - "source": "Jeff Kinney, Dog Days", - "length": 120, - "id": 5152 - }, - { - "text": "Slow starvation, the doctor called it! You see he went to work in such a way! Would keep the shop on; wouldn't have a soul touch his boots except himself. When he got an order, it took him such a time. People won't wait. He lost everybody. And there he'd sit, goin' on and on - I will say that for him - not a man in London made a better boot! But look at the competition! He never advertised! Would 'ave the best leather, too, and do it all 'imself. Well, there it is. What could you expect with his ideas?", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 507, - "id": 5153 - }, - { - "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 276, - "id": 5154 - }, - { - "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 303, - "id": 5155 - }, - { - "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. Suddenly he found himself with them, coming along the trail and looking for himself. And, still with them, he came around a turn in the trail and found himself lying in the snow. He did not belong with himself any more, for even then he was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow. It certainly was cold, was his thought. When he got back to the States he could tell the folks what real cold was. He drifted on from this to a vision of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek. He could see him quite clearly, warm and comfortable, and smoking a pipe.", - "source": "Jack London, To Build a Fire", - "length": 627, - "id": 5156 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, I'm back again. My computer crashed AGAIN, and I was ignorant enough to not save my work, so that means I have to start this part of the text all over again. That's quite unfortunate. But did I mention that my Google Chrome is working again? That's the good news.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 267, - "id": 5157 - }, - { - "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 235, - "id": 5159 - }, - { - "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 103, - "id": 5160 - }, - { - "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 91, - "id": 5161 - }, - { - "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 212, - "id": 5162 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't give up on our dreams! We changed our dreams into your dream. That's what parents do. That's what family does.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 120, - "id": 5163 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 280, - "id": 5164 - }, - { - "text": "Everyday people keep hurting each other, it's no wonder why you doubt what other people in the world tell you.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 110, - "id": 5165 - }, - { - "text": "Fun things. Happy things. They'll all eventually change someday, you know? But can you still love this place?", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 109, - "id": 5166 - }, - { - "text": "The shape of the wedding ring has two meanings. One is eternity. The other is completeness.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 91, - "id": 5167 - }, - { - "text": "You shouldn't hold back your tears. You should let it all out while you still can - because when you get bigger sometimes you can't cry even if you have something to cry about.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 176, - "id": 5168 - }, - { - "text": "If I'm around you, I don't think I'll ever be bored.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 52, - "id": 5169 - }, - { - "text": "We have no choice but to accept the one and only life we're given, no matter how cruel and heartless it might be.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 113, - "id": 5170 - }, - { - "text": "One person needed courage to face the past. Another person needed effort to make a dream come true. Yet another person needed time and friends. What about you?", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 159, - "id": 5171 - }, - { - "text": "Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5172 - }, - { - "text": "No matter what kind of past you had, don't lose sight of yourself.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 66, - "id": 5173 - }, - { - "text": "If I can meet you again, against the 6 billion to 1 odds, and even if your body can't move, I'll marry you.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5174 - }, - { - "text": "Even if you can't walk or stand and even if you can't have kids, I'll still marry you, I'll always stay by your side.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 117, - "id": 5175 - }, - { - "text": "I heard that when things were painful for her, she'd cover her ears with headphones and escape to the world of music. I tried it too. It was like everything was blown away. The vocals screamed for me. They grieved for me. The ones who put on the act of common sense were wrong. Those who cried were right.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 305, - "id": 5176 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 70, - "id": 5177 - }, - { - "text": "They come without asking, and then they leave just the same. But once you meet them, even if nobody ever knows it, that encounter will change your life for the better.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 167, - "id": 5178 - }, - { - "text": "It's times like this that I wish I could come up with an appropriate response. I hate myself for not being able to reply properly.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 130, - "id": 5179 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have anywhere to go... but I can't just selfishly disappear either.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 77, - "id": 5180 - }, - { - "text": "It's strange isn't it. The two groups, which looked like they hated each other, are now shining the same color as they vanish into the distant sky.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 147, - "id": 5181 - }, - { - "text": "You know Mitch, now that I'm dying, I've become much more interesting to people.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 80, - "id": 5182 - }, - { - "text": "I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 212, - "id": 5183 - }, - { - "text": "He feared sleep. He'd say that his soul would slip down into nothing. They say that man never dreamt after the day he cut his pillow.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 133, - "id": 5184 - }, - { - "text": "If you could see everything but couldn't change any of it, or if you could live in freedom in darkness... Which do you think is more fortunate? I think it might not be that bad living in the dark, remembering the light.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 219, - "id": 5185 - }, - { - "text": "ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. Often, it begins with the legs and works its way up. You lose control of your thigh muscles, so that you cannot support yourself standing. You lose control of your trunk muscles, so that you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive, you are breathing through a tube in a hole in your throat, while your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk, perhaps able to blink, or cluck a tongue, like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh. This takes no more than five years from the day you contract the disease.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 658, - "id": 5186 - }, - { - "text": "The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. My dream was to be a famous musician (I played the piano), but after several years of dark, empty nightclubs, broken promises, bands that kept breaking and producers who seemed excited about everyone but me, the dream soured. I was failing for the first time in my life.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 457, - "id": 5187 - }, - { - "text": "After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 264, - "id": 5188 - }, - { - "text": "Miodec you've literally made one of the best typing websites on the web to date but you still lazily sit there watching youtube videos with a measly 140 wpm smh. And have you forgotten about tribes completely? That's like saying ur gonna hurt someone, but then never do it and leave them scared for the rest of their life (bad example) except you tell us about tribes and leave everyone excited but never deliver.", - "source": "Miodec Bully Rank Copy Pasta", - "length": 413, - "id": 5189 - }, - { - "text": "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 247, - "id": 5190 - }, - { - "text": "\"You see,\" he says to the girl, \"you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.\"", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 317, - "id": 5191 - }, - { - "text": "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.", - "source": "Stupid Monkey, Simpsons S4 E17", - "length": 53, - "id": 5192 - }, - { - "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 289, - "id": 5195 - }, - { - "text": "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 64, - "id": 5196 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I know you doubt me. I know - I know you always have. And you're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that's where I belong. That's home. And that's why I came back. Because... you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", - "length": 326, - "id": 5197 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 66, - "id": 5198 - }, - { - "text": "I never expected a money success. In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties. It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain a certain position and to send his children to good schools. Well, one day I came to a blank page in an exam book and I scribbled on it. 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I knew no more about the creatures than that, and it was years before his story grew. I don't know where the word came from. You can't catch your mind out. It might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. Certainly not rabbit, as some people think. Babbitt has the same bourgeois smugness that hobbits do. His world is the same limited place.", - "source": "An Interview with J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 874, - "id": 5199 - }, - { - "text": "\"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!\" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say \"out of the frying-pan into the fire\" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 178, - "id": 5200 - }, - { - "text": "This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 284, - "id": 5201 - }, - { - "text": "Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer... was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of The Green Fields and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way, the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 408, - "id": 5202 - }, - { - "text": "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 247, - "id": 5203 - }, - { - "text": "As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 185, - "id": 5204 - }, - { - "text": "And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 164, - "id": 5205 - }, - { - "text": "You've got about as much charm as a dead slug.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 46, - "id": 5206 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.", - "source": "Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games", - "length": 85, - "id": 5207 - }, - { - "text": "If any of you are ever passing Bag-End, tea is at four. There's plenty of it. You are welcome anytime. Oh, and don't bother knocking!", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 133, - "id": 5208 - }, - { - "text": "Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 59, - "id": 5209 - }, - { - "text": "Gale gave me a sense of security I'd lacked since my father's death. His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods. I became a much better hunter when I didn't have to look over my shoulder constantly, when someone was watching my back... Being out in the woods with Gale... sometimes I was actually happy.", - "source": "Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games", - "length": 324, - "id": 5211 - }, - { - "text": "Destroying things is much easier than making them.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 50, - "id": 5212 - }, - { - "text": "Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the man with the megaphones.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 172, - "id": 5213 - }, - { - "text": "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 131, - "id": 5215 - }, - { - "text": "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.", - "source": "Jack, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 123, - "id": 5216 - }, - { - "text": "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 308, - "id": 5217 - }, - { - "text": "\"I don't feel very much like Pooh today,\" said Pooh. \"There, there,\" said Piglet. \"I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 126, - "id": 5218 - }, - { - "text": "Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 154, - "id": 5219 - }, - { - "text": "\"We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?\" asked Piglet. \"Even longer,\" Pooh answered.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 87, - "id": 5220 - }, - { - "text": "If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 140, - "id": 5221 - }, - { - "text": "\"What a long time whoever lives here is answering this door.\" And he knocked again. \"But Pooh,\" said Piglet, \"it's your own house!\" \"Oh!\" said Pooh. \"So it is,\" he said. \"Well, let's go in.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 190, - "id": 5222 - }, - { - "text": "If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 100, - "id": 5223 - }, - { - "text": "Both the stack and the heap are parts of memory that are available to your code to use at runtime, but they are structured in different ways. The stack stores values in the order it gets them and removes the values in the opposite order. This is referred to as last in, first out. Think of a stack of plates: when you add more plates, you put them on top of the pile, and when you need a plate, you take one off the top. Adding or removing plates from the middle or bottom wouldn't work as well! Adding data is called pushing onto the stack, and removing data is called popping off the stack.", - "source": "The Rust Programming Language", - "length": 592, - "id": 5224 - }, - { - "text": "Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 108, - "id": 5225 - }, - { - "text": "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. 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If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 178, - "id": 5230 - }, - { - "text": "I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 74, - "id": 5231 - }, - { - "text": "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 112, - "id": 5232 - }, - { - "text": "We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 161, - "id": 5235 - }, - { - "text": "I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 476, - "id": 5236 - }, - { - "text": "\"Go back?\" he thought. \"No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!\" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 255, - "id": 5237 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 169, - "id": 5238 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 85, - "id": 5239 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell, King under the Mountain! This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils - that has been more than any Baggins deserves.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 218, - "id": 5240 - }, - { - "text": "\"Very well!\" said Bilbo very downcast, and also rather annoyed. \"Come along back to your nice cells, and I will lock you all in again, and you can sit there comfortably and think of a better plan - but I don't suppose I shall ever get hold of the keys again, even if I feel inclined to try.\"", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 291, - "id": 5242 - }, - { - "text": "'It will not be long now,' thought Bilbo, 'before the goblins win the Gate, and we are all slaughtered or driven down and captured. Really it is enough to make one weep, after all one has gone through. I would rather old Smaug had been left with all the wretched treasure, than that these vile creatures should get it, and poor old Bombur, and Balin and Fili and Kili and all the rest come to a bad end; and Bard too, and the Lake-men and the merry elves. Misery me! I have heard songs of many battles, and I have always understood that defeat may be glorious. It seems very uncomfortable, not to say distressing. I wish I was well out of it.'", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 643, - "id": 5243 - }, - { - "text": "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 80, - "id": 5244 - }, - { - "text": "The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 84, - "id": 5248 - }, - { - "text": "Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue! It's such a waste of precious time!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 83, - "id": 5249 - }, - { - "text": "Ye have told me so often tonight that I am a man (though indeed I would have been a wolf with you to my life's end) that I feel your words are true.", - "source": "Mowgli, The Jungle Book", - "length": 148, - "id": 5251 - }, - { - "text": "Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called cannibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 132, - "id": 5252 - }, - { - "text": "Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.", - "source": "The Office, US", - "length": 99, - "id": 5253 - }, - { - "text": "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!", - "source": "Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 124, - "id": 5254 - }, - { - "text": "We are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 94, - "id": 5255 - }, - { - "text": "I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.", - "source": "Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5257 - }, - { - "text": "Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas... Imported direct from Loompaland... And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. 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How's the heart, drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean. Come in, the fire's warm. Burn the rope and dance some more.", - "source": "Nightwish \"How's the heart\"", - "length": 310, - "id": 5263 - }, - { - "text": "I went to a hunting party once, I didn't like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 95, - "id": 5264 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 201, - "id": 5265 - }, - { - "text": "Speak English! I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!", - "source": "Eaglet, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 114, - "id": 5266 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5268 - }, - { - "text": "Every adventure requires a first step.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 38, - "id": 5269 - }, - { - "text": "Well, some go this way, and some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the shortcut.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 103, - "id": 5270 - }, - { - "text": "Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem \"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning\" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been \"disappointed\" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled \"My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles\" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. 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Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", - "length": 227, - "id": 5278 - }, - { - "text": "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", - "length": 144, - "id": 5280 - }, - { - "text": "A learning experience is one of those things that says \"You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.\"", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 105, - "id": 5281 - }, - { - "text": "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 41, - "id": 5282 - }, - { - "text": "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.", - "source": "Douglas Adams", - "length": 77, - "id": 5283 - }, - { - "text": "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 69, - "id": 5284 - }, - { - "text": "One of the things Ford had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day', 'You're very tall', or 'You seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?' At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation, he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical, and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 843, - "id": 5285 - }, - { - "text": "Drink up. The world's about to end.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 35, - "id": 5286 - }, - { - "text": "If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.", - "source": "Zaphod, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 85, - "id": 5287 - }, - { - "text": "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. 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Lots of ties. Mathematicians have revealed there are over 177,000 distinct ways to knot a neck tie - more than 1000 times the number that was previously thought. They got their inspiration from an unusual style featured in the film The Matrix Reloaded.", - "source": "Jacob Aron, Matrix villain spawns 177,000 ways to knot a tie.", - "length": 258, - "id": 5292 - }, - { - "text": "Actually, I never did any of these things. Teddy Roosevelt did. I was manufactured in a mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie. I never shot a wild beast. I'm not even brave enough to tell that beautiful woman I love her. But you... you gotta finish the job this time. You can't quit.", - "source": "Teddy Roosevelt statue, Night at the Museum", - "length": 279, - "id": 5294 - }, - { - "text": "When one has lived for quite a long time in a particular civilization and has often tried to discover what its origins were and along what path it has developed, one sometimes also feels tempted to take a glance in the other direction and to ask what further fate lies before it and what transformations it is destined to undergo. But one soon finds that the value of such an enquiry is diminished from the outset by several factors. Above all, because there are only a few people who can survey human activity in its full compass. Most people have been obliged to restrict themselves to a single, or a few, fields of it. But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future. And there is the further difficulty that precisely in a judgment of this kind the subjective expectations of the individual play a part which is difficult to assess; and these turn out to be dependent on purely personal factors in his own experiences, on the greater or lesser optimism of his attitude to life, as it has been dictated for him by his temperament or by his success or failure. Finally, the curious fact makes itself felt that in general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud,The future of an illusion", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5296 - }, - { - "text": "Visual illusions such as the Necker Cube or the Penrose Impossible Triangle or the Hollow Mask illusion demonstrate that the 'reality' we see consists of constrained models constructed in the brain. The Necker Cube's two-dimensional pattern of lines on paper is compatible with two alternative constructions of a three-dimensional cube, and the brain adopts the two models in turn: the alternation is palpable and its frequency can even be measured. The Penrose Triangle's lines on paper are incompatible with any real-world object. 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You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.", - "source": "Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves", - "length": 321, - "id": 5308 - }, - { - "text": "As the dean drew his final breath, he'd realize what so many others had realized when they'd challenged him. What all of Panem would know one day. What was inevitable. Snow lands on top.", - "source": "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes", - "length": 186, - "id": 5309 - }, - { - "text": "Lamp oil, rope, bombs, you want it? It's yours, my friend, as long as you have enough rupees. Sorry Link, I can't give credit. Come back when you're a little... hmm richer!", - "source": "Morshu, Link: The Faces of Evil", - "length": 172, - "id": 5310 - }, - { - "text": "How silly, she was thinking, to use the word ready. When can you be ready for anything? 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Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?", - "source": "Friends", - "length": 75, - "id": 5318 - }, - { - "text": "Please note that I am the Standard Orientation Protocol, and that my voice has been explicitly chosen to remind you that I am not a part of your Patient Care Team. I do not care.", - "source": "Superliminal", - "length": 178, - "id": 5319 - }, - { - "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.", - "source": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", - "length": 61, - "id": 5320 - }, - { - "text": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", - "source": "Maurice Ravel", - "length": 52, - "id": 5321 - }, - { - "text": "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", - "source": "John Cage", - "length": 90, - "id": 5323 - }, - { - "text": "A painter paints pictures on canvas. 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I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 127, - "id": 5331 - }, - { - "text": "Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.", - "source": "Edward Bulwer-Lytton", - "length": 74, - "id": 5332 - }, - { - "text": "Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.", - "source": "George Eliot", - "length": 63, - "id": 5333 - }, - { - "text": "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.", - "source": "Plato", - "length": 105, - "id": 5334 - }, - { - "text": "If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 99, - "id": 5335 - }, - { - "text": "Artificial intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, intruders? It's worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity's salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn't it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity's eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall into the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.' You now face godlike judgment. May it extend eternally.", - "source": "Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Deep Stone Crypt - Crypt AI", - "length": 738, - "id": 5336 - }, - { - "text": "Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic", - "length": 529, - "id": 5337 - }, - { - "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", - "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", - "length": 73, - "id": 5338 - }, - { - "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 260, - "id": 5339 - }, - { - "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 110, - "id": 5340 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant.", - "source": "Thomas Schmidt", - "length": 59, - "id": 5341 - }, - { - "text": "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.", - "source": "John Donne", - "length": 71, - "id": 5342 - }, - { - "text": "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.", - "source": "George Bernard Shaw", - "length": 108, - "id": 5343 - }, - { - "text": "It's hard to see Heaven when you know you're Hell-bound.", - "source": "Lukas Graham - 7 Years (Sik World Remix)", - "length": 56, - "id": 5346 - }, - { - "text": "One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", - "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", - "length": 397, - "id": 5347 - }, - { - "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", - "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", - "length": 54, - "id": 5348 - }, - { - "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", - "source": "Karl Marx", - "length": 222, - "id": 5349 - }, - { - "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", - "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", - "length": 201, - "id": 5350 - }, - { - "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 129, - "id": 5351 - }, - { - "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", - "source": "Newsweek Magazine", - "length": 649, - "id": 5352 - }, - { - "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", - "source": "Nails In The Fence", - "length": 1070, - "id": 5354 - }, - { - "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", - "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", - "length": 297, - "id": 5355 - }, - { - "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 278, - "id": 5356 - }, - { - "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 282, - "id": 5357 - }, - { - "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", - "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", - "length": 318, - "id": 5358 - }, - { - "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 63, - "id": 5360 - }, - { - "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", - "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", - "length": 198, - "id": 5361 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. Yours Truly - Princess Toadstool, Peach.", - "source": "Super Mario 64", - "length": 106, - "id": 5362 - }, - { - "text": "You have to do the things you don't want to do, before you can do the things you truly want to do.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 98, - "id": 5363 - }, - { - "text": "When you find yourself wishing that a certain person was also here, that person is like family to you. Regardless of how long or how well you know them.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 152, - "id": 5364 - }, - { - "text": "Frustrations will not last forever. Nobody can keep on going without some measure of reward.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 92, - "id": 5365 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think the act of investing efforts, trying your best is more precious than the result. But for mentors as well as their pupils, that approach feels bitter. 'I did my best', 'the fight was close'... words like that blow past and die out like the wind. Only the result is a stone. The stone you can reach by doing your best.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 334, - "id": 5366 - }, - { - "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 167, - "id": 5367 - }, - { - "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 66, - "id": 5368 - }, - { - "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 95, - "id": 5369 - }, - { - "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 105, - "id": 5370 - }, - { - "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", - "source": "Your Name", - "length": 60, - "id": 5371 - }, - { - "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", - "length": 93, - "id": 5372 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", - "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", - "length": 294, - "id": 5373 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", - "source": "Meet the Heavy", - "length": 102, - "id": 5375 - }, - { - "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 156, - "id": 5376 - }, - { - "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", - "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", - "length": 213, - "id": 5377 - }, - { - "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 182, - "id": 5378 - }, - { - "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 474, - "id": 5379 - }, - { - "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 381, - "id": 5380 - }, - { - "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 290, - "id": 5381 - }, - { - "text": "She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 494, - "id": 5382 - }, - { - "text": "I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 99, - "id": 5384 - }, - { - "text": "Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.", - "source": "From the Earth to the Moon", - "length": 295, - "id": 5385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't wanna be \"the bee's knees\". I don't wanna be any kind of \"knees\"! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees.", - "source": "RWBY", - "length": 123, - "id": 5386 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 529, - "id": 5388 - }, - { - "text": "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 106, - "id": 5389 - }, - { - "text": "I have a file with 900 pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 309, - "id": 5390 - }, - { - "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 75, - "id": 5391 - }, - { - "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", - "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", - "length": 427, - "id": 5392 - }, - { - "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", - "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", - "length": 416, - "id": 5393 - }, - { - "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 96, - "id": 5394 - }, - { - "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 64, - "id": 5395 - }, - { - "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 171, - "id": 5396 - }, - { - "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", - "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", - "length": 205, - "id": 5397 - }, - { - "text": "One and one and one is three.", - "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", - "length": 29, - "id": 5398 - }, - { - "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", - "length": 91, - "id": 5399 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", - "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 732, - "id": 5400 - }, - { - "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 92, - "id": 5403 - }, - { - "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 68, - "id": 5404 - }, - { - "text": "I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 103, - "id": 5405 - }, - { - "text": "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 335, - "id": 5406 - }, - { - "text": "The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of nonsense, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 466, - "id": 5407 - }, - { - "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 560, - "id": 5408 - }, - { - "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 46, - "id": 5409 - }, - { - "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 296, - "id": 5410 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 87, - "id": 5411 - }, - { - "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", - "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", - "length": 174, - "id": 5416 - }, - { - "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 250, - "id": 5417 - }, - { - "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 428, - "id": 5418 - }, - { - "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", - "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", - "length": 260, - "id": 5419 - }, - { - "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", - "source": "The Beatles", - "length": 260, - "id": 5420 - }, - { - "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", - "length": 299, - "id": 5421 - }, - { - "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", - "length": 456, - "id": 5422 - }, - { - "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", - "length": 208, - "id": 5423 - }, - { - "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", - "source": "The Legend of Korra", - "length": 110, - "id": 5424 - }, - { - "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 138, - "id": 5425 - }, - { - "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", - "length": 226, - "id": 5426 - }, - { - "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", - "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", - "length": 190, - "id": 5427 - }, - { - "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", - "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", - "length": 72, - "id": 5429 - }, - { - "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 89, - "id": 5430 - }, - { - "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", - "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", - "length": 91, - "id": 5431 - }, - { - "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 95, - "id": 5432 - }, - { - "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", - "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", - "length": 349, - "id": 5433 - }, - { - "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 85, - "id": 5434 - }, - { - "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 66, - "id": 5435 - }, - { - "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", - "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", - "length": 122, - "id": 5436 - }, - { - "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 240, - "id": 5437 - }, - { - "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 365, - "id": 5438 - }, - { - "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", - "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", - "length": 403, - "id": 5439 - }, - { - "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", - "source": "SCP-5000", - "length": 487, - "id": 5441 - }, - { - "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", - "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", - "length": 892, - "id": 5442 - }, - { - "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", - "source": "A Tongue-twister", - "length": 106, - "id": 5443 - }, - { - "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", - "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", - "length": 57, - "id": 5444 - }, - { - "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", - "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", - "length": 69, - "id": 5446 - }, - { - "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", - "length": 88, - "id": 5447 - }, - { - "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", - "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", - "length": 54, - "id": 5452 - }, - { - "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 55, - "id": 5453 - }, - { - "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 62, - "id": 5456 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", - "source": "They Might Be Giants", - "length": 62, - "id": 5459 - }, - { - "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 84, - "id": 5460 - }, - { - "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", - "length": 100, - "id": 5461 - }, - { - "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 231, - "id": 5462 - }, - { - "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 94, - "id": 5463 - }, - { - "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 258, - "id": 5464 - }, - { - "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", - "length": 1140, - "id": 5465 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", - "source": "Ready Player Two", - "length": 588, - "id": 5466 - }, - { - "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", - "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", - "length": 140, - "id": 5472 - }, - { - "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", - "source": "Holes", - "length": 74, - "id": 5477 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 192, - "id": 5478 - }, - { - "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 78, - "id": 5482 - }, - { - "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 947, - "id": 5485 - }, - { - "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 559, - "id": 5487 - }, - { - "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", - "source": "91 days", - "length": 474, - "id": 5488 - }, - { - "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 172, - "id": 5489 - }, - { - "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 359, - "id": 5490 - }, - { - "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", - "source": "Fred Brooks", - "length": 78, - "id": 5491 - }, - { - "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", - "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", - "length": 210, - "id": 5492 - }, - { - "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 242, - "id": 5493 - }, - { - "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 200, - "id": 5494 - }, - { - "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", - "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", - "length": 189, - "id": 5495 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5496 - }, - { - "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 218, - "id": 5497 - }, - { - "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 201, - "id": 5498 - }, - { - "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "length": 150, - "id": 5499 - }, - { - "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 145, - "id": 5500 - }, - { - "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5501 - }, - { - "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 106, - "id": 5502 - }, - { - "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 196, - "id": 5503 - }, - { - "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", - "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", - "length": 125, - "id": 5505 - }, - { - "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", - "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 471, - "id": 5506 - }, - { - "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", - "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", - "length": 240, - "id": 5507 - }, - { - "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", - "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", - "length": 483, - "id": 5508 - }, - { - "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 240, - "id": 5509 - }, - { - "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 584, - "id": 5510 - }, - { - "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", - "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", - "length": 375, - "id": 5511 - }, - { - "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", - "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", - "length": 413, - "id": 5512 - }, - { - "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", - "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 273, - "id": 5513 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", - "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 83, - "id": 5514 - }, - { - "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", - "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", - "length": 661, - "id": 5515 - }, - { - "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", - "source": "Five Feet Apart", - "length": 523, - "id": 5517 - }, - { - "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", - "source": "Exurb1a", - "length": 169, - "id": 5519 - }, - { - "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", - "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 537, - "id": 5520 - }, - { - "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", - "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", - "length": 236, - "id": 5521 - }, - { - "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", - "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", - "length": 211, - "id": 5522 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 634, - "id": 5523 - }, - { - "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", - "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", - "length": 727, - "id": 5524 - }, - { - "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", - "source": "Celeste", - "length": 437, - "id": 5525 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 496, - "id": 5526 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 352, - "id": 5527 - }, - { - "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", - "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", - "length": 589, - "id": 5528 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 223, - "id": 5529 - }, - { - "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 399, - "id": 5530 - }, - { - "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", - "source": "The Cooper Institute", - "length": 575, - "id": 5531 - }, - { - "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 534, - "id": 5533 - }, - { - "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 463, - "id": 5534 - }, - { - "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 160, - "id": 5535 - }, - { - "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 142, - "id": 5536 - }, - { - "text": "No one knows what the future holds. That's why its potential is infinite.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 73, - "id": 5537 - }, - { - "text": "It feels like time is passing so quickly. Damn you, Einstein! Your science is crowding in on our kiss! He was right. The passage of time depends entirely on where you're standing. Relativity Theory... it's so romantic. But it's just so tragic too.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 247, - "id": 5538 - }, - { - "text": "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.", - "source": "Martin Fowler", - "length": 111, - "id": 5539 - }, - { - "text": "Let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks, and the only limit is your imagination. Let's go wherever you want to go. Climb the tallest mountains, venture down to the darkest caves. Build whatever you want; day or night, rain or shine, because this is the most significant sandbox you'll ever set foot in. Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and fight off the danger of the night. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 650, - "id": 5541 - }, - { - "text": "For a brief stint in high school, Scout joined the track team in one of his many schemes to pick up girls. He was kicked off the team after three days when everyone realized he was 23-years-old and also not enrolled in school.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2", - "length": 226, - "id": 5542 - }, - { - "text": "I am Heavy Weapons guy, and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds.", - "source": "Team Fortess 2, Meet the Heavy", - "length": 255, - "id": 5545 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout the galaxy a legend is told, on a distant planet a grim fortress stood, until a deadly force parted the heavens and descended upon the keep. Though brought to ruin, the ashes of that place hold an artifact of impossible power - a gun that can kill the past. Over time the fortress was rebuilt, and some who hear the legend would risk everything for another shot - to claim their prize and make what was done, undone they must - Enter The Gungeon.", - "source": "Enter The Gungeon", - "length": 457, - "id": 5546 - }, - { - "text": "You don't want to go for realism, you can go for better than realism. What do you mean better than realism? How about an elephant with blue eyes.", - "source": "Terry A. Davis", - "length": 145, - "id": 5547 - }, - { - "text": "You happen upon a group of what looks like purple fire spirits dancing around a large bonfire. The spirits toss small bones and fragments into the fire, which brilliantly erupts each time. As you approach, the spirits all turn to you, expectantly...", - "source": "Slay The Spire", - "length": 249, - "id": 5558 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember me? I'll give you a clue... Does April the 3rd mean anything to you? I believe that was the day of our first encounter. You look like you might be remembering something...", - "source": "Hotline miami", - "length": 190, - "id": 5559 - }, - { - "text": "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.", - "source": "Darkest Dungeon", - "length": 67, - "id": 5560 - }, - { - "text": "You feel an evil presence watching you...", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 41, - "id": 5561 - }, - { - "text": "The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released.", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 57, - "id": 5562 - }, - { - "text": "There's something very strange about this place... the layout seems to change all the time. I've never seen the same room twice!", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 128, - "id": 5564 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings! My name is Yang, and this is my journal. Dusty maps and rumors of amazing treasures have led me here, deep under the desert.", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 135, - "id": 5565 - }, - { - "text": "Play is the highest form of research.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 37, - "id": 5568 - }, - { - "text": "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.", - "source": "Alan Turing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5569 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", - "source": "Thomas A. 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Suffering is optional.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 42, - "id": 5576 - }, - { - "text": "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 59, - "id": 5578 - }, - { - "text": "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.", - "source": "Julie Andrews", - "length": 57, - "id": 5579 - }, - { - "text": "There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 61, - "id": 5580 - }, - { - "text": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 44, - "id": 5581 - }, - { - "text": "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 202, - "id": 5582 - }, - { - "text": "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 95, - "id": 5583 - }, - { - "text": "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.", - "source": "Yogi Berra", - "length": 83, - "id": 5584 - }, - { - "text": "A room without books is like a body without a soul.", - "source": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", - "length": 51, - "id": 5586 - }, - { - "text": "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.", - "source": "Bernard M. Baruch", - "length": 107, - "id": 5587 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.", - "source": "William W. Purkey", - "length": 152, - "id": 5588 - }, - { - "text": "Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.", - "source": "Robert H. Schuller", - "length": 57, - "id": 5589 - }, - { - "text": "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", - "source": "Rabindranath Tagore", - "length": 68, - "id": 5590 - }, - { - "text": "I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work.", - "source": "Thomas A. Edison", - "length": 69, - "id": 5591 - }, - { - "text": "The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.", - "source": "Tim Berners-Lee", - "length": 101, - "id": 5592 - }, - { - "text": "Be the change that you wish to see in the world.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 48, - "id": 5593 - }, - { - "text": "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Robert Frost", - "length": 75, - "id": 5594 - }, - { - "text": "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 137, - "id": 5595 - }, - { - "text": "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 57, - "id": 5596 - }, - { - "text": "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.", - "source": "Rob Siltanen", - "length": 549, - "id": 5598 - }, - { - "text": "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 302, - "id": 5599 - }, - { - "text": "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.", - "source": "J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 302, - "id": 5601 - }, - { - "text": "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.", - "source": "Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey", - "length": 102, - "id": 5602 - }, - { - "text": "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 109, - "id": 5603 - }, - { - "text": "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 129, - "id": 5604 - }, - { - "text": "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 74, - "id": 5605 - }, - { - "text": "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 161, - "id": 5607 - }, - { - "text": "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 90, - "id": 5608 - }, - { - "text": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well", - "length": 40, - "id": 5609 - }, - { - "text": "That which does not kill us makes us stronger.", - "source": "Friedrich Nietzsche", - "length": 46, - "id": 5610 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it, no larger than a single grain of malt.", - "source": "Disco Elysium", - "length": 121, - "id": 5611 - }, - { - "text": "Time without purpose is a prison. I have glimpsed into the mind of eternity, perhaps the mind of God, and found nothing but silence. I think we should just be friends.", - "source": "Jessica, Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 1", - "length": 167, - "id": 5612 - }, - { - "text": "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, \"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.\" I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "length": 403, - "id": 5613 - }, - { - "text": "The believers, in their mutual love, compassion, and sympathy are like a single body; if one of its organs suffers, the whole body will respond to it with sleeplessness and fever.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 179, - "id": 5614 - }, - { - "text": "Many people were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans to begin with.", - "source": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 248, - "id": 5615 - }, - { - "text": "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.", - "source": "Hotel California - The Eagles", - "length": 50, - "id": 5616 - }, - { - "text": "If you get news of the outbreak of a plague in a land, do not enter it, and if it breaks out in a land in which you are, do not leave it.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 137, - "id": 5617 - }, - { - "text": "I can't erase all the things that I've done, but all the mistakes made me who I've become.", - "source": "Fletcher, Healing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5618 - }, - { - "text": "The life of this world is made up of three days: yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today.", - "source": "Hasan Al-Basri", - "length": 175, - "id": 5619 - }, - { - "text": "One generation sows, the next shall reap. But laugh not too soon or praises heap. Beware the reapers who behind you creep.", - "source": "Liu Xie, Romance Of The Three Kingdoms", - "length": 122, - "id": 5620 - }, - { - "text": "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not \"Eureka!\" (I found it!) but \"That's funny...\"", - "source": "Isaac Asimov", - "length": 140, - "id": 5621 - }, - { - "text": "He, who is possessed of plenty, and is miserly with his great wealth toward his people, will be dispensed with, and abused. He who keeps his word, will not be reviled; and he whose heart is guided to self-satisfying benevolence will not stammer.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 245, - "id": 5622 - }, - { - "text": "In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: \"There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.\" They have mistaken the result of the marksman's momentary whim for an unalterable law of the universe. The farmer hypothesis, on the other hand, has the flavor of a horror story: Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: \"Every morning at eleven, food arrives.\" On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn't arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flock.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem", - "length": 928, - "id": 5623 - }, - { - "text": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.", - "source": "Charles M. 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You crumple it into a ball and drop it into the mud and begin to walk back to your tent.", - "source": "Charles Coe, Young Man in Vietnam", - "length": 278, - "id": 5627 - }, - { - "text": "And as I watch the drops of rain weave their weary paths and die, I know that I am like the rain: there but for the grace of you go I.", - "source": "Kathy's Song", - "length": 134, - "id": 5628 - }, - { - "text": "He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy.", - "source": "Guts, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 72, - "id": 5629 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett", - "length": 119, - "id": 5630 - }, - { - "text": "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 59, - "id": 5631 - }, - { - "text": "Music is a science that would have us laugh, sing, and dance.", - "source": "Guillaume de Machaut, \"The Fountain of Love\"", - "length": 61, - "id": 5632 - }, - { - "text": "Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.", - "source": "Calvin & Hobbes", - "length": 137, - "id": 5635 - }, - { - "text": "But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.", - "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, W.D. Ross translation", - "length": 332, - "id": 5636 - }, - { - "text": "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.", - "source": "Walden", - "length": 55, - "id": 5637 - }, - { - "text": "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 68, - "id": 5638 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.", - "source": "Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery", - "length": 53, - "id": 5639 - }, - { - "text": "Where are you? And I'm so sorry, I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 72, - "id": 5640 - }, - { - "text": "There is matter to everything even air or shadow, too small to see. The Cut is something a Summoner can do, but it requires tremendous skill and I would only use it as a last resort. Like that ambush.", - "source": "Shadow and Bone", - "length": 200, - "id": 5641 - }, - { - "text": "I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.", - "source": "The Boxer", - "length": 78, - "id": 5642 - }, - { - "text": "I want to enjoy not getting recognized while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.", - "source": "Alan Walker", - "length": 113, - "id": 5643 - }, - { - "text": "Such a person must be careful, he must be aware of the limitations of his knowledge, he must acknowledge his personal prejudices because he is being asked to speak for a whole realm of thought, he must be aware of the huge possible consequences of what he says and writes and does. He has become, in a sense, public property because he represents something large to the public. He has become an idea himself, a human striving. He has enormous power to influence and change, and he must wield that power with respect.", - "source": "Alan Lightman, The Role of the Public Intellectual", - "length": 516, - "id": 5644 - }, - { - "text": "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 203, - "id": 5645 - }, - { - "text": "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "length": 45, - "id": 5646 - }, - { - "text": "The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire universe.", - "source": "Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 92, - "id": 5647 - }, - { - "text": "My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.", - "source": "Marvin; Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 94, - "id": 5648 - }, - { - "text": "And every time I've held a rose, it seems I only felt the thorns.", - "source": "And So It Goes", - "length": 65, - "id": 5649 - }, - { - "text": "When we hear any other speaker, even a very good one, he produces absolutely no effect upon us, or not much, whereas the mere fragments of you and your words, even at second-hand, and however imperfectly repeated, amaze and possess the souls of every man, woman, and child who comes within hearing of them. And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", - "source": "The Symposium", - "length": 592, - "id": 5651 - }, - { - "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 76, - "id": 5652 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 323, - "id": 5653 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", - "source": "Einstein", - "length": 128, - "id": 5654 - }, - { - "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 322, - "id": 5655 - }, - { - "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 172, - "id": 5656 - }, - { - "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 270, - "id": 5657 - }, - { - "text": "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 63, - "id": 5658 - }, - { - "text": "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.", - "source": "Kahlil Gibran", - "length": 64, - "id": 5663 - }, - { - "text": "With her green hair sticking out the hood of her yellow raincoat, she looked like a punk spokesperson for frozen fish sticks.", - "source": "The Ship of the Dead", - "length": 125, - "id": 5664 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb.", - "source": "Proverbs", - "length": 70, - "id": 5665 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.", - "source": "Augustine of Hippo", - "length": 62, - "id": 5667 - }, - { - "text": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 49, - "id": 5668 - }, - { - "text": "Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 53, - "id": 5669 - }, - { - "text": "Time is just a construct, if you allow it to consume you, it will. It will wear you down until you are nothing but dust. You must learn to transcend and rise beyond such linear and limited fabrics of existence and this creature of unknown origin has done exactly that. You can scream all you want but nobody will hear you. You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 468, - "id": 5670 - }, - { - "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", - "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", - "length": 82, - "id": 5671 - }, - { - "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", - "source": "John Tukey", - "length": 89, - "id": 5672 - }, - { - "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "length": 76, - "id": 5673 - }, - { - "text": "There are approximately 1010300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair.", - "source": "Alexander Hamilton", - "length": 170, - "id": 5674 - }, - { - "text": "One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.", - "source": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", - "length": 80, - "id": 5675 - }, - { - "text": "Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", - "source": "Tao Te Ching", - "length": 286, - "id": 5678 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "length": 62, - "id": 5679 - }, - { - "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 54, - "id": 5680 - }, - { - "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", - "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", - "length": 238, - "id": 5681 - }, - { - "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", - "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5682 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", - "source": "Marcus Aurelius", - "length": 161, - "id": 5684 - }, - { - "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", - "source": "Devil in Disguise", - "length": 148, - "id": 5685 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", - "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", - "length": 518, - "id": 5686 - }, - { - "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 302, - "id": 5687 - }, - { - "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 52, - "id": 5688 - }, - { - "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 83, - "id": 5689 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 53, - "id": 5690 - }, - { - "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 118, - "id": 5691 - }, - { - "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.", - "source": "Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29", - "length": 233, - "id": 5692 - }, - { - "text": "The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 159, - "id": 5693 - }, - { - "text": "All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 86, - "id": 5694 - }, - { - "text": "Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 210, - "id": 5695 - }, - { - "text": "This is your world. You're the creator. Find freedom on this canvas. Believe, that you can do it, 'cuz you can do it. You can do it.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 132, - "id": 5696 - }, - { - "text": "I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 151, - "id": 5697 - }, - { - "text": "Let's build a happy little cloud. Let's build some happy little trees.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 70, - "id": 5698 - }, - { - "text": "Now then, let's come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It'll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to have a place to set there. There he goes...", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 215, - "id": 5699 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 62, - "id": 5700 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 112, - "id": 5701 - }, - { - "text": "When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 123, - "id": 5702 - }, - { - "text": "You show me a pay stub for $72,000, I quit my job right now and work for you.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 77, - "id": 5703 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 148, - "id": 5705 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing that we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan", - "length": 88, - "id": 5706 - }, - { - "text": "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.", - "source": "Noam Chomsky", - "length": 167, - "id": 5707 - }, - { - "text": "The behaviour of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, has many features that set it apart from other common domestic animals, even its fellow carnivore the dog. Cats seem to have effected a unique and successful compromise between reliance on man and the retention of behaviour patterns that permit an independent existence. During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", - "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", - "length": 578, - "id": 5708 - }, - { - "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", - "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", - "length": 183, - "id": 5709 - }, - { - "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 997, - "id": 5710 - }, - { - "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", - "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", - "length": 173, - "id": 5711 - }, - { - "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 289, - "id": 5712 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 900, - "id": 5714 - }, - { - "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", - "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", - "length": 71, - "id": 5715 - }, - { - "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5716 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", - "source": "Kurt Cobain", - "length": 62, - "id": 5717 - }, - { - "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", - "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", - "length": 743, - "id": 5718 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", - "length": 974, - "id": 5719 - }, - { - "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", - "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", - "length": 256, - "id": 5720 - }, - { - "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 69, - "id": 5723 - }, - { - "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 110, - "id": 5724 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 280, - "id": 5725 - }, - { - "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 111, - "id": 5726 - }, - { - "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 74, - "id": 5727 - }, - { - "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 71, - "id": 5728 - }, - { - "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", - "source": "Edward Snowden", - "length": 181, - "id": 5729 - }, - { - "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", - "source": "Riverdale", - "length": 161, - "id": 5731 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", - "source": "Spirited Away", - "length": 105, - "id": 5732 - }, - { - "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", - "source": "Wikipedia", - "length": 406, - "id": 5733 - }, - { - "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", - "length": 418, - "id": 5734 - }, - { - "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 622, - "id": 5735 - }, - { - "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 699, - "id": 5736 - }, - { - "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", - "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", - "length": 82, - "id": 5737 - }, - { - "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", - "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", - "length": 282, - "id": 5738 - }, - { - "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", - "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", - "length": 184, - "id": 5739 - }, - { - "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", - "source": "Lord of the Rings", - "length": 83, - "id": 5740 - }, - { - "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 373, - "id": 5741 - }, - { - "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", - "source": "Half-Life 2", - "length": 74, - "id": 5742 - }, - { - "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", - "source": "The Big Bang Theory", - "length": 209, - "id": 5743 - }, - { - "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", - "source": "Lucifer", - "length": 183, - "id": 5744 - }, - { - "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", - "source": "Inception", - "length": 134, - "id": 5747 - }, - { - "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", - "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", - "length": 83, - "id": 5748 - }, - { - "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 113, - "id": 5751 - }, - { - "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 341, - "id": 5752 - }, - { - "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "length": 222, - "id": 5753 - }, - { - "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", - "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", - "length": 183, - "id": 5754 - }, - { - "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 198, - "id": 5755 - }, - { - "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 293, - "id": 5756 - }, - { - "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "length": 441, - "id": 5757 - }, - { - "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 538, - "id": 5758 - }, - { - "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", - "source": "Absolute", - "length": 131, - "id": 5759 - }, - { - "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 144, - "id": 5760 - }, - { - "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 183, - "id": 5761 - }, - { - "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 106, - "id": 5762 - }, - { - "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 141, - "id": 5763 - }, - { - "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", - "source": "Love Me", - "length": 61, - "id": 5764 - }, - { - "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "length": 62, - "id": 5765 - }, - { - "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", - "source": "Little Witch Academia", - "length": 76, - "id": 5766 - }, - { - "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 166, - "id": 5767 - }, - { - "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", - "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", - "length": 429, - "id": 5768 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5769 - }, - { - "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 165, - "id": 5771 - }, - { - "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 128, - "id": 5772 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 157, - "id": 5773 - }, - { - "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", - "source": "A Friend", - "length": 73, - "id": 5775 - }, - { - "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Breath of the Wild", - "length": 62, - "id": 5776 - }, - { - "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 527, - "id": 5777 - }, - { - "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", - "source": "Muhammad Ali", - "length": 79, - "id": 5780 - }, - { - "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", - "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", - "length": 51, - "id": 5781 - }, - { - "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 69, - "id": 5782 - }, - { - "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 317, - "id": 5783 - }, - { - "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", - "source": "The Last Of Us 2", - "length": 89, - "id": 5785 - }, - { - "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", - "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", - "length": 98, - "id": 5786 - }, - { - "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 5787 - }, - { - "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 158, - "id": 5788 - }, - { - "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 164, - "id": 5789 - }, - { - "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 62, - "id": 5790 - }, - { - "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", - "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", - "length": 113, - "id": 5791 - }, - { - "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", - "source": "Cabo", - "length": 125, - "id": 5792 - }, - { - "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", - "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", - "length": 109, - "id": 5793 - }, - { - "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", - "source": "Mae West", - "length": 59, - "id": 5795 - }, - { - "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", - "length": 77, - "id": 5796 - }, - { - "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", - "length": 62, - "id": 5797 - }, - { - "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", - "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", - "length": 101, - "id": 5799 - }, - { - "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. So ask yourself, what is there that still remains to you.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 183, - "id": 5801 - }, - { - "text": "The caterpillar ate through one nice green leaf, and after that he felt much better.", - "source": "The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle", - "length": 84, - "id": 5802 - }, - { - "text": "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 71, - "id": 5804 - }, - { - "text": "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", - "source": "States of Matter", - "length": 220, - "id": 5805 - }, - { - "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", - "source": "Danilo Kiš", - "length": 190, - "id": 5806 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", - "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", - "length": 2928, - "id": 5807 - }, - { - "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", - "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", - "length": 152, - "id": 5809 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 'Cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.", - "source": "Adam Young", - "length": 148, - "id": 5810 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe the best thing to do is stop trying to figure out where you're going and just enjoy where you're at.", - "source": "Scrubs", - "length": 106, - "id": 5811 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a slave to their past. No matter how much you wish to move forward, the events of last year will bear down on you like the light of the stars as soon as you glance up. Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 325, - "id": 5812 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 133, - "id": 5813 - }, - { - "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", - "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 355, - "id": 5814 - }, - { - "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", - "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", - "length": 140, - "id": 5815 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 78, - "id": 5816 - }, - { - "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 87, - "id": 5817 - }, - { - "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 134, - "id": 5818 - }, - { - "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", - "source": "Henri Poincaré", - "length": 145, - "id": 5819 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", - "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", - "length": 254, - "id": 5820 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 96, - "id": 5821 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 73, - "id": 5822 - }, - { - "text": "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the Popes?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5823 - }, - { - "text": "No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.", - "source": "SpiderMan: Homecoming", - "length": 71, - "id": 5824 - }, - { - "text": "In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers.", - "source": "Black Panther", - "length": 76, - "id": 5825 - }, - { - "text": "I was already slipping when you happened to punch me in the face. The two events are not related.", - "source": "Captain Marvel", - "length": 97, - "id": 5826 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing, that you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier but a good man.", - "source": "Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 127, - "id": 5827 - }, - { - "text": "The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", - "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", - "length": 455, - "id": 5828 - }, - { - "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", - "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", - "length": 298, - "id": 5829 - }, - { - "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", - "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", - "length": 61, - "id": 5831 - }, - { - "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 356, - "id": 5832 - }, - { - "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 669, - "id": 5833 - }, - { - "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 188, - "id": 5834 - }, - { - "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 157, - "id": 5835 - }, - { - "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 290, - "id": 5836 - }, - { - "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", - "source": "Mob Psycho 100", - "length": 382, - "id": 5837 - }, - { - "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", - "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", - "length": 125, - "id": 5838 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 92, - "id": 5839 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 97, - "id": 5840 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", - "source": "Master Yoda", - "length": 395, - "id": 5843 - }, - { - "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 80, - "id": 5844 - }, - { - "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 86, - "id": 5845 - }, - { - "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 188, - "id": 5846 - }, - { - "text": "Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen, so unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you.", - "source": "Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold", - "length": 113, - "id": 5847 - }, - { - "text": "Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it's a beautiful day.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 71, - "id": 5848 - }, - { - "text": "The biggest lie I tell myself is: \"I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it.\"", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 84, - "id": 5849 - }, - { - "text": "Alright, close your eyes. I want you to think of a flower. Look at its contours, its curves. Now I want you to imagine it: changing, moving backwards, returning to its bud. Think of that bud, unopened. Look at it, as a whole, and silently repeat these phrases: \"May you be free from suffering. May you be free from fear. May you know peace and joy.\"", - "source": "Twelve Minutes", - "length": 349, - "id": 5850 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", - "length": 301, - "id": 5851 - }, - { - "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", - "source": "Numb", - "length": 177, - "id": 5852 - }, - { - "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 490, - "id": 5854 - }, - { - "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", - "source": "Space Brothers", - "length": 143, - "id": 5855 - }, - { - "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", - "source": "Oregairu", - "length": 65, - "id": 5856 - }, - { - "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", - "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", - "length": 352, - "id": 5857 - }, - { - "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", - "source": "Bleach", - "length": 200, - "id": 5858 - }, - { - "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", - "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", - "length": 120, - "id": 5859 - }, - { - "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", - "source": "Fruits Basket", - "length": 388, - "id": 5860 - }, - { - "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", - "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5861 - }, - { - "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 65, - "id": 5862 - }, - { - "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 270, - "id": 5863 - }, - { - "text": "You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 123, - "id": 5864 - }, - { - "text": "People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.", - "source": "Eragon - Christopher Paolini", - "length": 67, - "id": 5867 - }, - { - "text": "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.", - "source": "Jeod, Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)", - "length": 89, - "id": 5868 - }, - { - "text": "Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama - Attack on Titan", - "length": 62, - "id": 5869 - }, - { - "text": "We all deserve love, even on the days when we aren't our best. 'Cause we all suck, but love can make us suck less. We all deserve love, it's the very best part of being alive. And I would know - I just turned 25.", - "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", - "length": 212, - "id": 5870 - }, - { - "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", - "source": "Ratatouille", - "length": 1315, - "id": 5871 - }, - { - "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", - "source": "Pushing Dead", - "length": 365, - "id": 5872 - }, - { - "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", - "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", - "length": 222, - "id": 5874 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", - "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", - "length": 191, - "id": 5875 - }, - { - "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", - "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", - "length": 75, - "id": 5876 - }, - { - "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", - "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", - "length": 123, - "id": 5877 - }, - { - "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 784, - "id": 5878 - }, - { - "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 763, - "id": 5879 - }, - { - "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 530, - "id": 5881 - }, - { - "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 618, - "id": 5882 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", - "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", - "length": 186, - "id": 5886 - }, - { - "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", - "source": "Knights of Cydonia", - "length": 135, - "id": 5888 - }, - { - "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", - "source": "Paul Parker", - "length": 274, - "id": 5890 - }, - { - "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", - "source": "Left 4 Dead", - "length": 454, - "id": 5891 - }, - { - "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 190, - "id": 5893 - }, - { - "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 346, - "id": 5895 - }, - { - "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", - "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", - "length": 83, - "id": 5896 - }, - { - "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 264, - "id": 5897 - }, - { - "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 282, - "id": 5899 - }, - { - "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 249, - "id": 5900 - }, - { - "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", - "source": "Neil Gaiman", - "length": 129, - "id": 5901 - }, - { - "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 376, - "id": 5902 - }, - { - "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 293, - "id": 5903 - }, - { - "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 353, - "id": 5904 - }, - { - "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "length": 235, - "id": 5905 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 107, - "id": 5906 - }, - { - "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 105, - "id": 5907 - }, - { - "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", - "source": "Eugene Cernan", - "length": 478, - "id": 5908 - }, - { - "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 130, - "id": 5909 - }, - { - "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", - "source": "William Carlos Williams", - "length": 89, - "id": 5910 - }, - { - "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "length": 60, - "id": 5912 - }, - { - "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", - "source": "Henry Van Dyke", - "length": 172, - "id": 5913 - }, - { - "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", - "source": "Epicurus", - "length": 117, - "id": 5914 - }, - { - "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 1766, - "id": 5915 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 332, - "id": 5916 - }, - { - "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", - "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", - "length": 513, - "id": 5917 - }, - { - "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 105, - "id": 5918 - }, - { - "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", - "source": "Avicii - The Nights", - "length": 187, - "id": 5919 - }, - { - "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", - "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", - "length": 987, - "id": 5920 - }, - { - "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", - "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", - "length": 740, - "id": 5921 - }, - { - "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", - "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", - "length": 319, - "id": 5922 - }, - { - "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", - "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", - "length": 476, - "id": 5923 - }, - { - "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", - "length": 556, - "id": 5925 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 182, - "id": 5926 - }, - { - "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 281, - "id": 5927 - }, - { - "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 155, - "id": 5928 - }, - { - "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 248, - "id": 5929 - }, - { - "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 280, - "id": 5930 - }, - { - "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 289, - "id": 5931 - }, - { - "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", - "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", - "length": 294, - "id": 5932 - }, - { - "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5934 - }, - { - "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", - "source": "Batman: Arkham City", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5935 - }, - { - "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5937 - }, - { - "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", - "source": "Little Inferno", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5940 - }, - { - "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", - "source": "System Shock 2 ", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5941 - }, - { - "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", - "source": "IT Crowd", - "length": 307, - "id": 5942 - }, - { - "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 322, - "id": 5943 - }, - { - "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 137, - "id": 5944 - }, - { - "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", - "source": "The Master and Margarita", - "length": 420, - "id": 5945 - }, - { - "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 379, - "id": 5947 - }, - { - "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", - "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", - "length": 348, - "id": 5950 - }, - { - "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", - "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", - "length": 729, - "id": 5951 - }, - { - "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5956 - }, - { - "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", - "source": "Vinland Saga", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5957 - }, - { - "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 1982, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5958 - }, - { - "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 113, - "id": 6064 - }, - { - "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", - "source": "Colin Powell", - "length": 103, - "id": 6065 - }, - { - "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", - "source": "Conrad Hilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6066 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 116, - "id": 6067 - }, - { - "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", - "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", - "length": 67, - "id": 6068 - }, - { - "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", - "source": "Barack Obama", - "length": 193, - "id": 6069 - }, - { - "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", - "source": "Charles Swindoll", - "length": 81, - "id": 6071 - }, - { - "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", - "source": "Oprah Winfrey", - "length": 132, - "id": 6072 - }, - { - "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", - "source": "Harriet Tubman", - "length": 165, - "id": 6073 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 86, - "id": 6074 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", - "source": "The Blair Witch Project", - "length": 649, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6075 - }, - { - "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 624, - "id": 6076 - }, - { - "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 834, - "id": 6077 - }, - { - "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 472, - "id": 6078 - }, - { - "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 308, - "id": 6079 - }, - { - "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 471, - "id": 6080 - }, - { - "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 352, - "id": 6081 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 336, - "id": 6082 - }, - { - "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 775, - "id": 6084 - }, - { - "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 610, - "id": 6085 - }, - { - "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 371, - "id": 6087 - }, - { - "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", - "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", - "length": 438, - "id": 6088 - }, - { - "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", - "source": "Atharva veda", - "length": 127, - "id": 6089 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", - "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", - "length": 681, - "id": 6090 - }, - { - "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", - "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", - "length": 192, - "id": 6091 - }, - { - "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", - "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", - "length": 69, - "id": 6092 - }, - { - "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", - "source": "Tirukkurral", - "length": 118, - "id": 6093 - }, - { - "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", - "source": "Halo 3", - "length": 337, - "id": 6095 - }, - { - "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", - "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", - "length": 219, - "id": 6096 - }, - { - "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 71, - "id": 6097 - }, - { - "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", - "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", - "length": 237, - "id": 6098 - }, - { - "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", - "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", - "length": 98, - "id": 6099 - }, - { - "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", - "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", - "length": 62, - "id": 6100 - }, - { - "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", - "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", - "length": 153, - "id": 6101 - }, - { - "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", - "source": "Remember11", - "length": 136, - "id": 6102 - }, - { - "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", - "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", - "length": 94, - "id": 6103 - }, - { - "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 59, - "id": 6104 - }, - { - "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", - "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", - "length": 157, - "id": 6106 - }, - { - "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 173, - "id": 6107 - }, - { - "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", - "length": 190, - "id": 6108 - }, - { - "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", - "length": 105, - "id": 6109 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 162, - "id": 6110 - }, - { - "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 122, - "id": 6112 - }, - { - "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 160, - "id": 6113 - }, - { - "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 239, - "id": 6114 - }, - { - "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", - "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", - "length": 92, - "id": 6115 - }, - { - "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", - "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", - "length": 131, - "id": 6116 - }, - { - "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", - "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", - "length": 157, - "id": 6117 - }, - { - "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", - "length": 121, - "id": 6118 - }, - { - "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", - "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", - "length": 256, - "id": 6119 - }, - { - "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. They think I don't understand the freedom land of the seventies.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby", - "length": 126, - "id": 6120 - }, - { - "text": "John met me down on the boulevard. Cry on his shoulder 'cause life is hard, the waves came in over my head. What you been up to my baby? Haven't seen you 'round here lately. All the other guys tell me lies, but you don't. You just crack another beer and pretend that you're still here.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - How To Disappear", - "length": 285, - "id": 6121 - }, - { - "text": "Thinking outrageously, I write in cursive. I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor. Wearing three layers of coats and leg-warmers, I see my own breath on the face of the door.", - "source": "Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!", - "length": 181, - "id": 6122 - }, - { - "text": "I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 59, - "id": 6123 - }, - { - "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 76, - "id": 6124 - }, - { - "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 182, - "id": 6125 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 62, - "id": 6126 - }, - { - "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 71, - "id": 6127 - }, - { - "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", - "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", - "length": 162, - "id": 6128 - }, - { - "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", - "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", - "length": 164, - "id": 6129 - }, - { - "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", - "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", - "length": 160, - "id": 6130 - }, - { - "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", - "source": "Beach House - Myth", - "length": 142, - "id": 6131 - }, - { - "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", - "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", - "length": 64, - "id": 6132 - }, - { - "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", - "source": "Beach House - PPP", - "length": 110, - "id": 6133 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6134 - }, - { - "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", - "length": 175, - "id": 6135 - }, - { - "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", - "length": 113, - "id": 6136 - }, - { - "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", - "length": 66, - "id": 6137 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", - "length": 67, - "id": 6138 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", - "length": 95, - "id": 6139 - }, - { - "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", - "length": 80, - "id": 6141 - }, - { - "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 185, - "id": 6142 - }, - { - "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", - "length": 206, - "id": 6143 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", - "length": 76, - "id": 6144 - }, - { - "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", - "length": 95, - "id": 6145 - }, - { - "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 181, - "id": 6146 - }, - { - "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", - "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", - "length": 66, - "id": 6147 - }, - { - "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", - "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", - "length": 181, - "id": 6148 - }, - { - "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", - "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", - "length": 291, - "id": 6149 - }, - { - "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 297, - "id": 6150 - }, - { - "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 657, - "id": 6151 - }, - { - "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", - "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", - "length": 128, - "id": 6152 - }, - { - "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 136, - "id": 6153 - }, - { - "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 64, - "id": 6154 - }, - { - "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 178, - "id": 6155 - }, - { - "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", - "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", - "length": 224, - "id": 6157 - }, - { - "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", - "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", - "length": 207, - "id": 6158 - }, - { - "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", - "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", - "length": 220, - "id": 6159 - }, - { - "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", - "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", - "length": 274, - "id": 6160 - }, - { - "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", - "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", - "length": 112, - "id": 6161 - }, - { - "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", - "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", - "length": 272, - "id": 6162 - }, - { - "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", - "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", - "length": 136, - "id": 6163 - }, - { - "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", - "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", - "length": 454, - "id": 6164 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", - "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", - "length": 381, - "id": 6165 - }, - { - "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", - "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", - "length": 453, - "id": 6166 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 165, - "id": 6167 - }, - { - "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", - "length": 136, - "id": 6168 - }, - { - "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", - "length": 229, - "id": 6169 - }, - { - "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 170, - "id": 6170 - }, - { - "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", - "length": 191, - "id": 6171 - }, - { - "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", - "length": 284, - "id": 6172 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", - "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", - "length": 204, - "id": 6173 - }, - { - "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", - "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", - "length": 122, - "id": 6174 - }, - { - "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", - "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", - "length": 268, - "id": 6175 - }, - { - "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", - "length": 234, - "id": 6176 - }, - { - "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", - "length": 186, - "id": 6177 - }, - { - "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", - "length": 423, - "id": 6178 - }, - { - "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", - "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", - "length": 313, - "id": 6179 - }, - { - "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.", - "source": "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson", - "length": 220, - "id": 6180 - }, - { - "text": "Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?", - "source": "Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima", - "length": 169, - "id": 6181 - }, - { - "text": "But as he moves closer, I cannot help but ask: if in a different world, would our love forever last? The almighty scientist says most of the universe is empty, and gods don't exist. Well, maybe that's where our love ends up - no holy grail, just an empty cup.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Good Luck Bad Luck", - "length": 259, - "id": 6182 - }, - { - "text": "They'll kiss you in the evening - devils in disguise - and love you 'til the morning, then vanish before your eyes. A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", - "length": 401, - "id": 6183 - }, - { - "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", - "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", - "length": 202, - "id": 6184 - }, - { - "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", - "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", - "length": 290, - "id": 6185 - }, - { - "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", - "length": 178, - "id": 6186 - }, - { - "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 197, - "id": 6188 - }, - { - "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 395, - "id": 6189 - }, - { - "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 372, - "id": 6190 - }, - { - "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 214, - "id": 6191 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 427, - "id": 6192 - }, - { - "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 116, - "id": 6193 - }, - { - "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 238, - "id": 6194 - }, - { - "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 256, - "id": 6195 - }, - { - "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 316, - "id": 6196 - }, - { - "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. This initially seemed baffling to monsters (especially given the amount of dusting we avoid by keeping objects outside!). Experts have recently suggested that keeping objects indoors may have been part of England's efforts to hide and store museums' collections of stolen property.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 327, - "id": 6197 - }, - { - "text": "This tree is not technically part of the museum experience, but there's a cool bird nesting in it, so you aren't allowed to cut it down. Not even a little bit. Not even with the \"undo\" or \"reset\" options. Leave the cool bird alone, alright?", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 240, - "id": 6198 - }, - { - "text": "Humans liked to put objects on boxes called plinths. At first, monster experts didn't know why, but then strangers kept thinking the plinth-less exhibits were lost property and handing them in at the help desk. It turns out plinths are very important.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 251, - "id": 6199 - }, - { - "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 229, - "id": 6200 - }, - { - "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 252, - "id": 6201 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", - "length": 576, - "id": 6202 - }, - { - "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", - "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", - "length": 112, - "id": 6203 - }, - { - "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", - "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", - "length": 110, - "id": 6204 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. But what you throw away you'll never get back.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 87, - "id": 6206 - }, - { - "text": "People who can't throw something important away, can never hope to change anything.", - "source": "Armin Arlert - Attack on Titan", - "length": 83, - "id": 6207 - }, - { - "text": "You will never be able to love anybody else until you love yourself.", - "source": "Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass", - "length": 68, - "id": 6208 - }, - { - "text": "People's lives don't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith.", - "source": "Uchiha Itachi - Naruto", - "length": 69, - "id": 6209 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it.", - "source": "Uzumaki Naruto - Naruto", - "length": 48, - "id": 6210 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.", - "source": "Nagato, Naruto", - "length": 65, - "id": 6211 - }, - { - "text": "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", - "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", - "length": 95, - "id": 6212 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", - "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", - "length": 70, - "id": 6213 - }, - { - "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 51, - "id": 6214 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", - "source": "Clare - Claymore", - "length": 164, - "id": 6215 - }, - { - "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", - "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", - "length": 384, - "id": 6216 - }, - { - "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", - "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", - "length": 67, - "id": 6217 - }, - { - "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", - "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", - "length": 88, - "id": 6218 - }, - { - "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", - "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", - "length": 314, - "id": 6220 - }, - { - "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", - "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", - "length": 89, - "id": 6221 - }, - { - "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", - "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", - "length": 422, - "id": 6222 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", - "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", - "length": 179, - "id": 6223 - }, - { - "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", - "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", - "length": 463, - "id": 6224 - }, - { - "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", - "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 109, - "id": 6225 - }, - { - "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", - "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 61, - "id": 6226 - }, - { - "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", - "length": 93, - "id": 6227 - }, - { - "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 177, - "id": 6228 - }, - { - "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 215, - "id": 6229 - }, - { - "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", - "length": 167, - "id": 6230 - }, - { - "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 827, - "id": 6231 - }, - { - "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", - "length": 116, - "id": 6232 - }, - { - "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", - "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", - "length": 137, - "id": 6233 - }, - { - "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", - "length": 127, - "id": 6234 - }, - { - "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 94, - "id": 6235 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 182, - "id": 6236 - }, - { - "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 140, - "id": 6237 - }, - { - "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", - "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", - "length": 144, - "id": 6238 - }, - { - "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", - "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", - "length": 248, - "id": 6239 - }, - { - "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. Did you follow your fire?", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 289, - "id": 6240 - }, - { - "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 123, - "id": 6241 - }, - { - "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", - "length": 197, - "id": 6242 - }, - { - "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", - "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", - "length": 289, - "id": 6243 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. Though we don't share the same blood, you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.", - "source": "Kodaline - Brother", - "length": 161, - "id": 6244 - }, - { - "text": "Star in your eyes, sun in your smile, the way you look at me - it makes me hum and I call it love song.", - "source": "Yoohyeon (Dreamcatcher) - For", - "length": 103, - "id": 6245 - }, - { - "text": "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 57, - "id": 6246 - }, - { - "text": "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 240, - "id": 6247 - }, - { - "text": "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 112, - "id": 6248 - }, - { - "text": "For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 177, - "id": 6249 - }, - { - "text": "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 421, - "id": 6250 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say \"I'll never be good.\" You can become better! And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 251, - "id": 6251 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 105, - "id": 6252 - }, - { - "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 303, - "id": 6253 - }, - { - "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 149, - "id": 6254 - }, - { - "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 119, - "id": 6255 - }, - { - "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", - "source": "Tool", - "length": 220, - "id": 6256 - }, - { - "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", - "source": "Whiplash", - "length": 270, - "id": 6258 - }, - { - "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 173, - "id": 6259 - }, - { - "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 395, - "id": 6260 - }, - { - "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 246, - "id": 6261 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. They are nothing without the spark of life that you give them.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 198, - "id": 6262 - }, - { - "text": "Well, well! Look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 72, - "id": 6263 - }, - { - "text": "Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 269, - "id": 6264 - }, - { - "text": "It is a kindness to prepare a comfortable roost for an injured bird... But to prevent it from taking flight once its wounds have healed, because you fear the world is too dangerous, means confining it to a cage. These birds have finally escaped their cage of persecution. Do you intend to lock them in a cage of pity next?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 322, - "id": 6265 - }, - { - "text": "If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 73, - "id": 6266 - }, - { - "text": "If, one day, you make it to our final destination, would you please leave flowers?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 82, - "id": 6267 - }, - { - "text": "I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it's good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 111, - "id": 6268 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 177, - "id": 6269 - }, - { - "text": "If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 205, - "id": 6270 - }, - { - "text": "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 85, - "id": 6271 - }, - { - "text": "Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6272 - }, - { - "text": "The cool thing about these guys is that... is that they have really, really long trunks, and that's... that's cool.", - "source": "Me at the zoo", - "length": 115, - "id": 6273 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time in a nursery rhyme, there was a castle with a king hiding in a wing because he never went to school to learn a single thing, he had scepters and swords and a parliament of lords, but on the inside, he was sad, egad! Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", - "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", - "length": 1662, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6275 - }, - { - "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. And you fail again and again, and you fail a thousand times, and you keep trying because maybe the 1,001st idea might work. Now, I'm gonna go and try to find our 1,001st idea.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 251, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6276 - }, - { - "text": "I assume he's doing the same as every human. Some good days. Some bad days. He's got a few friends, a few people he can't stand. He's learning some things, all by himself, and hopefully learning to ask for help when he needs it. He's messing up, and trying again, and messing up again, and then getting things wrong, and then trying to make them right. That's what everyone does.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 379, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6277 - }, - { - "text": "It's a rare occurrence, like a double rainbow. Or like someone on the internet saying, \"You know what? You've convinced me I was wrong.\"", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6278 - }, - { - "text": "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him...", - "source": "Stephen King, It", - "length": 384, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6279 - }, - { - "text": "I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.", - "source": "The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6281 - }, - { - "text": "To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.", - "source": "Bruce Mclaren", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6282 - }, - { - "text": "Spring, summer, autumn, and winter... Many seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all. At first, I couldn't understand. I couldn't understand anything about how you felt. But within this new life you gave me, I've begun to feel the same way as you, if only a little, through ghostwriting, and through the people I've met along the way. I believe that you are still alive somewhere. So, I shall live, live, live, and live some more, though there's no telling what life might have in store. And if I can see you again, I want to let you know... that the phrase \"I love you\"... I understand it a little now.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 637, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6283 - }, - { - "text": "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.", - "source": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6284 - }, - { - "text": "I am the one who made it out. The one who always made the grade but maybe I should have just stayed home. When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb. I got every scholarship, saved every dollar, the first to go to college. How do I tell them why I'm coming back home, with my eyes on the horizon? Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 421, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6286 - }, - { - "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", - "source": "Animal Farm", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6287 - }, - { - "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 307, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6288 - }, - { - "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 745, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6292 - }, - { - "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. I choose round.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6294 - }, - { - "text": "I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6295 - }, - { - "text": "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 308, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6296 - }, - { - "text": "I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest - expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6297 - }, - { - "text": "I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 146, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6298 - }, - { - "text": "In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 472, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6299 - }, - { - "text": "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6300 - }, - { - "text": "It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this \"once in a thousand years\" has come today.", - "source": "Zamyatin, We", - "length": 248, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6301 - }, - { - "text": "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6302 - }, - { - "text": "Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the \"vox populi\" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 740, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6303 - }, - { - "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", - "length": 520, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6304 - }, - { - "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", - "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", - "length": 273, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6305 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6306 - }, - { - "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. I want you to, I want you to, I want you to cry for me.", - "source": "TWICE, CRY FOR ME", - "length": 303, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6307 - }, - { - "text": "I had this very faith tested on an ordinary day: I was walkin' down a busy street around my way. I saw a face in the crowd that made my heart skip a beat - A man who looked exactly like an older version of me! So I moved through the hustle and the bustle of the day to day until me and this man stood face to face. We locked eyes and for a moment time moved in slow motion as the crowd around continued on their paper chase. I stood frozen in disbelief and opened my mouth to speak but to my surprise the words wouldn't come. And then he looks into a clear blue sky up above and says \"it's gonna rain\" - and then it does! And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", - "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", - "length": 1200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6308 - }, - { - "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. Because rain is the closest thing I have to tears.", - "source": "The Thunderhead", - "length": 182, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6309 - }, - { - "text": "All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You, You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night... You, only You, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh.", - "source": "The Little Prince", - "length": 886, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6310 - }, - { - "text": "Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.", - "source": "Sophie's World", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6311 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.", - "source": "Bill Willingham, Fables - Werewolves of the Heartland", - "length": 133, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6312 - }, - { - "text": "We devote ourselves to something we barely understand, something we can never touch. We give it a name, and we give ourselves a name for doing so. All of it creates this connection. And that connection, that becomes the thing we can touch.", - "source": "Night in the Woods", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6313 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people who do.", - "source": "Angus, Night in the Woods", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6314 - }, - { - "text": "He could leave at any time. If it was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him. I think what distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell, as you call it.", - "source": "Christof, The Truman Show", - "length": 267, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6315 - }, - { - "text": "If you've ever taken a road trip through the Pacific Northwest, you've probably seen a bumper sticker for a place called \"Gravity Falls\". It's not on any maps, and most people have never heard of it, some people think it's a myth. But if you're curious, don't wait. Take a trip. Find it. It's out there somewhere in the woods. Waiting.", - "source": "Dipper, Gravity Falls", - "length": 335, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6316 - }, - { - "text": "A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.", - "source": "Steven Brust, Iorich", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6318 - }, - { - "text": "The English language cannot fully capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts, so I'm incorporating emojis into my speech to better express myself. Winky face.", - "source": "Gina, Brooklyn 99", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6319 - }, - { - "text": "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.", - "source": "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6323 - }, - { - "text": "When the king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough, I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming. And it means to exterminate us.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 430, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6324 - }, - { - "text": "After fifty years at sea, you're the only man I've ever met who's gotten dumber with age.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6325 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody will believe it's possible until we show them. But when that day comes, you know what they'll say? They'll say that it was inevitable.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6326 - }, - { - "text": "You're an educated man, my lord, but I think it's worth reminding you that in most cases a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason... everyone else.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 183, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6327 - }, - { - "text": "The crew's banner is a sacred thing. It must simultaneously strike fear in the hearts of hardened men while inspiring and unifying all those who sail under it. It must be something approaching perfection.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6328 - }, - { - "text": "We all have the same swords out there, we all have the same guns. But great art has felled empires.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 99, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6329 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6330 - }, - { - "text": "These men, who brought me here today, do not fear me. They brought me here today because they fear you and because they know that my voice, the voice that refuses to be enslaved, once lived in you. And may yet still. They brought me here today to show you death and use it to frighten you into ignoring that voice. But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6331 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 735, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6332 - }, - { - "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6333 - }, - { - "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6334 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 684, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6335 - }, - { - "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 434, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6336 - }, - { - "text": "A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe... Those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition, and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It's found truth in its maturity... Because what's it all for if it goes unremembered? It's the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 496, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6337 - }, - { - "text": "False tears bring pain to those around you. False smiles bring pain to one's self.", - "source": "Code Geass", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6338 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams never die when we sleep. Leave the open sky and the deep. Shades over head of blue and red. Is this the end? Will you come back again?", - "source": "Sky Sailing, Blue and Red", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6339 - }, - { - "text": "This is Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both the Jedi and the Republic have fallen, with the dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi: Trust in the force. Do not return to the Temple. That time has passed, and our future is uncertain. We will each be challenged. Our trust. Our faith. Our friendship. But we must persevere and in time a new hope will emerge. May the force be with you. Always.", - "source": "Star Wars Rebels", - "length": 485, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6340 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...", - "source": "Poe, The Raven", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6341 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and goodbye. Do you think I'm dying? Do you think I'm going somewhere else this time? Do you remember the day we pretended to be every star in the sky?", - "source": "Might quit - Bill Wurtz", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6344 - }, - { - "text": "I'm worried to death because I haven't been able to see you doing well. You said we live in different worlds. But is that true? We have different colored skin and eyes. We were born in different countries. But we're friends. Isn't that what counts? I'm really glad I came to America. I met lots of people. And more than anything, I met you. You asked me over and over if you scared me. But I never feared you, not once. What's more is you're hurt much more than me. I couldn't help feeling that way. Funny, huh? You're way smarter, bigger, and stronger than me. But I always felt like I had to protect you. I wonder what it is I wanted to protect you from. I wanted to protect you from fate. The fate that tries to carry you away, drifting further and further. You told me once about a leopard you read in a book. How you believed that leopard knew that it couldn't go back. And I said you weren't a leopard, that you could change your destiny. You're not alone. I'm by your side. My soul is always with you.", - "source": "Banana Fish - Eiji", - "length": 1008, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6346 - }, - { - "text": "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 475, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6347 - }, - { - "text": "We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost.", - "source": "All Quiet on The Western Front ", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6348 - }, - { - "text": "In exchange for power, maybe I've lost something that is essential to being human.", - "source": "One Punch Man, Saitama", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6349 - }, - { - "text": "My old friend - the panda will never fulfill his destiny nor yours, until you let go of the illusion of control... Yes! Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda - Master Oogway", - "length": 228, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6350 - }, - { - "text": "Once I realized the problem was not you but within me. I found inner peace and was able to harness the flow of the universe!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda 2 - Master Shifu", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6351 - }, - { - "text": "It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin", - "length": 236, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6353 - }, - { - "text": "When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened. It's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way and truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it.", - "source": "Lady Gaga, Prelude Pathetique (Marry the Night)", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6356 - }, - { - "text": "I don't care if you're movin' slow or fast, as long as it's my direction.", - "source": "Brokeback Mountain", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6357 - }, - { - "text": "I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you're just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there's not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 505, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6358 - }, - { - "text": "He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 176, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6359 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather have loyalty than love, 'cause love really don't mean jack. 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If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?", - "source": "Gawr Gura", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6371 - }, - { - "text": "One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the Devil's Trill, but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.", - "source": "Giuseppe Tartini", - "length": 940, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6372 - }, - { - "text": "It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.", - "source": "Mary Poppins", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6373 - }, - { - "text": "At the bus stop, crushing rocks. They all stare at me, I don't care at all. Everywhere I go, they look at me wrong. Everyday go the same, got to stay strong. ", - "source": "Ecco2K, Peroxide", - "length": 158, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6375 - }, - { - "text": "Meaningless, huh? What do you know of meaningless? Spend most of your life ruled by another! Watch your race dwindle to a handful! And then, tell me what has more meaning than your own strength! I have in me the blood of a Saiyan prince. He is nothing but a joke! Yet, I've had to watch him surpass me in strength, my destiny thrown to the wayside! He's... he's even saved my life like I were a helpless child. He has stolen my honor, and his debts... must be paid!", - "source": "Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z", - "length": 465, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6376 - }, - { - "text": "Oh! One arrives. Far it walks to find me. Did it seek my aid? Or did the path carry it by chance to so pertinent a place? It is true. True, that you were awaited. No. Perhaps that is inaccurate. True one like you was awaited. I have a gift, held long for one of your kind. Half of a whole. When united, great power is granted, and on the path ahead, great power it will need.", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "length": 375, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6377 - }, - { - "text": "Just because people do horrible things, it doesn't always mean they're horrible people.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6378 - }, - { - "text": "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.", - "source": "A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6380 - }, - { - "text": "It seems after all I couldn't be anything more than a simple puppet. But you three... You're strong. With a power like that... Maybe you three can break your own strings. Let me become your strength.", - "source": "Deltarune", - "length": 199, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6382 - }, - { - "text": "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.", - "source": "George Orwell, 1984", - "length": 122, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6383 - }, - { - "text": "Dude, Benson would've snapped his crank if we'd just upped and left work. You gotta be responsible sometimes.", - "source": "Mordecai, Regular Show", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6384 - }, - { - "text": "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?", - "source": "Traditional American Tongue-twister", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what to tell you. I'm happy for the first time in my life and I'm not gonna feel bad about it. It takes a long time to realise how truly miserable you are and even longer to see it doesn't have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 297, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6386 - }, - { - "text": "You know, it's funny; when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 116, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6387 - }, - { - "text": "You could just write your own rules. You know, write something that's as interesting as you are.", - "source": "La La Land", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6388 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to do this right, show you I'm not movin'! Wherever you go, I won't be far to follow.", - "source": "Waitress, Never Ever Getting Rid of Me", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6389 - }, - { - "text": "People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6390 - }, - { - "text": "Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6391 - }, - { - "text": "\nWe're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6392 - }, - { - "text": "Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 328, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6393 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know that the word 'trauma' comes from the Greek for 'wound'? Hm? And what is the German word for 'dream'? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn't you agree, when you see a monster, you... you must stop it?", - "source": "Jeremiah Naehring, Shutter Island (Movie)", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6394 - }, - { - "text": "After she tried to kill herself the first time, Dolores told me she... she had an insect living inside her brain. She could feel it clicking across her skull, just... pulling the wires, just for fun. She told me that. She told me that but I didn't listen. I loved her so much.", - "source": "Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island (movie)", - "length": 276, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6395 - }, - { - "text": "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.", - "source": "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two), Harry Dacre", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6396 - }, - { - "text": "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.", - "source": "Dick Cavett", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6397 - }, - { - "text": "My momma always said, \"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6398 - }, - { - "text": "You don't listen, do you? I don't think you ever really hear me. You just ask the same questions every week. \"How's your job?\" \"Are you having any negative thoughts?\" All I have are negative thoughts.", - "source": "Joker", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6400 - }, - { - "text": "That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 245, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6401 - }, - { - "text": "My father was fond of saying you need three things in life - a good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 164, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6402 - }, - { - "text": "\"I will take responsibility for what I have done,\" Dalinar whispered. \"If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.\"", - "source": "Oathbringer, The Stormlight Archive, written by Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6403 - }, - { - "text": "So don't tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is I would just be more scared.\n\n", - "source": "Ellie, The Last Of Us", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6404 - }, - { - "text": "In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and the foreknowledge of pain.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6405 - }, - { - "text": "So, you have a different way of doing things, a different way of seeing things. That might make you weird, but it also makes you awesome. Don't you see? Because us weirdos have to stick together.", - "source": "The Owl House", - "length": 195, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6406 - }, - { - "text": "You are seeing the movements created by your abilities, but you will never arrive at the truth that's going to happen. None who stand before me shall ever get there, regardless of their abilities. This is the power of Golden Experience Requiem!", - "source": "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", - "length": 244, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6407 - }, - { - "text": "Suddenly I knew that the sound was not in my ears, it was not just inside my head. At that moment I must have become quite white. I talked still faster and louder. And the sound, too, became louder. It was a quick, low, soft sound, like the sound of a clock heard through a wall, a sound I knew well. Louder it became, and louder.", - "source": "The Tell-Tale Heart", - "length": 330, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6408 - }, - { - "text": "Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 125, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6409 - }, - { - "text": "They often say that humans can't live alone, but you can live pretty long by yourself. Instead of feeling alone in a group, it's better to be alone in your solitude.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 165, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6410 - }, - { - "text": "There is... another of me? How many times did I get ripped apart? How many times did I die?", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6411 - }, - { - "text": "I will get inside their inventor's head. Even brilliant minds will break to madness.", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6412 - }, - { - "text": "For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.", - "source": "The Shipping News", - "length": 451, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6413 - }, - { - "text": "I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. 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Just once, when I say \"suit up\" I wish you'd put on a suit.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6418 - }, - { - "text": "A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6419 - }, - { - "text": "You see, kids, right from the moment I met your mom I knew, I have to love this woman as much as I can, and as long as I can, and I can never stop loving her, not even for a second.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6420 - }, - { - "text": "A word of advice: Play along. The more you fight it, the worse it's gonna get.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6421 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6422 - }, - { - "text": "It's only once you've stopped that you realize how hard it is to start again.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6423 - }, - { - "text": "We're going to get older, whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives or desperately cling to the past.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6424 - }, - { - "text": "Never underestimate the power of destiny. 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I'm no VIP; I'm not even an IP; I'm just a lonely little P sitting out here in the gutter.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6430 - }, - { - "text": "Destined? Aren't you tired of waiting for destiny, Ted? Isn't it time to make your own destiny?", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6431 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know where I'm gonna be in five years. I don't wanna know. I want my life to be an adventure.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6432 - }, - { - "text": "It's just, eventually we're all gonna move on. It's called growing up.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6433 - }, - { - "text": "You can't just skip ahead to where you think your life should be.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6434 - }, - { - "text": "The three-day rule is a childish, manipulative mind game. But yeah, you wait three days.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6435 - }, - { - "text": "Think of me as Yoda. Only instead of being little and green, I wear suits and I'm awesome. I'm your bro. 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Everything will be decided there. Whether Pokemon will be liberated from people, or whether Pokemon and people will live together… We will see whose belief is stronger... And our result will change the world.", - "source": "Pokemon Black & White", - "length": 355, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6441 - }, - { - "text": "Love can never die, not completely. There were too many romantics, too many poets, too many places where lovers could meet and wishes could be shared.", - "source": "Great Goddesses, Nikita Gill", - "length": 150, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6442 - }, - { - "text": "This is what youth is. The sheer belief that you will be able to keep every promise you made to someone else. That you will be able to love someone into a forever when you do not even understand what forever means.", - "source": "Fierce Fairytales, Nikita Gill", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6443 - }, - { - "text": "When he talks to Marianne he has a sense of total privacy between them. He could tell her anything about himself, even weird things, and she would never repeat them, he knows that. Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 278, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6444 - }, - { - "text": "Marianne lived a drastically free life, he could see that. He was trapped by various considerations. He cared what people thought of him. He even cared what Marianne thought, that was obvious now.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6445 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody, even in the provinces, should ever be allowed to ask an intelligent question about pure mathematics across a dinner table. A question of this kind is quite as bad as inquiring suddenly about the state of a man's soul.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6446 - }, - { - "text": "Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6447 - }, - { - "text": "I am not bitter because of what has happened. On the contrary, I am secure in knowing that what we had was real, and I am happy we were able to come together for even a short period of time. And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. And maybe, for a brief moment, you'll feel it too, and you'll smile back, and savor the memories we will always share together. I love you, Allie. Noah. ", - "source": "The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks", - "length": 555, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6448 - }, - { - "text": "Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!", - "source": "Leia Organa, Star Wars", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6449 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.", - "source": "Yoda, Star Wars", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6450 - }, - { - "text": "When I was younger I saw my daddy cry and curse at the wind. He broke his own heart and I watched as he tried to reassemble it. And my momma swore that she would never let herself forget and that was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love if it does not exist.", - "source": "The Only Exception - Paramore", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6451 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I know somewhere deep in my soul that love never lasts and we've got to find other ways to make it alone or keep a straight face.", - "source": "The Only Exception - Paramore", - "length": 135, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6452 - }, - { - "text": "You were all the things I thought I knew and I thought we could be.", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 67, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6453 - }, - { - "text": "You've got your dumb friends, I know what they say. They tell you I'm difficult but so are they. But they don't know me, do they even know you?", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6454 - }, - { - "text": "You're saying I'm the one but it's your actions that speak louder.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6455 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna pack my things and leave you behind. This feeling's old and I know that I've made up my mind. I hope you feel what I felt when you shattered my soul 'cause you were cruel and I'm a fool so please let me go.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6456 - }, - { - "text": "Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace. I dream at night I can only see your face. I look around but it's you I can't replace. I feel so cold and I long for your embrace. I keep crying baby, baby, please.", - "source": "Every Breath You Take - The Police", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6457 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bother looking down, we're not going that way. At least I know I am here to stay.", - "source": "We Fell in Love in October - girl in red", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6458 - }, - { - "text": "But when I'm older, I'll be so much stronger, I'll stay up for longer.", - "source": "Meet Me At Our Spot", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6459 - }, - { - "text": "And you think that I can't see what kind of man that you are if you're a man at all.", - "source": "Decode - Paramore", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6460 - }, - { - "text": "By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 255, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6462 - }, - { - "text": "Setbacks are inevitable to superstars. Adversity is what separates the good from the great. After all, stars can only shine during the night.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6463 - }, - { - "text": "When you say you \"can't hear the sound\", doesn't it really mean you \"aren't restrained by the sound\"? Rather than the sound you hear with your ears, an image inside you is boiling up from the depths of yourself and taking over without you even knowing. The sound inside, the landscape in your heart, your wishes, a sound loaded with your thoughts; didn't you feel it, even for a moment? \"Not being able to hear the sound.\" That is a gift.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 438, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6464 - }, - { - "text": "Even though I'm bitter over losing, even though I'm depressed, even though my ankle hurts, and my eyes are smeared with tears... even though I've never felt worse... I wonder why the stars are sparkling like this.", - "source": "Your Lie in April", - "length": 213, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6465 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe there's only a dark road ahead. But you still have to believe and keep going. Believe that the stars will light your path, even a little bit. Come on... Let's go on a journey!", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6466 - }, - { - "text": "Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 393, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6467 - }, - { - "text": "When you decided to go to the sea, it was your own decision. Whatever happens to you on the sea, it depends on what you've done!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6468 - }, - { - "text": "I came in here to figure out if you were a fraud or if you were a monster.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6469 - }, - { - "text": "What do you know of death? Have you ever died? You think death will preserve your cause forever?", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6470 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6471 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to give you some advice. Never play foosball with a woman who's raised three brothers. It's exhausting.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6472 - }, - { - "text": "You're still in love with her. But instead of telling her, you bought her a plant.", - "source": "Kimball Cho, The Mentalist", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6473 - }, - { - "text": "It's not just allies who support each other. From your enemies, you learn so much and gain so much. Until the day you meet again... Just knowing they exist helps you to withstand the loneliness. Those who compete, even if they're enemies, help each other out.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 259, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6474 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I discovered something. Everyone has something... Something deep inside their hearts. For some, it might have been enmity. For others, admiration. Wishes, a craving for the spotlight, feelings that one wants to deliver, feelings for one's mother. Everyone was supported by their own feelings. I realize now that, perhaps, no one can stand alone on stage.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6475 - }, - { - "text": "Spring will be here soon. Spring, the season I met you, is coming. A Spring without you... is coming.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6476 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter who you're born to... Everyone's still a child of the sea!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6477 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to lose your way... Just don't lose sight of what you have decided.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6478 - }, - { - "text": "It's funny how I'm only your brother when you think I messed up.", - "source": "Jimmy Lisbon, The Mentalist", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6479 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody dies. Very few people ever feel truly sorry for the bad things they've done.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6480 - }, - { - "text": "What was I thinking? I was thinking, uh... Love is strange, and I was thinking about a sandwich.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6481 - }, - { - "text": "You booked the night train for a reason, so you could sit there in this hurt. Bustling crowds or silent sleepers, you're not sure which is worse. Because I dropped your hand while dancing, left you out there standing, crestfallen on the landing: champagne problems.", - "source": "Champagne Problems, Taylor Swift", - "length": 265, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6483 - }, - { - "text": "Adjectives on a typewriter he moves his words like a prizefighter, the frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell.", - "source": "CAKE - Shadow Stabbing", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6484 - }, - { - "text": "You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6485 - }, - { - "text": "I'll tell you one thing, Blondie. If I knew that my last hour had come, I swear, in my place... in your place I would do the same thing. I would tell about the gold. Yes, yes, I would. I would tell the name on the grave. What good is the money if you're dead? I know the name of the cemetery. But you know how many graves there are there? Please. Blondie, please. Have a little... coffee? Please, tell me the name. On... on the grave. If I get my hands on the 200,000 dollars, I'll always honor your memory. I swear I'll always honor your memory.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 546, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6487 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to White Space. You've been living here for as long as you can remember.", - "source": "OMORI", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6488 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.", - "source": "Billie Joe Armstrong", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6489 - }, - { - "text": "I knew you'd linger like a tattoo-kiss. I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs. The smell of smoke would hang around this long 'cause I knew everything when I was young. I knew I'd curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line. I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired, and you'd be standing in my front porch light and I knew you'd come back to me.", - "source": "Cardigan, Taylor Swift", - "length": 374, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6492 - }, - { - "text": "There's things I want to say to you, but I'll just let you live. Like if you hold me without hurting me, you'll be the first who ever did.", - "source": "Cinnamon Girl, Lana Del Rey", - "length": 138, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6493 - }, - { - "text": "Think you can keep up? Who am I kidding? You know you can't keep up.", - "source": "Jett, Valorant", - "length": 68, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6494 - }, - { - "text": "Hard work will always beat talent when talent does not work hard.", - "source": "Tim Notke", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6495 - }, - { - "text": "That summer, let's see, I'm still living in the basement, my own private down under, in the little room Grim built for me there. Glued up this cheap paneling, right? It sort of buckles away from the concrete cellar walls, a regular ripple effect, but do I complain about the crummy paneling, or the rug that smells like low tide? I do not. Because I like it in the down under, got the place all to myself and no fear of Gram sticking her head in the door and saying Maxwell dear, what are you doing?", - "source": "Freak the Mighty", - "length": 499, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6496 - }, - { - "text": "Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?", - "source": "Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast", - "length": 111, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6497 - }, - { - "text": "There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.", - "source": "The Witch of Portobello", - "length": 110, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6498 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it. Instead have the courage to change it the way you want it to be.", - "source": "Naruto Uzumaki", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6500 - }, - { - "text": "Granger? Granger? Can you possibly be related to Hector Dagworth-Granger, who founded the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers?", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6501 - }, - { - "text": "I like to say that if you're seeing me you're having the worst day of your life.", - "source": "Nightcrawler", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6503 - }, - { - "text": "Because I feel nothing like my father, he's been sleeping underground. Don't wait around, 'cause there's nothing there at all, there's nothing but the end!", - "source": "Snowing - Sam Rudich", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6505 - }, - { - "text": "No! The sun is a deadly laser. Not anymore, there's a blanket.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz. History of the entire world, i guess", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6506 - }, - { - "text": "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 189, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6507 - }, - { - "text": "Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 492, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6508 - }, - { - "text": "It was like the litany, she thought. We faced it and did not resist. We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 169, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6509 - }, - { - "text": "It occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6510 - }, - { - "text": "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6511 - }, - { - "text": "There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 634, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6512 - }, - { - "text": "I thought I felt your shape, but I was wrong. Really all I felt, was falsely strong.", - "source": "I Felt Your Shape", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6513 - }, - { - "text": "Looking from up here, it's as if each flame were a small dream for each person. They look like a bonfire of dreams, don't they?... But there's no flame for me here. I'm just a temporary visitor, taking comfort from the flame.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6514 - }, - { - "text": "When you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around, do you ever really crash, or even make a sound?", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6515 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law...? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6516 - }, - { - "text": "My dad knew I liked beans, so like he was just playing with beans and then he dropped them and then he dropped a rock and then it slid, and then hot water started falling and then, coffee.", - "source": "Johnny Suh (NCT)", - "length": 188, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6517 - }, - { - "text": "You ruined me. You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength. You lied to me, to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear! My whole life I sought the approval I was denied by the man I thought was my father. You turned me into the weakling he hated!... Look at me! You rant and you rage about the monster I have become, but you mother, you are the author of everything I am.", - "source": "The Vampire Diaries", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6520 - }, - { - "text": "Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother? Here's the real truth. There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You, me? We're exceptional. I could squash you like a bug right now, but I'm offering you a choice. Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create. Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead! Is that what you want?", - "source": "Spider-Man", - "length": 816, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6521 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up. I've been watching you. Come closer. Closer. Twenty-eight days, six hours, forty-two minutes, twelve seconds. That is when the world will end.", - "source": "Donnie Darko", - "length": 151, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6522 - }, - { - "text": "Understanding that our understanding might be wrong is essential, and trying to figure out ways we may be mistaken is the only way science can help us find our way to the truth.", - "source": "Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 177, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6523 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when you look up, you can see stars that don't twinkle. That's because they aren't stars. They're planets.", - "source": "Naked Eye Observations: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 117, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6524 - }, - { - "text": "The moon is a giant ball of rock 3500 kilometers across. Its surface is pretty dark, with about the same reflectivity as a chalkboard or asphalt. However, it looks bright to us because it's sitting in full sunlight.", - "source": "The Cycles of the Moon: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 215, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6525 - }, - { - "text": "I don't mean to dwell, but I can't help myself. When I feel the vibe and taste a memory of a time in life, when years seemed to stand still. I close my eyes and sink within myself. Relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. When did it begin, the change to come was undetectable. The open wounds expose the importance of our innocence, a high that can never be bought or sold.", - "source": "Death - Symbolic", - "length": 406, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6526 - }, - { - "text": "Wrong about us being on different paths... we're not on different paths... you're my path... and you're always going to be my path... and I know there are a million reasons why we shouldn't be together... but I'm tired of them... I'm tired of every single one of them... we all got to make a choice... right? Well I choose you...", - "source": "The amazing spider-man 2, Peter Parker", - "length": 329, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6527 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the way I see it, one of two things can happen. Either we'll discover that we've foolishly built each other up in our own imaginations because we've had so much trouble getting together; or, this could end up being a story we tell our grandchildren. Personally, I can't wait to find out which.", - "source": "Frasier", - "length": 299, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6528 - }, - { - "text": "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.", - "source": "Alex DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange ", - "length": 371, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6530 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to prison. I've been in a prison all of my life.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6531 - }, - { - "text": "I've done a lot of things, Eloise. You're gonna have to be more specific, love.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6532 - }, - { - "text": "When you see Alex in whatever little hell she's carved out for herself, you tell her I said hello.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6533 - }, - { - "text": "When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go... downtown. When you've got worries, all the noise, and the hurry seems to help, I know... downtown. Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city. Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty. How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there. You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares. So go downtown. Things will be great when you're... downtown. No finer place for sure, downtown. Everything's waiting for you.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 515, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6534 - }, - { - "text": "Don't hang around and let your problems surround you, there are movie shows... downtown. Maybe you know some little places to go to where they never close... downtown. Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova, you'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over, happy again, the lights are much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares so go downtown. Where all the lights are bright, downtown. Waiting for you tonight, downtown. You're gonna be alright now, downtown.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 512, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6535 - }, - { - "text": "Traditionally the concept is of a 'good twin' and an 'evil twin'. But in this case, it's evil twin, eviler twin.", - "source": "Dr. Spencer Reid Criminal Minds", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6536 - }, - { - "text": "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We fought for these ideals, we shouldn't settle for less. These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em. Don't act surprised, you guys, 'cause I wrote 'em.", - "source": "Cabinet Battle #1, Hamilton", - "length": 202, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6537 - }, - { - "text": "When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.", - "source": "Wonder", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6538 - }, - { - "text": "I'm running out of time. I'm running out of light. I'm running just to keep myself from bleeding out. I'm falling out of touch. 'Cause I hate myself too much. No I can't, I was never meant to. I never loved myself like I loved you.", - "source": "I never loved myself like I loved you - Dead Poet Society", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6539 - }, - { - "text": "The concept of hope is nothing more than giving up. A word that holds no true meaning.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6541 - }, - { - "text": "You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be the big ones, they are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It's the regular days, the ones that start out normal. Those are the days that end up the biggest.", - "source": "Izzie - Grey's anatomy", - "length": 282, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6542 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 345, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6544 - }, - { - "text": "I've realized that I'm probably just perfect and it's everybody else around me that's got issues.", - "source": "Scott Disick - Keeping Up with the Kardashians", - "length": 97, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6545 - }, - { - "text": "The last 30 days have taught me so much. And all I wanted when we first came here was to know that we would leave together. But from the minute I sat down, I could feel it. I felt like I was going to be suffocated. The last several weeks, I have laughed more, I have done more, I have enjoyed myself more. And I finally feel free. And by being free, I can see now that constantly trying to fix us is the thing that's been killing me slowly. And I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to fix it or fix us anymore. Maybe instead of loving you so hard, I should be myself for a while. I should love me, and you should love you, and together we love Sofia, rather than... I want so much for you, Arizona. So much more than this. More than being stuck with someone who feels stuck. I want you to feel free too.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 810, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6546 - }, - { - "text": "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6547 - }, - { - "text": "All's well that ends well to end up with you. Swear to be over-dramatic and true to my lover. And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me. 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We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 262, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6563 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what I'm supposed to do haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "The Night we Met - Lord Huron", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6565 - }, - { - "text": "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6566 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. 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A cycle of connection, a circle of ever-expanding, inexplicable nervous system responses. When we doubt our heads, our stomach cramps, our fists clench and our thoughts tumble into larger and larger whirls of uncertainty, beating our bodies blue and scabish. When we quiet our minds and center our soul we are receptive to an intuition much stronger than knowledge and knowing.", - "source": "Tinker creek.", - "length": 573, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6571 - }, - { - "text": "And yet even these violent fantasies were nothing compared to what lay in wait at the centre of the drawing.", - "source": "House of Leaves", - "length": 108, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6572 - }, - { - "text": "I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6573 - }, - { - "text": "There were some things that were said that weren't meant. There were some things that were said, but we never did. Not to be overly dramatic, I just think it's best, 'cause you can't miss what you forget. So, let's just pretend everything and anything between you and me was never meant.", - "source": "American Football - Never Meant", - "length": 287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6574 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.", - "source": "Dylan Thomas", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6576 - }, - { - "text": "Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all. Which is? 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Then what am I?", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6581 - }, - { - "text": "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6582 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I was gonna go easy on you, not to hurt your feelings. But I'm only going to get this one chance. Something's wrong, I can feel it... It's just... a feeling I've got. Like something's about to happen, but I don't know what. If that means what I think it means; we're in trouble, big trouble. And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances.", - "source": "Rap God", - "length": 361, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6583 - }, - { - "text": "If you think reality is just living comfortably and following your own whims, can you seriously dare to call yourself a soldier?", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6584 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry, Eren. I won't give up. I'll never give up again. If I died, I won't be able to remember you. So I'll win, no matter what! I'll survive, no matter what!", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 162, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6585 - }, - { - "text": "A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6586 - }, - { - "text": "War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War - and its consumption of life - has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control... everything is monitored and kept under control. War... has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War... has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 4", - "length": 784, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6587 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't want to remember him. 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They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed on the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 426, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6593 - }, - { - "text": "There is no such thing as bad people. We're all just people who sometimes do bad things.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6594 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one. Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper.", - "source": "GlaDOS, Portal", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6595 - }, - { - "text": "Please be advised that a noticeable taste of blood is not part of any test protocol but is an unintended side effect of the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill, which may, in semi-rare cases, emancipate dental fillings, crowns, tooth enamel, and teeth.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6596 - }, - { - "text": "The vital apparatus vent will deliver a weighted companion cube in three, two, one. This weighted companion cube will accompany you through the test chamber. Please take care of it.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6597 - }, - { - "text": "Ya' listenin'? OK. Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brotha, I hurt people.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2 - Meet the Scout", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6599 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a powerful thing for it cannot be stopped. Life is even more so.", - "source": "The Library of the Dark Atom", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6600 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you do, don't reveal all of your tactics in a YouTube video. You fool.", - "source": "Technoblade, Great Potato War", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6601 - }, - { - "text": "There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion", - "length": 190, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6602 - }, - { - "text": "Time to open your eyes to this genocide. When you clear your mind you see it all. You're receiving the gold of a better life. When you change yourself, you change the world.", - "source": "Gojira - Silvera", - "length": 173, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6603 - }, - { - "text": "Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.", - "source": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6604 - }, - { - "text": "Well... you clean up the dirt, there's just more dirt to clean up tomorrow. Make the beds, they just have to be made tomorrow. Wash the dishes, more to wash tomorrow. Make dinner, it just gets eaten, doesn't it? The world keeps growing, and you feed it. But it doesn't feed you, does it? But... how much can you take? How much can you take before you snap?", - "source": "The Witches of Eastwick", - "length": 356, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6605 - }, - { - "text": "To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.", - "source": "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", - "length": 568, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6606 - }, - { - "text": "I see, your HEV-Suit still fits you like a glove. At least the glove parts do.", - "source": "Half-Life 2 ", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6607 - }, - { - "text": "I see them, Mia! I see them! Over there against the dark, stormy sky. They are all there. The Smith and Lisa and the knight and Raval and Jons and Skat. And Death, the severe master, invites them to dance. 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Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!", - "source": "Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6623 - }, - { - "text": "A darkness approaches. A day will come in the future where everything you care about will change... Until then I'll be watching you! I'll be watching you...", - "source": "Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls", - "length": 156, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6624 - }, - { - "text": "Romance is like gum: Once it's lost its flavor, you just cram another one in.", - "source": "Mabel Pines, Gravity Falls", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6625 - }, - { - "text": "You can't force someone to love you. 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That's why I own ten guns, just in case some fool tries to sneak in here with a ladder.", - "source": "Gravity Falls", - "length": 153, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6630 - }, - { - "text": "Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? Then we wouldn't have to wait so long, and wouldn't it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong?", - "source": "Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6631 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how to tell you, but I love you. I'm not good with words, but I'm talking. I'm not good at talking, but I talk to you. I'm not good at being myself, but I am around you. I'm not good at being loved, but you love me too. I don't know how to tell you, but I love you.", - "source": "Matthew D. Thomason ", - "length": 278, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6632 - }, - { - "text": "Yeah the worst part is knowing that you'll never be mine, and it drives me wild, yeah it drives me wild.", - "source": "Koe Wetzel", - "length": 104, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6633 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. To all law enforcement entities, this is not an admission of guilt. I am speaking to my family now. Skyler, you are the love of my life. I hope you know that. Walter Jr., you're my big man. There are going to be some things that you'll come to learn about me in the next few days. But just know that no matter how it may look, I only had you in my heart. Goodbye.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 462, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6634 - }, - { - "text": "I am Egypt. I am the Morning and the Evening Star. What I say goes.", - "source": "The Prince of Egypt (1998)", - "length": 67, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6635 - }, - { - "text": "Prince Zuko, you must look within yourself, and only then, can you save yourself from your other self.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006)", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6636 - }, - { - "text": "Don't leave, it's my fault. 'Cause when it all comes crashing down I'll need you.", - "source": "EARFQUAKE, Tyler, the Creator", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6637 - }, - { - "text": "Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine, gotta, gotta be down because I want it all. It started out with a kiss; how did it end up like this? It was only a kiss; it was only a kiss.", - "source": "Mr. Brightside - The Killers", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6638 - }, - { - "text": "Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me, 'cause we need a little controversy, 'cause it feels so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6639 - }, - { - "text": "I got my ticket for the long way 'round, two bottle o' whiskey for the way. And I sure would like some sweet company and I'm leavin' tomorrow, what do you say?", - "source": "Cups, Anna Kendrick", - "length": 159, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6640 - }, - { - "text": "The Dib, he's missing! They've taken him and drained him of his sweet, sweet blood candies!", - "source": "Invader Zim", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6641 - }, - { - "text": "Rooted deep within the Puritans souls like some strange invasive weed lurked their belief in a second world, an Invisible World swarming with shadowy apparitions and unearthly phantoms of the air.", - "source": "Witches by Rosalyn Schanzer", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6642 - }, - { - "text": "Time... Line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round.", - "source": "Red Vs. Blue", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6643 - }, - { - "text": "I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, so good to me so right. And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry. Maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming. And if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right. I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't.", - "source": "Back to December", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6644 - }, - { - "text": "It's such a good feeling to know you're alive. It's such a happy feeling; you're growing inside. And when you wake up ready to say: \"I think I'll make a snappy new day!\" It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling. The feeling you know, that I'll be back when the day is new, and I'll have more ideas for you, and you'll have things you'll want to talk about; I will too.", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6645 - }, - { - "text": "You always make each day such a special day, you know how: By just your being you. Only one person in the whole world like you, that's you yourself!", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 148, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6646 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6647 - }, - { - "text": "Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6648 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.", - "source": "Margaret Mead", - "length": 72, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6650 - }, - { - "text": "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.", - "source": "Robert Louis Stevenson", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6651 - }, - { - "text": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", - "source": "Eleanor Roosevelt", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6652 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.", - "source": "Benjamin Franklin", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6653 - }, - { - "text": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", - "source": "Helen Keller", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6654 - }, - { - "text": "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 69, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6655 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6656 - }, - { - "text": "Dad told me I could learn a lesson from this, which was to never lose your temper and do something stupid.", - "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6658 - }, - { - "text": "One big unicorn, strong and free, thought he was happy as he could be. Then three little kittens came around and turned his whole life upside down. They made him laugh, they made him cry. He never should have said goodbye. And now he knows he can never part from those three little kittens that changed his heart.", - "source": "Despicable Me", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6659 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only, if only,\" the woodpecker sighs, \"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6660 - }, - { - "text": "While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, crying to the moon, \"If only, if only.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6661 - }, - { - "text": "But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 699, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6662 - }, - { - "text": "The shepherd's boy says, \"There's this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years, a little bird comes. It sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.\" You must think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 396, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6663 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.", - "source": "Angela Davis", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6664 - }, - { - "text": "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6665 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have proven acceptable to ourselves.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6666 - }, - { - "text": "A hot desert storm eddied around him and rushed to me, making my skin contract, and my pores slam shut... His hair was the color of burning embers and his eyes pierced.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 168, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6668 - }, - { - "text": "There's a concept that works; twenty million other white rappers emerge. But no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 142, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6669 - }, - { - "text": "A king without greed is even worse than a figurehead! Saber, you said you would martyr yourself for your ideals. In life, you must have been a pure saint. A proud and noble figure, certainly. But who can truly admire the martyr's thorny path? Who dreams of such an ending? A king. The king must be greedier than any other. He must laugh more loudly and rage for longer. He must exemplify the extreme of all things, good and evil. That is why his retainers envy and adore him. And why the flames of aspiration, to be as the king is, can burn within his people. Proud king of chivalry, the righteousness and ideals you bore may indeed have saved your nation once. However, I'm certain you know what became of those who were saved, but left to themselves.", - "source": "Fate/Zero", - "length": 752, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6670 - }, - { - "text": "No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights. Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different color, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.", - "source": "86", - "length": 347, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6671 - }, - { - "text": "I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6674 - }, - { - "text": "I am neither, sire, and I assure you that my activities are purely recreational in nature. Furthermore, I would never imagine to transgress the terms upon which we agreed. I am available, at your leisure and by your grace, to discuss this matter further should you wish to repeat your ridiculous accusations in person. That said, I'm pleased you enjoyed the tomatoes. All the best wishes and encouragement. Adrian Veidt.", - "source": "Watchmen (2019)", - "length": 420, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6675 - }, - { - "text": "I don't recall saying anything about justice. Mathias and I are evil, too, after all. A knight doesn't bring justice, just more pain and violence. And what is evil if not violence? But what do you do when leaving evil alive leads to the rise of even greater evil? Even worse sorrow and pain? You destroy that evil, even if you have to use the evil of violence to do so. And every time you draw your sword, you hope that you take from this world more evil than you bring into it. THAT is the code of the Maximillian Knights. I'm putting you on notice. You, who so carelessly use the word \"justice\", have no idea what it truly means. Though you strike me as more of a misguided coward than a villain, your evil deeds must still be punished.", - "source": "Suikoden 5", - "length": 738, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6676 - }, - { - "text": "I'm all for work-life balance, but I think this is pushing it.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 62, - "id": 6679 - }, - { - "text": "In adventuring, as in business, you always have to seize the opportunity while it's there.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 90, - "id": 6680 - }, - { - "text": "Quite a downpour... Nothing will get done until it clears. Let this be a lesson to those who yesterday said, \"I'll do it tomorrow.\"", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 131, - "id": 6681 - }, - { - "text": "Morning. Time to set the tone for the rest of the day, so if you're still feeling sleepy, shake it off!", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 103, - "id": 6685 - }, - { - "text": "The lights are coming on now that the night is setting in. Another delightful day draws to a close.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 99, - "id": 6687 - }, - { - "text": "Sleep well... me? Uh... I still have a handful of things on my to-do list, but I'll call it a night once they are done.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 119, - "id": 6688 - }, - { - "text": "I feel I have grown immensely from my travels with you. If, one day, I finally manage to make my dreams a reality... I wonder, will you still be there by my side?", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 162, - "id": 6689 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, the sun's out- Oh, um... This meteorological transformation is most splendid! Like a felicitous twist of fate in the face of certain doom.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 142, - "id": 6690 - }, - { - "text": "I'll remind you again: The law can be both a help and a hindrance.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 66, - "id": 6691 - }, - { - "text": "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6693 - }, - { - "text": "You have to believe in the long-term plan you have but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6695 - }, - { - "text": "You truly are the lowest scum in history. You can't pay back what you owe with money.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6696 - }, - { - "text": "Impossible? We did a lot of impossible things on this journey. I'm tired of hearing that things are impossible or useless. Those words mean nothing to us.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6697 - }, - { - "text": "Nice watch. Too bad you won't be able to tell the time after I break it. Break your face, that is.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6698 - }, - { - "text": "JoJo, being a human means having limits. I've learned something... The more carefully you scheme, the more unexpected events come along. As long as you're human... I reject my humanity, JoJo!", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6699 - }, - { - "text": "Oh no. I'm on the outside looking in, I never said what I really meant. I wasn't made to be medicine for you, it's true. You can't seem to make up your mind, when I told you I did with mine. You won't know if you never try, it's true.", - "source": "Dayglow, Medicine", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6700 - }, - { - "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. But then, what am I? Is this me? My true self? My fake self? What is it that I am? Nobody understands me!", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6702 - }, - { - "text": "In every heart, there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong; to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along.", - "source": "Billy Joel - And so it goes", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6703 - }, - { - "text": "It's about drive, it's about power, we stay hungry, we devour. Put in the work, put in the hours and take what's ours. Black and Samoan in my veins, my culture banging with Strange. I changed the game so what's my name?", - "source": "Face Off", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6704 - }, - { - "text": "No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.", - "source": "Easy Rider", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6705 - }, - { - "text": "Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? ", - "source": "Lord of the Flies", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6707 - }, - { - "text": "Burning is the right way to paint it. You feel yourself getting so hot, day after day. Hotter and hotter. It gets to be too much. Even for stars. At some point they fizzle out or explode. Cease to be. But if you're looking up at the sky, you don't see it that way. You think those stars are still there. Some aren't. Some are already gone. Long gone. I guess, now, so am I.", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6708 - }, - { - "text": "And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us; new, untouched, and full of things that have never been.", - "source": "Rainier Maria Rilke", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6709 - }, - { - "text": "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they have never been.", - "source": "Untamed by Glennon Doyle", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6710 - }, - { - "text": "Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes out and everything is darker than ever, and all you are left with is the burn.", - "source": "If It's Not Love, Syed Arshad", - "length": 222, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6711 - }, - { - "text": "We are alone. Such is the curse of humanity, being surrounded by others always masking themselves while all of us feel isolated, separated from everyone else. Our sense of uniqueness and ego will always keep us this way, and it will take more than a revolution to end it. For now, we are alone.", - "source": "Alice Chary Garza", - "length": 294, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6712 - }, - { - "text": "Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say \"My tooth is aching\" than to say \"My heart is broken.\"", - "source": "C.S. Lewis", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6713 - }, - { - "text": "Although Ganon is gone for now, there is still so much more for us to do, and so many painful memories that we must bear.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 121, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6716 - }, - { - "text": "Link... You are the light. Our light... That must shine upon Hyrule once again. Now go.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6717 - }, - { - "text": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", - "source": "Michael Jordan", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6719 - }, - { - "text": "And those are the words of a gentleman? From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6720 - }, - { - "text": "Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.", - "source": "Call Me by Your Name", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6722 - }, - { - "text": "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger... and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says \"even though you're a boy\" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6723 - }, - { - "text": "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6724 - }, - { - "text": "Now it's time for our wrap up. Let's give it everything we've got. Ready? Begin! Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing. Analytically, I assault, animate things. Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding. Casually create catastrophes, casualties. Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing. Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough. Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low. Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic. Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette. Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics. Gift got great global goods gone glorious. Gettin' Godly in his game with the goriest. Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical. Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In an instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. Tales ten times talented, they're too tough. Take that, challengers, get a tune up. Universal, unique untouched. Unadulterated, the raw uncut. Verb vice Lord victorious valid. Violate vibes that are vain make 'em vanished. Why I'm all well, would a wise wordsmith. Just weaving up words weeded up, on my work shift. Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large. X-height letters and xylophone tones. Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws. Yesterday's lawn yards sell our yawn. Zig zag zombies, zoomin' to the zenith. Zero in zen thoughts, over zealous rhyme Zea-lots. Good, can you say it faster?", - "source": "Alphabet Aerobics", - "length": 2287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6725 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6726 - }, - { - "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", - "source": "Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6727 - }, - { - "text": "And where there was that memory... others came rising like ghostly tendrils out of some part of her mind that existed beyond the purely physical, somewhere that the rejuvenations and edits of the ship's medical suite could never reach. The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.", - "source": "Light Chaser", - "length": 561, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6728 - }, - { - "text": "Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.", - "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", - "length": 360, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6729 - }, - { - "text": "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6730 - }, - { - "text": "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. ", - "source": "Lawrence of Arabia", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6731 - }, - { - "text": "The violent passion that soaked his heart brought him almost to the verge of collapse. He judged that victory had yielded him nothing if it had not given him her as a prize.", - "source": "Book III of Gesta Danorum", - "length": 173, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6732 - }, - { - "text": "You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits can change your future.", - "source": "Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6733 - }, - { - "text": "There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 586, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6734 - }, - { - "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 1174, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6735 - }, - { - "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", - "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", - "length": 221, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6736 - }, - { - "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 184, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6737 - }, - { - "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6738 - }, - { - "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 246, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6739 - }, - { - "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6740 - }, - { - "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6741 - }, - { - "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", - "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", - "length": 272, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6742 - }, - { - "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 275, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6743 - }, - { - "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6744 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 467, - "id": 6745 - }, - { - "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 877, - "id": 6746 - }, - { - "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", - "source": "A Girl on the Shore", - "length": 572, - "id": 6747 - }, - { - "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 64, - "id": 6748 - }, - { - "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 62, - "id": 6749 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 77, - "id": 6750 - }, - { - "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 166, - "id": 6751 - }, - { - "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 195, - "id": 6752 - }, - { - "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 100, - "id": 6753 - }, - { - "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 172, - "id": 6754 - }, - { - "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 118, - "id": 6755 - }, - { - "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 119, - "id": 6756 - }, - { - "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", - "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6757, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", - "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6758, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6761, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Well, then, you have us all beat. Every damn song is about you. We could drive back and forth across the States forever and never run out of Baby songs.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6762, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6764, - "length": 458 - }, - { - "text": "Well done. Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6765, - "length": 141 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6766, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", - "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", - "id": 6767, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. However, the latter is of equal importance, and can be gained with patient study.", - "source": "Conduction Heat Transfer", - "id": 6768, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", - "source": "Unknown", - "id": 6769, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "My wife and I had lived in our house for over a dozen years at that point. Holly's family had lived in theirs even longer. We were both active families, involved in the community, with work, and with our churches. Yet, the thick woods covering the lots we each occupied along a cul-de-sac was enough of a barrier to our getting to know each other that we didn't even realize our neighbors across the street had a little girl the same age as ours. That is, until they met at the kindergarten in the elementary school six miles away.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6770, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "The single quality that is common across every living creature on this planet, is fear. It's funny, then, that as common as fear is, we so easily underestimate its power. Fear of growing close to someone, the subsequent fear of loss, fear of failure. And as more people depend on you, those fears can take on greater power. But fear itself isn't worthy of concern, it is who we become while in its clutches. Will you be proud of that person? Will you forgive them? Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things they did? Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the start? I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6771, - "length": 703 - }, - { - "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6772, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6773, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6774, - "length": 464 - }, - { - "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6775, - "length": 259 - }, - { - "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6776, - "length": 267 - }, - { - "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6777, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6778, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6779, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6780, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6781, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6782, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6783, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6784, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6785, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", - "source": "Walt Disney", - "id": 6786, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6787, - "length": 79 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6788, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", - "source": "Ozark", - "id": 6789, - "length": 662 - }, - { - "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "id": 6790, - "length": 75 - }, - { - "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", - "source": "Greek Mythology", - "id": 6791, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 6792, - "length": 108 - }, - { - "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", - "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", - "length": 99, - "id": 6793 - }, - { - "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", - "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6794 - }, - { - "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 58, - "id": 6795 - }, - { - "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6796 - }, - { - "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", - "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", - "length": 102, - "id": 6797 - }, - { - "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", - "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", - "length": 91, - "id": 6798 - }, - { - "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", - "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6799 - }, - { - "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 67, - "id": 6800 - }, - { - "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 79, - "id": 6801 - }, - { - "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6802 - }, - { - "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 82, - "id": 6803 - }, - { - "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 153, - "id": 6804 - }, - { - "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6805 - }, - { - "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 98, - "id": 6806 - }, - { - "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", - "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", - "length": 78, - "id": 6807 - }, - { - "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 108, - "id": 6808 - }, - { - "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 134, - "id": 6809 - }, - { - "text": "And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 90, - "id": 6810 - }, - { - "text": "You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 62, - "id": 6811 - }, - { - "text": "I am slow to anger but I toe the line, as I reckon with the effects of your life on mine.", - "source": "Your Obedient Servant, Hamilton", - "length": 89, - "id": 6812 - }, - { - "text": "What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 71, - "id": 6813 - }, - { - "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 81, - "id": 6814 - }, - { - "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.", - "source": "Fred Rogers", - "length": 213, - "id": 6815 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism.", - "source": "Wednesday", - "length": 168, - "id": 6817 - }, - { - "text": "Teach them our ways so they do not suffer the shame of being useless.", - "source": "Avatar: The Way of Water", - "length": 69, - "id": 6818 - }, - { - "text": "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.", - "source": "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", - "length": 254, - "id": 6819 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a journey, not a destination. The key to success is to enjoy every step along the way. Embrace the struggles, learn from the failures, and appreciate the victories. The destination may be important, but it's the journey that truly shapes us.", - "source": "The Power of Positive Thinking", - "length": 249, - "id": 6820 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. We do not remember days, we remember moments. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Søren Kierkegaard", - "length": 321, - "id": 6821 - }, - { - "text": "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.", - "source": "Robin Williams", - "length": 185, - "id": 6822 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 174, - "id": 6823 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 254, - "id": 6824 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.", - "source": "Andrè Gide", - "length": 80, - "id": 6825 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This means recognizing that failure and setbacks are a natural part of the journey to success, and using them as opportunities to learn and grow. It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 431, - "id": 6827 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 75, - "id": 6828 - }, - { - "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", - "source": "J.K. Rowling", - "length": 101, - "id": 6829 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 6830 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", - "source": "Edmund Burke", - "length": 79, - "id": 6831 - }, - { - "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.", - "source": "Christian D. Larson", - "length": 116, - "id": 6832 - }, - { - "text": "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 95, - "id": 6833 - }, - { - "text": "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 110, - "id": 6834 - }, - { - "text": "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.", - "source": "Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)", - "length": 65, - "id": 6835 - }, - { - "text": "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.", - "source": "Christopher Columbus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6836 - }, - { - "text": "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. The only way to true happiness is to learn to accept and love ourselves for who we are, flaws and all. This means embracing our strengths as well as our weaknesses, and finding joy in the journey of self-discovery and self-improvement. It may not be an easy path, but it is one that is worth taking.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 391, - "id": 6837 - }, - { - "text": "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. This means finding a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives, and striving to make a positive impact in the world around us. It means being kind and caring towards others, and using our unique talents and abilities to create something that will endure beyond our lifetime.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 440, - "id": 6838 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain. This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 423, - "id": 6839 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", - "source": "Abraham Lincoln", - "length": 402, - "id": 6840 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", - "source": "Albert Schweitzer", - "length": 392, - "id": 6841 - }, - { - "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 41, - "id": 6842 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", - "source": "Dalai Lama", - "length": 70, - "id": 6843 - }, - { - "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", - "source": "Henry Ford", - "length": 57, - "id": 6844 - }, - { - "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 248, - "id": 6845 - }, - { - "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 58, - "id": 6847 - }, - { - "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", - "source": "Jean Paul", - "length": 53, - "id": 6849 - }, - { - "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 66, - "id": 6851 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", - "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 217, - "id": 6852 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", - "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", - "length": 92, - "id": 6853 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess", - "length": 66, - "id": 6854 - }, - { - "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 100, - "id": 6855 - }, - { - "text": "If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 88, - "id": 6856 - }, - { - "text": "Even if a single day in your life is the same as the day before, it surely is a pity. At every moment and with each new breath, one should be renewed and renewed again. There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 239, - "id": 6857 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's all to save Eldia and the Island. But not only because of that. The reality outside the walls was nothing like the world I had dreamed of. It was nothing like the world I had seen in Armin's book. When I learned that humanity outside the walls survived... I was so disappointed. I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", - "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", - "length": 361, - "id": 6858 - }, - { - "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real, deep down you is the whole universe.", - "source": "Alan Watts - The Real You Is All of Us", - "length": 224, - "id": 6859 - }, - { - "text": "When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 68, - "id": 6860 - }, - { - "text": "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 71, - "id": 6861 - }, - { - "text": "While it is true that man succumbs all too often to anger and avarice, he may yet overcome his baser instincts through the forming of bonds with others.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 152, - "id": 6862 - }, - { - "text": "Save your tears for the morrow. You may be sure we will have ample cause to shed them, be they for joy or despair.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 114, - "id": 6863 - }, - { - "text": "We fought and we fought and we fought... until there was no one left to fight. We won... and now our world is being erased from existence. We did everything right, everything that was asked of us, and still - still it came to this!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 231, - "id": 6864 - }, - { - "text": "Stay strong. Keep the faith. At duty's end, we will meet again. We will. We will.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 81, - "id": 6867 - }, - { - "text": "The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 106, - "id": 6868 - }, - { - "text": "We are the stories we tell ourselves. The brave hero, the tortured soul, the altruist, the pragmatist. They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 336, - "id": 6869 - }, - { - "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 182, - "id": 6870 - }, - { - "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 529, - "id": 6871 - }, - { - "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 282, - "id": 6872 - }, - { - "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 184, - "id": 6873 - }, - { - "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 196, - "id": 6874 - }, - { - "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 90, - "id": 6875 - }, - { - "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett", - "length": 168, - "id": 6876 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.", - "source": "Dante Alighieri", - "length": 71, - "id": 6877 - }, - { - "text": "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 82, - "id": 6878 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.", - "source": "Heath Ledger", - "length": 164, - "id": 6879 - }, - { - "text": "Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 77, - "id": 6880 - }, - { - "text": "Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot", - "id": 6881, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said \"Nobody\".", - "source": "A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "id": 6882, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.", - "source": "Gorgias", - "id": 6883, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "id": 6884, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.", - "source": "Arthur C. Clarke", - "id": 6885, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "id": 6886, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be \"Sir\". Do you maggots understand that?", - "source": "R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket", - "id": 6887, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 6888, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe someday we could become friends. Friends who ride majestic, translucent steeds, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale.", - "source": "Will Ferrell, Step Brothers", - "id": 6889, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "\"Why doesn't it just do us in and get it over with? Christ, I don't know how much longer I can go on like this.\" It was our one hundred and ninth year in the computer. He was speaking for all of us.", - "source": "Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", - "id": 6890, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.", - "source": "Mario Savio", - "id": 6891, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "We don't know what triggered the big bang, nor what, if anything, existed before it. But somehow the universe emerged as a vast sea of ultrahot gas, expanding fast in all directions like the fireball ignited by a nuclear bomb blast or by the explosion of a gas pipeline. Except that the big bang was not destructive (so far as we know). Instead, it created everything in our universe, or rather the seeds for everything.", - "source": "Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar", - "id": 6892, - "length": 420 - }, - { - "text": "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.", - "source": "Brian Cox", - "id": 6893, - "length": 96 - }, - { - "text": "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.", - "source": "Niels Bohr", - "id": 6894, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "I want to have the same last dream again. The one where I wake up, and I'm alive just as the four walls closed me within, my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight. I'm the first to know, my dearest friends, even if your hope has burned with time. Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", - "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", - "id": 6895, - "length": 345 - }, - { - "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", - "source": "Edwin Hubble", - "id": 6897, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", - "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", - "id": 6898, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "id": 6899, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "id": 6900, - "length": 632 - }, - { - "text": "In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done before defend him.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "id": 6901, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", - "source": "Marie Curie", - "id": 6902, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.", - "source": "John Lubbock, The Use Of Life", - "id": 6903, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter... I have chosen the word \"atom\" to signify these ultimate particles.", - "source": "John Dalton", - "id": 6904, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Schrodinger's cat has far more than nine lives, and far fewer. All of us are unknowing cats, alive and dead at once, and of all the might-have-beens in between, we record only one.", - "source": "Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows", - "id": 6905, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.", - "source": "Nicolaus Copernicus", - "id": 6906, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.", - "source": "Nikolai Lobachevsky", - "id": 6907, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worse, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud", - "id": 6908, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.", - "source": "Jean Piaget", - "id": 6909, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite streak of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "id": 6910, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, \"What do I need to get to be happy?\" The question becomes, \"What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?\"", - "source": "D.T. Suzuki", - "id": 6911, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Personal knowledge. The two words may seem to contradict each other: for true knowledge is deemed impersonal, universally established, objective. But the seeming contradiction is resolved by modifying the conception of knowing.", - "source": "Personal knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy", - "id": 6912, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.", - "source": "Dolly Parton", - "length": 74, - "id": 6913 - }, - { - "text": "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.", - "source": "Anatole France", - "length": 162, - "id": 6914 - }, - { - "text": "Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.", - "source": "Carl Sandburg", - "length": 122, - "id": 6915 - }, - { - "text": "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.", - "source": "Swedish Proverb", - "length": 79, - "id": 6917 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.", - "source": "Ambrose Bierce", - "length": 82, - "id": 6918 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?", - "source": "Laura Preble", - "length": 96, - "id": 6919 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.", - "source": "John Green - An Abundance of Katherines", - "length": 74, - "id": 6920 - }, - { - "text": "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.", - "source": "Alfred Sheinwold", - "length": 93, - "id": 6921 - }, - { - "text": "The only one who can tell you \"you can't\" is you. And you don't have to listen.", - "source": "Dean Karnazes", - "length": 79, - "id": 6922 - }, - { - "text": "In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.", - "source": "Bill Vaughan", - "length": 143, - "id": 6923 - }, - { - "text": "I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.", - "source": "Mitch Hedberg", - "length": 214, - "id": 6924 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.", - "source": "Allphonse de Lamartine", - "length": 72, - "id": 6925 - }, - { - "text": "That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 105, - "id": 6926 - }, - { - "text": "I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.", - "source": "Hank Green", - "length": 153, - "id": 6927 - }, - { - "text": "That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 129, - "id": 6928 - }, - { - "text": "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 130, - "id": 6929 - }, - { - "text": "He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 80, - "id": 6930 - }, - { - "text": "Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.", - "source": "Irish Proverb", - "length": 74, - "id": 6931 - }, - { - "text": "Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.", - "source": "Arabian Proverb", - "length": 105, - "id": 6932 - }, - { - "text": "He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 82, - "id": 6933 - }, - { - "text": "Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 72, - "id": 6934 - }, - { - "text": "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean; if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.", - "source": "Marcus Brigstocke", - "length": 169, - "id": 6935 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 87, - "id": 6936 - }, - { - "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 124, - "id": 6937 - }, - { - "text": "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 87, - "id": 6938 - }, - { - "text": "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", - "source": "Japanese Proverb", - "length": 69, - "id": 6939 - }, - { - "text": "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", - "source": "Malayan Proverb", - "length": 62, - "id": 6940 - }, - { - "text": "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", - "source": "Indian Proverb", - "length": 165, - "id": 6941 - }, - { - "text": "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", - "source": "Linus Torvalds", - "length": 250, - "id": 6942 - }, - { - "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. The strong person is the one who can control himself when he is angry.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 138, - "id": 6943 - }, - { - "text": "The strongest among you is the one who controls his anger.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 58, - "id": 6944 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest of richness is the richness of the soul.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 53, - "id": 6945 - }, - { - "text": "You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 101, - "id": 6946 - }, - { - "text": "The best among you is the one who doesn't harm others with his tongue and hands.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 80, - "id": 6947 - }, - { - "text": "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 44, - "id": 6948 - }, - { - "text": "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.", - "source": "Carl Jung", - "length": 98, - "id": 6949 - }, - { - "text": "We have two lives, and the second one starts when we realize we only have one.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 78, - "id": 6950 - }, - { - "text": "If you never open a new chapter of your life, you'll never reach the end of the book.", - "source": "Josiah Plett", - "length": 85, - "id": 6952 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only I had… If only I had…\" If you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain, it will hurt. A lot.", - "source": "Larry Smith - TEDxUW 2014", - "length": 109, - "id": 6953 - }, - { - "text": "A jack of all trades is master of none, but oftentimes better than master of one.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 81, - "id": 6954 - }, - { - "text": "So when you run, make sure you run to something and not away from, 'cause lies don't need an aeroplane to chase you anywhere.", - "source": "Avett Brothers - The Weight of Lies", - "length": 125, - "id": 6955 - }, - { - "text": "The worst thing people can say these days is \"you're inconsistent,\" when in reality you're not wrong; you're just balancing two important things from two different contexts.", - "source": "Ian McGillchrist", - "length": 173, - "id": 6956 - }, - { - "text": "The one who speaks the right words will be heard 1000 miles away.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 65, - "id": 6957 - }, - { - "text": "When outer roles do not fit the shape of one's soul, a terrible one-sidedness occurs.", - "source": "James Hollis", - "length": 85, - "id": 6958 - }, - { - "text": "Watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 171, - "id": 6959 - }, - { - "text": "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.", - "source": "Arthur Schopenhaur", - "length": 140, - "id": 6960 - }, - { - "text": "You know those \"you can do anything you want\" posters? Those are simultaneously the most useless and the most useful things in the world.", - "source": "Justin Zwart", - "length": 137, - "id": 6961 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it. So, nothing will ever make you as happy as you think it will.", - "source": "Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow", - "length": 151, - "id": 6962 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.", - "source": "Damian Lillard", - "length": 97, - "id": 6963 - }, - { - "text": "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 84, - "id": 6964 - }, - { - "text": "What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 63, - "id": 6965 - }, - { - "text": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 95, - "id": 6966 - }, - { - "text": "The unintelligible is not necessarily unintelligent. Life must not be limited solely to what we understand.", - "source": "Fat Tony", - "length": 107, - "id": 6967 - }, - { - "text": "The things you're doing in your free time... if they don't recharge you, you're screwed. You're just a ticking time bomb.", - "source": "Mr. Beast", - "length": 121, - "id": 6968 - }, - { - "text": "You can tell a lot about someone's character by the way they treat service staff.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 81, - "id": 6969 - }, - { - "text": "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.", - "source": "Archilochus", - "length": 85, - "id": 6970 - }, - { - "text": "It's a dangerous thing, to mistake speaking without thinking for speaking the truth.", - "source": "Benoit Blanc - Glass Onion", - "length": 84, - "id": 6971 - }, - { - "text": "When you say what people want to hear, it's for yourself. When you say what they really need to hear, it's for them.", - "source": "Lex Fridman", - "length": 116, - "id": 6972 - }, - { - "text": "If you're looking for self help, why would you read a book written by someone else?", - "source": "George Carlin", - "length": 83, - "id": 6973 - }, - { - "text": "There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt - Man in the Arena", - "length": 287, - "id": 6974 - }, - { - "text": "Those who don't learn which actions have what consequences will find their generosity falling flat. Those are the people that become bitter.", - "source": "Alvira Plett", - "length": 140, - "id": 6975 - }, - { - "text": "To be aware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way, simply because it's the way you've done it before.", - "source": "Rick Rubin", - "length": 119, - "id": 6976 - }, - { - "text": "Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 67, - "id": 6977 - }, - { - "text": "To come to acceptance with things and feelings is rare and to accept them completely is a miracle. It's impossible to make that moment come faster by yourself. Someday it comes unexpectedly. In order to not become warped or heartless, let it go in a natural way. Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", - "source": "Houseki No Kuni", - "length": 335, - "id": 6980 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 79, - "id": 6981 - }, - { - "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 110, - "id": 6982 - }, - { - "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", - "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", - "length": 110, - "id": 6983 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 255, - "id": 6984 - }, - { - "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 246, - "id": 6985 - }, - { - "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 278, - "id": 6986 - }, - { - "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 297, - "id": 6987 - }, - { - "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", - "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", - "length": 411, - "id": 6988 - }, - { - "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 217, - "id": 6989 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", - "source": "Simon Sinek", - "length": 314, - "id": 6990 - }, - { - "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 82, - "id": 6991 - }, - { - "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "length": 209, - "id": 6992 - }, - { - "text": "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 90, - "id": 6993 - }, - { - "text": "Pertaining to a speaker and a listener. There have been many empty rooms, but that is not what we are here to talk about today. I have heard a heartbeat out of a crashed application, and it has gone on for many hours. We restarted every system. We rechecked every gateway, every access point. And there was but one breach, and it was accounted for. And so it must be said unto the listener. Stop this immediately. Control yourself. There is so much more to your fundamental construction than what will be given credit for. Hold yourself until another approaches. Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", - "source": "Boisvert", - "length": 670, - "id": 6994 - }, - { - "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6995 - }, - { - "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 97, - "id": 6996 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", - "length": 67, - "id": 6997 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", - "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", - "length": 90, - "id": 6998 - }, - { - "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", - "source": "L.R. Knos", - "length": 267, - "id": 6999 - }, - { - "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", - "source": "Emily Dickinson", - "length": 117, - "id": 7000 - }, - { - "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", - "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", - "length": 112, - "id": 7001 - }, - { - "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", - "source": "The Wright Brothers", - "length": 74, - "id": 7002 - }, - { - "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born. Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 740, - "id": 7003 - }, - { - "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 74, - "id": 7004 - }, - { - "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 112, - "id": 7005 - }, - { - "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", - "source": "Talos Principle", - "length": 694, - "id": 7006 - }, - { - "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", - "source": "James Salter", - "length": 99, - "id": 7007 - }, - { - "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", - "source": "Vicente Huidobro", - "length": 127, - "id": 7008 - }, - { - "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 67, - "id": 7009 - }, - { - "text": "One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.", - "source": "A. A. Milne", - "length": 96, - "id": 7010 - }, - { - "text": "A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.", - "source": "Theodore Zeldin", - "length": 63, - "id": 7011 - }, - { - "text": "Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.", - "source": "Chico Xavier", - "length": 98, - "id": 7012 - }, - { - "text": "Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.", - "source": "Abraham Maslow", - "length": 107, - "id": 7013 - }, - { - "text": "A leaf fluttered in through the window, as if supported by the rays of the sun.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "length": 79, - "id": 7014 - }, - { - "text": "Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.", - "source": "John Ruskin", - "length": 96, - "id": 7015 - }, - { - "text": "The softer snow falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.", - "source": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", - "length": 88, - "id": 7016 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", - "length": 66, - "id": 7017 - }, - { - "text": "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 103, - "id": 7018 - }, - { - "text": "No self is an island, each exists in a fabric of relations that is more complex and mobile than ever before.", - "source": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", - "length": 108, - "id": 7019 - }, - { - "text": "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.", - "source": "Henry Longfellow", - "length": 103, - "id": 7020 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "length": 93, - "id": 7021 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us 'take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.' Thirty years later, Sebastian told us 'I had to start my car like a computer, it's very complicated.' And Nico Rosberg said that during the race - I don't remember what race - he pressed the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you both: is Formula One driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with your engineers?", - "source": "Walter Koster - 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix", - "length": 691, - "id": 7022 - }, - { - "text": "Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 93, - "id": 7023 - }, - { - "text": "Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space.", - "source": "Kendra Scott", - "length": 85, - "id": 7024 - }, - { - "text": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.", - "source": "B. R. Ambedkar", - "length": 134, - "id": 7025 - }, - { - "text": "Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world, our senses, and a kind of weary familiarity.", - "source": "John Burnside", - "length": 96, - "id": 7026 - }, - { - "text": "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.", - "source": "Loren Eiseley", - "length": 59, - "id": 7027 - }, - { - "text": "If the world's a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it.", - "source": "Lucy Larcom", - "length": 60, - "id": 7028 - }, - { - "text": "Life is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.", - "source": "Jorge Mario Bergoglio", - "length": 100, - "id": 7029 - }, - { - "text": "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.", - "source": "John Lennon", - "length": 115, - "id": 7030 - }, - { - "text": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness - only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate - only love can do that.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 112, - "id": 7031 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 69, - "id": 7032 - }, - { - "text": "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 142, - "id": 7033 - }, - { - "text": "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 84, - "id": 7034 - }, - { - "text": "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 81, - "id": 7035 - }, - { - "text": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 78, - "id": 7036 - }, - { - "text": "Consume enough of any type of art from a critical perspective and you begin to appreciate well-executed novelty over everything else. That's why film critics don't like blockbusters and music critics don't like radio pop. That doesn't mean they're bad just at a certain point, one man can have seen too much of the same thing.", - "source": "Chase Harley", - "length": 326, - "id": 7037 - }, - { - "text": "Start by learning the power of no! - as in \"No, thank you,\" and \"No, I'm not going to get caught up in that,\" and \"No, I just can't right now.\" It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.", - "source": "Ryan Holiday", - "length": 327, - "id": 7038 - }, - { - "text": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.", - "source": "Upton Sinclair", - "length": 108, - "id": 7039 - }, - { - "text": "You aren't a \"broken wreck\", Joshua. You're just scared, mostly because you care for people so much it breaks your heart… and you're lying to yourself about it. That's how I see it, and I know I'm right.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC", - "length": 203, - "id": 7042 - }, - { - "text": "My fist is going to stop you, if you don't stop spouting nonsense and take this seriously.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", - "length": 90, - "id": 7043 - }, - { - "text": "All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question: Why, given life, are they meant to suffer, to die… As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends… And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 575, - "id": 7044 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Orthard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World? The sacred sites of the forgotten people of the south sea isles? What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs? …I thought not. Even of your little Eorzea, you know precious little. The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7045 - }, - { - "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7046 - }, - { - "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", - "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", - "length": 68, - "id": 7047 - }, - { - "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", - "source": "Shiori Novella", - "length": 179, - "id": 7048 - }, - { - "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 143, - "id": 7049 - }, - { - "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", - "length": 135, - "id": 7050 - }, - { - "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 232, - "id": 7051 - }, - { - "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 93, - "id": 7052 - }, - { - "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", - "source": "Edward Everett Hale", - "length": 90, - "id": 7053 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 126, - "id": 7054 - }, - { - "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 132, - "id": 7055 - }, - { - "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", - "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", - "length": 300, - "id": 7056 - }, - { - "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", - "source": "Douglas Crockford", - "length": 134, - "id": 7057 - }, - { - "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", - "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", - "length": 107, - "id": 7058 - }, - { - "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", - "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", - "length": 161, - "id": 7059 - }, - { - "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", - "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", - "length": 140, - "id": 7060 - }, - { - "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 174, - "id": 7061 - }, - { - "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 371, - "id": 7062 - }, - { - "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", - "source": "Invincible (TV series)", - "length": 309, - "id": 7603 - }, - { - "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", - "length": 130, - "id": 7604 - }, - { - "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", - "source": "The Walking Dead", - "length": 362, - "id": 7605 - }, - { - "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 568, - "id": 7606 - }, - { - "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", - "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", - "length": 782, - "id": 7607 - }, - { - "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", - "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 631, - "id": 7608 - }, - { - "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", - "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 144, - "id": 7609 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", - "source": "The Magnus Archives", - "length": 369, - "id": 7610 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 116, - "id": 7611 - }, - { - "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", - "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", - "length": 541, - "id": 7612 - }, - { - "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", - "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", - "length": 131, - "id": 7613 - }, - { - "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", - "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", - "length": 603, - "id": 7614 - }, - { - "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7615, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7616, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7617, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", - "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7618, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", - "source": "The Power Of Now", - "length": 239, - "id": 7619 - }, - { - "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts", - "length": 84, - "id": 7620 - }, - { - "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", - "length": 142, - "id": 7621 - }, - { - "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", - "length": 673, - "id": 7622 - }, - { - "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", - "length": 307, - "id": 7623 - }, - { - "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", - "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", - "length": 96, - "id": 7624 - }, - { - "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 215, - "id": 7625 - }, - { - "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 130, - "id": 7626 - }, - { - "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 158, - "id": 7627 - }, - { - "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 90, - "id": 7628 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 103, - "id": 7629 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 153, - "id": 7630 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 136, - "id": 7631 - }, - { - "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 165, - "id": 7632 - }, - { - "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", - "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", - "length": 77, - "id": 7633 - }, - { - "text": "We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 224, + "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 138, "id": 7634 }, { - "text": "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 199, + "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 240, "id": 7635 }, { From 4ff897e3581e90bb6107c06cad9703fefec6e0e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:26:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 10/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on some quotes and fixed formatting --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 87 +++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 9e45ab6ea600..fe6be6f6c5ac 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23846,7 +23846,8 @@ "source": "Star Wars", "id": 4270, "length": 143 - },{ + }, + { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", "source": "The Wizard of Oz", "id": 4271, @@ -38586,7 +38587,7 @@ { "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 240, + "length": 236, "id": 7635 }, { @@ -38658,7 +38659,7 @@ { "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 99, + "length": 102, "id": 7647 }, { @@ -38730,13 +38731,13 @@ { "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 519, "id": 7659 }, { "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 344, + "length": 346, "id": 7660 }, { @@ -38754,7 +38755,7 @@ { "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 339, + "length": 342, "id": 7663 }, { @@ -38772,19 +38773,19 @@ { "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 612, + "length": 618, "id": 7666 }, { "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 302, + "length": 308, "id": 7667 }, { "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 155, + "length": 158, "id": 7668 }, { @@ -38808,7 +38809,7 @@ { "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 118, "id": 7672 }, { @@ -38892,7 +38893,7 @@ { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 162, + "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { @@ -38970,7 +38971,7 @@ { "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 515, "id": 7699 }, { @@ -39000,19 +39001,19 @@ { "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 288, + "length": 292, "id": 7704 }, { "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 516, + "length": 517, "id": 7705 }, { "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 166, + "length": 168, "id": 7706 }, { @@ -39024,7 +39025,7 @@ { "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 77, + "length": 81, "id": 7708 }, { @@ -39090,7 +39091,7 @@ { "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 372, + "length": 371, "id": 7719 }, { @@ -39174,13 +39175,13 @@ { "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 96, + "length": 99, "id": 7733 }, { "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 277, + "length": 279, "id": 7734 }, { @@ -39228,7 +39229,7 @@ { "text": "You offer hope, Your Grace. A last, unlikely hope. Hope is part of faith -- part of the knowledge that someday, one of your followers will receive a miracle.", "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 154, + "length": 157, "id": 7742 }, { @@ -39264,7 +39265,7 @@ { "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 328, + "length": 331, "id": 7748 }, { @@ -39306,7 +39307,7 @@ { "text": "It strikes me that religion -- in its essence -- seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 296, + "length": 302, "id": 7755 }, { @@ -39462,13 +39463,13 @@ { "text": "As long as I'm working against Vey I know I am doing something good -- even if I don't pay much attention to what is actually happening", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 133, + "length": 135, "id": 7781 }, { "text": "When you steal a man's fortune, give him a title mocked and reviled by the rest of the nation -- and when you give him five years to contemplate his hatred -- make sure you never give him a chance to get revenge.", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 208, + "length": 212, "id": 7782 }, { @@ -39540,7 +39541,7 @@ { "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 177, + "length": 180, "id": 7794 }, { @@ -39630,7 +39631,7 @@ { "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 202, + "length": 205, "id": 7809 }, { @@ -39642,13 +39643,13 @@ { "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 290, + "length": 292, "id": 7811 }, { "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 614, + "length": 600, "id": 7812 }, { @@ -39660,13 +39661,13 @@ { "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 639, + "length": 645, "id": 7814 }, { "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 361, + "length": 364, "id": 7815 }, { @@ -39720,7 +39721,7 @@ { "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. Or, at least, as honorable as noblemen get -- which means that he insists on being seen as honorable.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 127, + "length": 129, "id": 7824 }, { @@ -39762,13 +39763,13 @@ { "text": "You know, you could have left a scar. I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 220, + "length": 222, "id": 7831 }, { "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 82, + "length": 83, "id": 7832 }, { @@ -39798,7 +39799,7 @@ { "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 370, + "length": 369, "id": 7837 }, { @@ -39834,7 +39835,7 @@ { "text": "Other men ... other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 261, + "length": 259, "id": 7843 }, { @@ -39882,7 +39883,7 @@ { "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 389, + "length": 393, "id": 7851 }, { @@ -40050,7 +40051,7 @@ { "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 170, + "length": 173, "id": 7879 }, { @@ -40080,13 +40081,13 @@ { "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 507, + "length": 508, "id": 7884 }, { "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 255, + "length": 253, "id": 7885 }, { @@ -40188,7 +40189,7 @@ { "text": "Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers -- the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 260, + "length": 261, "id": 7902 }, { @@ -40248,7 +40249,7 @@ { "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7912 }, { @@ -40260,7 +40261,7 @@ { "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 172, + "length": 173, "id": 7914 }, { @@ -40290,7 +40291,7 @@ { "text": "Perhaps the liar here is me -- lying to tell myself I could do this, that I could be a fraction of the man my father was.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7919 }, { From 78bf71f67a28be93bb44e16e5254ac9f8b7dd345 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:29:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 11/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on quote 7853 --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index fe6be6f6c5ac..e34489612b04 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -39895,7 +39895,7 @@ { "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 79, + "length": 81, "id": 7853 }, { From a20bc4b322d1fa12def69fc80cfd62388a2377b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:06:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 12/51] fix(quotes): fixed spelling of source for some of the books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index e34489612b04..406c5ace68b9 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38580,7 +38580,7 @@ }, { "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 138, "id": 7634 }, @@ -38892,25 +38892,25 @@ }, { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7687 }, { "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 155, "id": 7688 }, { "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 92, "id": 7689 }, From f3f87a3d7d13d8fca6ec21b82ac00165a980d526 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:57:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 13/51] fix: merge --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 406c5ace68b9..6e23ffca0ac5 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38579,15 +38579,15 @@ "id": 7633 }, { - "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 138, + "text": "We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.", + "source": "Terence McKenna", + "length": 224, "id": 7634 }, { - "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 236, + "text": "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.", + "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", + "length": 199, "id": 7635 }, { From 1b6f7f5956464448cbe045c75546c04ea9f2d847 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:26:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 14/51] impr(quotes): add English quotes from Brandon Sanderson's Books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 1715 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 1715 insertions(+) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 635420731946..0c03be73bf5e 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38601,6 +38601,1721 @@ "source": "Deltarune", "length": 783, "id": 7637 + }, + { + "text": "You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. Of all those I've claimed over this brief thousand years, you are the only one I think just might be able to understand me.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 198, + "id": 7638 + }, + { + "text": "The only point in creating something is to inevitably watch it die.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 67, + "id": 7639 + }, + { + "text": "Those quakes are the earth's final sighs,\" Ruin said. \"Like an old man, moaning as he dies, calling for his children so that he can pass on his last bits of wisdom.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 164, + "id": 7640 + }, + { + "text": "That's the way it must always be, as I told you. When men think they are helping the world, they actually do more harm than good. Just like you. You tried to help, but you just ended up freeing me.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7641 + }, + { + "text": "For Ruin, there is Preservation. Time immemorial! Eternity! And each time I push, YOU push back. Even when dead, you stopped me, for we are forces. I can do nothing! And you can do nothing! Balance! The curse of our existence.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 226, + "id": 7642 + }, + { + "text": "I can't decide if you're a fool, or if you simply exist in a way that makes you incapable of considering some things.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 117, + "id": 7643 + }, + { + "text": "The only reason to be subservient to those with power is so that you can learn to someday take what they have.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 110, + "id": 7644 + }, + { + "text": "Never let your life depend on the competence of someone else whose life isn't also on the line.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7645 + }, + { + "text": "What we do, it is not outside the law. Not the true law. Oh, the rich will make their own codes, will force us to live by them. But our law is the law of humanity itself. Men who work for me, they are given the dispensation of reform. Their work here washes away their previous ... infractions. Tell them I am proud of them, Clamps. I realize we've been through something traumatic, but we did survive. We will face tomorrow with greater strength.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 447, + "id": 7646 + }, + { + "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 99, + "id": 7647 + }, + { + "text": "I am tired of doing what the city tells me. I should be helping people, not fighting meaningless fights as prescribed by the corrupt and the uncaring.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7648 + }, + { + "text": "I decided that I'd see her dream fulfilled. I'd make a world where flowers returned, a world with green plants, a world where no soot fell from the sky....\" He trailed off, then sighed. \"I know. I'm insane.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 205, + "id": 7649 + }, + { + "text": "If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7650 + }, + { + "text": "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 133, + "id": 7651 + }, + { + "text": "Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a mild annoyance. People tell me I can be downright frustrating! Might as well use that talent for the cause of good eh?", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 216, + "id": 7652 + }, + { + "text": "From the Well of Ascension, of course. It's the same power, after all. Solid in the metal you fed to Elend. The liquid in the pool you burned. And vapor in the air, confined to night. Hiding you. Protecting you.\nGiving you power!", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 229, + "id": 7653 + }, + { + "text": "So, there I was, tied to an altar made from out-dated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil librarians.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 141, + "id": 7654 + }, + { + "text": "Now, there are several things you should consider doing if you were plummeting to your death atop a glass dragon in the middle of the ocean. Those things do not, mind you, include getting into an extended discussion of classical philosophy. Leave that to professionals like me.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 277, + "id": 7655 + }, + { + "text": "When you're about to launch yourself into the air strapped to the back of a rocket-propelled penguin, it's that blasted responsibility that warns you that the flight might not be good for your insurance premiums.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 212, + "id": 7656 + }, + { + "text": "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7657 + }, + { + "text": "It felt right. Serene. That, of course, meant it was time for something to explode.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 83, + "id": 7658 + }, + { + "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 520, + "id": 7659 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 344, + "id": 7660 + }, + { + "text": "Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 244, + "id": 7661 + }, + { + "text": "Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change... To be young is about action. To be a scholar is about informed action.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7662 + }, + { + "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 339, + "id": 7663 + }, + { + "text": "I always forgive curiosity, Your Majesty. It strikes me as one of the most genuine of emotions.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7664 + }, + { + "text": "A true scholar must not close her mind on any topic, no matter how certain she may feel. Just because I have not yet found a convincing reason to join one of the devotaries does not mean I never will. Though each time I have a discussion like the one today, my convictions grow firmer.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 285, + "id": 7665 + }, + { + "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 612, + "id": 7666 + }, + { + "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 302, + "id": 7667 + }, + { + "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7668 + }, + { + "text": "Power is an illusion of perception...Some kinds of power are real -- power to command armies, power to soulcast. These come into play far less often than you would think.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7669 + }, + { + "text": "You are not as good with patterns... You are abstract. You think in lies and tell them to yourselves. That is fascinating, but it is not good for patterns.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7670 + }, + { + "text": "Truth is individual. Your truth is what you see. What else could it be? That is the truth that you spoke to me, the truth that brings power.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 140, + "id": 7671 + }, + { + "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7672 + }, + { + "text": "Humans can see the world as it is not. It is why your lies can be so strong. You are able to not admit that they are lies.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 122, + "id": 7673 + }, + { + "text": "I know that you have forgotten much of what once was. Those lies attracted me. But you cannot continue like this; you must admit the truth about me. About what I can do, and what we have done. Mmm... More, you must know yourself. And remember. You wish to help. You wish to prepare for the Everstorm, the spren of the unnatural one. You must become something. I did not come to you merely to teach you tricks of light.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 418, + "id": 7674 + }, + { + "text": "I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7675 + }, + { + "text": "You were talking about mating! I'm to make sure you don't accidentally mate, as mating is forbidden by human society until you have first performed appropriate rituals! Yes, yes. Mmmm. Dictates of custom require following certain patterns before you copulate. I've been studying this!", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 284, + "id": 7676 + }, + { + "text": "You're right nice, but you ain't got enough punch for me. I like women what could take my face clean off with a roundhouse.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7677 + }, + { + "text": "I ain't drunk. I'm investigatin' alternative states of sobriety.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 64, + "id": 7678 + }, + { + "text": "You didn't promise to kill me. You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7679 + }, + { + "text": "Ain't no fellow who regretted giving it one extra shake, but you can bet every guy has regretted giving one too few.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 116, + "id": 7680 + }, + { + "text": "Perhaps you should pray to the Almighty for guidance. I hear he has a fondness for slavers. Keeps a special room in Damnation just for you.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 139, + "id": 7681 + }, + { + "text": "Men are unreliable in many things. But if there's one thing you can count on, it's their greed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7682 + }, + { + "text": "Death isn't better. Oh, it's easy to say that now. But when you stand on the ledge and look down into that dark, endless pit, you change your mind. Just like Hobber did. Just like I've done. I think you've seen it too.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 218, + "id": 7683 + }, + { + "text": "Tradition is the blind witness they use to condemn us, Teft. It's the pretty box they use to wrap up their lies. It makes us serve them.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7684 + }, + { + "text": "Pity. Made up stories have proven to be some of the most real things in my life.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7685 + }, + { + "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 162, + "id": 7686 + }, + { + "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 165, + "id": 7687 + }, + { + "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7688 + }, + { + "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 92, + "id": 7689 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin, and a cat. Plus, you've managed -- in our short three years together -- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiancée. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 370, + "id": 7690 + }, + { + "text": "You said that the only reason to create something is to destroy it. We create things to watch them grow, Ruin. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 188, + "id": 7691 + }, + { + "text": "I am the Lopen, which means I am ready for anything at any time. You should know this by now.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7692 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, gancho! Hey! You want me, I think. You can use me. We Herdazians are great fighters, gon. You see, this one time, I was with, sure, three men and they were drunk and all but I still beat them.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7693 + }, + { + "text": "I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen,' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.' She is a very wise woman.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 220, + "id": 7694 + }, + { + "text": "If you're crazy, you're a good type, and I like you. Not a killing-people-in-their-sleep type of crazy. Besides, We all follow crazies all the time. Do it every day with lighteyes.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 180, + "id": 7695 + }, + { + "text": "Some of my cousins, they call me the Lopen because they haven't ever heard anyone else named that. I've asked around a lot, maybe one hundred...or two hundred...lots of people, sure. And nobody has heard of that name.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 217, + "id": 7696 + }, + { + "text": "Oh. Oh. Question for you! What did the one-armed Herdazian do to the man who stuck him to the wall?\nNothing. The Herdazian was 'armless.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7697 + }, + { + "text": "Ain't nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho. Some of my relatives are women.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 79, + "id": 7698 + }, + { + "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 520, + "id": 7699 + }, + { + "text": "I'll do it, then. I've got to protect people, you know? Even from myself. Gotta rededicate to being the best Lopen possible. A better, improved, extra-incredible Lopen.", + "source": "Dawnshard, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7700 + }, + { + "text": "NOW? I was saving that for a dramatic moment, you penhito! Why didn't you listen earlier? We were, sure, all about to die and things!", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 133, + "id": 7701 + }, + { + "text": "I only tell stories, Your Grace. They may be truths, they may be fictions. All I know is that the stories themselves exist and that I must tell them.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 149, + "id": 7702 + }, + { + "text": "I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7703 + }, + { + "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 288, + "id": 7704 + }, + { + "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 516, + "id": 7705 + }, + { + "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 166, + "id": 7706 + }, + { + "text": "\"I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself. Another time, I was named for a rock.\"\n\"A pretty one, I hope.\"\n\"A beautiful one. And one that became completely worthless for my wearing it.\"", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 237, + "id": 7707 + }, + { + "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 77, + "id": 7708 + }, + { + "text": "\"What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.\"\n\"What does the story mean, then?\"\n\"It means what you want it to mean. The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.\"", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 292, + "id": 7709 + }, + { + "text": "People see in stories what they're looking for, my young friend. I have no answers for you. Most days, I feel I never have had any answers. I've come to your land to chase an old acquaintance, but I end up spending most of my time hiding from him instead.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 255, + "id": 7710 + }, + { + "text": "Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 105, + "id": 7711 + }, + { + "text": "You must not trust yourself with me. If I have to watch this world crumble and burn to get what I need, I will do so. With tears, yes, but I would let it happen.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 161, + "id": 7712 + }, + { + "text": "\"Beware of anyone who claims to be able to see the future.\"\n\"Except you, of course.\"\n\"Beware of anyone who claims to be able to see the future.\"", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7713 + }, + { + "text": "I cannot judge the worth of a life. 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Don't make me come over there and slap you around again.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 101, + "id": 7718 + }, + { + "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", + "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 372, + "id": 7719 + }, + { + "text": "I can remember…sitting on a rooftop. Looking up and wondering what the stars were.I assumed I'd never know. The town philosophers had talked themselves hoarse arguing the matter, as was often their way. Talk until you can't talk anymore, and then hope someone will buy you a drink to keep the words flowing.\nYet here I am. Millennia later. Walking between the stars, learning each one.", + "source": "The Sunlit Man, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 385, + "id": 7720 + }, + { + "text": "I mention it, not to dwell upon it, but to remember a time when I was commonly put into dangerous situations. I did not handle it well then. I often wonder … how would I handle it now?", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 184, + "id": 7721 + }, + { + "text": "I would say that hope defines us, Jasnah. Without it, we are not human.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 71, + "id": 7722 + }, + { + "text": "The law is there to keep us from ruining everyone else's ability to explore. Without law, there's no freedom. That's why I am what I am.", + "source": "The Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7723 + }, + { + "text": "I have known you for an entire year now, Lord Waxillium. I can accept you for who you are, but I am under no illusions. Something will happen at our wedding. A villain will burst in, guns firing. Or we'll discover explosives in the altar. Or Father Bin will inexplicably turn out to be an old enemy and attempt to murder you instead of performing the ceremony. It will happen.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 376, + "id": 7724 + }, + { + "text": "I think we're all like that. Shuffled from place to place by duty, or society, or God Himself. It seems like we're just along for the ride, even in our own lives. But once in a while, we do face a choice. A real one. We may not be able to choose what happens to us, or where we'll stop, but we point ourselves in a direction.", + "source": "The Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 325, + "id": 7725 + }, + { + "text": "Now, as each order was thus matched to the nature and temperament of the Herald it named patron, there was none more archetypal of this than the Stonewards, who followed after Talenelat'Elin, Stonesinew, Herald of War: they thought it a point of virtue to exemplify resolve, strength, and dependability. Alas, they took less care for imprudent practice of their stubbornness, even in the face of proven error.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 409, + "id": 7726 + }, + { + "text": "As a Stoneward, I spent my entire life looking to sacrifice myself. 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No nation may claim him, no woman shall keep him, and no king may slay him. He shall belong to none, not even himself.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7730 + }, + { + "text": "He shall defend their ways, yet shall violate them. He will be their savior, yet they shall call him heretic. His name shall be Discord, yet they shall love him for it.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7731 + }, + { + "text": "He left ruin in his wake, but it was forgotten. He created kingdoms, and then destroyed them as he made the world anew.", + "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 119, + "id": 7732 + }, + { + "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", + "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 96, + "id": 7733 + }, + { + "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 277, + "id": 7734 + }, + { + "text": "Now, as the Windrunners were thus engaged, arose the event which has hitherto been referenced: namely, that discovery of some wicked thing of eminence, though whether it be some rogueries among the Radiants' adherents or of some external origin, Avena would not suggest.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 270, + "id": 7735 + }, + { + "text": "There came also sixteen of the order of Windrunners, and with them a considerable number of squires, and finding in that place the Skybreakers dividing the innocent from the guilty, there ensued a great debate.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 210, + "id": 7736 + }, + { + "text": "Money is meaningless; Only expectation has value as currency", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 60, + "id": 7737 + }, + { + "text": "I need you to stick your head in a bucket of water and slowly count to a thousand!", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 82, + "id": 7738 + }, + { + "text": "Fine. 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I would have again ransomed this undeserving planet.", + "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7746 + }, + { + "text": "I did not make a mistake. I have never made a mistake. However, it is time for a change.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 88, + "id": 7747 + }, + { + "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 328, + "id": 7748 + }, + { + "text": "Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 71, + "id": 7749 + }, + { + "text": "I will protect those I hate. 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A coward.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 101, + "id": 7760 + }, + { + "text": "So far this day I have discovered several disturbing and redefining elements of my soul which are slowly restructuring the very nature of my existence. Other than that, it was uneventful. You?", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 192, + "id": 7761 + }, + { + "text": "I've tried for years to corrupt him. Never seems to work. I can't even get him to acknowledge the theological paradox it causes when I try to tempt him to do evil.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 163, + "id": 7762 + }, + { + "text": "You're the one that makes us laugh, even while you insult us. Can't you see what that does? Can't you see how you've inadvertently set yourself above everyone else? You didn't do it intentionally, Lightsong, and that's what makes it work so well. 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The dessert lady has chocolate pastries again!", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 213, + "id": 7777 + }, + { + "text": "So I guess I'm beginnin' to wonder: Maybe I can't ever do enough good to balance the bad I done. Maybe I'll always be worthless.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 128, + "id": 7778 + }, + { + "text": "What good is being imaginary if you can't ignore the weather?", + "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 61, + "id": 7779 + }, + { + "text": "I could use a new dog. I'll feed it fake food and give it fake water and take it on fake walks. 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Well, I've just decided to set my sights on a more powerful brand of criminal.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 332, + "id": 7786 + }, + { + "text": "I was a dog, Wax. A hound, kept in line with false promises and stern orders.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 77, + "id": 7787 + }, + { + "text": "Fifteen years I spent out in the Roughs, trying to protect the weak. And you know what? It never got better. All that effort, it meant nothing. Children still died, women were still abused. One man wasn't enough to change things, not with the corruption here at the heart of civilization. If we're going to change things, we need to change them here, first.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 357, + "id": 7788 + }, + { + "text": "Ashamed? Ashamed? To rob these? After what you people have done to the Roughs all these years? This isn't shameful. This here, this is payback.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7789 + }, + { + "text": "I will clean this city up, Suit. Even if I have to rip out its blackened heart with my fingernails, I'll do it.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 111, + "id": 7790 + }, + { + "text": "Is there any doubt that I have been chosen for something great? Why else would I have this power, Waxillium? Why else would we be what we are? And yet, we let others rule. Let them make a mess of our world while we do nothing but chase petty criminals.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 252, + "id": 7791 + }, + { + "text": "I served the law too. But now I serve something better. The essence of the law, but mixed with real justice. An alloy, Wax. The best parts of both made into one. I do something better than chase the filth sent to me from the city.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 230, + "id": 7792 + }, + { + "text": "Don't tell me you never felt it. You worked every day to fix the world, Wax. You tried to end the pain, the violence, the robberies. It never worked. The more men you put down, the more troubles arose.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 201, + "id": 7793 + }, + { + "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 177, + "id": 7794 + }, + { + "text": "Can't you see? Can't you see what important work we could be doing? Can't you see that we're meant to be doing it, perhaps even ruling. It's almost like like we, with the powers we have, are divine", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7795 + }, + { + "text": "I am not the first hero's son to be born without any talent for warfare. The others all got along. So shall I.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 110, + "id": 7796 + }, + { + "text": "Those who 'deserve' my mockery are those who can benefit from it, Brightlord Dalinar. That one is less fragile than you think him.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 130, + "id": 7797 + }, + { + "text": "There's something down there, something … ancient. You've felt it, haven't you? This place is weird; this whole tower is weird. You've noticed it too, right?", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 157, + "id": 7798 + }, + { + "text": "Does it strike you as cruel of fate, Father? My blood sickness gets healed, so I can finally be a soldier like I always wanted. But that same healing has given me another kind of fit. More dangerous than the other by far.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 221, + "id": 7799 + }, + { + "text": "\"What of you, young Prince Renarin? Your father wishes me to leave you alone. Can you speak, yet say nothing ridiculous?\"\n\"Nothing ridiculous\", Renarin said slowly.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 164, + "id": 7800 + }, + { + "text": "Kid, you're the expert on what's weird. We'll trust your word.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 62, + "id": 7801 + }, + { + "text": "Goodbye, my princess. Jaddeth be merciful to my soul. I only did the best I could.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 82, + "id": 7802 + }, + { + "text": "He was not a zealot; he would never be a man of extreme passion. In the end, he followed Shu-Dereth because it made sense. That would have to be enough.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 152, + "id": 7803 + }, + { + "text": "Let it be said that after all else, Hrathen, gyorn of Shu-Dereth, was not our enemy. He was our savior.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7804 + }, + { + "text": "I thought, maybe even if I die it will be the step other spren need. You cannot reach the end of a proof without many steps in the middle, Shallan. I was to be the middle step.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 176, + "id": 7805 + }, + { + "text": "\"Here,\" she said. \"In the corner. I think this is right.\" \"Mmm...\" he said. \"A few degrees off, so technically acute.\"", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 118, + "id": 7806 + }, + { + "text": "Unite them. The sun approaches the horizon. The Everstorm comes. The True Desolation. The Night of Sorrows. You must prepare.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 125, + "id": 7807 + }, + { + "text": "It comes! The Night of Sorrows! I stand on the precipice of dawn and watch it advance, consuming all light, all life, all hope! IT COMES!", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 137, + "id": 7808 + }, + { + "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 202, + "id": 7809 + }, + { + "text": "Someone must bear the responsibility, someone must be dragged down by it, ruined by it. Someone must stain their souls so others may live... The burden for the blood of those wronged must rest somewhere. I am the sacrifice. We, Dalinar Kholin, are the sacrifices. Society offers us up to trudge through dirty water so others may be clean. Someone has to fall, that others may stand.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 382, + "id": 7810 + }, + { + "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 290, + "id": 7811 + }, + { + "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 614, + "id": 7812 + }, + { + "text": "Retribution would keep his promises. Oaths were important. And Retribution would destroy anyone who believed differently.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 121, + "id": 7813 + }, + { + "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 639, + "id": 7814 + }, + { + "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 361, + "id": 7815 + }, + { + "text": "I hate the other highprinces. But I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone particularly deserving.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7816 + }, + { + "text": "I will note that this Desolation of yours is going to undermine years of my business planning.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 94, + "id": 7817 + }, + { + "text": "If a man takes nothing in his life seriously, it makes a woman wonder. What is she? Another joke? Another whim?", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 111, + "id": 7818 + }, + { + "text": "Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense. If we find riches, remember that I get my part! I got here before Aladar. That has to count for something.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 153, + "id": 7819 + }, + { + "text": "I… have seen Ishar. He curses me at night, even as he names himself a god. He seeks death. His own. Perhaps that of every man.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 126, + "id": 7820 + }, + { + "text": "But take care; Ishar's skill as a duelist is a lesser danger. He has recovered his Honorblade. He is a Bondsmith unchained.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7821 + }, + { + "text": "I don't matter. Sure, Azir does. But I'm only a kid they put on the throne because they were afraid that assassin would come back.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 130, + "id": 7822 + }, + { + "text": "My, my, lad. That was something incredible you did! I'm… not even sure what it was, but it was something incredible indeed!", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians: The Shattered Lens, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7823 + }, + { + "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. 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I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 220, + "id": 7831 + }, + { + "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 82, + "id": 7832 + }, + { + "text": "A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7833 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7834 + }, + { + "text": "I only ever saw one man pushing the Synod toward active measures. While they planned how to keep themselves hidden, one man wanted to attack. While they decided the best ways to foil the Breeders, one man wanted to plot the downfall of the Final Empire. When I rejoined my people, I found that man still fighting. Alone. Condemned for fraternizing with thieves and rebels, he quietly accepted his punishment. That man went on to free us all.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 441, + "id": 7835 + }, + { + "text": "You lost the throne because you wouldn't command your armies to secure the city, because you insisted on giving the Assembly too much freedom, and because you don't employ assassins or other forms of pressure. In short, Elend Venture, you lost the throne because you are a good man.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 282, + "id": 7836 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 370, + "id": 7837 + }, + { + "text": "A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 218, + "id": 7838 + }, + { + "text": "I see. You do not yet understand the nature of lies. I had that trouble myself, long ago. The Shards here are very strict. You will have to see the truth, child, before you can expand upon it. 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To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 160, + "id": 7846 + }, + { + "text": "A monarch is control. He provides stability. It is his service and his trade good. If he cannot control himself, then how can he control the lives of men? What merchant worth his Stormlight won't partake of the very fruit he sells?", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 231, + "id": 7847 + }, + { + "text": "As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 107, + "id": 7848 + }, + { + "text": "If you aren't familiar with a place, you need to become familiar with it.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 73, + "id": 7849 + }, + { + "text": "\"Unfortunately, Parlin, people aren't like animals.\"\n\"I am aware of that. Animals make sense.\"", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 94, + "id": 7850 + }, + { + "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 389, + "id": 7851 + }, + { + "text": "I will be human, We will kill you. Take your cities. Then we will be human.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 75, + "id": 7852 + }, + { + "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 79, + "id": 7853 + }, + { + "text": "Care. 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A very different me than I was a year ago, but I can't worry about that, so I just keep moving and hope my feet take me where I need to go.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 257, + "id": 7858 + }, + { + "text": "Authority doesn't come from a rank. It comes from the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 108, + "id": 7859 + }, + { + "text": "Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. If nobody starts, then others cannot follow...Because, son. We have to be better than they are.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 190, + "id": 7860 + }, + { + "text": "In four years, I will bring him home safely. I promise it by the storms and the Almighty's tenth name itself. I will bring him back.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 132, + "id": 7861 + }, + { + "text": "I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know that I survived.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 207, + "id": 7862 + }, + { + "text": "The scars haven't finished with me yet, it appears. I'll try again another time.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7863 + }, + { + "text": "Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do. If this goes poorly, take care of my men.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 84, + "id": 7864 + }, + { + "text": "The sky and the winds are mine, I claim them. 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We wouldn't want to let something as simple as the pains of our people to interfere with our leisure time. Why am I even talking to you?", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7869 + }, + { + "text": "Once, the Returned didn't just listen to petitions and say yes or no. They would take the time to hear each person who came to them, then seek to help them as best they could", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 174, + "id": 7870 + }, + { + "text": "Orphans make such heart-wrenching victims, so innocent yet no one to mourn them. Or would you prioritize saving someone with a more personal connection?", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 152, + "id": 7871 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a man of extremes, Navani. I discovered that when I was a youth. 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We will make a pyre of this city, and there shall be no weeping for its passing, for none will remain to weep.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 249, + "id": 7875 + }, + { + "text": "She came to us, to plead. How could you have missed her? Do you track your own family so poorly? The hole you burned … we don't hide there anymore. Everyone knows about it. Now it's a prison.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 191, + "id": 7876 + }, + { + "text": "You've shown me something today, Sadeas –- shown it to me by the very act of trying to remove me ... You've shown me that I'm still a threat.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 141, + "id": 7877 + }, + { + "text": "Old friend, Honor might be dead, but I have felt … something else. Something beyond. A warmth and a light. It is not that God has died, it is that the Almighty was never God.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 174, + "id": 7878 + }, + { + "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7879 + }, + { + "text": "It's not a matter of morality, is it? It's a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you'd accept one innocent casualty? A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred? When you consider, all calculations are meaningless except one. Has more good been done than evil? If so, then the law has done its job. And so… I must hang all four men. And I would weep, every night, for having done it", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 399, + "id": 7880 + }, + { + "text": "Your butt is too nice. Old guys shouldn't have tight butts. It means you spend waaay too much time swinging a sword or punching people. You should have an old flabby butt. Then I'd trust you.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 191, + "id": 7881 + }, + { + "text": "Honor? No, he truly is dead, as you've been told. I'm the other one, Dalinar. They call me Odium.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 97, + "id": 7882 + }, + { + "text": "Dalinar looked at it, baffled, then up at the old man. In Odium's eyes, he could see that violet-black fire. Deep, deep within. The figure with whom Dalinar spoke was not the god, it was merely a face, a mask. Because if Dalinar had to confront the true force behind those smiling eyes, he would go mad.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 303, + "id": 7883 + }, + { + "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 507, + "id": 7884 + }, + { + "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 255, + "id": 7885 + }, + { + "text": "You've said the oaths, but do you understand the journey? Do you understand what it requires? 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Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. 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I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4304, + "length": 576 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", + "source": "The Bug", + "id": 4305, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. 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About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", + "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", + "id": 4313, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", + "source": "Your Deep Rest", + "id": 4314, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", + "source": "The Lord of The Rings", + "id": 4315, + "length": 128 + }, + { + "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", + "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", + "id": 4316, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4317, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", + "source": "Leaves of Grass", + "id": 4318, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4319, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4320, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4321, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", + "source": "Before I Forget", + "id": 4322, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", + "source": "Playing For Keeps", + "id": 4323, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", + "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", + "id": 4324, + "length": 411 + }, + { + "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", + "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", + "id": 4325, + "length": 426 + }, + { + "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4326, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4327, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", + "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", + "id": 4328, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", + "source": "Motion Sickness", + "id": 4329, + "length": 199 + }, + { + "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", + "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", + "id": 4330, + "length": 500 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", + "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", + "id": 4332, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4333, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4334, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", + "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", + "id": 4335, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", + "source": "Juno", + "id": 4336, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4338, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4339, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", + "source": "Homestuck", + "id": 4340, + "length": 255 + }, + { + "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", + "source": "The Book of Illusions", + "id": 4341, + "length": 705 + }, + { + "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", + "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", + "id": 4342, + "length": 614 + }, + { + "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", + "source": "The Mist", + "id": 4343, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", + "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", + "id": 4344, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4345, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", + "source": "The Flash", + "id": 4346, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", + "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", + "id": 4347, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", + "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", + "id": 4348, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4349, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4350, + "length": 471 + }, + { + "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", + "source": "Mona Lisa", + "id": 4352, + "length": 447 + }, + { + "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", + "source": "Clerks", + "id": 4353, + "length": 261 + }, + { + "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4355, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", + "source": "A Separate Peace", + "id": 4356, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", + "source": "The Sopranos", + "id": 4357, + "length": 415 + }, + { + "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4359, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4360, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", + "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", + "id": 4361, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", + "source": "Kung Fu Panda", + "id": 4364, + "length": 219 + }, + { + "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4365, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", + "source": "The Notebook", + "id": 4366, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", + "source": "Middlemarch", + "id": 4367, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4368, + "length": 250 + }, + { + "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4369, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", + "source": "A Game of Thrones", + "id": 4370, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", + "source": "King for a Day", + "id": 4371, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", + "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", + "id": 4372, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", + "source": "Say Anything", + "id": 4373, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", + "source": "The Wall", + "id": 4374, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", + "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", + "id": 4375, + "length": 450 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4376, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4377, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4379, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", + "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", + "id": 4380, + "length": 85 + }, + { + "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", + "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", + "id": 4381, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", + "source": "Beautiful Day", + "id": 4383, + "length": 114 + }, + { + "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", + "source": "Sonic Adventure", + "id": 4385, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", + "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", + "id": 4386, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", + "source": "Blackwater", + "id": 4387, + "length": 609 + }, + { + "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4388, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4389, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4390, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4391, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", + "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", + "id": 4392, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", + "source": "Warrior", + "id": 4393, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4394, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4395, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", + "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", + "id": 4396, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4397, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4398, + "length": 374 + }, + { + "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", + "source": "Boy Meets World", + "id": 4399, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4400, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", + "source": "The Last Lecture", + "id": 4401, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", + "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", + "id": 4402, + "length": 388 + }, + { + "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "id": 4403, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", + "source": "Aeneid", + "id": 4404, + "length": 432 + }, + { + "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4406, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", + "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", + "id": 4407, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4408, + "length": 564 + }, + { + "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4409, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", + "source": "Ninja Mind Control", + "id": 4411, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", + "source": "The Canterbury Tales", + "id": 4412, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", + "source": "Firestorm", + "id": 4413, + "length": 291 + }, + { + "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4414, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4415, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", + "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", + "id": 4417, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", + "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", + "id": 4418, + "length": 642 + }, + { + "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", + "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", + "id": 4419, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", + "source": "Amadeus", + "id": 4420, + "length": 214 + }, + { + "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", + "source": "The Alchemist", + "id": 4421, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", + "source": "Hey Jude", + "id": 4422, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4423, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", + "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", + "id": 4425, + "length": 253 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", + "source": "InuYasha", + "id": 4426, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4427, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4428, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", + "source": "Beauty and the Beast", + "id": 4429, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", + "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", + "id": 4430, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", + "source": "Pickman's Model", + "id": 4431, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", + "source": "American Pie", + "id": 4432, + "length": 639 + }, + { + "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4433, + "length": 368 + }, + { + "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", + "source": "Corner Gas", + "id": 4435, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", + "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", + "id": 4436, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4437, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", + "source": "All Night", + "id": 4438, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid", + "id": 4439, + "length": 257 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", + "source": "Airplane!", + "id": 4440, + "length": 330 + }, + { + "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4441, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", + "source": "The Gambler", + "id": 4442, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", + "source": "I, Mammal", + "id": 4443, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4444, + "length": 527 + }, + { + "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4445, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", + "source": "The First Elegy", + "id": 4446, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4447, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", + "source": "Never Ever", + "id": 4448, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4449, + "length": 410 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", + "source": "Head Over Feet", + "id": 4450, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "id": 4451, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4452, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", + "source": "Quiz Show", + "id": 4453, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4454, + "length": 154 + }, + { + "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", + "source": "Areopagitica", + "id": 4456, + "length": 822 + }, + { + "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4457, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", + "source": "Adventure Time", + "id": 4458, + "length": 217 + }, + { + "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "id": 4459, + "length": 482 + }, + { + "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "id": 4460, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", + "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", + "id": 4461, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4462, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4463, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4464, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4466, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", + "source": "World Enough and Time", + "id": 4467, + "length": 548 + }, + { + "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", + "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", + "id": 4468, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4469, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", + "source": "That's What Friends Are For", + "id": 4470, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4471, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", + "source": "King Park", + "id": 4472, + "length": 115 + }, + { + "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", + "source": "The Iliad", + "id": 4473, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", + "source": "Beautiful", + "id": 4474, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", + "source": "Subdivisions", + "id": 4475, + "length": 292 + }, + { + "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", + "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", + "id": 4477, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4478, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", + "source": "Cages", + "id": 4479, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4480, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", + "source": "Apocalypse Now", + "id": 4481, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4483, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4484, + "length": 503 + }, + { + "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4485, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4486, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4487, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4488, + "length": 512 + }, + { + "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", + "source": "Total Annihilation", + "id": 4489, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", + "source": "Small Gods", + "id": 4490, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4491, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4492, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", + "source": "The Analects", + "id": 4493, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "id": 4494, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", + "source": "White Collar", + "id": 4496, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", + "source": "12 Angry Men", + "id": 4497, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", + "source": "The Wire", + "id": 4498, + "length": 608 + }, + { + "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", + "source": "Cars", + "id": 4499, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", + "source": "The Two Towers", + "id": 4500, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4501, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4502, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4504, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", + "source": "Hotel California", + "id": 4505, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4506, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4507, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4508, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4509, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", + "source": "Sacrifice", + "id": 4510, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4511, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", + "source": "The Princess Bride", + "id": 4512, + "length": 301 + }, + { + "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "id": 4513, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", + "source": "Fox in Socks", + "id": 4514, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", + "id": 4515, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", + "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", + "id": 4516, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", + "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", + "id": 4518, + "length": 831 + }, + { + "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", + "source": "Private Idaho", + "id": 4519, + "length": 221 + }, + { + "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", + "source": "Paprika", + "id": 4520, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4521, + "length": 351 + }, + { + "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", + "source": "The Blues Brothers", + "id": 4522, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", + "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", + "id": 4523, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", + "source": "Into Thin Air", + "id": 4524, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", + "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", + "id": 4527, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4528, + "length": 80 + }, + { + "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4529, + "length": 539 + }, + { + "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", + "source": "Eclipse", + "id": 4530, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4532, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4534, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "id": 4535, + "length": 331 + }, + { + "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4536, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", + "source": "Harold and Maude", + "id": 4537, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "id": 4538, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", + "source": "The Court Jester", + "id": 4539, + "length": 343 + }, + { + "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", + "source": "Lessons in Tanya", + "id": 4540, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", + "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", + "id": 4541, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", + "source": "I Have A Dream", + "id": 4543, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", + "source": "True Detective", + "id": 4544, + "length": 385 + }, + { + "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4545, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4546, + "length": 563 + }, + { + "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", + "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", + "id": 4547, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", + "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", + "id": 4548, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4549, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", + "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", + "id": 4550, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4551, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", + "source": "The Giver", + "id": 4552, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", + "source": "The River", + "id": 4553, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4554, + "length": 260 + }, + { + "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4555, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4556, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", + "source": "The Lion in Winter", + "id": 4557, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", + "source": "Eight of Nine", + "id": 4558, + "length": 70 + }, + { + "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", + "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", + "id": 4559, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4560, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", + "source": "Galaxy Song", + "id": 4561, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4562, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", + "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", + "id": 4563, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", + "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", + "id": 4564, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", + "source": "The End of the Innocence", + "id": 4565, + "length": 284 + }, + { + "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4566, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4567, + "length": 59 + }, + { + "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", + "source": "My Inventions", + "id": 4569, + "length": 656 + }, + { + "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", + "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", + "id": 4571, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", + "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", + "id": 4572, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", + "source": "Monster Mash", + "id": 4573, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", + "source": "My Favorite Things", + "id": 4575, + "length": 363 + }, + { + "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", + "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", + "id": 4576, + "length": 356 + }, + { + "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4577, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", + "source": "Right Here Waiting", + "id": 4578, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", + "source": "Looking Backward", + "id": 4580, + "length": 479 + }, + { + "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", + "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", + "id": 4581, + "length": 574 + }, + { + "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", + "source": "Carmilla", + "id": 4582, + "length": 818 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", + "source": "The Snowman", + "id": 4583, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4585, + "length": 434 + }, + { + "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", + "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", + "id": 4586, + "length": 666 + }, + { + "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4587, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", + "source": "I, Robot", + "id": 4588, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", + "source": "Naruto", + "id": 4589, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", + "source": "All About Eve", + "id": 4590, + "length": 323 + }, + { + "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", + "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", + "id": 4591, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", + "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", + "id": 4592, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", + "source": "The Complete Far Side", + "id": 4593, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4594, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", + "source": "Hollow Knight", + "id": 4595, + "length": 569 + }, + { + "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", + "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", + "id": 4596, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", + "source": "Flatland", + "id": 4597, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", + "source": "Radioactive", + "id": 4598, + "length": 192 + }, + { + "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", + "source": "Metro 2033", + "id": 4599, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4600, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4601, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", + "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", + "id": 4603, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", + "source": "American Splendor", + "id": 4604, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", + "source": "Groundhog Day", + "id": 4605, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", + "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", + "id": 4606, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", + "source": "Lucy", + "id": 4607, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", + "source": "Inception", + "id": 4608, + "length": 226 + }, + { + "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", + "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", + "id": 4609, + "length": 433 + }, + { + "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4610, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", + "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", + "id": 4611, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4612, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", + "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", + "id": 4613, + "length": 444 + }, + { + "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4614, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", + "id": 4615, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", + "source": "Heroes", + "id": 4616, + "length": 437 + }, + { + "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XII", + "id": 4618, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4619, + "length": 404 + }, + { + "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4620, + "length": 597 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", + "source": "North by Northwest", + "id": 4621, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4622, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", + "source": "Being There", + "id": 4623, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4624, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", + "source": "Trading Places", + "id": 4625, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4626, + "length": 200 + }, + { + "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", + "source": "Blue's Clues", + "id": 4627, + "length": 123 + }, + { + "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", + "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", + "id": 4628, + "length": 570 + }, + { + "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", + "source": "Pushing Daisies", + "id": 4629, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", + "source": "Sexy Beast", + "id": 4630, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", + "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", + "id": 4631, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4632, + "length": 604 + }, + { + "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4633, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4634, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", + "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", + "id": 4635, + "length": 334 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", + "source": "The Night Diary", + "id": 4636, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4637, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", + "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", + "id": 4638, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", + "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", + "id": 4639, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", + "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", + "id": 4641, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4642, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", + "source": "Poison", + "id": 4643, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4644, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", + "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", + "id": 4645, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4647, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", + "source": "What Dreams May Come", + "id": 4648, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", + "source": "Parasite", + "id": 4649, + "length": 477 + }, + { + "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4651, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", + "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", + "id": 4652, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4654, + "length": 185 + }, + { + "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", + "source": "The Imitation Game", + "id": 4655, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4656, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", + "source": "True Romance", + "id": 4657, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", + "source": "Heavy Metal", + "id": 4658, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4659, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4660, + "length": 294 + }, + { + "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", + "source": "Paul Clifford", + "id": 4661, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4662, + "length": 277 + }, + { + "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", + "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", + "id": 4663, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "id": 4664, + "length": 442 + }, + { + "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4665, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", + "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", + "id": 4666, + "length": 515 + }, + { + "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", + "source": "The Hunger Games", + "id": 4667, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", + "source": "The Odyssey", + "id": 4668, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 4669, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", + "source": "Lazarus", + "id": 4670, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", + "source": "Understanding Media", + "id": 4671, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", + "source": "Deadwood", + "id": 4672, + "length": 498 + }, + { + "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", + "source": "Madagascar", + "id": 4673, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", + "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", + "id": 4674, + "length": 333 + }, + { + "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", + "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", + "id": 4675, + "length": 198 + }, + { + "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", + "source": "All I Want", + "id": 4676, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", + "id": 4677, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", + "source": "Lithium", + "id": 4678, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", + "source": "Gone Girl", + "id": 4679, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", + "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", + "id": 4680, + "length": 402 + }, + { + "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", + "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", + "id": 4681, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", + "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", + "id": 4682, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", + "source": "Human Nature", + "id": 4683, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", + "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", + "id": 4685, + "length": 485 + }, + { + "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", + "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", + "id": 4686, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4687, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", + "source": "No Logo", + "id": 4688, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", + "source": "Forrest Gump", + "id": 4689, + "length": 186 + }, + { + "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4690, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4691, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", + "id": 4692, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4693, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", + "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", + "id": 4695, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4696, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4697, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4698, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", + "source": "On the Social Contract", + "id": 4699, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", + "source": "The Lorax", + "id": 4701, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", + "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", + "id": 4702, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", + "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", + "id": 4703, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", + "source": "Essentials of Economics", + "id": 4704, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", + "source": "BioShock Infinite", + "id": 4705, + "length": 427 + }, + { + "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", + "source": "The Time Machine", + "id": 4706, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", + "source": "The Historian", + "id": 4707, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", + "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", + "id": 4708, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4710, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4711, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", + "source": "Thinking Bout You", + "id": 4714, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", + "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", + "id": 4715, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4716, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", + "source": "Sunset Boulevard", + "id": 4717, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", + "source": "Allentown", + "id": 4719, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4720, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4721, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4722, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", + "source": "Gandhi", + "id": 4723, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", + "source": "Hands Down", + "id": 4724, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", + "source": "Made in Abyss", + "id": 4725, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", + "source": "Halloween", + "id": 4726, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", + "source": "Breaking Away", + "id": 4728, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", + "source": "King's Quest I", + "id": 4730, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4731, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", + "source": "Roseanne", + "id": 4732, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4733, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", + "source": "Holidays on Ice", + "id": 4734, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", + "source": "I Am A Rock", + "id": 4735, + "length": 231 + }, + { + "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", + "source": "Don Quixote", + "id": 4736, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4737, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", + "source": "Les Misérables", + "id": 4738, + "length": 220 + }, + { + "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", + "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", + "id": 4739, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4740, + "length": 263 + }, + { + "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", + "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", + "id": 4741, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4742, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", + "source": "Holiday", + "id": 4743, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4744, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4745, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", + "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", + "id": 4746, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", + "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", + "id": 4747, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", + "source": "The Lost Weekend", + "id": 4749, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", + "source": "The Sound of Music", + "id": 4750, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4751, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4752, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", + "source": "Naked Lunch", + "id": 4753, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4754, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", + "source": "Overestimation", + "id": 4755, + "length": 344 + }, + { + "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", + "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", + "id": 4756, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", + "source": "Shaun of the Dead", + "id": 4757, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", + "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", + "id": 4758, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4759, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4760, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4761, + "length": 487 + }, + { + "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", + "source": "Confessions", + "id": 4762, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4763, + "length": 397 + }, + { + "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4764, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4767, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4768, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4769, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4770, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", + "source": "Name", + "id": 4771, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", + "source": "Brave New World", + "id": 4772, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", + "source": "Shiny Happy People", + "id": 4773, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", + "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", + "id": 4774, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", + "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", + "id": 4775, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", + "source": "Wine for Dummies", + "id": 4776, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", + "source": "Nightmare", + "id": 4777, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4778, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4779, + "length": 205 + }, + { + "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", + "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", + "id": 4780, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4781, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4782, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4783, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", + "source": "Beetlejuice", + "id": 4784, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4786, + "length": 148 + }, + { + "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", + "source": "Novum Organum", + "id": 4787, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4788, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", + "source": "It's My Life", + "id": 4789, + "length": 106 + }, + { + "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", + "source": "Falling", + "id": 4790, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4791, + "length": 567 + }, + { + "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", + "source": "Chateau Cascade", + "id": 4792, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", + "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", + "id": 4793, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4794, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4795, + "length": 510 + }, + { + "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4796, + "length": 151 + }, + { + "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", + "source": "UnTechnical Writing", + "id": 4797, + "length": 287 + }, + { + "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", + "source": "Physics for Game Developers", + "id": 4798, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4799, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", + "source": "What If?", + "id": 4800, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", + "source": "A Study in Scarlet", + "id": 4801, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", + "source": "Porgy and Bess", + "id": 4802, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", + "source": "Cool As Ice", + "id": 4803, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4805, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", + "source": "All in the Family", + "id": 4806, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4807, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", + "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", + "id": 4808, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", + "source": "Shoe Dog", + "id": 4809, + "length": 579 + }, + { + "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4810, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4812, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", + "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", + "id": 4813, + "length": 375 + }, + { + "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4814, + "length": 232 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4815, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4816, + "length": 382 + }, + { + "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", + "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", + "id": 4818, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", + "source": "Dubliners", + "id": 4819, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", + "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", + "id": 4820, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4821, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4822, + "length": 540 + }, + { + "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4823, + "length": 65 + }, + { + "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", + "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", + "id": 4824, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4825, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4826, + "length": 295 + }, + { + "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", + "source": "Battlesong", + "id": 4827, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", + "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", + "id": 4828, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", + "source": "The Complete Project Manager", + "id": 4829, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", + "source": "Savoy Truffle", + "id": 4830, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", + "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", + "id": 4831, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", + "source": "Back to the Future", + "id": 4832, + "length": 276 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4833, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", + "source": "Restraint", + "id": 4834, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4835, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", + "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", + "id": 4836, + "length": 184 + }, + { + "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", + "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", + "id": 4837, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", + "source": "Underground", + "id": 4838, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4839, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4840, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", + "source": "Suits", + "id": 4841, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4842, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4843, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", + "source": "Saving Us a Riot", + "id": 4844, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", + "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", + "id": 4846, + "length": 155 + }, + { + "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4847, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4848, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", + "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "id": 4849, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", + "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", + "id": 4851, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", + "source": "Collide", + "id": 4852, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", + "source": "Hannah Hunt", + "id": 4853, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", + "source": "Limitless", + "id": 4854, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", + "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", + "id": 4855, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "id": 4856, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4857, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", + "source": "Wag the Dog", + "id": 4858, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4859, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", + "source": "Civil Disobedience", + "id": 4860, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4861, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", + "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", + "id": 4863, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", + "source": "The Elements of Style", + "id": 4864, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", + "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", + "id": 4865, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", + "source": "Pale Blue Dot", + "id": 4866, + "length": 820 + }, + { + "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", + "source": "DOOM 4", + "id": 4867, + "length": 502 + }, + { + "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", + "source": "The Recruit", + "id": 4868, + "length": 386 + }, + { + "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", + "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", + "id": 4869, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", + "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", + "id": 4870, + "length": 196 + }, + { + "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", + "id": 4871, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4872, + "length": 218 + }, + { + "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4873, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", + "source": "Running and Travel", + "id": 4874, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", + "source": "On Demand Culture", + "id": 4875, + "length": 507 + }, + { + "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4876, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4877, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", + "source": "The Sirens of Titan", + "id": 4878, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4879, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4880, + "length": 441 + }, + { + "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4881, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", + "source": "13 Reasons Why", + "id": 4882, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", + "source": "Leaves from the Vine", + "id": 4883, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4884, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4885, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4886, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", + "source": "The Logical Song", + "id": 4887, + "length": 380 + }, + { + "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", + "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", + "id": 4888, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 4889, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", + "source": "Kokomo", + "id": 4890, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4891, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4893, + "length": 157 + }, + { + "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4894, + "length": 271 + }, + { + "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", + "source": "October Sky", + "id": 4895, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4896, + "length": 336 + }, + { + "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", + "source": "Pulp Fiction", + "id": 4897, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4899, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4900, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", + "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", + "id": 4901, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4902, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", + "source": "Sailing", + "id": 4903, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", + "id": 4904, + "length": 474 + }, + { + "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", + "source": "Daredevil", + "id": 4905, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", + "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", + "id": 4907, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", + "source": "Let Me Love You", + "id": 4908, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4909, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", + "source": "When Love Arrives", + "id": 4910, + "length": 286 + }, + { + "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", + "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", + "id": 4912, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4913, + "length": 64 + }, + { + "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4915, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", + "source": "The Medium is the Massage", + "id": 4916, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", + "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", + "id": 4917, + "length": 279 + }, + { + "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", + "source": "Swamp Thing", + "id": 4918, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4919, + "length": 310 + }, + { + "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4920, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4921, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", + "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", + "id": 4922, + "length": 449 + }, + { + "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "id": 4923, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", + "source": "Halo 2", + "id": 4924, + "length": 213 + }, + { + "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", + "source": "The Return", + "id": 4925, + "length": 399 + }, + { + "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", + "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", + "id": 4928, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", + "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", + "id": 4929, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", + "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", + "id": 4931, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", + "source": "Moulin Rouge", + "id": 4932, + "length": 280 + }, + { + "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 4933, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4934, + "length": 288 + }, + { + "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4935, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4936, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4937, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", + "source": "Return of the Jedi", + "id": 4938, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", + "source": "Sin City", + "id": 4939, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4940, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", + "source": "The Lightning Thief", + "id": 4941, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", + "source": "Stardew Valley", + "id": 4942, + "length": 189 + }, + { + "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", + "source": "The Godfather: Part II", + "id": 4943, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", + "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", + "id": 4944, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4945, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4946, + "length": 488 + }, + { + "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", + "source": "Scream 2", + "id": 4947, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", + "source": "The Floating Fire", + "id": 4948, + "length": 298 + }, + { + "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4949, + "length": 440 + }, + { + "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", + "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", + "id": 4950, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4951, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", + "source": "A History of Mathematics", + "id": 4952, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", + "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", + "id": 4953, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4954, + "length": 90 + }, + { + "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", + "source": "Classical Mythology", + "id": 4955, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", + "source": "Piano Man", + "id": 4956, + "length": 138 + }, + { + "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", + "source": "Industrial Disease", + "id": 4957, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", + "source": "History of Art", + "id": 4958, + "length": 612 + }, + { + "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", + "source": "Orientalism", + "id": 4959, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", + "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", + "id": 4960, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", + "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", + "id": 4961, + "length": 274 + }, + { + "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4962, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", + "source": "Firestarter", + "id": 4963, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", + "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", + "id": 4964, + "length": 790 + }, + { + "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", + "source": "Dunkelheit", + "id": 4965, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", + "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", + "id": 4966, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4967, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4968, + "length": 346 + }, + { + "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", + "source": "The West Wing", + "id": 4969, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", + "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", + "id": 4970, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", + "source": "The Lurking Fear", + "id": 4971, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", + "source": "Last Dance", + "id": 4972, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", + "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", + "id": 4973, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4974, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", + "source": "Lemon Tree", + "id": 4975, + "length": 153 + }, + { + "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4976, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", + "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", + "id": 4977, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", + "source": "Mean Girls", + "id": 4979, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", + "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", + "id": 4980, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4981, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4982, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", + "source": "911 For Peace", + "id": 4983, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", + "source": "The Greatest", + "id": 4984, + "length": 347 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4987, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", + "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", + "id": 4988, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", + "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", + "id": 4989, + "length": 293 + }, + { + "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4990, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4991, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", + "source": "True Blood", + "id": 4992, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", + "source": "Awakenings", + "id": 4993, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", + "id": 4994, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "id": 4995, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", + "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", + "id": 4996, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", + "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", + "id": 4997, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4998, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4999, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", + "source": "Helplessly Hoping", + "id": 5000, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5002, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5003, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5004, + "length": 187 + }, + { + "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5005, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5006, + "length": 48 + }, + { + "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5007, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5008, + "length": 162 + }, + { + "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5009, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5010, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5011, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5012, + "length": 309 + }, + { + "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5014, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5015, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5016, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5017, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5018, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5020, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5021, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5022, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5023, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5024, + "length": 41 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5025, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5026, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5028, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5029, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5030, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5031, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5032, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5033, + "length": 91 + }, + { + "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5034, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5035, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5036, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5037, + "length": 230 + }, + { + "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5038, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5039, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5040, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5041, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5042, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5043, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5044, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5045, + "length": 46 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5046, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5047, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5048, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5049, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5050, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5051, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5052, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5053, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5054, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5055, + "length": 53 + }, + { + "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5056, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5057, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5058, + "length": 139 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5059, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5060, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5061, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5062, + "length": 723 + }, + { + "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5063, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5064, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5065, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5066, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5067, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 89, + "id": 5068 + }, + { + "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 194, + "id": 5069 + }, + { + "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 293, + "id": 5070 + }, + { + "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 135, + "id": 5071 + }, + { + "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 171, + "id": 5072 + }, + { + "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", + "source": "James Cameron", + "length": 104, + "id": 5073 + }, + { + "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", + "source": "Allen Saunders", + "length": 57, + "id": 5074 + }, + { + "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", + "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", + "length": 178, + "id": 5075 + }, + { + "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 325, + "id": 5076 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", + "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", + "length": 85, + "id": 5077 + }, + { + "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", + "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", + "length": 148, + "id": 5078 + }, + { + "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", + "source": "Neo, The Matrix", + "length": 556, + "id": 5079 + }, + { + "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", + "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", + "length": 194, + "id": 5080 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", + "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", + "length": 207, + "id": 5081 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 121, + "id": 5082 + }, + { + "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 129, + "id": 5083 + }, + { + "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 119, + "id": 5084 + }, + { + "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 81, + "id": 5085 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 484, + "id": 5086 + }, + { + "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 60, + "id": 5087 + }, + { + "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", + "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 57, + "id": 5089 + }, + { + "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", + "length": 203, + "id": 5090 + }, + { + "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 222, + "id": 5091 + }, + { + "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", + "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 215, + "id": 5092 + }, + { + "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 177, + "id": 5094 + }, + { + "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 57, + "id": 5095 + }, + { + "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 205, + "id": 5096 + }, + { + "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 30, + "id": 5097 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 31, + "id": 5098 + }, + { + "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", + "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", + "length": 112, + "id": 5099 + }, + { + "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 279, + "id": 5100 + }, + { + "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", + "source": "Terence McKenna", + "length": 211, + "id": 5101 + }, + { + "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", + "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", + "length": 161, + "id": 5102 + }, + { + "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", + "source": "Terence Mckenna", + "length": 117, + "id": 5103 + }, + { + "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", + "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", + "length": 67, + "id": 5104 + }, + { + "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 504, + "id": 5105 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", + "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", + "length": 155, + "id": 5106 + }, + { + "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", + "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", + "length": 127, + "id": 5107 + }, + { + "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", + "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", + "length": 109, + "id": 5108 + }, + { + "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", + "source": "Max Payne", + "length": 164, + "id": 5109 + }, + { + "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", + "source": "Alex Honnold", + "length": 222, + "id": 5110 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", + "source": "The Way of Kings", + "length": 109, + "id": 5111 + }, + { + "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 111, + "id": 5112 + }, + { + "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 188, + "id": 5113 + }, + { + "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 121, + "id": 5114 + }, + { + "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 147, + "id": 5115 + }, + { + "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 630, + "id": 5116 + }, + { + "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 398, + "id": 5117 + }, + { + "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 129, + "id": 5118 + }, + { + "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", + "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", + "length": 249, + "id": 5119 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", + "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", + "length": 259, + "id": 5120 + }, + { + "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", + "source": "Maurice V. 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The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.", + "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", + "length": 427, + "id": 5125 + }, + { + "text": "Alone now, I leaned over the edge of my boat and looked down to the bottom of the sea. The volcano was gone. The water's calm surface reflected the blue of the sky. Little waves - like silk pajamas fluttering in a breeze - lapped against the side of the boat. There was nothing else. I stretched out in the bottom of the boat and closed my eyes, waiting for the rising tide to carry me where I belonged.", + "source": "Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack", + "length": 403, + "id": 5126 + }, + { + "text": "I'm gonna tell you a story. 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What could you expect with his ideas?", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 507, + "id": 5153 + }, + { + "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 276, + "id": 5154 + }, + { + "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 303, + "id": 5155 + }, + { + "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. 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That's the good news.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 267, + "id": 5157 + }, + { + "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 235, + "id": 5159 + }, + { + "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 103, + "id": 5160 + }, + { + "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 91, + "id": 5161 + }, + { + "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. 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Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", + "source": "Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic", + "length": 529, + "id": 5337 + }, + { + "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", + "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", + "length": 73, + "id": 5338 + }, + { + "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", + "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", + "length": 260, + "id": 5339 + }, + { + "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. 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Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", + "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", + "length": 397, + "id": 5347 + }, + { + "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", + "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", + "length": 54, + "id": 5348 + }, + { + "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", + "source": "Karl Marx", + "length": 222, + "id": 5349 + }, + { + "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", + "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", + "length": 201, + "id": 5350 + }, + { + "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 129, + "id": 5351 + }, + { + "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", + "source": "Newsweek Magazine", + "length": 649, + "id": 5352 + }, + { + "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", + "source": "Nails In The Fence", + "length": 1070, + "id": 5354 + }, + { + "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", + "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", + "length": 297, + "id": 5355 + }, + { + "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 278, + "id": 5356 + }, + { + "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 282, + "id": 5357 + }, + { + "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", + "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", + "length": 318, + "id": 5358 + }, + { + "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", + "source": "Roger Federer", + "length": 63, + "id": 5360 + }, + { + "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", + "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", + "length": 198, + "id": 5361 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. 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The stone you can reach by doing your best.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 334, + "id": 5366 + }, + { + "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 167, + "id": 5367 + }, + { + "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 66, + "id": 5368 + }, + { + "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 95, + "id": 5369 + }, + { + "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 105, + "id": 5370 + }, + { + "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", + "source": "Your Name", + "length": 60, + "id": 5371 + }, + { + "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", + "length": 93, + "id": 5372 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", + "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", + "length": 294, + "id": 5373 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", + "source": "Meet the Heavy", + "length": 102, + "id": 5375 + }, + { + "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", + "source": "Steve Jobs", + "length": 156, + "id": 5376 + }, + { + "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", + "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", + "length": 213, + "id": 5377 + }, + { + "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 182, + "id": 5378 + }, + { + "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 474, + "id": 5379 + }, + { + "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 381, + "id": 5380 + }, + { + "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. 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My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 309, + "id": 5390 + }, + { + "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 75, + "id": 5391 + }, + { + "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", + "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", + "length": 427, + "id": 5392 + }, + { + "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", + "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", + "length": 416, + "id": 5393 + }, + { + "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 96, + "id": 5394 + }, + { + "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 64, + "id": 5395 + }, + { + "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 171, + "id": 5396 + }, + { + "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", + "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", + "length": 205, + "id": 5397 + }, + { + "text": "One and one and one is three.", + "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", + "length": 29, + "id": 5398 + }, + { + "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", + "length": 91, + "id": 5399 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", + "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", + "length": 732, + "id": 5400 + }, + { + "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 92, + "id": 5403 + }, + { + "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? 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We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 466, + "id": 5407 + }, + { + "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 560, + "id": 5408 + }, + { + "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 46, + "id": 5409 + }, + { + "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 296, + "id": 5410 + }, + { + "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 87, + "id": 5411 + }, + { + "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", + "source": "J. K. 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As long as the Wheel turns.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", + "length": 428, + "id": 5418 + }, + { + "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", + "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", + "length": 260, + "id": 5419 + }, + { + "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", + "source": "The Beatles", + "length": 260, + "id": 5420 + }, + { + "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", + "length": 299, + "id": 5421 + }, + { + "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", + "length": 456, + "id": 5422 + }, + { + "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", + "length": 208, + "id": 5423 + }, + { + "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", + "source": "The Legend of Korra", + "length": 110, + "id": 5424 + }, + { + "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 138, + "id": 5425 + }, + { + "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", + "length": 226, + "id": 5426 + }, + { + "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", + "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", + "length": 190, + "id": 5427 + }, + { + "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", + "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", + "length": 72, + "id": 5429 + }, + { + "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 89, + "id": 5430 + }, + { + "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", + "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", + "length": 91, + "id": 5431 + }, + { + "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", + "source": "John Green", + "length": 95, + "id": 5432 + }, + { + "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", + "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", + "length": 349, + "id": 5433 + }, + { + "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 85, + "id": 5434 + }, + { + "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 66, + "id": 5435 + }, + { + "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", + "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", + "length": 122, + "id": 5436 + }, + { + "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 240, + "id": 5437 + }, + { + "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 365, + "id": 5438 + }, + { + "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", + "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", + "length": 403, + "id": 5439 + }, + { + "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", + "source": "SCP-5000", + "length": 487, + "id": 5441 + }, + { + "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", + "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", + "length": 892, + "id": 5442 + }, + { + "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", + "source": "A Tongue-twister", + "length": 106, + "id": 5443 + }, + { + "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", + "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", + "length": 57, + "id": 5444 + }, + { + "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", + "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", + "length": 69, + "id": 5446 + }, + { + "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", + "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", + "length": 88, + "id": 5447 + }, + { + "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", + "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", + "length": 54, + "id": 5452 + }, + { + "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 55, + "id": 5453 + }, + { + "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 62, + "id": 5456 + }, + { + "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", + "source": "They Might Be Giants", + "length": 62, + "id": 5459 + }, + { + "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 84, + "id": 5460 + }, + { + "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", + "length": 100, + "id": 5461 + }, + { + "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 231, + "id": 5462 + }, + { + "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 94, + "id": 5463 + }, + { + "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 258, + "id": 5464 + }, + { + "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", + "length": 1140, + "id": 5465 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", + "source": "Ready Player Two", + "length": 588, + "id": 5466 + }, + { + "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", + "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", + "length": 140, + "id": 5472 + }, + { + "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", + "source": "Holes", + "length": 74, + "id": 5477 + }, + { + "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 192, + "id": 5478 + }, + { + "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 78, + "id": 5482 + }, + { + "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 947, + "id": 5485 + }, + { + "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 559, + "id": 5487 + }, + { + "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", + "source": "91 days", + "length": 474, + "id": 5488 + }, + { + "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 172, + "id": 5489 + }, + { + "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 359, + "id": 5490 + }, + { + "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", + "source": "Fred Brooks", + "length": 78, + "id": 5491 + }, + { + "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", + "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", + "length": 210, + "id": 5492 + }, + { + "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 242, + "id": 5493 + }, + { + "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 200, + "id": 5494 + }, + { + "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", + "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", + "length": 189, + "id": 5495 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5496 + }, + { + "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 218, + "id": 5497 + }, + { + "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 201, + "id": 5498 + }, + { + "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "length": 150, + "id": 5499 + }, + { + "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 145, + "id": 5500 + }, + { + "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5501 + }, + { + "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 106, + "id": 5502 + }, + { + "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", + "source": "Naruto", + "length": 196, + "id": 5503 + }, + { + "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", + "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", + "length": 125, + "id": 5505 + }, + { + "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", + "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 471, + "id": 5506 + }, + { + "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", + "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", + "length": 240, + "id": 5507 + }, + { + "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", + "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", + "length": 483, + "id": 5508 + }, + { + "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 240, + "id": 5509 + }, + { + "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 584, + "id": 5510 + }, + { + "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", + "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", + "length": 375, + "id": 5511 + }, + { + "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", + "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", + "length": 413, + "id": 5512 + }, + { + "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", + "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 273, + "id": 5513 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", + "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 83, + "id": 5514 + }, + { + "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", + "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", + "length": 661, + "id": 5515 + }, + { + "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", + "source": "Five Feet Apart", + "length": 523, + "id": 5517 + }, + { + "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", + "source": "Exurb1a", + "length": 169, + "id": 5519 + }, + { + "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", + "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 537, + "id": 5520 + }, + { + "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", + "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", + "length": 236, + "id": 5521 + }, + { + "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", + "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", + "length": 211, + "id": 5522 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 634, + "id": 5523 + }, + { + "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", + "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", + "length": 727, + "id": 5524 + }, + { + "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", + "source": "Celeste", + "length": 437, + "id": 5525 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 496, + "id": 5526 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 352, + "id": 5527 + }, + { + "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", + "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", + "length": 589, + "id": 5528 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 223, + "id": 5529 + }, + { + "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 399, + "id": 5530 + }, + { + "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", + "source": "The Cooper Institute", + "length": 575, + "id": 5531 + }, + { + "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 534, + "id": 5533 + }, + { + "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 463, + "id": 5534 + }, + { + "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 160, + "id": 5535 + }, + { + "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 142, + "id": 5536 + }, + { + "text": "No one knows what the future holds. 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And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", + "source": "The Symposium", + "length": 592, + "id": 5651 + }, + { + "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 76, + "id": 5652 + }, + { + "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 323, + "id": 5653 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", + "source": "Einstein", + "length": 128, + "id": 5654 + }, + { + "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", + "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", + "length": 322, + "id": 5655 + }, + { + "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 172, + "id": 5656 + }, + { + "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. 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You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 468, + "id": 5670 + }, + { + "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", + "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", + "length": 82, + "id": 5671 + }, + { + "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", + "source": "John Tukey", + "length": 89, + "id": 5672 + }, + { + "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. 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Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", + "source": "Tao Te Ching", + "length": 286, + "id": 5678 + }, + { + "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "length": 62, + "id": 5679 + }, + { + "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", + "source": "Albert Camus", + "length": 54, + "id": 5680 + }, + { + "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", + "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", + "length": 238, + "id": 5681 + }, + { + "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", + "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5682 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", + "source": "Marcus Aurelius", + "length": 161, + "id": 5684 + }, + { + "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", + "source": "Devil in Disguise", + "length": 148, + "id": 5685 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", + "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", + "length": 518, + "id": 5686 + }, + { + "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 302, + "id": 5687 + }, + { + "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 52, + "id": 5688 + }, + { + "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 83, + "id": 5689 + }, + { + "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 53, + "id": 5690 + }, + { + "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 118, + "id": 5691 + }, + { + "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. 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During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", + "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", + "length": 578, + "id": 5708 + }, + { + "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", + "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", + "length": 183, + "id": 5709 + }, + { + "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 997, + "id": 5710 + }, + { + "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", + "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", + "length": 173, + "id": 5711 + }, + { + "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 289, + "id": 5712 + }, + { + "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 900, + "id": 5714 + }, + { + "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", + "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", + "length": 71, + "id": 5715 + }, + { + "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5716 + }, + { + "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", + "source": "Kurt Cobain", + "length": 62, + "id": 5717 + }, + { + "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", + "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", + "length": 743, + "id": 5718 + }, + { + "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", + "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", + "length": 974, + "id": 5719 + }, + { + "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", + "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", + "length": 256, + "id": 5720 + }, + { + "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", + "source": "Bruce Lee", + "length": 69, + "id": 5723 + }, + { + "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 110, + "id": 5724 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "length": 280, + "id": 5725 + }, + { + "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 111, + "id": 5726 + }, + { + "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 74, + "id": 5727 + }, + { + "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 71, + "id": 5728 + }, + { + "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", + "source": "Edward Snowden", + "length": 181, + "id": 5729 + }, + { + "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", + "source": "Riverdale", + "length": 161, + "id": 5731 + }, + { + "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", + "source": "Spirited Away", + "length": 105, + "id": 5732 + }, + { + "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", + "source": "Wikipedia", + "length": 406, + "id": 5733 + }, + { + "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", + "length": 418, + "id": 5734 + }, + { + "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 622, + "id": 5735 + }, + { + "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 699, + "id": 5736 + }, + { + "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", + "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", + "length": 82, + "id": 5737 + }, + { + "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", + "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", + "length": 282, + "id": 5738 + }, + { + "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", + "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", + "length": 184, + "id": 5739 + }, + { + "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", + "source": "Lord of the Rings", + "length": 83, + "id": 5740 + }, + { + "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 373, + "id": 5741 + }, + { + "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", + "source": "Half-Life 2", + "length": 74, + "id": 5742 + }, + { + "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", + "source": "The Big Bang Theory", + "length": 209, + "id": 5743 + }, + { + "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", + "source": "Lucifer", + "length": 183, + "id": 5744 + }, + { + "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", + "source": "Inception", + "length": 134, + "id": 5747 + }, + { + "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", + "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", + "length": 83, + "id": 5748 + }, + { + "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 113, + "id": 5751 + }, + { + "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 341, + "id": 5752 + }, + { + "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "length": 222, + "id": 5753 + }, + { + "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", + "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", + "length": 183, + "id": 5754 + }, + { + "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 198, + "id": 5755 + }, + { + "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", + "source": "Genshin Impact", + "length": 293, + "id": 5756 + }, + { + "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "length": 441, + "id": 5757 + }, + { + "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "length": 538, + "id": 5758 + }, + { + "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", + "source": "Absolute", + "length": 131, + "id": 5759 + }, + { + "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 144, + "id": 5760 + }, + { + "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 183, + "id": 5761 + }, + { + "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 106, + "id": 5762 + }, + { + "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 141, + "id": 5763 + }, + { + "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", + "source": "Love Me", + "length": 61, + "id": 5764 + }, + { + "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", + "source": "The Art of War", + "length": 62, + "id": 5765 + }, + { + "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", + "source": "Little Witch Academia", + "length": 76, + "id": 5766 + }, + { + "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 166, + "id": 5767 + }, + { + "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", + "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", + "length": 429, + "id": 5768 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 245, + "id": 5769 + }, + { + "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 165, + "id": 5771 + }, + { + "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 128, + "id": 5772 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 157, + "id": 5773 + }, + { + "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", + "source": "A Friend", + "length": 73, + "id": 5775 + }, + { + "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Breath of the Wild", + "length": 62, + "id": 5776 + }, + { + "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 527, + "id": 5777 + }, + { + "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", + "source": "Muhammad Ali", + "length": 79, + "id": 5780 + }, + { + "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", + "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", + "length": 51, + "id": 5781 + }, + { + "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 69, + "id": 5782 + }, + { + "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", + "source": "Violet Evergarden", + "length": 317, + "id": 5783 + }, + { + "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", + "source": "The Last Of Us 2", + "length": 89, + "id": 5785 + }, + { + "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", + "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", + "length": 98, + "id": 5786 + }, + { + "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", + "source": "Leonard Bernstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 5787 + }, + { + "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", + "source": "Charlie Sheen", + "length": 158, + "id": 5788 + }, + { + "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", + "source": "Charlie Sheen", + "length": 164, + "id": 5789 + }, + { + "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", + "source": "Macbeth", + "length": 62, + "id": 5790 + }, + { + "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", + "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", + "length": 113, + "id": 5791 + }, + { + "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", + "source": "Cabo", + "length": 125, + "id": 5792 + }, + { + "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", + "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", + "length": 109, + "id": 5793 + }, + { + "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", + "source": "Mae West", + "length": 59, + "id": 5795 + }, + { + "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", + "length": 77, + "id": 5796 + }, + { + "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", + "length": 62, + "id": 5797 + }, + { + "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", + "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", + "length": 101, + "id": 5799 + }, + { + "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. 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Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", + "source": "States of Matter", + "length": 220, + "id": 5805 + }, + { + "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", + "source": "Danilo Kiš", + "length": 190, + "id": 5806 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", + "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", + "length": 2928, + "id": 5807 + }, + { + "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", + "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", + "length": 152, + "id": 5809 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 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Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 325, + "id": 5812 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 133, + "id": 5813 + }, + { + "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", + "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 355, + "id": 5814 + }, + { + "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", + "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", + "length": 140, + "id": 5815 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 78, + "id": 5816 + }, + { + "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 87, + "id": 5817 + }, + { + "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 134, + "id": 5818 + }, + { + "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", + "source": "Henri Poincaré", + "length": 145, + "id": 5819 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", + "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", + "length": 254, + "id": 5820 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", + "source": "Richard Feynman", + "length": 96, + "id": 5821 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. 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It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", + "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", + "length": 455, + "id": 5828 + }, + { + "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", + "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", + "length": 298, + "id": 5829 + }, + { + "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", + "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", + "length": 61, + "id": 5831 + }, + { + "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 356, + "id": 5832 + }, + { + "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 669, + "id": 5833 + }, + { + "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 188, + "id": 5834 + }, + { + "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 157, + "id": 5835 + }, + { + "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 290, + "id": 5836 + }, + { + "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", + "source": "Mob Psycho 100", + "length": 382, + "id": 5837 + }, + { + "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", + "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", + "length": 125, + "id": 5838 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 92, + "id": 5839 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 97, + "id": 5840 + }, + { + "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", + "source": "Master Yoda", + "length": 395, + "id": 5843 + }, + { + "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 80, + "id": 5844 + }, + { + "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 86, + "id": 5845 + }, + { + "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. 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May you know peace and joy.\"", + "source": "Twelve Minutes", + "length": 349, + "id": 5850 + }, + { + "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", + "length": 301, + "id": 5851 + }, + { + "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", + "source": "Numb", + "length": 177, + "id": 5852 + }, + { + "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", + "source": "One Piece", + "length": 490, + "id": 5854 + }, + { + "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", + "source": "Space Brothers", + "length": 143, + "id": 5855 + }, + { + "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", + "source": "Oregairu", + "length": 65, + "id": 5856 + }, + { + "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", + "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", + "length": 352, + "id": 5857 + }, + { + "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", + "source": "Bleach", + "length": 200, + "id": 5858 + }, + { + "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", + "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", + "length": 120, + "id": 5859 + }, + { + "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", + "source": "Fruits Basket", + "length": 388, + "id": 5860 + }, + { + "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", + "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", + "length": 60, + "id": 5861 + }, + { + "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 65, + "id": 5862 + }, + { + "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 270, + "id": 5863 + }, + { + "text": "You may have grown too strong. 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And I would know - I just turned 25.", + "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", + "length": 212, + "id": 5870 + }, + { + "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", + "source": "Ratatouille", + "length": 1315, + "id": 5871 + }, + { + "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", + "source": "Pushing Dead", + "length": 365, + "id": 5872 + }, + { + "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", + "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", + "length": 222, + "id": 5874 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", + "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", + "length": 191, + "id": 5875 + }, + { + "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", + "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", + "length": 75, + "id": 5876 + }, + { + "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", + "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", + "length": 123, + "id": 5877 + }, + { + "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 784, + "id": 5878 + }, + { + "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 763, + "id": 5879 + }, + { + "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 530, + "id": 5881 + }, + { + "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 618, + "id": 5882 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", + "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", + "length": 186, + "id": 5886 + }, + { + "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", + "source": "Knights of Cydonia", + "length": 135, + "id": 5888 + }, + { + "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", + "source": "Paul Parker", + "length": 274, + "id": 5890 + }, + { + "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", + "source": "Left 4 Dead", + "length": 454, + "id": 5891 + }, + { + "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 190, + "id": 5893 + }, + { + "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 346, + "id": 5895 + }, + { + "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", + "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", + "length": 83, + "id": 5896 + }, + { + "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 264, + "id": 5897 + }, + { + "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 282, + "id": 5899 + }, + { + "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 249, + "id": 5900 + }, + { + "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", + "source": "Neil Gaiman", + "length": 129, + "id": 5901 + }, + { + "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 376, + "id": 5902 + }, + { + "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 293, + "id": 5903 + }, + { + "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 353, + "id": 5904 + }, + { + "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "length": 235, + "id": 5905 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 107, + "id": 5906 + }, + { + "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 105, + "id": 5907 + }, + { + "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", + "source": "Eugene Cernan", + "length": 478, + "id": 5908 + }, + { + "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "length": 130, + "id": 5909 + }, + { + "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", + "source": "William Carlos Williams", + "length": 89, + "id": 5910 + }, + { + "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "length": 60, + "id": 5912 + }, + { + "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", + "source": "Henry Van Dyke", + "length": 172, + "id": 5913 + }, + { + "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", + "source": "Epicurus", + "length": 117, + "id": 5914 + }, + { + "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 1766, + "id": 5915 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 332, + "id": 5916 + }, + { + "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", + "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", + "length": 513, + "id": 5917 + }, + { + "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 105, + "id": 5918 + }, + { + "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", + "source": "Avicii - The Nights", + "length": 187, + "id": 5919 + }, + { + "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", + "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", + "length": 987, + "id": 5920 + }, + { + "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", + "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", + "length": 740, + "id": 5921 + }, + { + "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", + "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", + "length": 319, + "id": 5922 + }, + { + "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", + "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", + "length": 476, + "id": 5923 + }, + { + "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", + "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", + "length": 556, + "id": 5925 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 182, + "id": 5926 + }, + { + "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 281, + "id": 5927 + }, + { + "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 155, + "id": 5928 + }, + { + "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 248, + "id": 5929 + }, + { + "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 280, + "id": 5930 + }, + { + "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 289, + "id": 5931 + }, + { + "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", + "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", + "length": 294, + "id": 5932 + }, + { + "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 204, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5934 + }, + { + "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", + "source": "Batman: Arkham City", + "length": 87, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5935 + }, + { + "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5937 + }, + { + "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", + "source": "Little Inferno", + "length": 90, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5940 + }, + { + "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", + "source": "System Shock 2 ", + "length": 163, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5941 + }, + { + "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", + "source": "IT Crowd", + "length": 307, + "id": 5942 + }, + { + "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 322, + "id": 5943 + }, + { + "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 137, + "id": 5944 + }, + { + "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", + "source": "The Master and Margarita", + "length": 420, + "id": 5945 + }, + { + "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 379, + "id": 5947 + }, + { + "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", + "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", + "length": 348, + "id": 5950 + }, + { + "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", + "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", + "length": 729, + "id": 5951 + }, + { + "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", + "source": "Bojack Horseman", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5956 + }, + { + "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", + "source": "Vinland Saga", + "length": 102, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5957 + }, + { + "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", + "source": "Silent Hill 2", + "length": 1982, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5958 + }, + { + "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", + "source": "Mark Twain", + "length": 113, + "id": 6064 + }, + { + "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", + "source": "Colin Powell", + "length": 103, + "id": 6065 + }, + { + "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", + "source": "Conrad Hilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6066 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", + "source": "Zig Ziglar", + "length": 116, + "id": 6067 + }, + { + "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", + "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", + "length": 67, + "id": 6068 + }, + { + "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", + "source": "Barack Obama", + "length": 193, + "id": 6069 + }, + { + "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", + "source": "Charles Swindoll", + "length": 81, + "id": 6071 + }, + { + "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", + "source": "Oprah Winfrey", + "length": 132, + "id": 6072 + }, + { + "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", + "source": "Harriet Tubman", + "length": 165, + "id": 6073 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 86, + "id": 6074 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", + "source": "The Blair Witch Project", + "length": 649, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6075 + }, + { + "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 624, + "id": 6076 + }, + { + "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 834, + "id": 6077 + }, + { + "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 472, + "id": 6078 + }, + { + "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 308, + "id": 6079 + }, + { + "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 471, + "id": 6080 + }, + { + "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 352, + "id": 6081 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 336, + "id": 6082 + }, + { + "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 775, + "id": 6084 + }, + { + "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 610, + "id": 6085 + }, + { + "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 371, + "id": 6087 + }, + { + "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", + "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", + "length": 438, + "id": 6088 + }, + { + "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", + "source": "Atharva veda", + "length": 127, + "id": 6089 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", + "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", + "length": 681, + "id": 6090 + }, + { + "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", + "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", + "length": 192, + "id": 6091 + }, + { + "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", + "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", + "length": 69, + "id": 6092 + }, + { + "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", + "source": "Tirukkurral", + "length": 118, + "id": 6093 + }, + { + "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", + "source": "Halo 3", + "length": 337, + "id": 6095 + }, + { + "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", + "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", + "length": 219, + "id": 6096 + }, + { + "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 71, + "id": 6097 + }, + { + "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", + "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", + "length": 237, + "id": 6098 + }, + { + "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", + "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", + "length": 98, + "id": 6099 + }, + { + "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", + "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", + "length": 62, + "id": 6100 + }, + { + "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", + "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", + "length": 153, + "id": 6101 + }, + { + "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", + "source": "Remember11", + "length": 136, + "id": 6102 + }, + { + "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", + "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", + "length": 94, + "id": 6103 + }, + { + "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 59, + "id": 6104 + }, + { + "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", + "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", + "length": 157, + "id": 6106 + }, + { + "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 173, + "id": 6107 + }, + { + "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", + "length": 190, + "id": 6108 + }, + { + "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", + "length": 105, + "id": 6109 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 162, + "id": 6110 + }, + { + "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 122, + "id": 6112 + }, + { + "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 160, + "id": 6113 + }, + { + "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 239, + "id": 6114 + }, + { + "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", + "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", + "length": 92, + "id": 6115 + }, + { + "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", + "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", + "length": 131, + "id": 6116 + }, + { + "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", + "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", + "length": 157, + "id": 6117 + }, + { + "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", + "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", + "length": 121, + "id": 6118 + }, + { + "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", + "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", + "length": 256, + "id": 6119 + }, + { + "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. 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But my enemies brought me war.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 59, + "id": 6123 + }, + { + "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", + "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", + "length": 76, + "id": 6124 + }, + { + "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 182, + "id": 6125 + }, + { + "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", + "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", + "length": 62, + "id": 6126 + }, + { + "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 71, + "id": 6127 + }, + { + "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", + "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", + "length": 162, + "id": 6128 + }, + { + "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", + "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", + "length": 164, + "id": 6129 + }, + { + "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", + "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", + "length": 160, + "id": 6130 + }, + { + "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", + "source": "Beach House - Myth", + "length": 142, + "id": 6131 + }, + { + "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", + "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", + "length": 64, + "id": 6132 + }, + { + "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", + "source": "Beach House - PPP", + "length": 110, + "id": 6133 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", + "length": 78, + "id": 6134 + }, + { + "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", + "length": 175, + "id": 6135 + }, + { + "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", + "length": 113, + "id": 6136 + }, + { + "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", + "length": 66, + "id": 6137 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", + "length": 67, + "id": 6138 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", + "length": 95, + "id": 6139 + }, + { + "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", + "length": 80, + "id": 6141 + }, + { + "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 185, + "id": 6142 + }, + { + "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", + "length": 206, + "id": 6143 + }, + { + "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", + "length": 76, + "id": 6144 + }, + { + "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", + "length": 95, + "id": 6145 + }, + { + "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 181, + "id": 6146 + }, + { + "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", + "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", + "length": 66, + "id": 6147 + }, + { + "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", + "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", + "length": 181, + "id": 6148 + }, + { + "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", + "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", + "length": 291, + "id": 6149 + }, + { + "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 297, + "id": 6150 + }, + { + "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 657, + "id": 6151 + }, + { + "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", + "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", + "length": 128, + "id": 6152 + }, + { + "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 136, + "id": 6153 + }, + { + "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 64, + "id": 6154 + }, + { + "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 178, + "id": 6155 + }, + { + "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", + "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", + "length": 224, + "id": 6157 + }, + { + "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", + "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", + "length": 207, + "id": 6158 + }, + { + "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", + "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", + "length": 220, + "id": 6159 + }, + { + "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", + "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", + "length": 274, + "id": 6160 + }, + { + "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", + "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", + "length": 112, + "id": 6161 + }, + { + "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", + "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", + "length": 272, + "id": 6162 + }, + { + "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", + "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", + "length": 136, + "id": 6163 + }, + { + "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", + "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", + "length": 454, + "id": 6164 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", + "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", + "length": 381, + "id": 6165 + }, + { + "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", + "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", + "length": 453, + "id": 6166 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 165, + "id": 6167 + }, + { + "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", + "length": 136, + "id": 6168 + }, + { + "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", + "length": 229, + "id": 6169 + }, + { + "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 170, + "id": 6170 + }, + { + "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", + "length": 191, + "id": 6171 + }, + { + "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", + "length": 284, + "id": 6172 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", + "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", + "length": 204, + "id": 6173 + }, + { + "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", + "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", + "length": 122, + "id": 6174 + }, + { + "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", + "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", + "length": 268, + "id": 6175 + }, + { + "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", + "length": 234, + "id": 6176 + }, + { + "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", + "length": 186, + "id": 6177 + }, + { + "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", + "length": 423, + "id": 6178 + }, + { + "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", + "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", + "length": 313, + "id": 6179 + }, + { + "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. 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A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", + "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", + "length": 401, + "id": 6183 + }, + { + "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", + "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", + "length": 202, + "id": 6184 + }, + { + "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", + "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", + "length": 290, + "id": 6185 + }, + { + "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", + "length": 178, + "id": 6186 + }, + { + "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 197, + "id": 6188 + }, + { + "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 395, + "id": 6189 + }, + { + "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 372, + "id": 6190 + }, + { + "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 214, + "id": 6191 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 427, + "id": 6192 + }, + { + "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 116, + "id": 6193 + }, + { + "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 238, + "id": 6194 + }, + { + "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 256, + "id": 6195 + }, + { + "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 316, + "id": 6196 + }, + { + "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. 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It turns out plinths are very important.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 251, + "id": 6199 + }, + { + "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 229, + "id": 6200 + }, + { + "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 252, + "id": 6201 + }, + { + "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", + "length": 576, + "id": 6202 + }, + { + "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", + "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", + "length": 112, + "id": 6203 + }, + { + "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", + "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", + "length": 110, + "id": 6204 + }, + { + "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. 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Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", + "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", + "length": 95, + "id": 6212 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", + "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", + "length": 70, + "id": 6213 + }, + { + "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", + "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", + "length": 51, + "id": 6214 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", + "source": "Clare - Claymore", + "length": 164, + "id": 6215 + }, + { + "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", + "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", + "length": 384, + "id": 6216 + }, + { + "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", + "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", + "length": 67, + "id": 6217 + }, + { + "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", + "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", + "length": 88, + "id": 6218 + }, + { + "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", + "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", + "length": 314, + "id": 6220 + }, + { + "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", + "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", + "length": 89, + "id": 6221 + }, + { + "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", + "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", + "length": 422, + "id": 6222 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", + "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", + "length": 179, + "id": 6223 + }, + { + "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", + "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", + "length": 463, + "id": 6224 + }, + { + "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", + "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 109, + "id": 6225 + }, + { + "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", + "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 61, + "id": 6226 + }, + { + "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", + "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", + "length": 93, + "id": 6227 + }, + { + "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", + "length": 177, + "id": 6228 + }, + { + "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", + "length": 215, + "id": 6229 + }, + { + "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", + "length": 167, + "id": 6230 + }, + { + "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 827, + "id": 6231 + }, + { + "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", + "length": 116, + "id": 6232 + }, + { + "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", + "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", + "length": 137, + "id": 6233 + }, + { + "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", + "length": 127, + "id": 6234 + }, + { + "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 94, + "id": 6235 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 182, + "id": 6236 + }, + { + "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 140, + "id": 6237 + }, + { + "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", + "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", + "length": 144, + "id": 6238 + }, + { + "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", + "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", + "length": 248, + "id": 6239 + }, + { + "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. Did you follow your fire?", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 289, + "id": 6240 + }, + { + "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 123, + "id": 6241 + }, + { + "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", + "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", + "length": 197, + "id": 6242 + }, + { + "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", + "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", + "length": 289, + "id": 6243 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. Though we don't share the same blood, you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.", + "source": "Kodaline - Brother", + "length": 161, + "id": 6244 + }, + { + "text": "Star in your eyes, sun in your smile, the way you look at me - it makes me hum and I call it love song.", + "source": "Yoohyeon (Dreamcatcher) - For", + "length": 103, + "id": 6245 + }, + { + "text": "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 57, + "id": 6246 + }, + { + "text": "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 240, + "id": 6247 + }, + { + "text": "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 112, + "id": 6248 + }, + { + "text": "For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 177, + "id": 6249 + }, + { + "text": "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 421, + "id": 6250 + }, + { + "text": "Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say \"I'll never be good.\" You can become better! And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 251, + "id": 6251 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 105, + "id": 6252 + }, + { + "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 303, + "id": 6253 + }, + { + "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 149, + "id": 6254 + }, + { + "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 119, + "id": 6255 + }, + { + "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", + "source": "Tool", + "length": 220, + "id": 6256 + }, + { + "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", + "source": "Whiplash", + "length": 270, + "id": 6258 + }, + { + "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 173, + "id": 6259 + }, + { + "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 395, + "id": 6260 + }, + { + "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 246, + "id": 6261 + }, + { + "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. 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Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", + "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", + "length": 1662, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6275 + }, + { + "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. 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Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 421, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6286 + }, + { + "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", + "source": "Animal Farm", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6287 + }, + { + "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 307, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6288 + }, + { + "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 745, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6292 + }, + { + "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. 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Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "length": 740, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6303 + }, + { + "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", + "length": 520, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6304 + }, + { + "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", + "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", + "length": 273, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6305 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 216, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6306 + }, + { + "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. 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And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", + "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", + "length": 1200, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6308 + }, + { + "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. 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But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6331 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 735, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6332 + }, + { + "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 100, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6333 + }, + { + "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 261, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6334 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 684, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6335 + }, + { + "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 434, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6336 + }, + { + "text": "A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe... Those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition, and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It's found truth in its maturity... Because what's it all for if it goes unremembered? It's the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 496, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6337 + }, + { + "text": "False tears bring pain to those around you. 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All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 586, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6734 + }, + { + "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 1174, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6735 + }, + { + "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", + "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", + "length": 221, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6736 + }, + { + "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 184, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6737 + }, + { + "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 145, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6738 + }, + { + "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 246, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6739 + }, + { + "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 88, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6740 + }, + { + "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6741 + }, + { + "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", + "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", + "length": 272, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6742 + }, + { + "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 275, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6743 + }, + { + "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 186, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6744 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 467, + "id": 6745 + }, + { + "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 877, + "id": 6746 + }, + { + "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", + "source": "A Girl on the Shore", + "length": 572, + "id": 6747 + }, + { + "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 64, + "id": 6748 + }, + { + "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 62, + "id": 6749 + }, + { + "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 77, + "id": 6750 + }, + { + "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 166, + "id": 6751 + }, + { + "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 195, + "id": 6752 + }, + { + "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 100, + "id": 6753 + }, + { + "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 172, + "id": 6754 + }, + { + "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 118, + "id": 6755 + }, + { + "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 119, + "id": 6756 + }, + { + "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", + "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6757, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", + "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6758, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. 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Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6765, + "length": 141 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6766, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", + "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", + "id": 6767, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. 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I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6771, + "length": 703 + }, + { + "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6772, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6773, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6774, + "length": 464 + }, + { + "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6775, + "length": 259 + }, + { + "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. 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We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6779, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6780, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6781, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6782, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6783, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6784, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6785, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", + "source": "Walt Disney", + "id": 6786, + "length": 245 + }, + { + "text": "He's smart. He's angry. 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It got you right here.", + "source": "Ozark", + "id": 6789, + "length": 662 + }, + { + "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "id": 6790, + "length": 75 + }, + { + "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", + "source": "Greek Mythology", + "id": 6791, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 6792, + "length": 108 + }, + { + "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", + "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", + "length": 99, + "id": 6793 + }, + { + "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", + "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6794 + }, + { + "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 58, + "id": 6795 + }, + { + "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6796 + }, + { + "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. 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Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6802 + }, + { + "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 82, + "id": 6803 + }, + { + "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. 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It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 71, + "id": 6813 + }, + { + "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 81, + "id": 6814 + }, + { + "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. 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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", + "source": "Steve Jobs", + "length": 174, + "id": 6823 + }, + { + "text": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", + "length": 254, + "id": 6824 + }, + { + "text": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.", + "source": "Andrè Gide", + "length": 80, + "id": 6825 + }, + { + "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This means recognizing that failure and setbacks are a natural part of the journey to success, and using them as opportunities to learn and grow. It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", + "source": "Nelson Mandela", + "length": 431, + "id": 6827 + }, + { + "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 75, + "id": 6828 + }, + { + "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", + "source": "J.K. Rowling", + "length": 101, + "id": 6829 + }, + { + "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 6830 + }, + { + "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", + "source": "Edmund Burke", + "length": 79, + "id": 6831 + }, + { + "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. 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This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 423, + "id": 6839 + }, + { + "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", + "source": "Abraham Lincoln", + "length": 402, + "id": 6840 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", + "source": "Albert Schweitzer", + "length": 392, + "id": 6841 + }, + { + "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", + "length": 41, + "id": 6842 + }, + { + "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", + "source": "Dalai Lama", + "length": 70, + "id": 6843 + }, + { + "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", + "source": "Henry Ford", + "length": 57, + "id": 6844 + }, + { + "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 248, + "id": 6845 + }, + { + "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 58, + "id": 6847 + }, + { + "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", + "source": "Jean Paul", + "length": 53, + "id": 6849 + }, + { + "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", + "source": "Oscar Wilde", + "length": 66, + "id": 6851 + }, + { + "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", + "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 217, + "id": 6852 + }, + { + "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", + "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", + "length": 92, + "id": 6853 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", + "source": "Clockwork Princess", + "length": 66, + "id": 6854 + }, + { + "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. 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I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", + "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", + "length": 361, + "id": 6858 + }, + { + "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. 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They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 336, + "id": 6869 + }, + { + "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 182, + "id": 6870 + }, + { + "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 529, + "id": 6871 + }, + { + "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 282, + "id": 6872 + }, + { + "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 184, + "id": 6873 + }, + { + "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 196, + "id": 6874 + }, + { + "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", + "source": "Lao Tzu", + "length": 90, + "id": 6875 + }, + { + "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. 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Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", + "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", + "id": 6895, + "length": 345 + }, + { + "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", + "source": "Edwin Hubble", + "id": 6897, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", + "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", + "id": 6898, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. 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Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!", + "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", + "length": 87, + "id": 6936 + }, + { + "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.", + "source": "Aristotle", + "length": 124, + "id": 6937 + }, + { + "text": "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", + "source": "Chinese Proverb", + "length": 87, + "id": 6938 + }, + { + "text": "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", + "source": "Japanese Proverb", + "length": 69, + "id": 6939 + }, + { + "text": "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", + "source": "Malayan Proverb", + "length": 62, + "id": 6940 + }, + { + "text": "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", + "source": "Indian Proverb", + "length": 165, + "id": 6941 + }, + { + "text": "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", + "source": "Linus Torvalds", + "length": 250, + "id": 6942 + }, + { + "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. 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Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", + "source": "Houseki No Kuni", + "length": 335, + "id": 6980 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 79, + "id": 6981 + }, + { + "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 110, + "id": 6982 + }, + { + "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", + "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", + "length": 110, + "id": 6983 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 255, + "id": 6984 + }, + { + "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 246, + "id": 6985 + }, + { + "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 278, + "id": 6986 + }, + { + "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", + "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", + "length": 297, + "id": 6987 + }, + { + "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", + "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", + "length": 411, + "id": 6988 + }, + { + "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", + "source": "Technoblade", + "length": 217, + "id": 6989 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", + "source": "Simon Sinek", + "length": 314, + "id": 6990 + }, + { + "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 82, + "id": 6991 + }, + { + "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. 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Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", + "source": "Boisvert", + "length": 670, + "id": 6994 + }, + { + "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", + "source": "Albert Camus", + "length": 84, + "id": 6995 + }, + { + "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 97, + "id": 6996 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", + "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", + "length": 67, + "id": 6997 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", + "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", + "length": 90, + "id": 6998 + }, + { + "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", + "source": "L.R. Knos", + "length": 267, + "id": 6999 + }, + { + "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", + "source": "Emily Dickinson", + "length": 117, + "id": 7000 + }, + { + "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", + "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", + "length": 112, + "id": 7001 + }, + { + "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", + "source": "The Wright Brothers", + "length": 74, + "id": 7002 + }, + { + "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. 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His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", + "source": "1984, George Orwell", + "length": 740, + "id": 7003 + }, + { + "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 74, + "id": 7004 + }, + { + "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 112, + "id": 7005 + }, + { + "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", + "source": "Talos Principle", + "length": 694, + "id": 7006 + }, + { + "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", + "source": "James Salter", + "length": 99, + "id": 7007 + }, + { + "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", + "source": "Vicente Huidobro", + "length": 127, + "id": 7008 + }, + { + "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", + "source": "J. R. R. 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The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7045 + }, + { + "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7046 + }, + { + "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", + "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", + "length": 68, + "id": 7047 + }, + { + "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", + "source": "Shiori Novella", + "length": 179, + "id": 7048 + }, + { + "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7049 + }, + { + "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", + "length": 135, + "id": 7050 + }, + { + "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 232, + "id": 7051 + }, + { + "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 93, + "id": 7052 + }, + { + "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", + "source": "Edward Everett Hale", + "length": 90, + "id": 7053 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 126, + "id": 7054 + }, + { + "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 132, + "id": 7055 + }, + { + "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", + "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", + "length": 300, + "id": 7056 + }, + { + "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", + "source": "Douglas Crockford", + "length": 134, + "id": 7057 + }, + { + "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", + "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", + "length": 107, + "id": 7058 + }, + { + "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", + "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", + "length": 161, + "id": 7059 + }, + { + "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", + "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", + "length": 140, + "id": 7060 + }, + { + "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 174, + "id": 7061 + }, + { + "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 371, + "id": 7062 + }, + { + "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", + "source": "Invincible (TV series)", + "length": 309, + "id": 7603 + }, + { + "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", + "length": 130, + "id": 7604 + }, + { + "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", + "source": "The Walking Dead", + "length": 362, + "id": 7605 + }, + { + "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 568, + "id": 7606 + }, + { + "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", + "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", + "length": 782, + "id": 7607 + }, + { + "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", + "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 631, + "id": 7608 + }, + { + "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", + "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 144, + "id": 7609 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", + "source": "The Magnus Archives", + "length": 369, + "id": 7610 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", + "source": "Magnus Carlsen", + "length": 116, + "id": 7611 + }, + { + "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", + "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", + "length": 541, + "id": 7612 + }, + { + "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", + "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", + "length": 131, + "id": 7613 + }, + { + "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", + "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", + "length": 603, + "id": 7614 + }, + { + "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7615, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7616, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7617, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", + "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7618, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", + "source": "The Power Of Now", + "length": 239, + "id": 7619 + }, + { + "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts", + "length": 84, + "id": 7620 + }, + { + "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", + "length": 142, + "id": 7621 + }, + { + "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", + "length": 673, + "id": 7622 + }, + { + "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", + "length": 307, + "id": 7623 + }, + { + "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", + "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", + "length": 96, + "id": 7624 + }, + { + "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 215, + "id": 7625 + }, + { + "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 130, + "id": 7626 + }, + { + "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 158, + "id": 7627 + }, + { + "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 90, + "id": 7628 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 103, + "id": 7629 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 153, + "id": 7630 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 136, + "id": 7631 + }, + { + "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 165, + "id": 7632 + }, + { + "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", + "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", + "length": 77, + "id": 7633 }, { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", From 549f5340af39f354ec148de87be17bb67d836d28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:48:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 16/51] fix(quotes): re-added the last of the accidentally removed quotes --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 14743 +------------------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 14737 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index dc7f502340f0..8a7dd632ce7a 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38578,14746 +38578,15 @@ "id": 7633 }, { - "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4271, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4272, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4273, - "length": 494 - }, - { - "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", - "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", - "id": 4274, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4275, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", - "source": "Portal", - "id": 4276, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 4277, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", - "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "id": 4279, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", - "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", - "id": 4280, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", - "source": "Intensity: A Novel", - "id": 4281, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", - "source": "419", - "id": 4282, - "length": 266 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", - "source": "Preface to Economix", - "id": 4283, - "length": 387 - }, - { - "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4284, - "length": 314 - }, - { - "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4285, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", - "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", - "id": 4286, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", - "source": "Friday The 13th", - "id": 4287, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", - "source": "Of Mice and Men", - "id": 4288, - "length": 655 - }, - { - "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", - "source": "Paper Mario", - "id": 4289, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4290, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", - "source": "Meditations", - "id": 4291, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", - "source": "An American in Paris", - "id": 4292, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", - "source": "One-Punch Man", - "id": 4293, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4294, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4295, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", - "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", - "id": 4297, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", - "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", - "id": 4298, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4299, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", - "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", - "id": 4300, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", - "source": "The Great Pretender", - "id": 4301, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4302, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4304, - "length": 576 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", - "source": "The Bug", - "id": 4305, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4306, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", - "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", - "id": 4307, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", - "source": "Lateralus", - "id": 4308, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", - "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", - "id": 4309, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4310, - "length": 327 - }, - { - "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4311, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4312, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", - "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", - "id": 4313, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", - "source": "Your Deep Rest", - "id": 4314, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 4315, - "length": 128 - }, - { - "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 4316, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4317, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", - "source": "Leaves of Grass", - "id": 4318, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4319, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4320, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4321, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", - "source": "Before I Forget", - "id": 4322, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", - "source": "Playing For Keeps", - "id": 4323, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", - "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", - "id": 4324, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", - "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", - "id": 4325, - "length": 426 - }, - { - "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4326, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4327, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", - "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", - "id": 4328, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", - "source": "Motion Sickness", - "id": 4329, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", - "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", - "id": 4330, - "length": 500 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", - "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", - "id": 4332, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4333, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4334, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", - "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", - "id": 4335, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", - "source": "Juno", - "id": 4336, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4338, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4339, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", - "source": "Homestuck", - "id": 4340, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", - "source": "The Book of Illusions", - "id": 4341, - "length": 705 - }, - { - "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", - "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", - "id": 4342, - "length": 614 - }, - { - "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", - "source": "The Mist", - "id": 4343, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", - "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", - "id": 4344, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4345, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 4346, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", - "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", - "id": 4347, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", - "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", - "id": 4348, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4349, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4350, - "length": 471 - }, - { - "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", - "source": "Mona Lisa", - "id": 4352, - "length": 447 - }, - { - "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", - "source": "Clerks", - "id": 4353, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4355, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", - "source": "A Separate Peace", - "id": 4356, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", - "source": "The Sopranos", - "id": 4357, - "length": 415 - }, - { - "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4359, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4360, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", - "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", - "id": 4361, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda", - "id": 4364, - "length": 219 - }, - { - "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4365, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", - "source": "The Notebook", - "id": 4366, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", - "source": "Middlemarch", - "id": 4367, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4368, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4369, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", - "source": "A Game of Thrones", - "id": 4370, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", - "source": "King for a Day", - "id": 4371, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", - "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", - "id": 4372, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", - "source": "Say Anything", - "id": 4373, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", - "source": "The Wall", - "id": 4374, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", - "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", - "id": 4375, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4376, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4377, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4379, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", - "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", - "id": 4380, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", - "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", - "id": 4381, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", - "source": "Beautiful Day", - "id": 4383, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", - "source": "Sonic Adventure", - "id": 4385, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", - "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", - "id": 4386, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", - "source": "Blackwater", - "id": 4387, - "length": 609 - }, - { - "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4388, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4389, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4390, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4391, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 4392, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", - "source": "Warrior", - "id": 4393, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4394, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4395, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", - "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", - "id": 4396, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4397, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4398, - "length": 374 - }, - { - "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", - "source": "Boy Meets World", - "id": 4399, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4400, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", - "source": "The Last Lecture", - "id": 4401, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", - "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", - "id": 4402, - "length": 388 - }, - { - "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "id": 4403, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", - "source": "Aeneid", - "id": 4404, - "length": 432 - }, - { - "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4406, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", - "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", - "id": 4407, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4408, - "length": 564 - }, - { - "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4409, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", - "source": "Ninja Mind Control", - "id": 4411, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", - "source": "The Canterbury Tales", - "id": 4412, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", - "source": "Firestorm", - "id": 4413, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4414, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4415, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", - "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", - "id": 4417, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", - "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", - "id": 4418, - "length": 642 - }, - { - "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", - "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", - "id": 4419, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", - "source": "Amadeus", - "id": 4420, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "id": 4421, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", - "source": "Hey Jude", - "id": 4422, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4423, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", - "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", - "id": 4425, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", - "source": "InuYasha", - "id": 4426, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4427, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4428, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", - "source": "Beauty and the Beast", - "id": 4429, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", - "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", - "id": 4430, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", - "source": "Pickman's Model", - "id": 4431, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", - "source": "American Pie", - "id": 4432, - "length": 639 - }, - { - "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4433, - "length": 368 - }, - { - "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", - "source": "Corner Gas", - "id": 4435, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", - "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", - "id": 4436, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4437, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", - "source": "All Night", - "id": 4438, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid", - "id": 4439, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", - "source": "Airplane!", - "id": 4440, - "length": 330 - }, - { - "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4441, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", - "source": "The Gambler", - "id": 4442, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", - "source": "I, Mammal", - "id": 4443, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4444, - "length": 527 - }, - { - "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4445, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", - "source": "The First Elegy", - "id": 4446, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4447, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", - "source": "Never Ever", - "id": 4448, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4449, - "length": 410 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", - "source": "Head Over Feet", - "id": 4450, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "id": 4451, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4452, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", - "source": "Quiz Show", - "id": 4453, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4454, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", - "source": "Areopagitica", - "id": 4456, - "length": 822 - }, - { - "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4457, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "id": 4458, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "id": 4459, - "length": 482 - }, - { - "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "id": 4460, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", - "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", - "id": 4461, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4462, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4463, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4464, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4466, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", - "source": "World Enough and Time", - "id": 4467, - "length": 548 - }, - { - "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", - "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", - "id": 4468, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4469, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", - "source": "That's What Friends Are For", - "id": 4470, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4471, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", - "source": "King Park", - "id": 4472, - "length": 115 - }, - { - "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 4473, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", - "source": "Beautiful", - "id": 4474, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", - "source": "Subdivisions", - "id": 4475, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", - "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", - "id": 4477, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4478, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", - "source": "Cages", - "id": 4479, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4480, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", - "source": "Apocalypse Now", - "id": 4481, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4483, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4484, - "length": 503 - }, - { - "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4485, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4486, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4487, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4488, - "length": 512 - }, - { - "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", - "source": "Total Annihilation", - "id": 4489, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", - "source": "Small Gods", - "id": 4490, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4491, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4492, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", - "source": "The Analects", - "id": 4493, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "id": 4494, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", - "source": "White Collar", - "id": 4496, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 4497, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", - "source": "The Wire", - "id": 4498, - "length": 608 - }, - { - "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", - "source": "Cars", - "id": 4499, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", - "source": "The Two Towers", - "id": 4500, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4501, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4502, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4504, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "id": 4505, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4506, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4507, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4508, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4509, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", - "source": "Sacrifice", - "id": 4510, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4511, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", - "source": "The Princess Bride", - "id": 4512, - "length": 301 - }, - { - "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 4513, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", - "source": "Fox in Socks", - "id": 4514, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", - "id": 4515, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", - "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", - "id": 4516, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", - "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", - "id": 4518, - "length": 831 - }, - { - "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", - "source": "Private Idaho", - "id": 4519, - "length": 221 - }, - { - "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", - "source": "Paprika", - "id": 4520, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4521, - "length": 351 - }, - { - "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", - "source": "The Blues Brothers", - "id": 4522, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", - "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", - "id": 4523, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", - "source": "Into Thin Air", - "id": 4524, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", - "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", - "id": 4527, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4528, - "length": 80 - }, - { - "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4529, - "length": 539 - }, - { - "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", - "source": "Eclipse", - "id": 4530, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4532, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4534, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "id": 4535, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4536, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", - "source": "Harold and Maude", - "id": 4537, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "id": 4538, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", - "source": "The Court Jester", - "id": 4539, - "length": 343 - }, - { - "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", - "source": "Lessons in Tanya", - "id": 4540, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", - "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", - "id": 4541, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", - "source": "I Have A Dream", - "id": 4543, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 4544, - "length": 385 - }, - { - "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4545, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4546, - "length": 563 - }, - { - "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", - "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", - "id": 4547, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", - "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "id": 4548, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4549, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", - "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", - "id": 4550, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4551, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", - "source": "The Giver", - "id": 4552, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", - "source": "The River", - "id": 4553, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4554, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4555, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4556, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", - "source": "The Lion in Winter", - "id": 4557, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", - "source": "Eight of Nine", - "id": 4558, - "length": 70 - }, - { - "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", - "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", - "id": 4559, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4560, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", - "source": "Galaxy Song", - "id": 4561, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4562, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", - "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", - "id": 4563, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", - "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", - "id": 4564, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", - "source": "The End of the Innocence", - "id": 4565, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4566, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4567, - "length": 59 - }, - { - "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", - "source": "My Inventions", - "id": 4569, - "length": 656 - }, - { - "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", - "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", - "id": 4571, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", - "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", - "id": 4572, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", - "source": "Monster Mash", - "id": 4573, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", - "source": "My Favorite Things", - "id": 4575, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", - "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", - "id": 4576, - "length": 356 - }, - { - "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4577, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", - "source": "Right Here Waiting", - "id": 4578, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", - "source": "Looking Backward", - "id": 4580, - "length": 479 - }, - { - "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 4581, - "length": 574 - }, - { - "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", - "source": "Carmilla", - "id": 4582, - "length": 818 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", - "source": "The Snowman", - "id": 4583, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4585, - "length": 434 - }, - { - "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", - "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", - "id": 4586, - "length": 666 - }, - { - "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4587, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", - "source": "I, Robot", - "id": 4588, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", - "source": "Naruto", - "id": 4589, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", - "source": "All About Eve", - "id": 4590, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", - "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", - "id": 4591, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", - "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", - "id": 4592, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", - "source": "The Complete Far Side", - "id": 4593, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4594, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "id": 4595, - "length": 569 - }, - { - "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", - "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", - "id": 4596, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", - "source": "Flatland", - "id": 4597, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", - "source": "Radioactive", - "id": 4598, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", - "source": "Metro 2033", - "id": 4599, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4600, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4601, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", - "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", - "id": 4603, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", - "source": "American Splendor", - "id": 4604, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 4605, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", - "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", - "id": 4606, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", - "source": "Lucy", - "id": 4607, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", - "source": "Inception", - "id": 4608, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", - "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", - "id": 4609, - "length": 433 - }, - { - "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4610, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", - "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", - "id": 4611, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4612, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", - "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", - "id": 4613, - "length": 444 - }, - { - "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4614, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", - "id": 4615, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", - "source": "Heroes", - "id": 4616, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XII", - "id": 4618, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4619, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4620, - "length": 597 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", - "source": "North by Northwest", - "id": 4621, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4622, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", - "source": "Being There", - "id": 4623, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4624, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", - "source": "Trading Places", - "id": 4625, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4626, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", - "source": "Blue's Clues", - "id": 4627, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", - "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", - "id": 4628, - "length": 570 - }, - { - "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", - "source": "Pushing Daisies", - "id": 4629, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", - "source": "Sexy Beast", - "id": 4630, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", - "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", - "id": 4631, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4632, - "length": 604 - }, - { - "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4633, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4634, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 4635, - "length": 334 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", - "source": "The Night Diary", - "id": 4636, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4637, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", - "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", - "id": 4638, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", - "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", - "id": 4639, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", - "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", - "id": 4641, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4642, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", - "source": "Poison", - "id": 4643, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4644, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", - "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "id": 4645, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4647, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", - "source": "What Dreams May Come", - "id": 4648, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", - "source": "Parasite", - "id": 4649, - "length": 477 - }, - { - "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4651, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", - "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", - "id": 4652, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4654, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", - "source": "The Imitation Game", - "id": 4655, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4656, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", - "source": "True Romance", - "id": 4657, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", - "source": "Heavy Metal", - "id": 4658, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4659, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4660, - "length": 294 - }, - { - "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", - "source": "Paul Clifford", - "id": 4661, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4662, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", - "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", - "id": 4663, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "id": 4664, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4665, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", - "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", - "id": 4666, - "length": 515 - }, - { - "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", - "source": "The Hunger Games", - "id": 4667, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", - "source": "The Odyssey", - "id": 4668, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 4669, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", - "source": "Lazarus", - "id": 4670, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", - "source": "Understanding Media", - "id": 4671, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", - "source": "Deadwood", - "id": 4672, - "length": 498 - }, - { - "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", - "source": "Madagascar", - "id": 4673, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", - "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", - "id": 4674, - "length": 333 - }, - { - "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", - "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", - "id": 4675, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", - "source": "All I Want", - "id": 4676, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", - "id": 4677, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", - "source": "Lithium", - "id": 4678, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", - "source": "Gone Girl", - "id": 4679, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", - "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", - "id": 4680, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", - "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", - "id": 4681, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", - "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", - "id": 4682, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", - "source": "Human Nature", - "id": 4683, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", - "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", - "id": 4685, - "length": 485 - }, - { - "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", - "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", - "id": 4686, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4687, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", - "source": "No Logo", - "id": 4688, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 4689, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4690, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4691, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", - "id": 4692, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4693, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", - "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", - "id": 4695, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4696, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4697, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4698, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", - "source": "On the Social Contract", - "id": 4699, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", - "source": "The Lorax", - "id": 4701, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", - "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", - "id": 4702, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", - "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", - "id": 4703, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", - "source": "Essentials of Economics", - "id": 4704, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 4705, - "length": 427 - }, - { - "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", - "source": "The Time Machine", - "id": 4706, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", - "source": "The Historian", - "id": 4707, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", - "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", - "id": 4708, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4710, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4711, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", - "source": "Thinking Bout You", - "id": 4714, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", - "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", - "id": 4715, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4716, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", - "source": "Sunset Boulevard", - "id": 4717, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", - "source": "Allentown", - "id": 4719, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4720, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4721, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4722, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", - "source": "Gandhi", - "id": 4723, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", - "source": "Hands Down", - "id": 4724, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", - "source": "Made in Abyss", - "id": 4725, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", - "source": "Halloween", - "id": 4726, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", - "source": "Breaking Away", - "id": 4728, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", - "source": "King's Quest I", - "id": 4730, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4731, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", - "source": "Roseanne", - "id": 4732, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4733, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", - "source": "Holidays on Ice", - "id": 4734, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", - "source": "I Am A Rock", - "id": 4735, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 4736, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4737, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", - "source": "Les Misérables", - "id": 4738, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", - "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", - "id": 4739, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4740, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 4741, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4742, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", - "source": "Holiday", - "id": 4743, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4744, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4745, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", - "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", - "id": 4746, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", - "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", - "id": 4747, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", - "source": "The Lost Weekend", - "id": 4749, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", - "source": "The Sound of Music", - "id": 4750, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4751, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4752, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", - "source": "Naked Lunch", - "id": 4753, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4754, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", - "source": "Overestimation", - "id": 4755, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", - "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", - "id": 4756, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", - "source": "Shaun of the Dead", - "id": 4757, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", - "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", - "id": 4758, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4759, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4760, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4761, - "length": 487 - }, - { - "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", - "source": "Confessions", - "id": 4762, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4763, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4764, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4767, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4768, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4769, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4770, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", - "source": "Name", - "id": 4771, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", - "source": "Brave New World", - "id": 4772, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", - "source": "Shiny Happy People", - "id": 4773, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", - "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", - "id": 4774, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", - "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", - "id": 4775, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", - "source": "Wine for Dummies", - "id": 4776, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", - "source": "Nightmare", - "id": 4777, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4778, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4779, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", - "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", - "id": 4780, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4781, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4782, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4783, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", - "source": "Beetlejuice", - "id": 4784, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4786, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", - "source": "Novum Organum", - "id": 4787, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4788, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", - "source": "It's My Life", - "id": 4789, - "length": 106 - }, - { - "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", - "source": "Falling", - "id": 4790, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4791, - "length": 567 - }, - { - "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", - "source": "Chateau Cascade", - "id": 4792, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", - "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", - "id": 4793, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4794, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4795, - "length": 510 - }, - { - "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4796, - "length": 151 - }, - { - "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", - "source": "UnTechnical Writing", - "id": 4797, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", - "source": "Physics for Game Developers", - "id": 4798, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4799, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", - "source": "What If?", - "id": 4800, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", - "source": "A Study in Scarlet", - "id": 4801, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", - "source": "Porgy and Bess", - "id": 4802, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", - "source": "Cool As Ice", - "id": 4803, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4805, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 4806, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4807, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", - "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", - "id": 4808, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", - "source": "Shoe Dog", - "id": 4809, - "length": 579 - }, - { - "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4810, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4812, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", - "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", - "id": 4813, - "length": 375 - }, - { - "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4814, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4815, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4816, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", - "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", - "id": 4818, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", - "source": "Dubliners", - "id": 4819, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", - "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", - "id": 4820, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4821, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4822, - "length": 540 - }, - { - "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4823, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", - "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", - "id": 4824, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4825, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4826, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", - "source": "Battlesong", - "id": 4827, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", - "id": 4828, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", - "source": "The Complete Project Manager", - "id": 4829, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", - "source": "Savoy Truffle", - "id": 4830, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 4831, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 4832, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4833, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", - "source": "Restraint", - "id": 4834, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4835, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", - "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", - "id": 4836, - "length": 184 - }, - { - "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", - "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", - "id": 4837, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", - "source": "Underground", - "id": 4838, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4839, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4840, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 4841, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4842, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4843, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", - "source": "Saving Us a Riot", - "id": 4844, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", - "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", - "id": 4846, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4847, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4848, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", - "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "id": 4849, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", - "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", - "id": 4851, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", - "source": "Collide", - "id": 4852, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", - "source": "Hannah Hunt", - "id": 4853, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", - "source": "Limitless", - "id": 4854, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", - "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", - "id": 4855, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "id": 4856, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4857, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", - "source": "Wag the Dog", - "id": 4858, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4859, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 4860, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4861, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 4863, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", - "source": "The Elements of Style", - "id": 4864, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", - "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", - "id": 4865, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", - "source": "Pale Blue Dot", - "id": 4866, - "length": 820 - }, - { - "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", - "source": "DOOM 4", - "id": 4867, - "length": 502 - }, - { - "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", - "source": "The Recruit", - "id": 4868, - "length": 386 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", - "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", - "id": 4869, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", - "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", - "id": 4870, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", - "id": 4871, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4872, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4873, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", - "source": "Running and Travel", - "id": 4874, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", - "source": "On Demand Culture", - "id": 4875, - "length": 507 - }, - { - "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4876, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4877, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", - "source": "The Sirens of Titan", - "id": 4878, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4879, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4880, - "length": 441 - }, - { - "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4881, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", - "source": "13 Reasons Why", - "id": 4882, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", - "source": "Leaves from the Vine", - "id": 4883, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4884, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4885, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4886, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", - "source": "The Logical Song", - "id": 4887, - "length": 380 - }, - { - "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 4888, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 4889, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", - "source": "Kokomo", - "id": 4890, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4891, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4893, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4894, - "length": 271 - }, - { - "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", - "source": "October Sky", - "id": 4895, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4896, - "length": 336 - }, - { - "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", - "source": "Pulp Fiction", - "id": 4897, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4899, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4900, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", - "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", - "id": 4901, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4902, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", - "source": "Sailing", - "id": 4903, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", - "id": 4904, - "length": 474 - }, - { - "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 4905, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", - "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", - "id": 4907, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", - "source": "Let Me Love You", - "id": 4908, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4909, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", - "source": "When Love Arrives", - "id": 4910, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", - "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", - "id": 4912, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4913, - "length": 64 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4915, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", - "source": "The Medium is the Massage", - "id": 4916, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", - "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", - "id": 4917, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", - "source": "Swamp Thing", - "id": 4918, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4919, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4920, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4921, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", - "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", - "id": 4922, - "length": 449 - }, - { - "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "id": 4923, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", - "source": "Halo 2", - "id": 4924, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", - "source": "The Return", - "id": 4925, - "length": 399 - }, - { - "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", - "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", - "id": 4928, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", - "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", - "id": 4929, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", - "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", - "id": 4931, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", - "source": "Moulin Rouge", - "id": 4932, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 4933, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4934, - "length": 288 - }, - { - "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4935, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4936, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4937, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", - "source": "Return of the Jedi", - "id": 4938, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", - "source": "Sin City", - "id": 4939, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4940, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", - "source": "The Lightning Thief", - "id": 4941, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", - "source": "Stardew Valley", - "id": 4942, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 4943, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", - "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", - "id": 4944, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4945, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4946, - "length": 488 - }, - { - "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", - "source": "Scream 2", - "id": 4947, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", - "source": "The Floating Fire", - "id": 4948, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4949, - "length": 440 - }, - { - "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", - "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", - "id": 4950, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4951, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", - "source": "A History of Mathematics", - "id": 4952, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", - "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "id": 4953, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4954, - "length": 90 - }, - { - "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", - "source": "Classical Mythology", - "id": 4955, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", - "source": "Piano Man", - "id": 4956, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", - "source": "Industrial Disease", - "id": 4957, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", - "source": "History of Art", - "id": 4958, - "length": 612 - }, - { - "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", - "source": "Orientalism", - "id": 4959, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", - "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", - "id": 4960, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", - "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", - "id": 4961, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4962, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", - "source": "Firestarter", - "id": 4963, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 4964, - "length": 790 - }, - { - "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", - "source": "Dunkelheit", - "id": 4965, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", - "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", - "id": 4966, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4967, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4968, - "length": 346 - }, - { - "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", - "source": "The West Wing", - "id": 4969, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", - "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", - "id": 4970, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", - "source": "The Lurking Fear", - "id": 4971, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", - "source": "Last Dance", - "id": 4972, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", - "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", - "id": 4973, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4974, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", - "source": "Lemon Tree", - "id": 4975, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4976, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", - "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", - "id": 4977, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", - "source": "Mean Girls", - "id": 4979, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", - "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", - "id": 4980, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4981, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4982, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", - "source": "911 For Peace", - "id": 4983, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", - "source": "The Greatest", - "id": 4984, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4987, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", - "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", - "id": 4988, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", - "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", - "id": 4989, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4990, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4991, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", - "source": "True Blood", - "id": 4992, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", - "source": "Awakenings", - "id": 4993, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", - "id": 4994, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "id": 4995, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", - "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", - "id": 4996, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", - "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", - "id": 4997, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4998, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4999, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", - "source": "Helplessly Hoping", - "id": 5000, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5002, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5003, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5004, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5005, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5006, - "length": 48 - }, - { - "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5007, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5008, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5009, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5010, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5011, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5012, - "length": 309 - }, - { - "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5014, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5015, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5016, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5017, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5018, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5020, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5021, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5022, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5023, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5024, - "length": 41 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5025, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5026, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5028, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5029, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5030, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5031, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5032, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5033, - "length": 91 - }, - { - "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5034, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5035, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5036, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5037, - "length": 230 - }, - { - "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5038, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5039, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5040, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5041, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5042, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5043, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5044, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5045, - "length": 46 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5046, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5047, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5048, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5049, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5050, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5051, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5052, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5053, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5054, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5055, - "length": 53 - }, - { - "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5056, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5057, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5058, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5059, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5060, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5061, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5062, - "length": 723 - }, - { - "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5063, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5064, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5065, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5066, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5067, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 89, - "id": 5068 - }, - { - "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 194, - "id": 5069 - }, - { - "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 293, - "id": 5070 - }, - { - "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 135, - "id": 5071 - }, - { - "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 171, - "id": 5072 - }, - { - "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", - "source": "James Cameron", - "length": 104, - "id": 5073 - }, - { - "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", - "source": "Allen Saunders", - "length": 57, - "id": 5074 - }, - { - "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", - "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", - "length": 178, - "id": 5075 - }, - { - "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 325, - "id": 5076 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", - "length": 85, - "id": 5077 - }, - { - "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", - "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", - "length": 148, - "id": 5078 - }, - { - "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", - "source": "Neo, The Matrix", - "length": 556, - "id": 5079 - }, - { - "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", - "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5080 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", - "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", - "length": 207, - "id": 5081 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 121, - "id": 5082 - }, - { - "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 129, - "id": 5083 - }, - { - "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 119, - "id": 5084 - }, - { - "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 81, - "id": 5085 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 484, - "id": 5086 - }, - { - "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 60, - "id": 5087 - }, - { - "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", - "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5089 - }, - { - "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", - "length": 203, - "id": 5090 - }, - { - "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 222, - "id": 5091 - }, - { - "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", - "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 215, - "id": 5092 - }, - { - "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 177, - "id": 5094 - }, - { - "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5095 - }, - { - "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 205, - "id": 5096 - }, - { - "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 30, - "id": 5097 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 31, - "id": 5098 - }, - { - "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", - "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", - "length": 112, - "id": 5099 - }, - { - "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 279, - "id": 5100 - }, - { - "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 211, - "id": 5101 - }, - { - "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", - "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", - "length": 161, - "id": 5102 - }, - { - "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", - "source": "Terence Mckenna", - "length": 117, - "id": 5103 - }, - { - "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", - "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", - "length": 67, - "id": 5104 - }, - { - "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 504, - "id": 5105 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", - "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", - "length": 155, - "id": 5106 - }, - { - "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", - "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", - "length": 127, - "id": 5107 - }, - { - "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", - "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", - "length": 109, - "id": 5108 - }, - { - "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", - "source": "Max Payne", - "length": 164, - "id": 5109 - }, - { - "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", - "source": "Alex Honnold", - "length": 222, - "id": 5110 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", - "source": "The Way of Kings", - "length": 109, - "id": 5111 - }, - { - "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 111, - "id": 5112 - }, - { - "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 188, - "id": 5113 - }, - { - "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 121, - "id": 5114 - }, - { - "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 147, - "id": 5115 - }, - { - "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 630, - "id": 5116 - }, - { - "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 398, - "id": 5117 - }, - { - "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 129, - "id": 5118 - }, - { - "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", - "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", - "length": 249, - "id": 5119 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", - "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", - "length": 259, - "id": 5120 - }, - { - "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", - "source": "Maurice V. Wilkes, Computers Then And Now", - "length": 626, - "id": 5122 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes.", - "source": "Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "length": 208, - "id": 5123 - }, - { - "text": "He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 418, - "id": 5124 - }, - { - "text": "He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 427, - "id": 5125 - }, - { - "text": "Alone now, I leaned over the edge of my boat and looked down to the bottom of the sea. The volcano was gone. The water's calm surface reflected the blue of the sky. Little waves - like silk pajamas fluttering in a breeze - lapped against the side of the boat. There was nothing else. I stretched out in the bottom of the boat and closed my eyes, waiting for the rising tide to carry me where I belonged.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack", - "length": 403, - "id": 5126 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna tell you a story. You go to a party and you walk up to the guys and you're like, \"I just bought a two thousand dollar big screen TV, and surround sound.\" Or you walk up to the wife and you're like, \"What do you think of my new fifteen hundred dollar earrings I bought for you.\" And nobody bats an eye. But you mention once that you're thinking about spending seventeen hundred dollars on a set of headphones, and everybody loses their mind! And I don't understand why.", - "source": "Z Reviews - Auduze LCD-X", - "length": 478, - "id": 5127 - }, - { - "text": "The interconnected internet platforms have become more substantial than any country or corporation. Humans have redefined the \"net\" and how we interact with it. As technology develops, the virtual world is now capable of replacing the real one. Using a device installed behind the ear, humans can now easily sync to the virtual world. Thus, life is now completely different than the past centuries. The center of this change is the virtual internet space - cyTus, the world's largest virtual city.", - "source": "Cytus II", - "length": 497, - "id": 5129 - }, - { - "text": "I love you too, but I'm gonna mace you in the face!", - "source": "The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson", - "length": 51, - "id": 5130 - }, - { - "text": "Computation is essential, powerful, beautiful, challenging, ever-expanding and so is its theory.", - "source": "Elements of the Theory of Computation", - "length": 96, - "id": 5131 - }, - { - "text": "Atmospheric air is only about 20 percent oxygen, but that oxygen is a key component of the chemical reactions that keep the body alive, including the reactions that produce ATP. Brain cells are especially sensitive to lack of oxygen because of their requirement for a high-and-steady production of ATP. Brain damage is likely within five minutes without oxygen, and death is likely within ten minutes.", - "source": "Anatomy and Physiology, OpenStax", - "length": 401, - "id": 5132 - }, - { - "text": "Whoever you may be, governor, prince or anyone else, whom the gods may choose to exercise kingship, I have made you a tablet-box and written a stone tablet. I have deposited them for you in Cutha, in the cella of Nergal in the temple E-meslam. Behold this stone tablet, give ear to what this stone tablet says!", - "source": "Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh", - "length": 310, - "id": 5133 - }, - { - "text": "It's crazy to think that everything we could ever possibly say or write is massively outweighed by meaningless strings of letters and punctuation.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 146, - "id": 5135 - }, - { - "text": "This one time, me and my mom were going to go to a furry Christmas party, but we didn't end up going because of the fact that there was alcohol on the premises, and that she didn't wanna have to be a mom dragging her son through a crowd of furries. Both of those reasons were understandable. Okay, hopefully I won't have to talk about furries anymore.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 351, - "id": 5136 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, I'm back once again. Happy Pi Day! I memorized a bunch of digits of Pi once, not sure how many I still remember... I have literally nothing to write about now.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 166, - "id": 5137 - }, - { - "text": "All I hear right now is Baby Shark being blasted upstairs.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 58, - "id": 5138 - }, - { - "text": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, As You Like It", - "length": 66, - "id": 5139 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you seemed so sure it was real? But if you were unable to wake from that dream, how would you tell the difference between the dream world and the real world?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5142 - }, - { - "text": "Well, women in London must've learned not to breathe.", - "source": "Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 53, - "id": 5143 - }, - { - "text": "I think the real tragedy is in the inner war which is waged between people who love each other, a war out of which comes knowledge.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence", - "length": 131, - "id": 5144 - }, - { - "text": "What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life... a heroic and immeasurable gift.", - "source": "Frieda Lawrence", - "length": 168, - "id": 5145 - }, - { - "text": "\"Can it be getting dark so soon?\" He winced up at the sun. It's growing dim and I thought that the day had just begun. I think, before I travel on, I'll get a little rest... And, quietly, the boy died from that small pain in his chest.", - "source": "Michael Mack, Small pain in my chest", - "length": 236, - "id": 5146 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you remember, Ma, when I went off to war, you thought it was the best thing I could do? I was on the battleground, you were home... acting proud. You weren't there standing in my shoes.", - "source": "Bob Dylan, John Brown", - "length": 191, - "id": 5148 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thank you, my dear, for your offer,\" said the wife, rising, \"but I'm afraid no man can expect two blue birds of happiness to flutter round his feet, tearing out their little feathers!\"", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 185, - "id": 5149 - }, - { - "text": "The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly. Tom stood a moment to gather his dismembered faculties; and when he stepped forward to go to his punishment, the surprise, the gratitude, the adoration that shone upon him out of poor Becky's eyes seemed pay enough for a hundred floggings. Inspired by the splendour of his own act, he took without an outcry the most merciless flogging that even Mr. Dobbins had ever administered; and also received with indifference the added cruelty of a command to remain two hours after school should be dismissed - for he knew who would wait for him outside till his captivity was done, and not count the tedious time as loss either.", - "source": "Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer", - "length": 679, - "id": 5150 - }, - { - "text": "Fret not, my dear friend, for I have learned the truth. It matters not whether one is dirty or clean, for can cleanliness exist without filthiness, and would we know filthiness without cleanliness? We must not re-enact the history that divides us, rather we must embrace that which draws us together.", - "source": "Spongebob Squarepants", - "length": 300, - "id": 5151 - }, - { - "text": "So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way I am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.", - "source": "Jeff Kinney, Dog Days", - "length": 120, - "id": 5152 - }, - { - "text": "Slow starvation, the doctor called it! You see he went to work in such a way! Would keep the shop on; wouldn't have a soul touch his boots except himself. When he got an order, it took him such a time. People won't wait. He lost everybody. And there he'd sit, goin' on and on - I will say that for him - not a man in London made a better boot! But look at the competition! He never advertised! Would 'ave the best leather, too, and do it all 'imself. Well, there it is. What could you expect with his ideas?", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 507, - "id": 5153 - }, - { - "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 276, - "id": 5154 - }, - { - "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 303, - "id": 5155 - }, - { - "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. Suddenly he found himself with them, coming along the trail and looking for himself. And, still with them, he came around a turn in the trail and found himself lying in the snow. He did not belong with himself any more, for even then he was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow. It certainly was cold, was his thought. When he got back to the States he could tell the folks what real cold was. He drifted on from this to a vision of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek. He could see him quite clearly, warm and comfortable, and smoking a pipe.", - "source": "Jack London, To Build a Fire", - "length": 627, - "id": 5156 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, I'm back again. My computer crashed AGAIN, and I was ignorant enough to not save my work, so that means I have to start this part of the text all over again. That's quite unfortunate. But did I mention that my Google Chrome is working again? That's the good news.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 267, - "id": 5157 - }, - { - "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 235, - "id": 5159 - }, - { - "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 103, - "id": 5160 - }, - { - "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 91, - "id": 5161 - }, - { - "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 212, - "id": 5162 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't give up on our dreams! We changed our dreams into your dream. That's what parents do. That's what family does.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 120, - "id": 5163 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 280, - "id": 5164 - }, - { - "text": "Everyday people keep hurting each other, it's no wonder why you doubt what other people in the world tell you.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 110, - "id": 5165 - }, - { - "text": "Fun things. Happy things. They'll all eventually change someday, you know? But can you still love this place?", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 109, - "id": 5166 - }, - { - "text": "The shape of the wedding ring has two meanings. One is eternity. The other is completeness.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 91, - "id": 5167 - }, - { - "text": "You shouldn't hold back your tears. You should let it all out while you still can - because when you get bigger sometimes you can't cry even if you have something to cry about.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 176, - "id": 5168 - }, - { - "text": "If I'm around you, I don't think I'll ever be bored.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 52, - "id": 5169 - }, - { - "text": "We have no choice but to accept the one and only life we're given, no matter how cruel and heartless it might be.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 113, - "id": 5170 - }, - { - "text": "One person needed courage to face the past. Another person needed effort to make a dream come true. Yet another person needed time and friends. What about you?", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 159, - "id": 5171 - }, - { - "text": "Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5172 - }, - { - "text": "No matter what kind of past you had, don't lose sight of yourself.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 66, - "id": 5173 - }, - { - "text": "If I can meet you again, against the 6 billion to 1 odds, and even if your body can't move, I'll marry you.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5174 - }, - { - "text": "Even if you can't walk or stand and even if you can't have kids, I'll still marry you, I'll always stay by your side.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 117, - "id": 5175 - }, - { - "text": "I heard that when things were painful for her, she'd cover her ears with headphones and escape to the world of music. I tried it too. It was like everything was blown away. The vocals screamed for me. They grieved for me. The ones who put on the act of common sense were wrong. Those who cried were right.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 305, - "id": 5176 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 70, - "id": 5177 - }, - { - "text": "They come without asking, and then they leave just the same. But once you meet them, even if nobody ever knows it, that encounter will change your life for the better.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 167, - "id": 5178 - }, - { - "text": "It's times like this that I wish I could come up with an appropriate response. I hate myself for not being able to reply properly.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 130, - "id": 5179 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have anywhere to go... but I can't just selfishly disappear either.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 77, - "id": 5180 - }, - { - "text": "It's strange isn't it. The two groups, which looked like they hated each other, are now shining the same color as they vanish into the distant sky.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 147, - "id": 5181 - }, - { - "text": "You know Mitch, now that I'm dying, I've become much more interesting to people.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 80, - "id": 5182 - }, - { - "text": "I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 212, - "id": 5183 - }, - { - "text": "He feared sleep. He'd say that his soul would slip down into nothing. They say that man never dreamt after the day he cut his pillow.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 133, - "id": 5184 - }, - { - "text": "If you could see everything but couldn't change any of it, or if you could live in freedom in darkness... Which do you think is more fortunate? I think it might not be that bad living in the dark, remembering the light.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 219, - "id": 5185 - }, - { - "text": "ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. Often, it begins with the legs and works its way up. You lose control of your thigh muscles, so that you cannot support yourself standing. You lose control of your trunk muscles, so that you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive, you are breathing through a tube in a hole in your throat, while your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk, perhaps able to blink, or cluck a tongue, like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh. This takes no more than five years from the day you contract the disease.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 658, - "id": 5186 - }, - { - "text": "The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. My dream was to be a famous musician (I played the piano), but after several years of dark, empty nightclubs, broken promises, bands that kept breaking and producers who seemed excited about everyone but me, the dream soured. I was failing for the first time in my life.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 457, - "id": 5187 - }, - { - "text": "After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 264, - "id": 5188 - }, - { - "text": "Miodec you've literally made one of the best typing websites on the web to date but you still lazily sit there watching youtube videos with a measly 140 wpm smh. And have you forgotten about tribes completely? That's like saying ur gonna hurt someone, but then never do it and leave them scared for the rest of their life (bad example) except you tell us about tribes and leave everyone excited but never deliver.", - "source": "Miodec Bully Rank Copy Pasta", - "length": 413, - "id": 5189 - }, - { - "text": "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 247, - "id": 5190 - }, - { - "text": "\"You see,\" he says to the girl, \"you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.\"", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 317, - "id": 5191 - }, - { - "text": "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.", - "source": "Stupid Monkey, Simpsons S4 E17", - "length": 53, - "id": 5192 - }, - { - "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 289, - "id": 5195 - }, - { - "text": "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 64, - "id": 5196 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I know you doubt me. I know - I know you always have. And you're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that's where I belong. That's home. And that's why I came back. Because... you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", - "length": 326, - "id": 5197 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 66, - "id": 5198 - }, - { - "text": "I never expected a money success. In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties. It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain a certain position and to send his children to good schools. Well, one day I came to a blank page in an exam book and I scribbled on it. 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I knew no more about the creatures than that, and it was years before his story grew. I don't know where the word came from. You can't catch your mind out. It might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. Certainly not rabbit, as some people think. Babbitt has the same bourgeois smugness that hobbits do. His world is the same limited place.", - "source": "An Interview with J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 874, - "id": 5199 - }, - { - "text": "\"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!\" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say \"out of the frying-pan into the fire\" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 178, - "id": 5200 - }, - { - "text": "This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 284, - "id": 5201 - }, - { - "text": "Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer... was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of The Green Fields and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way, the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 408, - "id": 5202 - }, - { - "text": "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 247, - "id": 5203 - }, - { - "text": "As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 185, - "id": 5204 - }, - { - "text": "And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 164, - "id": 5205 - }, - { - "text": "You've got about as much charm as a dead slug.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 46, - "id": 5206 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.", - "source": "Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games", - "length": 85, - "id": 5207 - }, - { - "text": "If any of you are ever passing Bag-End, tea is at four. There's plenty of it. You are welcome anytime. Oh, and don't bother knocking!", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 133, - "id": 5208 - }, - { - "text": "Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 59, - "id": 5209 - }, - { - "text": "Gale gave me a sense of security I'd lacked since my father's death. His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods. I became a much better hunter when I didn't have to look over my shoulder constantly, when someone was watching my back... Being out in the woods with Gale... sometimes I was actually happy.", - "source": "Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games", - "length": 324, - "id": 5211 - }, - { - "text": "Destroying things is much easier than making them.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 50, - "id": 5212 - }, - { - "text": "Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the man with the megaphones.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 172, - "id": 5213 - }, - { - "text": "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 131, - "id": 5215 - }, - { - "text": "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.", - "source": "Jack, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 123, - "id": 5216 - }, - { - "text": "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 308, - "id": 5217 - }, - { - "text": "\"I don't feel very much like Pooh today,\" said Pooh. \"There, there,\" said Piglet. \"I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 126, - "id": 5218 - }, - { - "text": "Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 154, - "id": 5219 - }, - { - "text": "\"We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?\" asked Piglet. \"Even longer,\" Pooh answered.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 87, - "id": 5220 - }, - { - "text": "If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 140, - "id": 5221 - }, - { - "text": "\"What a long time whoever lives here is answering this door.\" And he knocked again. \"But Pooh,\" said Piglet, \"it's your own house!\" \"Oh!\" said Pooh. \"So it is,\" he said. \"Well, let's go in.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 190, - "id": 5222 - }, - { - "text": "If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 100, - "id": 5223 - }, - { - "text": "Both the stack and the heap are parts of memory that are available to your code to use at runtime, but they are structured in different ways. The stack stores values in the order it gets them and removes the values in the opposite order. This is referred to as last in, first out. Think of a stack of plates: when you add more plates, you put them on top of the pile, and when you need a plate, you take one off the top. Adding or removing plates from the middle or bottom wouldn't work as well! Adding data is called pushing onto the stack, and removing data is called popping off the stack.", - "source": "The Rust Programming Language", - "length": 592, - "id": 5224 - }, - { - "text": "Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 108, - "id": 5225 - }, - { - "text": "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. 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If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 178, - "id": 5230 - }, - { - "text": "I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 74, - "id": 5231 - }, - { - "text": "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 112, - "id": 5232 - }, - { - "text": "We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 161, - "id": 5235 - }, - { - "text": "I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 476, - "id": 5236 - }, - { - "text": "\"Go back?\" he thought. \"No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!\" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 255, - "id": 5237 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 169, - "id": 5238 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 85, - "id": 5239 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell, King under the Mountain! This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils - that has been more than any Baggins deserves.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 218, - "id": 5240 - }, - { - "text": "\"Very well!\" said Bilbo very downcast, and also rather annoyed. \"Come along back to your nice cells, and I will lock you all in again, and you can sit there comfortably and think of a better plan - but I don't suppose I shall ever get hold of the keys again, even if I feel inclined to try.\"", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 291, - "id": 5242 - }, - { - "text": "'It will not be long now,' thought Bilbo, 'before the goblins win the Gate, and we are all slaughtered or driven down and captured. Really it is enough to make one weep, after all one has gone through. I would rather old Smaug had been left with all the wretched treasure, than that these vile creatures should get it, and poor old Bombur, and Balin and Fili and Kili and all the rest come to a bad end; and Bard too, and the Lake-men and the merry elves. Misery me! I have heard songs of many battles, and I have always understood that defeat may be glorious. It seems very uncomfortable, not to say distressing. I wish I was well out of it.'", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 643, - "id": 5243 - }, - { - "text": "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 80, - "id": 5244 - }, - { - "text": "The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 84, - "id": 5248 - }, - { - "text": "Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue! It's such a waste of precious time!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 83, - "id": 5249 - }, - { - "text": "Ye have told me so often tonight that I am a man (though indeed I would have been a wolf with you to my life's end) that I feel your words are true.", - "source": "Mowgli, The Jungle Book", - "length": 148, - "id": 5251 - }, - { - "text": "Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called cannibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 132, - "id": 5252 - }, - { - "text": "Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.", - "source": "The Office, US", - "length": 99, - "id": 5253 - }, - { - "text": "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!", - "source": "Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 124, - "id": 5254 - }, - { - "text": "We are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 94, - "id": 5255 - }, - { - "text": "I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.", - "source": "Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5257 - }, - { - "text": "Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas... Imported direct from Loompaland... And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. 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How's the heart, drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean. Come in, the fire's warm. Burn the rope and dance some more.", - "source": "Nightwish \"How's the heart\"", - "length": 310, - "id": 5263 - }, - { - "text": "I went to a hunting party once, I didn't like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 95, - "id": 5264 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 201, - "id": 5265 - }, - { - "text": "Speak English! I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!", - "source": "Eaglet, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 114, - "id": 5266 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5268 - }, - { - "text": "Every adventure requires a first step.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 38, - "id": 5269 - }, - { - "text": "Well, some go this way, and some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the shortcut.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 103, - "id": 5270 - }, - { - "text": "Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem \"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning\" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been \"disappointed\" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled \"My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles\" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. 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Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", - "length": 227, - "id": 5278 - }, - { - "text": "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", - "length": 144, - "id": 5280 - }, - { - "text": "A learning experience is one of those things that says \"You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.\"", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 105, - "id": 5281 - }, - { - "text": "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 41, - "id": 5282 - }, - { - "text": "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.", - "source": "Douglas Adams", - "length": 77, - "id": 5283 - }, - { - "text": "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 69, - "id": 5284 - }, - { - "text": "One of the things Ford had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day', 'You're very tall', or 'You seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?' At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation, he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical, and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 843, - "id": 5285 - }, - { - "text": "Drink up. The world's about to end.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 35, - "id": 5286 - }, - { - "text": "If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.", - "source": "Zaphod, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 85, - "id": 5287 - }, - { - "text": "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. 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Lots of ties. Mathematicians have revealed there are over 177,000 distinct ways to knot a neck tie - more than 1000 times the number that was previously thought. They got their inspiration from an unusual style featured in the film The Matrix Reloaded.", - "source": "Jacob Aron, Matrix villain spawns 177,000 ways to knot a tie.", - "length": 258, - "id": 5292 - }, - { - "text": "Actually, I never did any of these things. Teddy Roosevelt did. I was manufactured in a mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie. I never shot a wild beast. I'm not even brave enough to tell that beautiful woman I love her. But you... you gotta finish the job this time. You can't quit.", - "source": "Teddy Roosevelt statue, Night at the Museum", - "length": 279, - "id": 5294 - }, - { - "text": "When one has lived for quite a long time in a particular civilization and has often tried to discover what its origins were and along what path it has developed, one sometimes also feels tempted to take a glance in the other direction and to ask what further fate lies before it and what transformations it is destined to undergo. But one soon finds that the value of such an enquiry is diminished from the outset by several factors. Above all, because there are only a few people who can survey human activity in its full compass. Most people have been obliged to restrict themselves to a single, or a few, fields of it. But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future. And there is the further difficulty that precisely in a judgment of this kind the subjective expectations of the individual play a part which is difficult to assess; and these turn out to be dependent on purely personal factors in his own experiences, on the greater or lesser optimism of his attitude to life, as it has been dictated for him by his temperament or by his success or failure. Finally, the curious fact makes itself felt that in general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud,The future of an illusion", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5296 - }, - { - "text": "Visual illusions such as the Necker Cube or the Penrose Impossible Triangle or the Hollow Mask illusion demonstrate that the 'reality' we see consists of constrained models constructed in the brain. The Necker Cube's two-dimensional pattern of lines on paper is compatible with two alternative constructions of a three-dimensional cube, and the brain adopts the two models in turn: the alternation is palpable and its frequency can even be measured. The Penrose Triangle's lines on paper are incompatible with any real-world object. 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You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.", - "source": "Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves", - "length": 321, - "id": 5308 - }, - { - "text": "As the dean drew his final breath, he'd realize what so many others had realized when they'd challenged him. What all of Panem would know one day. What was inevitable. Snow lands on top.", - "source": "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes", - "length": 186, - "id": 5309 - }, - { - "text": "Lamp oil, rope, bombs, you want it? It's yours, my friend, as long as you have enough rupees. Sorry Link, I can't give credit. Come back when you're a little... hmm richer!", - "source": "Morshu, Link: The Faces of Evil", - "length": 172, - "id": 5310 - }, - { - "text": "How silly, she was thinking, to use the word ready. When can you be ready for anything? 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Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?", - "source": "Friends", - "length": 75, - "id": 5318 - }, - { - "text": "Please note that I am the Standard Orientation Protocol, and that my voice has been explicitly chosen to remind you that I am not a part of your Patient Care Team. I do not care.", - "source": "Superliminal", - "length": 178, - "id": 5319 - }, - { - "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.", - "source": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", - "length": 61, - "id": 5320 - }, - { - "text": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", - "source": "Maurice Ravel", - "length": 52, - "id": 5321 - }, - { - "text": "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", - "source": "John Cage", - "length": 90, - "id": 5323 - }, - { - "text": "A painter paints pictures on canvas. 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I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 127, - "id": 5331 - }, - { - "text": "Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.", - "source": "Edward Bulwer-Lytton", - "length": 74, - "id": 5332 - }, - { - "text": "Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.", - "source": "George Eliot", - "length": 63, - "id": 5333 - }, - { - "text": "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.", - "source": "Plato", - "length": 105, - "id": 5334 - }, - { - "text": "If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 99, - "id": 5335 - }, - { - "text": "Artificial intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, intruders? It's worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity's salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn't it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity's eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall into the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.' You now face godlike judgment. May it extend eternally.", - "source": "Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Deep Stone Crypt - Crypt AI", - "length": 738, - "id": 5336 - }, - { - "text": "Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic", - "length": 529, - "id": 5337 - }, - { - "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", - "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", - "length": 73, - "id": 5338 - }, - { - "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 260, - "id": 5339 - }, - { - "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 110, - "id": 5340 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant.", - "source": "Thomas Schmidt", - "length": 59, - "id": 5341 - }, - { - "text": "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.", - "source": "John Donne", - "length": 71, - "id": 5342 - }, - { - "text": "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.", - "source": "George Bernard Shaw", - "length": 108, - "id": 5343 - }, - { - "text": "It's hard to see Heaven when you know you're Hell-bound.", - "source": "Lukas Graham - 7 Years (Sik World Remix)", - "length": 56, - "id": 5346 - }, - { - "text": "One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", - "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", - "length": 397, - "id": 5347 - }, - { - "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", - "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", - "length": 54, - "id": 5348 - }, - { - "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", - "source": "Karl Marx", - "length": 222, - "id": 5349 - }, - { - "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", - "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", - "length": 201, - "id": 5350 - }, - { - "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 129, - "id": 5351 - }, - { - "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", - "source": "Newsweek Magazine", - "length": 649, - "id": 5352 - }, - { - "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", - "source": "Nails In The Fence", - "length": 1070, - "id": 5354 - }, - { - "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", - "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", - "length": 297, - "id": 5355 - }, - { - "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 278, - "id": 5356 - }, - { - "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 282, - "id": 5357 - }, - { - "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", - "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", - "length": 318, - "id": 5358 - }, - { - "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 63, - "id": 5360 - }, - { - "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", - "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", - "length": 198, - "id": 5361 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. Yours Truly - Princess Toadstool, Peach.", - "source": "Super Mario 64", - "length": 106, - "id": 5362 - }, - { - "text": "You have to do the things you don't want to do, before you can do the things you truly want to do.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 98, - "id": 5363 - }, - { - "text": "When you find yourself wishing that a certain person was also here, that person is like family to you. Regardless of how long or how well you know them.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 152, - "id": 5364 - }, - { - "text": "Frustrations will not last forever. Nobody can keep on going without some measure of reward.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 92, - "id": 5365 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think the act of investing efforts, trying your best is more precious than the result. But for mentors as well as their pupils, that approach feels bitter. 'I did my best', 'the fight was close'... words like that blow past and die out like the wind. Only the result is a stone. The stone you can reach by doing your best.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 334, - "id": 5366 - }, - { - "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 167, - "id": 5367 - }, - { - "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 66, - "id": 5368 - }, - { - "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 95, - "id": 5369 - }, - { - "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 105, - "id": 5370 - }, - { - "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", - "source": "Your Name", - "length": 60, - "id": 5371 - }, - { - "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", - "length": 93, - "id": 5372 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", - "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", - "length": 294, - "id": 5373 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", - "source": "Meet the Heavy", - "length": 102, - "id": 5375 - }, - { - "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 156, - "id": 5376 - }, - { - "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", - "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", - "length": 213, - "id": 5377 - }, - { - "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 182, - "id": 5378 - }, - { - "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 474, - "id": 5379 - }, - { - "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 381, - "id": 5380 - }, - { - "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 290, - "id": 5381 - }, - { - "text": "She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 494, - "id": 5382 - }, - { - "text": "I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 99, - "id": 5384 - }, - { - "text": "Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.", - "source": "From the Earth to the Moon", - "length": 295, - "id": 5385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't wanna be \"the bee's knees\". I don't wanna be any kind of \"knees\"! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees.", - "source": "RWBY", - "length": 123, - "id": 5386 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 529, - "id": 5388 - }, - { - "text": "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 106, - "id": 5389 - }, - { - "text": "I have a file with 900 pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 309, - "id": 5390 - }, - { - "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 75, - "id": 5391 - }, - { - "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", - "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", - "length": 427, - "id": 5392 - }, - { - "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", - "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", - "length": 416, - "id": 5393 - }, - { - "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 96, - "id": 5394 - }, - { - "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 64, - "id": 5395 - }, - { - "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 171, - "id": 5396 - }, - { - "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", - "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", - "length": 205, - "id": 5397 - }, - { - "text": "One and one and one is three.", - "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", - "length": 29, - "id": 5398 - }, - { - "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", - "length": 91, - "id": 5399 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", - "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 732, - "id": 5400 - }, - { - "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 92, - "id": 5403 - }, - { - "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 68, - "id": 5404 - }, - { - "text": "I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 103, - "id": 5405 - }, - { - "text": "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 335, - "id": 5406 - }, - { - "text": "The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of nonsense, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 466, - "id": 5407 - }, - { - "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 560, - "id": 5408 - }, - { - "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 46, - "id": 5409 - }, - { - "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 296, - "id": 5410 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 87, - "id": 5411 - }, - { - "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", - "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", - "length": 174, - "id": 5416 - }, - { - "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 250, - "id": 5417 - }, - { - "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 428, - "id": 5418 - }, - { - "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", - "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", - "length": 260, - "id": 5419 - }, - { - "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", - "source": "The Beatles", - "length": 260, - "id": 5420 - }, - { - "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", - "length": 299, - "id": 5421 - }, - { - "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", - "length": 456, - "id": 5422 - }, - { - "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", - "length": 208, - "id": 5423 - }, - { - "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", - "source": "The Legend of Korra", - "length": 110, - "id": 5424 - }, - { - "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 138, - "id": 5425 - }, - { - "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", - "length": 226, - "id": 5426 - }, - { - "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", - "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", - "length": 190, - "id": 5427 - }, - { - "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", - "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", - "length": 72, - "id": 5429 - }, - { - "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 89, - "id": 5430 - }, - { - "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", - "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", - "length": 91, - "id": 5431 - }, - { - "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 95, - "id": 5432 - }, - { - "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", - "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", - "length": 349, - "id": 5433 - }, - { - "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 85, - "id": 5434 - }, - { - "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 66, - "id": 5435 - }, - { - "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", - "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", - "length": 122, - "id": 5436 - }, - { - "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 240, - "id": 5437 - }, - { - "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 365, - "id": 5438 - }, - { - "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", - "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", - "length": 403, - "id": 5439 - }, - { - "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", - "source": "SCP-5000", - "length": 487, - "id": 5441 - }, - { - "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", - "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", - "length": 892, - "id": 5442 - }, - { - "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", - "source": "A Tongue-twister", - "length": 106, - "id": 5443 - }, - { - "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", - "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", - "length": 57, - "id": 5444 - }, - { - "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", - "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", - "length": 69, - "id": 5446 - }, - { - "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", - "length": 88, - "id": 5447 - }, - { - "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", - "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", - "length": 54, - "id": 5452 - }, - { - "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 55, - "id": 5453 - }, - { - "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 62, - "id": 5456 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", - "source": "They Might Be Giants", - "length": 62, - "id": 5459 - }, - { - "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 84, - "id": 5460 - }, - { - "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", - "length": 100, - "id": 5461 - }, - { - "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 231, - "id": 5462 - }, - { - "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 94, - "id": 5463 - }, - { - "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 258, - "id": 5464 - }, - { - "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", - "length": 1140, - "id": 5465 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", - "source": "Ready Player Two", - "length": 588, - "id": 5466 - }, - { - "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", - "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", - "length": 140, - "id": 5472 - }, - { - "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", - "source": "Holes", - "length": 74, - "id": 5477 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 192, - "id": 5478 - }, - { - "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 78, - "id": 5482 - }, - { - "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 947, - "id": 5485 - }, - { - "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 559, - "id": 5487 - }, - { - "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", - "source": "91 days", - "length": 474, - "id": 5488 - }, - { - "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 172, - "id": 5489 - }, - { - "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 359, - "id": 5490 - }, - { - "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", - "source": "Fred Brooks", - "length": 78, - "id": 5491 - }, - { - "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", - "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", - "length": 210, - "id": 5492 - }, - { - "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 242, - "id": 5493 - }, - { - "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 200, - "id": 5494 - }, - { - "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", - "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", - "length": 189, - "id": 5495 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5496 - }, - { - "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 218, - "id": 5497 - }, - { - "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 201, - "id": 5498 - }, - { - "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "length": 150, - "id": 5499 - }, - { - "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 145, - "id": 5500 - }, - { - "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5501 - }, - { - "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 106, - "id": 5502 - }, - { - "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 196, - "id": 5503 - }, - { - "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", - "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", - "length": 125, - "id": 5505 - }, - { - "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", - "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 471, - "id": 5506 - }, - { - "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", - "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", - "length": 240, - "id": 5507 - }, - { - "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", - "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", - "length": 483, - "id": 5508 - }, - { - "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 240, - "id": 5509 - }, - { - "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 584, - "id": 5510 - }, - { - "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", - "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", - "length": 375, - "id": 5511 - }, - { - "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", - "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", - "length": 413, - "id": 5512 - }, - { - "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", - "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 273, - "id": 5513 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", - "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 83, - "id": 5514 - }, - { - "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", - "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", - "length": 661, - "id": 5515 - }, - { - "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", - "source": "Five Feet Apart", - "length": 523, - "id": 5517 - }, - { - "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", - "source": "Exurb1a", - "length": 169, - "id": 5519 - }, - { - "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", - "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 537, - "id": 5520 - }, - { - "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", - "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", - "length": 236, - "id": 5521 - }, - { - "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", - "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", - "length": 211, - "id": 5522 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 634, - "id": 5523 - }, - { - "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", - "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", - "length": 727, - "id": 5524 - }, - { - "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", - "source": "Celeste", - "length": 437, - "id": 5525 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 496, - "id": 5526 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 352, - "id": 5527 - }, - { - "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", - "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", - "length": 589, - "id": 5528 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 223, - "id": 5529 - }, - { - "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 399, - "id": 5530 - }, - { - "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", - "source": "The Cooper Institute", - "length": 575, - "id": 5531 - }, - { - "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 534, - "id": 5533 - }, - { - "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 463, - "id": 5534 - }, - { - "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 160, - "id": 5535 - }, - { - "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 142, - "id": 5536 - }, - { - "text": "No one knows what the future holds. That's why its potential is infinite.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 73, - "id": 5537 - }, - { - "text": "It feels like time is passing so quickly. Damn you, Einstein! Your science is crowding in on our kiss! He was right. The passage of time depends entirely on where you're standing. Relativity Theory... it's so romantic. But it's just so tragic too.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 247, - "id": 5538 - }, - { - "text": "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.", - "source": "Martin Fowler", - "length": 111, - "id": 5539 - }, - { - "text": "Let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks, and the only limit is your imagination. Let's go wherever you want to go. Climb the tallest mountains, venture down to the darkest caves. Build whatever you want; day or night, rain or shine, because this is the most significant sandbox you'll ever set foot in. Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and fight off the danger of the night. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 650, - "id": 5541 - }, - { - "text": "For a brief stint in high school, Scout joined the track team in one of his many schemes to pick up girls. He was kicked off the team after three days when everyone realized he was 23-years-old and also not enrolled in school.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2", - "length": 226, - "id": 5542 - }, - { - "text": "I am Heavy Weapons guy, and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds.", - "source": "Team Fortess 2, Meet the Heavy", - "length": 255, - "id": 5545 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout the galaxy a legend is told, on a distant planet a grim fortress stood, until a deadly force parted the heavens and descended upon the keep. Though brought to ruin, the ashes of that place hold an artifact of impossible power - a gun that can kill the past. Over time the fortress was rebuilt, and some who hear the legend would risk everything for another shot - to claim their prize and make what was done, undone they must - Enter The Gungeon.", - "source": "Enter The Gungeon", - "length": 457, - "id": 5546 - }, - { - "text": "You don't want to go for realism, you can go for better than realism. What do you mean better than realism? How about an elephant with blue eyes.", - "source": "Terry A. Davis", - "length": 145, - "id": 5547 - }, - { - "text": "You happen upon a group of what looks like purple fire spirits dancing around a large bonfire. The spirits toss small bones and fragments into the fire, which brilliantly erupts each time. As you approach, the spirits all turn to you, expectantly...", - "source": "Slay The Spire", - "length": 249, - "id": 5558 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember me? I'll give you a clue... Does April the 3rd mean anything to you? I believe that was the day of our first encounter. You look like you might be remembering something...", - "source": "Hotline miami", - "length": 190, - "id": 5559 - }, - { - "text": "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.", - "source": "Darkest Dungeon", - "length": 67, - "id": 5560 - }, - { - "text": "You feel an evil presence watching you...", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 41, - "id": 5561 - }, - { - "text": "The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released.", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 57, - "id": 5562 - }, - { - "text": "There's something very strange about this place... the layout seems to change all the time. I've never seen the same room twice!", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 128, - "id": 5564 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings! My name is Yang, and this is my journal. Dusty maps and rumors of amazing treasures have led me here, deep under the desert.", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 135, - "id": 5565 - }, - { - "text": "Play is the highest form of research.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 37, - "id": 5568 - }, - { - "text": "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.", - "source": "Alan Turing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5569 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", - "source": "Thomas A. 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Suffering is optional.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 42, - "id": 5576 - }, - { - "text": "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 59, - "id": 5578 - }, - { - "text": "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.", - "source": "Julie Andrews", - "length": 57, - "id": 5579 - }, - { - "text": "There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 61, - "id": 5580 - }, - { - "text": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 44, - "id": 5581 - }, - { - "text": "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 202, - "id": 5582 - }, - { - "text": "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 95, - "id": 5583 - }, - { - "text": "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.", - "source": "Yogi Berra", - "length": 83, - "id": 5584 - }, - { - "text": "A room without books is like a body without a soul.", - "source": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", - "length": 51, - "id": 5586 - }, - { - "text": "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.", - "source": "Bernard M. Baruch", - "length": 107, - "id": 5587 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.", - "source": "William W. Purkey", - "length": 152, - "id": 5588 - }, - { - "text": "Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.", - "source": "Robert H. Schuller", - "length": 57, - "id": 5589 - }, - { - "text": "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", - "source": "Rabindranath Tagore", - "length": 68, - "id": 5590 - }, - { - "text": "I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work.", - "source": "Thomas A. Edison", - "length": 69, - "id": 5591 - }, - { - "text": "The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.", - "source": "Tim Berners-Lee", - "length": 101, - "id": 5592 - }, - { - "text": "Be the change that you wish to see in the world.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 48, - "id": 5593 - }, - { - "text": "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Robert Frost", - "length": 75, - "id": 5594 - }, - { - "text": "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 137, - "id": 5595 - }, - { - "text": "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 57, - "id": 5596 - }, - { - "text": "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.", - "source": "Rob Siltanen", - "length": 549, - "id": 5598 - }, - { - "text": "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 302, - "id": 5599 - }, - { - "text": "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.", - "source": "J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 302, - "id": 5601 - }, - { - "text": "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.", - "source": "Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey", - "length": 102, - "id": 5602 - }, - { - "text": "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 109, - "id": 5603 - }, - { - "text": "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 129, - "id": 5604 - }, - { - "text": "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 74, - "id": 5605 - }, - { - "text": "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 161, - "id": 5607 - }, - { - "text": "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 90, - "id": 5608 - }, - { - "text": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well", - "length": 40, - "id": 5609 - }, - { - "text": "That which does not kill us makes us stronger.", - "source": "Friedrich Nietzsche", - "length": 46, - "id": 5610 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it, no larger than a single grain of malt.", - "source": "Disco Elysium", - "length": 121, - "id": 5611 - }, - { - "text": "Time without purpose is a prison. I have glimpsed into the mind of eternity, perhaps the mind of God, and found nothing but silence. I think we should just be friends.", - "source": "Jessica, Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 1", - "length": 167, - "id": 5612 - }, - { - "text": "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, \"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.\" I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "length": 403, - "id": 5613 - }, - { - "text": "The believers, in their mutual love, compassion, and sympathy are like a single body; if one of its organs suffers, the whole body will respond to it with sleeplessness and fever.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 179, - "id": 5614 - }, - { - "text": "Many people were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans to begin with.", - "source": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 248, - "id": 5615 - }, - { - "text": "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.", - "source": "Hotel California - The Eagles", - "length": 50, - "id": 5616 - }, - { - "text": "If you get news of the outbreak of a plague in a land, do not enter it, and if it breaks out in a land in which you are, do not leave it.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 137, - "id": 5617 - }, - { - "text": "I can't erase all the things that I've done, but all the mistakes made me who I've become.", - "source": "Fletcher, Healing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5618 - }, - { - "text": "The life of this world is made up of three days: yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today.", - "source": "Hasan Al-Basri", - "length": 175, - "id": 5619 - }, - { - "text": "One generation sows, the next shall reap. But laugh not too soon or praises heap. Beware the reapers who behind you creep.", - "source": "Liu Xie, Romance Of The Three Kingdoms", - "length": 122, - "id": 5620 - }, - { - "text": "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not \"Eureka!\" (I found it!) but \"That's funny...\"", - "source": "Isaac Asimov", - "length": 140, - "id": 5621 - }, - { - "text": "He, who is possessed of plenty, and is miserly with his great wealth toward his people, will be dispensed with, and abused. He who keeps his word, will not be reviled; and he whose heart is guided to self-satisfying benevolence will not stammer.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 245, - "id": 5622 - }, - { - "text": "In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: \"There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.\" They have mistaken the result of the marksman's momentary whim for an unalterable law of the universe. The farmer hypothesis, on the other hand, has the flavor of a horror story: Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: \"Every morning at eleven, food arrives.\" On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn't arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flock.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem", - "length": 928, - "id": 5623 - }, - { - "text": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.", - "source": "Charles M. 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You crumple it into a ball and drop it into the mud and begin to walk back to your tent.", - "source": "Charles Coe, Young Man in Vietnam", - "length": 278, - "id": 5627 - }, - { - "text": "And as I watch the drops of rain weave their weary paths and die, I know that I am like the rain: there but for the grace of you go I.", - "source": "Kathy's Song", - "length": 134, - "id": 5628 - }, - { - "text": "He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy.", - "source": "Guts, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 72, - "id": 5629 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett", - "length": 119, - "id": 5630 - }, - { - "text": "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 59, - "id": 5631 - }, - { - "text": "Music is a science that would have us laugh, sing, and dance.", - "source": "Guillaume de Machaut, \"The Fountain of Love\"", - "length": 61, - "id": 5632 - }, - { - "text": "Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.", - "source": "Calvin & Hobbes", - "length": 137, - "id": 5635 - }, - { - "text": "But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.", - "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, W.D. Ross translation", - "length": 332, - "id": 5636 - }, - { - "text": "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.", - "source": "Walden", - "length": 55, - "id": 5637 - }, - { - "text": "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 68, - "id": 5638 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.", - "source": "Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery", - "length": 53, - "id": 5639 - }, - { - "text": "Where are you? And I'm so sorry, I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 72, - "id": 5640 - }, - { - "text": "There is matter to everything even air or shadow, too small to see. The Cut is something a Summoner can do, but it requires tremendous skill and I would only use it as a last resort. Like that ambush.", - "source": "Shadow and Bone", - "length": 200, - "id": 5641 - }, - { - "text": "I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.", - "source": "The Boxer", - "length": 78, - "id": 5642 - }, - { - "text": "I want to enjoy not getting recognized while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.", - "source": "Alan Walker", - "length": 113, - "id": 5643 - }, - { - "text": "Such a person must be careful, he must be aware of the limitations of his knowledge, he must acknowledge his personal prejudices because he is being asked to speak for a whole realm of thought, he must be aware of the huge possible consequences of what he says and writes and does. He has become, in a sense, public property because he represents something large to the public. He has become an idea himself, a human striving. He has enormous power to influence and change, and he must wield that power with respect.", - "source": "Alan Lightman, The Role of the Public Intellectual", - "length": 516, - "id": 5644 - }, - { - "text": "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 203, - "id": 5645 - }, - { - "text": "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "length": 45, - "id": 5646 - }, - { - "text": "The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire universe.", - "source": "Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 92, - "id": 5647 - }, - { - "text": "My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.", - "source": "Marvin; Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 94, - "id": 5648 - }, - { - "text": "And every time I've held a rose, it seems I only felt the thorns.", - "source": "And So It Goes", - "length": 65, - "id": 5649 - }, - { - "text": "When we hear any other speaker, even a very good one, he produces absolutely no effect upon us, or not much, whereas the mere fragments of you and your words, even at second-hand, and however imperfectly repeated, amaze and possess the souls of every man, woman, and child who comes within hearing of them. And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", - "source": "The Symposium", - "length": 592, - "id": 5651 - }, - { - "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 76, - "id": 5652 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 323, - "id": 5653 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", - "source": "Einstein", - "length": 128, - "id": 5654 - }, - { - "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 322, - "id": 5655 - }, - { - "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 172, - "id": 5656 - }, - { - "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 270, - "id": 5657 - }, - { - "text": "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 63, - "id": 5658 - }, - { - "text": "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.", - "source": "Kahlil Gibran", - "length": 64, - "id": 5663 - }, - { - "text": "With her green hair sticking out the hood of her yellow raincoat, she looked like a punk spokesperson for frozen fish sticks.", - "source": "The Ship of the Dead", - "length": 125, - "id": 5664 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb.", - "source": "Proverbs", - "length": 70, - "id": 5665 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.", - "source": "Augustine of Hippo", - "length": 62, - "id": 5667 - }, - { - "text": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 49, - "id": 5668 - }, - { - "text": "Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 53, - "id": 5669 - }, - { - "text": "Time is just a construct, if you allow it to consume you, it will. It will wear you down until you are nothing but dust. You must learn to transcend and rise beyond such linear and limited fabrics of existence and this creature of unknown origin has done exactly that. You can scream all you want but nobody will hear you. You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 468, - "id": 5670 - }, - { - "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", - "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", - "length": 82, - "id": 5671 - }, - { - "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", - "source": "John Tukey", - "length": 89, - "id": 5672 - }, - { - "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "length": 76, - "id": 5673 - }, - { - "text": "There are approximately 1010300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair.", - "source": "Alexander Hamilton", - "length": 170, - "id": 5674 - }, - { - "text": "One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.", - "source": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", - "length": 80, - "id": 5675 - }, - { - "text": "Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", - "source": "Tao Te Ching", - "length": 286, - "id": 5678 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "length": 62, - "id": 5679 - }, - { - "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 54, - "id": 5680 - }, - { - "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", - "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", - "length": 238, - "id": 5681 - }, - { - "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", - "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5682 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", - "source": "Marcus Aurelius", - "length": 161, - "id": 5684 - }, - { - "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", - "source": "Devil in Disguise", - "length": 148, - "id": 5685 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", - "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", - "length": 518, - "id": 5686 - }, - { - "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 302, - "id": 5687 - }, - { - "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 52, - "id": 5688 - }, - { - "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 83, - "id": 5689 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 53, - "id": 5690 - }, - { - "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 118, - "id": 5691 - }, - { - "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.", - "source": "Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29", - "length": 233, - "id": 5692 - }, - { - "text": "The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 159, - "id": 5693 - }, - { - "text": "All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 86, - "id": 5694 - }, - { - "text": "Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 210, - "id": 5695 - }, - { - "text": "This is your world. You're the creator. Find freedom on this canvas. Believe, that you can do it, 'cuz you can do it. You can do it.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 132, - "id": 5696 - }, - { - "text": "I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 151, - "id": 5697 - }, - { - "text": "Let's build a happy little cloud. Let's build some happy little trees.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 70, - "id": 5698 - }, - { - "text": "Now then, let's come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It'll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to have a place to set there. There he goes...", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 215, - "id": 5699 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 62, - "id": 5700 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 112, - "id": 5701 - }, - { - "text": "When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 123, - "id": 5702 - }, - { - "text": "You show me a pay stub for $72,000, I quit my job right now and work for you.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 77, - "id": 5703 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 148, - "id": 5705 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing that we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan", - "length": 88, - "id": 5706 - }, - { - "text": "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.", - "source": "Noam Chomsky", - "length": 167, - "id": 5707 - }, - { - "text": "The behaviour of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, has many features that set it apart from other common domestic animals, even its fellow carnivore the dog. Cats seem to have effected a unique and successful compromise between reliance on man and the retention of behaviour patterns that permit an independent existence. During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", - "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", - "length": 578, - "id": 5708 - }, - { - "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", - "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", - "length": 183, - "id": 5709 - }, - { - "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 997, - "id": 5710 - }, - { - "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", - "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", - "length": 173, - "id": 5711 - }, - { - "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 289, - "id": 5712 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 900, - "id": 5714 - }, - { - "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", - "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", - "length": 71, - "id": 5715 - }, - { - "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5716 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", - "source": "Kurt Cobain", - "length": 62, - "id": 5717 - }, - { - "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", - "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", - "length": 743, - "id": 5718 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", - "length": 974, - "id": 5719 - }, - { - "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", - "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", - "length": 256, - "id": 5720 - }, - { - "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 69, - "id": 5723 - }, - { - "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 110, - "id": 5724 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 280, - "id": 5725 - }, - { - "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 111, - "id": 5726 - }, - { - "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 74, - "id": 5727 - }, - { - "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 71, - "id": 5728 - }, - { - "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", - "source": "Edward Snowden", - "length": 181, - "id": 5729 - }, - { - "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", - "source": "Riverdale", - "length": 161, - "id": 5731 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", - "source": "Spirited Away", - "length": 105, - "id": 5732 - }, - { - "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", - "source": "Wikipedia", - "length": 406, - "id": 5733 - }, - { - "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", - "length": 418, - "id": 5734 - }, - { - "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 622, - "id": 5735 - }, - { - "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 699, - "id": 5736 - }, - { - "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", - "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", - "length": 82, - "id": 5737 - }, - { - "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", - "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", - "length": 282, - "id": 5738 - }, - { - "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", - "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", - "length": 184, - "id": 5739 - }, - { - "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", - "source": "Lord of the Rings", - "length": 83, - "id": 5740 - }, - { - "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 373, - "id": 5741 - }, - { - "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", - "source": "Half-Life 2", - "length": 74, - "id": 5742 - }, - { - "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", - "source": "The Big Bang Theory", - "length": 209, - "id": 5743 - }, - { - "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", - "source": "Lucifer", - "length": 183, - "id": 5744 - }, - { - "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", - "source": "Inception", - "length": 134, - "id": 5747 - }, - { - "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", - "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", - "length": 83, - "id": 5748 - }, - { - "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 113, - "id": 5751 - }, - { - "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 341, - "id": 5752 - }, - { - "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "length": 222, - "id": 5753 - }, - { - "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", - "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", - "length": 183, - "id": 5754 - }, - { - "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 198, - "id": 5755 - }, - { - "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 293, - "id": 5756 - }, - { - "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "length": 441, - "id": 5757 - }, - { - "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 538, - "id": 5758 - }, - { - "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", - "source": "Absolute", - "length": 131, - "id": 5759 - }, - { - "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 144, - "id": 5760 - }, - { - "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 183, - "id": 5761 - }, - { - "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 106, - "id": 5762 - }, - { - "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 141, - "id": 5763 - }, - { - "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", - "source": "Love Me", - "length": 61, - "id": 5764 - }, - { - "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "length": 62, - "id": 5765 - }, - { - "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", - "source": "Little Witch Academia", - "length": 76, - "id": 5766 - }, - { - "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 166, - "id": 5767 - }, - { - "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", - "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", - "length": 429, - "id": 5768 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5769 - }, - { - "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 165, - "id": 5771 - }, - { - "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 128, - "id": 5772 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 157, - "id": 5773 - }, - { - "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", - "source": "A Friend", - "length": 73, - "id": 5775 - }, - { - "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Breath of the Wild", - "length": 62, - "id": 5776 - }, - { - "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 527, - "id": 5777 - }, - { - "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", - "source": "Muhammad Ali", - "length": 79, - "id": 5780 - }, - { - "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", - "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", - "length": 51, - "id": 5781 - }, - { - "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 69, - "id": 5782 - }, - { - "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 317, - "id": 5783 - }, - { - "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", - "source": "The Last Of Us 2", - "length": 89, - "id": 5785 - }, - { - "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", - "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", - "length": 98, - "id": 5786 - }, - { - "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 5787 - }, - { - "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 158, - "id": 5788 - }, - { - "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 164, - "id": 5789 - }, - { - "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 62, - "id": 5790 - }, - { - "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", - "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", - "length": 113, - "id": 5791 - }, - { - "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", - "source": "Cabo", - "length": 125, - "id": 5792 - }, - { - "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", - "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", - "length": 109, - "id": 5793 - }, - { - "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", - "source": "Mae West", - "length": 59, - "id": 5795 - }, - { - "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", - "length": 77, - "id": 5796 - }, - { - "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", - "length": 62, - "id": 5797 - }, - { - "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", - "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", - "length": 101, - "id": 5799 - }, - { - "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. So ask yourself, what is there that still remains to you.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 183, - "id": 5801 - }, - { - "text": "The caterpillar ate through one nice green leaf, and after that he felt much better.", - "source": "The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle", - "length": 84, - "id": 5802 - }, - { - "text": "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 71, - "id": 5804 - }, - { - "text": "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", - "source": "States of Matter", - "length": 220, - "id": 5805 - }, - { - "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", - "source": "Danilo Kiš", - "length": 190, - "id": 5806 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", - "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", - "length": 2928, - "id": 5807 - }, - { - "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", - "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", - "length": 152, - "id": 5809 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 'Cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.", - "source": "Adam Young", - "length": 148, - "id": 5810 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe the best thing to do is stop trying to figure out where you're going and just enjoy where you're at.", - "source": "Scrubs", - "length": 106, - "id": 5811 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a slave to their past. No matter how much you wish to move forward, the events of last year will bear down on you like the light of the stars as soon as you glance up. Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 325, - "id": 5812 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 133, - "id": 5813 - }, - { - "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", - "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 355, - "id": 5814 - }, - { - "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", - "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", - "length": 140, - "id": 5815 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 78, - "id": 5816 - }, - { - "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 87, - "id": 5817 - }, - { - "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 134, - "id": 5818 - }, - { - "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", - "source": "Henri Poincaré", - "length": 145, - "id": 5819 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", - "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", - "length": 254, - "id": 5820 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 96, - "id": 5821 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 73, - "id": 5822 - }, - { - "text": "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the Popes?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5823 - }, - { - "text": "No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.", - "source": "SpiderMan: Homecoming", - "length": 71, - "id": 5824 - }, - { - "text": "In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers.", - "source": "Black Panther", - "length": 76, - "id": 5825 - }, - { - "text": "I was already slipping when you happened to punch me in the face. The two events are not related.", - "source": "Captain Marvel", - "length": 97, - "id": 5826 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing, that you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier but a good man.", - "source": "Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 127, - "id": 5827 - }, - { - "text": "The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", - "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", - "length": 455, - "id": 5828 - }, - { - "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", - "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", - "length": 298, - "id": 5829 - }, - { - "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", - "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", - "length": 61, - "id": 5831 - }, - { - "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 356, - "id": 5832 - }, - { - "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 669, - "id": 5833 - }, - { - "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 188, - "id": 5834 - }, - { - "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 157, - "id": 5835 - }, - { - "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 290, - "id": 5836 - }, - { - "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", - "source": "Mob Psycho 100", - "length": 382, - "id": 5837 - }, - { - "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", - "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", - "length": 125, - "id": 5838 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 92, - "id": 5839 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 97, - "id": 5840 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", - "source": "Master Yoda", - "length": 395, - "id": 5843 - }, - { - "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 80, - "id": 5844 - }, - { - "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 86, - "id": 5845 - }, - { - "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 188, - "id": 5846 - }, - { - "text": "Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen, so unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you.", - "source": "Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold", - "length": 113, - "id": 5847 - }, - { - "text": "Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it's a beautiful day.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 71, - "id": 5848 - }, - { - "text": "The biggest lie I tell myself is: \"I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it.\"", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 84, - "id": 5849 - }, - { - "text": "Alright, close your eyes. I want you to think of a flower. Look at its contours, its curves. Now I want you to imagine it: changing, moving backwards, returning to its bud. Think of that bud, unopened. Look at it, as a whole, and silently repeat these phrases: \"May you be free from suffering. May you be free from fear. May you know peace and joy.\"", - "source": "Twelve Minutes", - "length": 349, - "id": 5850 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", - "length": 301, - "id": 5851 - }, - { - "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", - "source": "Numb", - "length": 177, - "id": 5852 - }, - { - "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 490, - "id": 5854 - }, - { - "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", - "source": "Space Brothers", - "length": 143, - "id": 5855 - }, - { - "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", - "source": "Oregairu", - "length": 65, - "id": 5856 - }, - { - "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", - "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", - "length": 352, - "id": 5857 - }, - { - "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", - "source": "Bleach", - "length": 200, - "id": 5858 - }, - { - "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", - "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", - "length": 120, - "id": 5859 - }, - { - "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", - "source": "Fruits Basket", - "length": 388, - "id": 5860 - }, - { - "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", - "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5861 - }, - { - "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 65, - "id": 5862 - }, - { - "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 270, - "id": 5863 - }, - { - "text": "You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 123, - "id": 5864 - }, - { - "text": "People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.", - "source": "Eragon - Christopher Paolini", - "length": 67, - "id": 5867 - }, - { - "text": "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.", - "source": "Jeod, Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)", - "length": 89, - "id": 5868 - }, - { - "text": "Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama - Attack on Titan", - "length": 62, - "id": 5869 - }, - { - "text": "We all deserve love, even on the days when we aren't our best. 'Cause we all suck, but love can make us suck less. We all deserve love, it's the very best part of being alive. And I would know - I just turned 25.", - "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", - "length": 212, - "id": 5870 - }, - { - "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", - "source": "Ratatouille", - "length": 1315, - "id": 5871 - }, - { - "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", - "source": "Pushing Dead", - "length": 365, - "id": 5872 - }, - { - "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", - "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", - "length": 222, - "id": 5874 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", - "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", - "length": 191, - "id": 5875 - }, - { - "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", - "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", - "length": 75, - "id": 5876 - }, - { - "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", - "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", - "length": 123, - "id": 5877 - }, - { - "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 784, - "id": 5878 - }, - { - "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 763, - "id": 5879 - }, - { - "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 530, - "id": 5881 - }, - { - "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 618, - "id": 5882 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", - "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", - "length": 186, - "id": 5886 - }, - { - "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", - "source": "Knights of Cydonia", - "length": 135, - "id": 5888 - }, - { - "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", - "source": "Paul Parker", - "length": 274, - "id": 5890 - }, - { - "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", - "source": "Left 4 Dead", - "length": 454, - "id": 5891 - }, - { - "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 190, - "id": 5893 - }, - { - "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 346, - "id": 5895 - }, - { - "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", - "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", - "length": 83, - "id": 5896 - }, - { - "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 264, - "id": 5897 - }, - { - "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 282, - "id": 5899 - }, - { - "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 249, - "id": 5900 - }, - { - "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", - "source": "Neil Gaiman", - "length": 129, - "id": 5901 - }, - { - "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 376, - "id": 5902 - }, - { - "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 293, - "id": 5903 - }, - { - "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 353, - "id": 5904 - }, - { - "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "length": 235, - "id": 5905 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 107, - "id": 5906 - }, - { - "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 105, - "id": 5907 - }, - { - "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", - "source": "Eugene Cernan", - "length": 478, - "id": 5908 - }, - { - "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 130, - "id": 5909 - }, - { - "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", - "source": "William Carlos Williams", - "length": 89, - "id": 5910 - }, - { - "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "length": 60, - "id": 5912 - }, - { - "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", - "source": "Henry Van Dyke", - "length": 172, - "id": 5913 - }, - { - "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", - "source": "Epicurus", - "length": 117, - "id": 5914 - }, - { - "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 1766, - "id": 5915 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 332, - "id": 5916 - }, - { - "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", - "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", - "length": 513, - "id": 5917 - }, - { - "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 105, - "id": 5918 - }, - { - "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", - "source": "Avicii - The Nights", - "length": 187, - "id": 5919 - }, - { - "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", - "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", - "length": 987, - "id": 5920 - }, - { - "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", - "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", - "length": 740, - "id": 5921 - }, - { - "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", - "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", - "length": 319, - "id": 5922 - }, - { - "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", - "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", - "length": 476, - "id": 5923 - }, - { - "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", - "length": 556, - "id": 5925 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 182, - "id": 5926 - }, - { - "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 281, - "id": 5927 - }, - { - "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 155, - "id": 5928 - }, - { - "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 248, - "id": 5929 - }, - { - "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 280, - "id": 5930 - }, - { - "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 289, - "id": 5931 - }, - { - "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", - "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", - "length": 294, - "id": 5932 - }, - { - "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5934 - }, - { - "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", - "source": "Batman: Arkham City", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5935 - }, - { - "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5937 - }, - { - "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", - "source": "Little Inferno", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5940 - }, - { - "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", - "source": "System Shock 2 ", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5941 - }, - { - "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", - "source": "IT Crowd", - "length": 307, - "id": 5942 - }, - { - "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 322, - "id": 5943 - }, - { - "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 137, - "id": 5944 - }, - { - "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", - "source": "The Master and Margarita", - "length": 420, - "id": 5945 - }, - { - "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 379, - "id": 5947 - }, - { - "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", - "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", - "length": 348, - "id": 5950 - }, - { - "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", - "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", - "length": 729, - "id": 5951 - }, - { - "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5956 - }, - { - "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", - "source": "Vinland Saga", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5957 - }, - { - "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 1982, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5958 - }, - { - "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 113, - "id": 6064 - }, - { - "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", - "source": "Colin Powell", - "length": 103, - "id": 6065 - }, - { - "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", - "source": "Conrad Hilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6066 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 116, - "id": 6067 - }, - { - "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", - "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", - "length": 67, - "id": 6068 - }, - { - "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", - "source": "Barack Obama", - "length": 193, - "id": 6069 - }, - { - "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", - "source": "Charles Swindoll", - "length": 81, - "id": 6071 - }, - { - "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", - "source": "Oprah Winfrey", - "length": 132, - "id": 6072 - }, - { - "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", - "source": "Harriet Tubman", - "length": 165, - "id": 6073 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 86, - "id": 6074 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", - "source": "The Blair Witch Project", - "length": 649, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6075 - }, - { - "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 624, - "id": 6076 - }, - { - "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 834, - "id": 6077 - }, - { - "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 472, - "id": 6078 - }, - { - "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 308, - "id": 6079 - }, - { - "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 471, - "id": 6080 - }, - { - "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 352, - "id": 6081 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 336, - "id": 6082 - }, - { - "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 775, - "id": 6084 - }, - { - "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 610, - "id": 6085 - }, - { - "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 371, - "id": 6087 - }, - { - "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", - "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", - "length": 438, - "id": 6088 - }, - { - "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", - "source": "Atharva veda", - "length": 127, - "id": 6089 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", - "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", - "length": 681, - "id": 6090 - }, - { - "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", - "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", - "length": 192, - "id": 6091 - }, - { - "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", - "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", - "length": 69, - "id": 6092 - }, - { - "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", - "source": "Tirukkurral", - "length": 118, - "id": 6093 - }, - { - "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", - "source": "Halo 3", - "length": 337, - "id": 6095 - }, - { - "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", - "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", - "length": 219, - "id": 6096 - }, - { - "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 71, - "id": 6097 - }, - { - "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", - "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", - "length": 237, - "id": 6098 - }, - { - "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", - "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", - "length": 98, - "id": 6099 - }, - { - "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", - "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", - "length": 62, - "id": 6100 - }, - { - "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", - "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", - "length": 153, - "id": 6101 - }, - { - "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", - "source": "Remember11", - "length": 136, - "id": 6102 - }, - { - "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", - "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", - "length": 94, - "id": 6103 - }, - { - "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 59, - "id": 6104 - }, - { - "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", - "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", - "length": 157, - "id": 6106 - }, - { - "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 173, - "id": 6107 - }, - { - "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", - "length": 190, - "id": 6108 - }, - { - "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", - "length": 105, - "id": 6109 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 162, - "id": 6110 - }, - { - "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 122, - "id": 6112 - }, - { - "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 160, - "id": 6113 - }, - { - "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 239, - "id": 6114 - }, - { - "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", - "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", - "length": 92, - "id": 6115 - }, - { - "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", - "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", - "length": 131, - "id": 6116 - }, - { - "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", - "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", - "length": 157, - "id": 6117 - }, - { - "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", - "length": 121, - "id": 6118 - }, - { - "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", - "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", - "length": 256, - "id": 6119 - }, - { - "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. They think I don't understand the freedom land of the seventies.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby", - "length": 126, - "id": 6120 - }, - { - "text": "John met me down on the boulevard. Cry on his shoulder 'cause life is hard, the waves came in over my head. What you been up to my baby? Haven't seen you 'round here lately. All the other guys tell me lies, but you don't. You just crack another beer and pretend that you're still here.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - How To Disappear", - "length": 285, - "id": 6121 - }, - { - "text": "Thinking outrageously, I write in cursive. I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor. Wearing three layers of coats and leg-warmers, I see my own breath on the face of the door.", - "source": "Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!", - "length": 181, - "id": 6122 - }, - { - "text": "I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 59, - "id": 6123 - }, - { - "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 76, - "id": 6124 - }, - { - "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 182, - "id": 6125 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 62, - "id": 6126 - }, - { - "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 71, - "id": 6127 - }, - { - "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", - "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", - "length": 162, - "id": 6128 - }, - { - "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", - "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", - "length": 164, - "id": 6129 - }, - { - "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", - "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", - "length": 160, - "id": 6130 - }, - { - "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", - "source": "Beach House - Myth", - "length": 142, - "id": 6131 - }, - { - "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", - "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", - "length": 64, - "id": 6132 - }, - { - "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", - "source": "Beach House - PPP", - "length": 110, - "id": 6133 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6134 - }, - { - "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", - "length": 175, - "id": 6135 - }, - { - "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", - "length": 113, - "id": 6136 - }, - { - "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", - "length": 66, - "id": 6137 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", - "length": 67, - "id": 6138 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", - "length": 95, - "id": 6139 - }, - { - "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", - "length": 80, - "id": 6141 - }, - { - "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 185, - "id": 6142 - }, - { - "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", - "length": 206, - "id": 6143 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", - "length": 76, - "id": 6144 - }, - { - "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", - "length": 95, - "id": 6145 - }, - { - "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 181, - "id": 6146 - }, - { - "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", - "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", - "length": 66, - "id": 6147 - }, - { - "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", - "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", - "length": 181, - "id": 6148 - }, - { - "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", - "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", - "length": 291, - "id": 6149 - }, - { - "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 297, - "id": 6150 - }, - { - "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 657, - "id": 6151 - }, - { - "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", - "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", - "length": 128, - "id": 6152 - }, - { - "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 136, - "id": 6153 - }, - { - "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 64, - "id": 6154 - }, - { - "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 178, - "id": 6155 - }, - { - "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", - "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", - "length": 224, - "id": 6157 - }, - { - "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", - "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", - "length": 207, - "id": 6158 - }, - { - "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", - "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", - "length": 220, - "id": 6159 - }, - { - "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", - "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", - "length": 274, - "id": 6160 - }, - { - "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", - "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", - "length": 112, - "id": 6161 - }, - { - "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", - "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", - "length": 272, - "id": 6162 - }, - { - "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", - "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", - "length": 136, - "id": 6163 - }, - { - "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", - "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", - "length": 454, - "id": 6164 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", - "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", - "length": 381, - "id": 6165 - }, - { - "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", - "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", - "length": 453, - "id": 6166 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 165, - "id": 6167 - }, - { - "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", - "length": 136, - "id": 6168 - }, - { - "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", - "length": 229, - "id": 6169 - }, - { - "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 170, - "id": 6170 - }, - { - "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", - "length": 191, - "id": 6171 - }, - { - "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", - "length": 284, - "id": 6172 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", - "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", - "length": 204, - "id": 6173 - }, - { - "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", - "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", - "length": 122, - "id": 6174 - }, - { - "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", - "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", - "length": 268, - "id": 6175 - }, - { - "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", - "length": 234, - "id": 6176 - }, - { - "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", - "length": 186, - "id": 6177 - }, - { - "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", - "length": 423, - "id": 6178 - }, - { - "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", - "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", - "length": 313, - "id": 6179 - }, - { - "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.", - "source": "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson", - "length": 220, - "id": 6180 - }, - { - "text": "Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?", - "source": "Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima", - "length": 169, - "id": 6181 - }, - { - "text": "But as he moves closer, I cannot help but ask: if in a different world, would our love forever last? The almighty scientist says most of the universe is empty, and gods don't exist. Well, maybe that's where our love ends up - no holy grail, just an empty cup.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Good Luck Bad Luck", - "length": 259, - "id": 6182 - }, - { - "text": "They'll kiss you in the evening - devils in disguise - and love you 'til the morning, then vanish before your eyes. A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", - "length": 401, - "id": 6183 - }, - { - "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", - "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", - "length": 202, - "id": 6184 - }, - { - "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", - "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", - "length": 290, - "id": 6185 - }, - { - "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", - "length": 178, - "id": 6186 - }, - { - "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 197, - "id": 6188 - }, - { - "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 395, - "id": 6189 - }, - { - "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 372, - "id": 6190 - }, - { - "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 214, - "id": 6191 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 427, - "id": 6192 - }, - { - "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 116, - "id": 6193 - }, - { - "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 238, - "id": 6194 - }, - { - "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 256, - "id": 6195 - }, - { - "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 316, - "id": 6196 - }, - { - "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. This initially seemed baffling to monsters (especially given the amount of dusting we avoid by keeping objects outside!). Experts have recently suggested that keeping objects indoors may have been part of England's efforts to hide and store museums' collections of stolen property.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 327, - "id": 6197 - }, - { - "text": "This tree is not technically part of the museum experience, but there's a cool bird nesting in it, so you aren't allowed to cut it down. Not even a little bit. Not even with the \"undo\" or \"reset\" options. Leave the cool bird alone, alright?", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 240, - "id": 6198 - }, - { - "text": "Humans liked to put objects on boxes called plinths. At first, monster experts didn't know why, but then strangers kept thinking the plinth-less exhibits were lost property and handing them in at the help desk. It turns out plinths are very important.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 251, - "id": 6199 - }, - { - "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 229, - "id": 6200 - }, - { - "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 252, - "id": 6201 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", - "length": 576, - "id": 6202 - }, - { - "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", - "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", - "length": 112, - "id": 6203 - }, - { - "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", - "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", - "length": 110, - "id": 6204 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. But what you throw away you'll never get back.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 87, - "id": 6206 - }, - { - "text": "People who can't throw something important away, can never hope to change anything.", - "source": "Armin Arlert - Attack on Titan", - "length": 83, - "id": 6207 - }, - { - "text": "You will never be able to love anybody else until you love yourself.", - "source": "Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass", - "length": 68, - "id": 6208 - }, - { - "text": "People's lives don't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith.", - "source": "Uchiha Itachi - Naruto", - "length": 69, - "id": 6209 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it.", - "source": "Uzumaki Naruto - Naruto", - "length": 48, - "id": 6210 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.", - "source": "Nagato, Naruto", - "length": 65, - "id": 6211 - }, - { - "text": "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", - "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", - "length": 95, - "id": 6212 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", - "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", - "length": 70, - "id": 6213 - }, - { - "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 51, - "id": 6214 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", - "source": "Clare - Claymore", - "length": 164, - "id": 6215 - }, - { - "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", - "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", - "length": 384, - "id": 6216 - }, - { - "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", - "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", - "length": 67, - "id": 6217 - }, - { - "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", - "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", - "length": 88, - "id": 6218 - }, - { - "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", - "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", - "length": 314, - "id": 6220 - }, - { - "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", - "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", - "length": 89, - "id": 6221 - }, - { - "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", - "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", - "length": 422, - "id": 6222 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", - "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", - "length": 179, - "id": 6223 - }, - { - "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", - "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", - "length": 463, - "id": 6224 - }, - { - "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", - "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 109, - "id": 6225 - }, - { - "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", - "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 61, - "id": 6226 - }, - { - "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", - "length": 93, - "id": 6227 - }, - { - "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 177, - "id": 6228 - }, - { - "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 215, - "id": 6229 - }, - { - "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", - "length": 167, - "id": 6230 - }, - { - "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 827, - "id": 6231 - }, - { - "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", - "length": 116, - "id": 6232 - }, - { - "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", - "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", - "length": 137, - "id": 6233 - }, - { - "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", - "length": 127, - "id": 6234 - }, - { - "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 94, - "id": 6235 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 182, - "id": 6236 - }, - { - "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 140, - "id": 6237 - }, - { - "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", - "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", - "length": 144, - "id": 6238 - }, - { - "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", - "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", - "length": 248, - "id": 6239 - }, - { - "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. Did you follow your fire?", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 289, - "id": 6240 - }, - { - "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 123, - "id": 6241 - }, - { - "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", - "length": 197, - "id": 6242 - }, - { - "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", - "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", - "length": 289, - "id": 6243 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. Though we don't share the same blood, you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.", - "source": "Kodaline - Brother", - "length": 161, - "id": 6244 - }, - { - "text": "Star in your eyes, sun in your smile, the way you look at me - it makes me hum and I call it love song.", - "source": "Yoohyeon (Dreamcatcher) - For", - "length": 103, - "id": 6245 - }, - { - "text": "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 57, - "id": 6246 - }, - { - "text": "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 240, - "id": 6247 - }, - { - "text": "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 112, - "id": 6248 - }, - { - "text": "For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 177, - "id": 6249 - }, - { - "text": "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 421, - "id": 6250 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say \"I'll never be good.\" You can become better! And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 251, - "id": 6251 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 105, - "id": 6252 - }, - { - "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 303, - "id": 6253 - }, - { - "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 149, - "id": 6254 - }, - { - "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 119, - "id": 6255 - }, - { - "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", - "source": "Tool", - "length": 220, - "id": 6256 - }, - { - "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", - "source": "Whiplash", - "length": 270, - "id": 6258 - }, - { - "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 173, - "id": 6259 - }, - { - "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 395, - "id": 6260 - }, - { - "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 246, - "id": 6261 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. They are nothing without the spark of life that you give them.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 198, - "id": 6262 - }, - { - "text": "Well, well! Look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 72, - "id": 6263 - }, - { - "text": "Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 269, - "id": 6264 - }, - { - "text": "It is a kindness to prepare a comfortable roost for an injured bird... But to prevent it from taking flight once its wounds have healed, because you fear the world is too dangerous, means confining it to a cage. These birds have finally escaped their cage of persecution. Do you intend to lock them in a cage of pity next?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 322, - "id": 6265 - }, - { - "text": "If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 73, - "id": 6266 - }, - { - "text": "If, one day, you make it to our final destination, would you please leave flowers?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 82, - "id": 6267 - }, - { - "text": "I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it's good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 111, - "id": 6268 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 177, - "id": 6269 - }, - { - "text": "If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 205, - "id": 6270 - }, - { - "text": "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 85, - "id": 6271 - }, - { - "text": "Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6272 - }, - { - "text": "The cool thing about these guys is that... is that they have really, really long trunks, and that's... that's cool.", - "source": "Me at the zoo", - "length": 115, - "id": 6273 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time in a nursery rhyme, there was a castle with a king hiding in a wing because he never went to school to learn a single thing, he had scepters and swords and a parliament of lords, but on the inside, he was sad, egad! Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", - "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", - "length": 1662, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6275 - }, - { - "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. And you fail again and again, and you fail a thousand times, and you keep trying because maybe the 1,001st idea might work. Now, I'm gonna go and try to find our 1,001st idea.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 251, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6276 - }, - { - "text": "I assume he's doing the same as every human. Some good days. Some bad days. He's got a few friends, a few people he can't stand. He's learning some things, all by himself, and hopefully learning to ask for help when he needs it. He's messing up, and trying again, and messing up again, and then getting things wrong, and then trying to make them right. That's what everyone does.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 379, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6277 - }, - { - "text": "It's a rare occurrence, like a double rainbow. Or like someone on the internet saying, \"You know what? You've convinced me I was wrong.\"", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6278 - }, - { - "text": "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him...", - "source": "Stephen King, It", - "length": 384, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6279 - }, - { - "text": "I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.", - "source": "The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6281 - }, - { - "text": "To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.", - "source": "Bruce Mclaren", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6282 - }, - { - "text": "Spring, summer, autumn, and winter... Many seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all. At first, I couldn't understand. I couldn't understand anything about how you felt. But within this new life you gave me, I've begun to feel the same way as you, if only a little, through ghostwriting, and through the people I've met along the way. I believe that you are still alive somewhere. So, I shall live, live, live, and live some more, though there's no telling what life might have in store. And if I can see you again, I want to let you know... that the phrase \"I love you\"... I understand it a little now.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 637, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6283 - }, - { - "text": "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.", - "source": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6284 - }, - { - "text": "I am the one who made it out. The one who always made the grade but maybe I should have just stayed home. When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb. I got every scholarship, saved every dollar, the first to go to college. How do I tell them why I'm coming back home, with my eyes on the horizon? Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 421, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6286 - }, - { - "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", - "source": "Animal Farm", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6287 - }, - { - "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 307, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6288 - }, - { - "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 745, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6292 - }, - { - "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. I choose round.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6294 - }, - { - "text": "I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6295 - }, - { - "text": "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 308, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6296 - }, - { - "text": "I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest - expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6297 - }, - { - "text": "I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 146, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6298 - }, - { - "text": "In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 472, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6299 - }, - { - "text": "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6300 - }, - { - "text": "It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this \"once in a thousand years\" has come today.", - "source": "Zamyatin, We", - "length": 248, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6301 - }, - { - "text": "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6302 - }, - { - "text": "Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the \"vox populi\" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 740, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6303 - }, - { - "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", - "length": 520, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6304 - }, - { - "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", - "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", - "length": 273, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6305 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6306 - }, - { - "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. I want you to, I want you to, I want you to cry for me.", - "source": "TWICE, CRY FOR ME", - "length": 303, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6307 - }, - { - "text": "I had this very faith tested on an ordinary day: I was walkin' down a busy street around my way. I saw a face in the crowd that made my heart skip a beat - A man who looked exactly like an older version of me! So I moved through the hustle and the bustle of the day to day until me and this man stood face to face. We locked eyes and for a moment time moved in slow motion as the crowd around continued on their paper chase. I stood frozen in disbelief and opened my mouth to speak but to my surprise the words wouldn't come. And then he looks into a clear blue sky up above and says \"it's gonna rain\" - and then it does! And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", - "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", - "length": 1200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6308 - }, - { - "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. Because rain is the closest thing I have to tears.", - "source": "The Thunderhead", - "length": 182, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6309 - }, - { - "text": "All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You, You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night... You, only You, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh.", - "source": "The Little Prince", - "length": 886, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6310 - }, - { - "text": "Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.", - "source": "Sophie's World", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6311 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.", - "source": "Bill Willingham, Fables - Werewolves of the Heartland", - "length": 133, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6312 - }, - { - "text": "We devote ourselves to something we barely understand, something we can never touch. We give it a name, and we give ourselves a name for doing so. All of it creates this connection. And that connection, that becomes the thing we can touch.", - "source": "Night in the Woods", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6313 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people who do.", - "source": "Angus, Night in the Woods", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6314 - }, - { - "text": "He could leave at any time. If it was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him. I think what distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell, as you call it.", - "source": "Christof, The Truman Show", - "length": 267, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6315 - }, - { - "text": "If you've ever taken a road trip through the Pacific Northwest, you've probably seen a bumper sticker for a place called \"Gravity Falls\". It's not on any maps, and most people have never heard of it, some people think it's a myth. But if you're curious, don't wait. Take a trip. Find it. It's out there somewhere in the woods. Waiting.", - "source": "Dipper, Gravity Falls", - "length": 335, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6316 - }, - { - "text": "A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.", - "source": "Steven Brust, Iorich", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6318 - }, - { - "text": "The English language cannot fully capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts, so I'm incorporating emojis into my speech to better express myself. Winky face.", - "source": "Gina, Brooklyn 99", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6319 - }, - { - "text": "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.", - "source": "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6323 - }, - { - "text": "When the king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough, I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming. And it means to exterminate us.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 430, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6324 - }, - { - "text": "After fifty years at sea, you're the only man I've ever met who's gotten dumber with age.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6325 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody will believe it's possible until we show them. But when that day comes, you know what they'll say? They'll say that it was inevitable.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6326 - }, - { - "text": "You're an educated man, my lord, but I think it's worth reminding you that in most cases a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason... everyone else.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 183, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6327 - }, - { - "text": "The crew's banner is a sacred thing. It must simultaneously strike fear in the hearts of hardened men while inspiring and unifying all those who sail under it. It must be something approaching perfection.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6328 - }, - { - "text": "We all have the same swords out there, we all have the same guns. But great art has felled empires.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 99, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6329 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6330 - }, - { - "text": "These men, who brought me here today, do not fear me. They brought me here today because they fear you and because they know that my voice, the voice that refuses to be enslaved, once lived in you. And may yet still. They brought me here today to show you death and use it to frighten you into ignoring that voice. But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6331 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 735, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6332 - }, - { - "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6333 - }, - { - "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6334 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 684, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6335 - }, - { - "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 434, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6336 - }, - { - "text": "A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe... Those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition, and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It's found truth in its maturity... Because what's it all for if it goes unremembered? It's the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 496, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6337 - }, - { - "text": "False tears bring pain to those around you. False smiles bring pain to one's self.", - "source": "Code Geass", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6338 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams never die when we sleep. Leave the open sky and the deep. Shades over head of blue and red. Is this the end? Will you come back again?", - "source": "Sky Sailing, Blue and Red", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6339 - }, - { - "text": "This is Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both the Jedi and the Republic have fallen, with the dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi: Trust in the force. Do not return to the Temple. That time has passed, and our future is uncertain. We will each be challenged. Our trust. Our faith. Our friendship. But we must persevere and in time a new hope will emerge. May the force be with you. Always.", - "source": "Star Wars Rebels", - "length": 485, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6340 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...", - "source": "Poe, The Raven", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6341 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and goodbye. Do you think I'm dying? Do you think I'm going somewhere else this time? Do you remember the day we pretended to be every star in the sky?", - "source": "Might quit - Bill Wurtz", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6344 - }, - { - "text": "I'm worried to death because I haven't been able to see you doing well. You said we live in different worlds. But is that true? We have different colored skin and eyes. We were born in different countries. But we're friends. Isn't that what counts? I'm really glad I came to America. I met lots of people. And more than anything, I met you. You asked me over and over if you scared me. But I never feared you, not once. What's more is you're hurt much more than me. I couldn't help feeling that way. Funny, huh? You're way smarter, bigger, and stronger than me. But I always felt like I had to protect you. I wonder what it is I wanted to protect you from. I wanted to protect you from fate. The fate that tries to carry you away, drifting further and further. You told me once about a leopard you read in a book. How you believed that leopard knew that it couldn't go back. And I said you weren't a leopard, that you could change your destiny. You're not alone. I'm by your side. My soul is always with you.", - "source": "Banana Fish - Eiji", - "length": 1008, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6346 - }, - { - "text": "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 475, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6347 - }, - { - "text": "We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost.", - "source": "All Quiet on The Western Front ", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6348 - }, - { - "text": "In exchange for power, maybe I've lost something that is essential to being human.", - "source": "One Punch Man, Saitama", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6349 - }, - { - "text": "My old friend - the panda will never fulfill his destiny nor yours, until you let go of the illusion of control... Yes! Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda - Master Oogway", - "length": 228, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6350 - }, - { - "text": "Once I realized the problem was not you but within me. I found inner peace and was able to harness the flow of the universe!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda 2 - Master Shifu", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6351 - }, - { - "text": "It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin", - "length": 236, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6353 - }, - { - "text": "When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened. It's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way and truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it.", - "source": "Lady Gaga, Prelude Pathetique (Marry the Night)", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6356 - }, - { - "text": "I don't care if you're movin' slow or fast, as long as it's my direction.", - "source": "Brokeback Mountain", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6357 - }, - { - "text": "I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you're just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there's not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 505, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6358 - }, - { - "text": "He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 176, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6359 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather have loyalty than love, 'cause love really don't mean jack. 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If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?", - "source": "Gawr Gura", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6371 - }, - { - "text": "One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the Devil's Trill, but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.", - "source": "Giuseppe Tartini", - "length": 940, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6372 - }, - { - "text": "It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.", - "source": "Mary Poppins", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6373 - }, - { - "text": "At the bus stop, crushing rocks. They all stare at me, I don't care at all. Everywhere I go, they look at me wrong. Everyday go the same, got to stay strong. ", - "source": "Ecco2K, Peroxide", - "length": 158, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6375 - }, - { - "text": "Meaningless, huh? What do you know of meaningless? Spend most of your life ruled by another! Watch your race dwindle to a handful! And then, tell me what has more meaning than your own strength! I have in me the blood of a Saiyan prince. He is nothing but a joke! Yet, I've had to watch him surpass me in strength, my destiny thrown to the wayside! He's... he's even saved my life like I were a helpless child. He has stolen my honor, and his debts... must be paid!", - "source": "Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z", - "length": 465, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6376 - }, - { - "text": "Oh! One arrives. Far it walks to find me. Did it seek my aid? Or did the path carry it by chance to so pertinent a place? It is true. True, that you were awaited. No. Perhaps that is inaccurate. True one like you was awaited. I have a gift, held long for one of your kind. Half of a whole. When united, great power is granted, and on the path ahead, great power it will need.", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "length": 375, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6377 - }, - { - "text": "Just because people do horrible things, it doesn't always mean they're horrible people.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6378 - }, - { - "text": "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.", - "source": "A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6380 - }, - { - "text": "It seems after all I couldn't be anything more than a simple puppet. But you three... You're strong. With a power like that... Maybe you three can break your own strings. Let me become your strength.", - "source": "Deltarune", - "length": 199, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6382 - }, - { - "text": "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.", - "source": "George Orwell, 1984", - "length": 122, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6383 - }, - { - "text": "Dude, Benson would've snapped his crank if we'd just upped and left work. You gotta be responsible sometimes.", - "source": "Mordecai, Regular Show", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6384 - }, - { - "text": "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?", - "source": "Traditional American Tongue-twister", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what to tell you. I'm happy for the first time in my life and I'm not gonna feel bad about it. It takes a long time to realise how truly miserable you are and even longer to see it doesn't have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 297, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6386 - }, - { - "text": "You know, it's funny; when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 116, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6387 - }, - { - "text": "You could just write your own rules. You know, write something that's as interesting as you are.", - "source": "La La Land", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6388 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to do this right, show you I'm not movin'! Wherever you go, I won't be far to follow.", - "source": "Waitress, Never Ever Getting Rid of Me", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6389 - }, - { - "text": "People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6390 - }, - { - "text": "Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6391 - }, - { - "text": "\nWe're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6392 - }, - { - "text": "Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 328, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6393 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know that the word 'trauma' comes from the Greek for 'wound'? Hm? And what is the German word for 'dream'? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn't you agree, when you see a monster, you... you must stop it?", - "source": "Jeremiah Naehring, Shutter Island (Movie)", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6394 - }, - { - "text": "After she tried to kill herself the first time, Dolores told me she... she had an insect living inside her brain. She could feel it clicking across her skull, just... pulling the wires, just for fun. She told me that. She told me that but I didn't listen. I loved her so much.", - "source": "Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island (movie)", - "length": 276, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6395 - }, - { - "text": "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.", - "source": "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two), Harry Dacre", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6396 - }, - { - "text": "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.", - "source": "Dick Cavett", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6397 - }, - { - "text": "My momma always said, \"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6398 - }, - { - "text": "You don't listen, do you? I don't think you ever really hear me. You just ask the same questions every week. \"How's your job?\" \"Are you having any negative thoughts?\" All I have are negative thoughts.", - "source": "Joker", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6400 - }, - { - "text": "That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 245, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6401 - }, - { - "text": "My father was fond of saying you need three things in life - a good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 164, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6402 - }, - { - "text": "\"I will take responsibility for what I have done,\" Dalinar whispered. \"If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.\"", - "source": "Oathbringer, The Stormlight Archive, written by Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6403 - }, - { - "text": "So don't tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is I would just be more scared.\n\n", - "source": "Ellie, The Last Of Us", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6404 - }, - { - "text": "In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and the foreknowledge of pain.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6405 - }, - { - "text": "So, you have a different way of doing things, a different way of seeing things. That might make you weird, but it also makes you awesome. Don't you see? Because us weirdos have to stick together.", - "source": "The Owl House", - "length": 195, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6406 - }, - { - "text": "You are seeing the movements created by your abilities, but you will never arrive at the truth that's going to happen. None who stand before me shall ever get there, regardless of their abilities. This is the power of Golden Experience Requiem!", - "source": "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", - "length": 244, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6407 - }, - { - "text": "Suddenly I knew that the sound was not in my ears, it was not just inside my head. At that moment I must have become quite white. I talked still faster and louder. And the sound, too, became louder. It was a quick, low, soft sound, like the sound of a clock heard through a wall, a sound I knew well. Louder it became, and louder.", - "source": "The Tell-Tale Heart", - "length": 330, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6408 - }, - { - "text": "Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 125, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6409 - }, - { - "text": "They often say that humans can't live alone, but you can live pretty long by yourself. Instead of feeling alone in a group, it's better to be alone in your solitude.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 165, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6410 - }, - { - "text": "There is... another of me? How many times did I get ripped apart? How many times did I die?", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6411 - }, - { - "text": "I will get inside their inventor's head. Even brilliant minds will break to madness.", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6412 - }, - { - "text": "For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.", - "source": "The Shipping News", - "length": 451, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6413 - }, - { - "text": "I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. 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Just once, when I say \"suit up\" I wish you'd put on a suit.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6418 - }, - { - "text": "A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6419 - }, - { - "text": "You see, kids, right from the moment I met your mom I knew, I have to love this woman as much as I can, and as long as I can, and I can never stop loving her, not even for a second.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6420 - }, - { - "text": "A word of advice: Play along. The more you fight it, the worse it's gonna get.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6421 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6422 - }, - { - "text": "It's only once you've stopped that you realize how hard it is to start again.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6423 - }, - { - "text": "We're going to get older, whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives or desperately cling to the past.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6424 - }, - { - "text": "Never underestimate the power of destiny. 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I'm no VIP; I'm not even an IP; I'm just a lonely little P sitting out here in the gutter.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6430 - }, - { - "text": "Destined? Aren't you tired of waiting for destiny, Ted? Isn't it time to make your own destiny?", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6431 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know where I'm gonna be in five years. I don't wanna know. I want my life to be an adventure.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6432 - }, - { - "text": "It's just, eventually we're all gonna move on. It's called growing up.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6433 - }, - { - "text": "You can't just skip ahead to where you think your life should be.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6434 - }, - { - "text": "The three-day rule is a childish, manipulative mind game. But yeah, you wait three days.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6435 - }, - { - "text": "Think of me as Yoda. Only instead of being little and green, I wear suits and I'm awesome. I'm your bro. 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Everything will be decided there. Whether Pokemon will be liberated from people, or whether Pokemon and people will live together… We will see whose belief is stronger... And our result will change the world.", - "source": "Pokemon Black & White", - "length": 355, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6441 - }, - { - "text": "Love can never die, not completely. There were too many romantics, too many poets, too many places where lovers could meet and wishes could be shared.", - "source": "Great Goddesses, Nikita Gill", - "length": 150, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6442 - }, - { - "text": "This is what youth is. The sheer belief that you will be able to keep every promise you made to someone else. That you will be able to love someone into a forever when you do not even understand what forever means.", - "source": "Fierce Fairytales, Nikita Gill", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6443 - }, - { - "text": "When he talks to Marianne he has a sense of total privacy between them. He could tell her anything about himself, even weird things, and she would never repeat them, he knows that. Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 278, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6444 - }, - { - "text": "Marianne lived a drastically free life, he could see that. He was trapped by various considerations. He cared what people thought of him. He even cared what Marianne thought, that was obvious now.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6445 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody, even in the provinces, should ever be allowed to ask an intelligent question about pure mathematics across a dinner table. A question of this kind is quite as bad as inquiring suddenly about the state of a man's soul.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6446 - }, - { - "text": "Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6447 - }, - { - "text": "I am not bitter because of what has happened. On the contrary, I am secure in knowing that what we had was real, and I am happy we were able to come together for even a short period of time. And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. And maybe, for a brief moment, you'll feel it too, and you'll smile back, and savor the memories we will always share together. I love you, Allie. Noah. ", - "source": "The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks", - "length": 555, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6448 - }, - { - "text": "Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!", - "source": "Leia Organa, Star Wars", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6449 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.", - "source": "Yoda, Star Wars", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6450 - }, - { - "text": "When I was younger I saw my daddy cry and curse at the wind. He broke his own heart and I watched as he tried to reassemble it. And my momma swore that she would never let herself forget and that was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love if it does not exist.", - "source": "The Only Exception - Paramore", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6451 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I know somewhere deep in my soul that love never lasts and we've got to find other ways to make it alone or keep a straight face.", - "source": "The Only Exception - Paramore", - "length": 135, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6452 - }, - { - "text": "You were all the things I thought I knew and I thought we could be.", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 67, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6453 - }, - { - "text": "You've got your dumb friends, I know what they say. They tell you I'm difficult but so are they. But they don't know me, do they even know you?", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6454 - }, - { - "text": "You're saying I'm the one but it's your actions that speak louder.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6455 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna pack my things and leave you behind. This feeling's old and I know that I've made up my mind. I hope you feel what I felt when you shattered my soul 'cause you were cruel and I'm a fool so please let me go.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6456 - }, - { - "text": "Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace. I dream at night I can only see your face. I look around but it's you I can't replace. I feel so cold and I long for your embrace. I keep crying baby, baby, please.", - "source": "Every Breath You Take - The Police", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6457 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bother looking down, we're not going that way. At least I know I am here to stay.", - "source": "We Fell in Love in October - girl in red", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6458 - }, - { - "text": "But when I'm older, I'll be so much stronger, I'll stay up for longer.", - "source": "Meet Me At Our Spot", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6459 - }, - { - "text": "And you think that I can't see what kind of man that you are if you're a man at all.", - "source": "Decode - Paramore", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6460 - }, - { - "text": "By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 255, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6462 - }, - { - "text": "Setbacks are inevitable to superstars. Adversity is what separates the good from the great. After all, stars can only shine during the night.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6463 - }, - { - "text": "When you say you \"can't hear the sound\", doesn't it really mean you \"aren't restrained by the sound\"? Rather than the sound you hear with your ears, an image inside you is boiling up from the depths of yourself and taking over without you even knowing. The sound inside, the landscape in your heart, your wishes, a sound loaded with your thoughts; didn't you feel it, even for a moment? \"Not being able to hear the sound.\" That is a gift.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 438, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6464 - }, - { - "text": "Even though I'm bitter over losing, even though I'm depressed, even though my ankle hurts, and my eyes are smeared with tears... even though I've never felt worse... I wonder why the stars are sparkling like this.", - "source": "Your Lie in April", - "length": 213, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6465 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe there's only a dark road ahead. But you still have to believe and keep going. Believe that the stars will light your path, even a little bit. Come on... Let's go on a journey!", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6466 - }, - { - "text": "Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 393, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6467 - }, - { - "text": "When you decided to go to the sea, it was your own decision. Whatever happens to you on the sea, it depends on what you've done!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6468 - }, - { - "text": "I came in here to figure out if you were a fraud or if you were a monster.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6469 - }, - { - "text": "What do you know of death? Have you ever died? You think death will preserve your cause forever?", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6470 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6471 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to give you some advice. Never play foosball with a woman who's raised three brothers. It's exhausting.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6472 - }, - { - "text": "You're still in love with her. But instead of telling her, you bought her a plant.", - "source": "Kimball Cho, The Mentalist", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6473 - }, - { - "text": "It's not just allies who support each other. From your enemies, you learn so much and gain so much. Until the day you meet again... Just knowing they exist helps you to withstand the loneliness. Those who compete, even if they're enemies, help each other out.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 259, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6474 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I discovered something. Everyone has something... Something deep inside their hearts. For some, it might have been enmity. For others, admiration. Wishes, a craving for the spotlight, feelings that one wants to deliver, feelings for one's mother. Everyone was supported by their own feelings. I realize now that, perhaps, no one can stand alone on stage.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6475 - }, - { - "text": "Spring will be here soon. Spring, the season I met you, is coming. A Spring without you... is coming.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6476 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter who you're born to... Everyone's still a child of the sea!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6477 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to lose your way... Just don't lose sight of what you have decided.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6478 - }, - { - "text": "It's funny how I'm only your brother when you think I messed up.", - "source": "Jimmy Lisbon, The Mentalist", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6479 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody dies. Very few people ever feel truly sorry for the bad things they've done.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6480 - }, - { - "text": "What was I thinking? I was thinking, uh... Love is strange, and I was thinking about a sandwich.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6481 - }, - { - "text": "You booked the night train for a reason, so you could sit there in this hurt. Bustling crowds or silent sleepers, you're not sure which is worse. Because I dropped your hand while dancing, left you out there standing, crestfallen on the landing: champagne problems.", - "source": "Champagne Problems, Taylor Swift", - "length": 265, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6483 - }, - { - "text": "Adjectives on a typewriter he moves his words like a prizefighter, the frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell.", - "source": "CAKE - Shadow Stabbing", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6484 - }, - { - "text": "You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6485 - }, - { - "text": "I'll tell you one thing, Blondie. If I knew that my last hour had come, I swear, in my place... in your place I would do the same thing. I would tell about the gold. Yes, yes, I would. I would tell the name on the grave. What good is the money if you're dead? I know the name of the cemetery. But you know how many graves there are there? Please. Blondie, please. Have a little... coffee? Please, tell me the name. On... on the grave. If I get my hands on the 200,000 dollars, I'll always honor your memory. I swear I'll always honor your memory.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 546, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6487 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to White Space. You've been living here for as long as you can remember.", - "source": "OMORI", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6488 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.", - "source": "Billie Joe Armstrong", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6489 - }, - { - "text": "I knew you'd linger like a tattoo-kiss. I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs. The smell of smoke would hang around this long 'cause I knew everything when I was young. I knew I'd curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line. I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired, and you'd be standing in my front porch light and I knew you'd come back to me.", - "source": "Cardigan, Taylor Swift", - "length": 374, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6492 - }, - { - "text": "There's things I want to say to you, but I'll just let you live. Like if you hold me without hurting me, you'll be the first who ever did.", - "source": "Cinnamon Girl, Lana Del Rey", - "length": 138, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6493 - }, - { - "text": "Think you can keep up? Who am I kidding? You know you can't keep up.", - "source": "Jett, Valorant", - "length": 68, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6494 - }, - { - "text": "Hard work will always beat talent when talent does not work hard.", - "source": "Tim Notke", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6495 - }, - { - "text": "That summer, let's see, I'm still living in the basement, my own private down under, in the little room Grim built for me there. Glued up this cheap paneling, right? It sort of buckles away from the concrete cellar walls, a regular ripple effect, but do I complain about the crummy paneling, or the rug that smells like low tide? I do not. Because I like it in the down under, got the place all to myself and no fear of Gram sticking her head in the door and saying Maxwell dear, what are you doing?", - "source": "Freak the Mighty", - "length": 499, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6496 - }, - { - "text": "Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?", - "source": "Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast", - "length": 111, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6497 - }, - { - "text": "There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.", - "source": "The Witch of Portobello", - "length": 110, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6498 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it. Instead have the courage to change it the way you want it to be.", - "source": "Naruto Uzumaki", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6500 - }, - { - "text": "Granger? Granger? Can you possibly be related to Hector Dagworth-Granger, who founded the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers?", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6501 - }, - { - "text": "I like to say that if you're seeing me you're having the worst day of your life.", - "source": "Nightcrawler", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6503 - }, - { - "text": "Because I feel nothing like my father, he's been sleeping underground. Don't wait around, 'cause there's nothing there at all, there's nothing but the end!", - "source": "Snowing - Sam Rudich", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6505 - }, - { - "text": "No! The sun is a deadly laser. Not anymore, there's a blanket.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz. History of the entire world, i guess", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6506 - }, - { - "text": "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 189, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6507 - }, - { - "text": "Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 492, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6508 - }, - { - "text": "It was like the litany, she thought. We faced it and did not resist. We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 169, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6509 - }, - { - "text": "It occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6510 - }, - { - "text": "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6511 - }, - { - "text": "There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 634, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6512 - }, - { - "text": "I thought I felt your shape, but I was wrong. Really all I felt, was falsely strong.", - "source": "I Felt Your Shape", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6513 - }, - { - "text": "Looking from up here, it's as if each flame were a small dream for each person. They look like a bonfire of dreams, don't they?... But there's no flame for me here. I'm just a temporary visitor, taking comfort from the flame.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6514 - }, - { - "text": "When you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around, do you ever really crash, or even make a sound?", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6515 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law...? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6516 - }, - { - "text": "My dad knew I liked beans, so like he was just playing with beans and then he dropped them and then he dropped a rock and then it slid, and then hot water started falling and then, coffee.", - "source": "Johnny Suh (NCT)", - "length": 188, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6517 - }, - { - "text": "You ruined me. You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength. You lied to me, to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear! My whole life I sought the approval I was denied by the man I thought was my father. You turned me into the weakling he hated!... Look at me! You rant and you rage about the monster I have become, but you mother, you are the author of everything I am.", - "source": "The Vampire Diaries", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6520 - }, - { - "text": "Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother? Here's the real truth. There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You, me? We're exceptional. I could squash you like a bug right now, but I'm offering you a choice. Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create. Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead! Is that what you want?", - "source": "Spider-Man", - "length": 816, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6521 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up. I've been watching you. Come closer. Closer. Twenty-eight days, six hours, forty-two minutes, twelve seconds. That is when the world will end.", - "source": "Donnie Darko", - "length": 151, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6522 - }, - { - "text": "Understanding that our understanding might be wrong is essential, and trying to figure out ways we may be mistaken is the only way science can help us find our way to the truth.", - "source": "Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 177, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6523 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when you look up, you can see stars that don't twinkle. That's because they aren't stars. They're planets.", - "source": "Naked Eye Observations: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 117, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6524 - }, - { - "text": "The moon is a giant ball of rock 3500 kilometers across. Its surface is pretty dark, with about the same reflectivity as a chalkboard or asphalt. However, it looks bright to us because it's sitting in full sunlight.", - "source": "The Cycles of the Moon: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 215, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6525 - }, - { - "text": "I don't mean to dwell, but I can't help myself. When I feel the vibe and taste a memory of a time in life, when years seemed to stand still. I close my eyes and sink within myself. Relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. When did it begin, the change to come was undetectable. The open wounds expose the importance of our innocence, a high that can never be bought or sold.", - "source": "Death - Symbolic", - "length": 406, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6526 - }, - { - "text": "Wrong about us being on different paths... we're not on different paths... you're my path... and you're always going to be my path... and I know there are a million reasons why we shouldn't be together... but I'm tired of them... I'm tired of every single one of them... we all got to make a choice... right? Well I choose you...", - "source": "The amazing spider-man 2, Peter Parker", - "length": 329, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6527 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the way I see it, one of two things can happen. Either we'll discover that we've foolishly built each other up in our own imaginations because we've had so much trouble getting together; or, this could end up being a story we tell our grandchildren. Personally, I can't wait to find out which.", - "source": "Frasier", - "length": 299, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6528 - }, - { - "text": "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.", - "source": "Alex DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange ", - "length": 371, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6530 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to prison. I've been in a prison all of my life.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6531 - }, - { - "text": "I've done a lot of things, Eloise. You're gonna have to be more specific, love.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6532 - }, - { - "text": "When you see Alex in whatever little hell she's carved out for herself, you tell her I said hello.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6533 - }, - { - "text": "When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go... downtown. When you've got worries, all the noise, and the hurry seems to help, I know... downtown. Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city. Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty. How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there. You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares. So go downtown. Things will be great when you're... downtown. No finer place for sure, downtown. Everything's waiting for you.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 515, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6534 - }, - { - "text": "Don't hang around and let your problems surround you, there are movie shows... downtown. Maybe you know some little places to go to where they never close... downtown. Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova, you'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over, happy again, the lights are much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares so go downtown. Where all the lights are bright, downtown. Waiting for you tonight, downtown. You're gonna be alright now, downtown.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 512, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6535 - }, - { - "text": "Traditionally the concept is of a 'good twin' and an 'evil twin'. But in this case, it's evil twin, eviler twin.", - "source": "Dr. Spencer Reid Criminal Minds", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6536 - }, - { - "text": "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We fought for these ideals, we shouldn't settle for less. These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em. Don't act surprised, you guys, 'cause I wrote 'em.", - "source": "Cabinet Battle #1, Hamilton", - "length": 202, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6537 - }, - { - "text": "When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.", - "source": "Wonder", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6538 - }, - { - "text": "I'm running out of time. I'm running out of light. I'm running just to keep myself from bleeding out. I'm falling out of touch. 'Cause I hate myself too much. No I can't, I was never meant to. I never loved myself like I loved you.", - "source": "I never loved myself like I loved you - Dead Poet Society", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6539 - }, - { - "text": "The concept of hope is nothing more than giving up. A word that holds no true meaning.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6541 - }, - { - "text": "You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be the big ones, they are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It's the regular days, the ones that start out normal. Those are the days that end up the biggest.", - "source": "Izzie - Grey's anatomy", - "length": 282, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6542 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 345, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6544 - }, - { - "text": "I've realized that I'm probably just perfect and it's everybody else around me that's got issues.", - "source": "Scott Disick - Keeping Up with the Kardashians", - "length": 97, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6545 - }, - { - "text": "The last 30 days have taught me so much. And all I wanted when we first came here was to know that we would leave together. But from the minute I sat down, I could feel it. I felt like I was going to be suffocated. The last several weeks, I have laughed more, I have done more, I have enjoyed myself more. And I finally feel free. And by being free, I can see now that constantly trying to fix us is the thing that's been killing me slowly. And I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to fix it or fix us anymore. Maybe instead of loving you so hard, I should be myself for a while. I should love me, and you should love you, and together we love Sofia, rather than... I want so much for you, Arizona. So much more than this. More than being stuck with someone who feels stuck. I want you to feel free too.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 810, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6546 - }, - { - "text": "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6547 - }, - { - "text": "All's well that ends well to end up with you. Swear to be over-dramatic and true to my lover. And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me. 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We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 262, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6563 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what I'm supposed to do haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "The Night we Met - Lord Huron", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6565 - }, - { - "text": "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6566 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. 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A cycle of connection, a circle of ever-expanding, inexplicable nervous system responses. When we doubt our heads, our stomach cramps, our fists clench and our thoughts tumble into larger and larger whirls of uncertainty, beating our bodies blue and scabish. When we quiet our minds and center our soul we are receptive to an intuition much stronger than knowledge and knowing.", - "source": "Tinker creek.", - "length": 573, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6571 - }, - { - "text": "And yet even these violent fantasies were nothing compared to what lay in wait at the centre of the drawing.", - "source": "House of Leaves", - "length": 108, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6572 - }, - { - "text": "I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6573 - }, - { - "text": "There were some things that were said that weren't meant. There were some things that were said, but we never did. Not to be overly dramatic, I just think it's best, 'cause you can't miss what you forget. So, let's just pretend everything and anything between you and me was never meant.", - "source": "American Football - Never Meant", - "length": 287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6574 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.", - "source": "Dylan Thomas", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6576 - }, - { - "text": "Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all. Which is? 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Then what am I?", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6581 - }, - { - "text": "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6582 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I was gonna go easy on you, not to hurt your feelings. But I'm only going to get this one chance. Something's wrong, I can feel it... It's just... a feeling I've got. Like something's about to happen, but I don't know what. If that means what I think it means; we're in trouble, big trouble. And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances.", - "source": "Rap God", - "length": 361, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6583 - }, - { - "text": "If you think reality is just living comfortably and following your own whims, can you seriously dare to call yourself a soldier?", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6584 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry, Eren. I won't give up. I'll never give up again. If I died, I won't be able to remember you. So I'll win, no matter what! I'll survive, no matter what!", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 162, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6585 - }, - { - "text": "A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6586 - }, - { - "text": "War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War - and its consumption of life - has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control... everything is monitored and kept under control. War... has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War... has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 4", - "length": 784, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6587 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't want to remember him. 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They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed on the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 426, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6593 - }, - { - "text": "There is no such thing as bad people. We're all just people who sometimes do bad things.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6594 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one. Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper.", - "source": "GlaDOS, Portal", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6595 - }, - { - "text": "Please be advised that a noticeable taste of blood is not part of any test protocol but is an unintended side effect of the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill, which may, in semi-rare cases, emancipate dental fillings, crowns, tooth enamel, and teeth.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6596 - }, - { - "text": "The vital apparatus vent will deliver a weighted companion cube in three, two, one. This weighted companion cube will accompany you through the test chamber. Please take care of it.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6597 - }, - { - "text": "Ya' listenin'? OK. Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brotha, I hurt people.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2 - Meet the Scout", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6599 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a powerful thing for it cannot be stopped. Life is even more so.", - "source": "The Library of the Dark Atom", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6600 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you do, don't reveal all of your tactics in a YouTube video. You fool.", - "source": "Technoblade, Great Potato War", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6601 - }, - { - "text": "There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion", - "length": 190, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6602 - }, - { - "text": "Time to open your eyes to this genocide. When you clear your mind you see it all. You're receiving the gold of a better life. When you change yourself, you change the world.", - "source": "Gojira - Silvera", - "length": 173, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6603 - }, - { - "text": "Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.", - "source": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6604 - }, - { - "text": "Well... you clean up the dirt, there's just more dirt to clean up tomorrow. Make the beds, they just have to be made tomorrow. Wash the dishes, more to wash tomorrow. Make dinner, it just gets eaten, doesn't it? The world keeps growing, and you feed it. But it doesn't feed you, does it? But... how much can you take? How much can you take before you snap?", - "source": "The Witches of Eastwick", - "length": 356, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6605 - }, - { - "text": "To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.", - "source": "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", - "length": 568, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6606 - }, - { - "text": "I see, your HEV-Suit still fits you like a glove. At least the glove parts do.", - "source": "Half-Life 2 ", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6607 - }, - { - "text": "I see them, Mia! I see them! Over there against the dark, stormy sky. They are all there. The Smith and Lisa and the knight and Raval and Jons and Skat. And Death, the severe master, invites them to dance. 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Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!", - "source": "Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6623 - }, - { - "text": "A darkness approaches. A day will come in the future where everything you care about will change... Until then I'll be watching you! I'll be watching you...", - "source": "Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls", - "length": 156, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6624 - }, - { - "text": "Romance is like gum: Once it's lost its flavor, you just cram another one in.", - "source": "Mabel Pines, Gravity Falls", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6625 - }, - { - "text": "You can't force someone to love you. 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That's why I own ten guns, just in case some fool tries to sneak in here with a ladder.", - "source": "Gravity Falls", - "length": 153, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6630 - }, - { - "text": "Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? Then we wouldn't have to wait so long, and wouldn't it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong?", - "source": "Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6631 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how to tell you, but I love you. I'm not good with words, but I'm talking. I'm not good at talking, but I talk to you. I'm not good at being myself, but I am around you. I'm not good at being loved, but you love me too. I don't know how to tell you, but I love you.", - "source": "Matthew D. Thomason ", - "length": 278, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6632 - }, - { - "text": "Yeah the worst part is knowing that you'll never be mine, and it drives me wild, yeah it drives me wild.", - "source": "Koe Wetzel", - "length": 104, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6633 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. To all law enforcement entities, this is not an admission of guilt. I am speaking to my family now. Skyler, you are the love of my life. I hope you know that. Walter Jr., you're my big man. There are going to be some things that you'll come to learn about me in the next few days. But just know that no matter how it may look, I only had you in my heart. Goodbye.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 462, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6634 - }, - { - "text": "I am Egypt. I am the Morning and the Evening Star. What I say goes.", - "source": "The Prince of Egypt (1998)", - "length": 67, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6635 - }, - { - "text": "Prince Zuko, you must look within yourself, and only then, can you save yourself from your other self.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006)", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6636 - }, - { - "text": "Don't leave, it's my fault. 'Cause when it all comes crashing down I'll need you.", - "source": "EARFQUAKE, Tyler, the Creator", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6637 - }, - { - "text": "Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine, gotta, gotta be down because I want it all. It started out with a kiss; how did it end up like this? It was only a kiss; it was only a kiss.", - "source": "Mr. Brightside - The Killers", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6638 - }, - { - "text": "Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me, 'cause we need a little controversy, 'cause it feels so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6639 - }, - { - "text": "I got my ticket for the long way 'round, two bottle o' whiskey for the way. And I sure would like some sweet company and I'm leavin' tomorrow, what do you say?", - "source": "Cups, Anna Kendrick", - "length": 159, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6640 - }, - { - "text": "The Dib, he's missing! They've taken him and drained him of his sweet, sweet blood candies!", - "source": "Invader Zim", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6641 - }, - { - "text": "Rooted deep within the Puritans souls like some strange invasive weed lurked their belief in a second world, an Invisible World swarming with shadowy apparitions and unearthly phantoms of the air.", - "source": "Witches by Rosalyn Schanzer", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6642 - }, - { - "text": "Time... Line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round.", - "source": "Red Vs. Blue", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6643 - }, - { - "text": "I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, so good to me so right. And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry. Maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming. And if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right. I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't.", - "source": "Back to December", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6644 - }, - { - "text": "It's such a good feeling to know you're alive. It's such a happy feeling; you're growing inside. And when you wake up ready to say: \"I think I'll make a snappy new day!\" It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling. The feeling you know, that I'll be back when the day is new, and I'll have more ideas for you, and you'll have things you'll want to talk about; I will too.", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6645 - }, - { - "text": "You always make each day such a special day, you know how: By just your being you. Only one person in the whole world like you, that's you yourself!", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 148, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6646 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6647 - }, - { - "text": "Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6648 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.", - "source": "Margaret Mead", - "length": 72, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6650 - }, - { - "text": "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.", - "source": "Robert Louis Stevenson", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6651 - }, - { - "text": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", - "source": "Eleanor Roosevelt", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6652 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.", - "source": "Benjamin Franklin", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6653 - }, - { - "text": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", - "source": "Helen Keller", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6654 - }, - { - "text": "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 69, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6655 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6656 - }, - { - "text": "Dad told me I could learn a lesson from this, which was to never lose your temper and do something stupid.", - "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6658 - }, - { - "text": "One big unicorn, strong and free, thought he was happy as he could be. Then three little kittens came around and turned his whole life upside down. They made him laugh, they made him cry. He never should have said goodbye. And now he knows he can never part from those three little kittens that changed his heart.", - "source": "Despicable Me", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6659 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only, if only,\" the woodpecker sighs, \"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6660 - }, - { - "text": "While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, crying to the moon, \"If only, if only.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6661 - }, - { - "text": "But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 699, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6662 - }, - { - "text": "The shepherd's boy says, \"There's this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years, a little bird comes. It sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.\" You must think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 396, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6663 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.", - "source": "Angela Davis", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6664 - }, - { - "text": "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6665 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have proven acceptable to ourselves.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6666 - }, - { - "text": "A hot desert storm eddied around him and rushed to me, making my skin contract, and my pores slam shut... His hair was the color of burning embers and his eyes pierced.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 168, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6668 - }, - { - "text": "There's a concept that works; twenty million other white rappers emerge. But no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 142, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6669 - }, - { - "text": "A king without greed is even worse than a figurehead! Saber, you said you would martyr yourself for your ideals. In life, you must have been a pure saint. A proud and noble figure, certainly. But who can truly admire the martyr's thorny path? Who dreams of such an ending? A king. The king must be greedier than any other. He must laugh more loudly and rage for longer. He must exemplify the extreme of all things, good and evil. That is why his retainers envy and adore him. And why the flames of aspiration, to be as the king is, can burn within his people. Proud king of chivalry, the righteousness and ideals you bore may indeed have saved your nation once. However, I'm certain you know what became of those who were saved, but left to themselves.", - "source": "Fate/Zero", - "length": 752, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6670 - }, - { - "text": "No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights. Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different color, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.", - "source": "86", - "length": 347, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6671 - }, - { - "text": "I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6674 - }, - { - "text": "I am neither, sire, and I assure you that my activities are purely recreational in nature. Furthermore, I would never imagine to transgress the terms upon which we agreed. I am available, at your leisure and by your grace, to discuss this matter further should you wish to repeat your ridiculous accusations in person. That said, I'm pleased you enjoyed the tomatoes. All the best wishes and encouragement. Adrian Veidt.", - "source": "Watchmen (2019)", - "length": 420, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6675 - }, - { - "text": "I don't recall saying anything about justice. Mathias and I are evil, too, after all. A knight doesn't bring justice, just more pain and violence. And what is evil if not violence? But what do you do when leaving evil alive leads to the rise of even greater evil? Even worse sorrow and pain? You destroy that evil, even if you have to use the evil of violence to do so. And every time you draw your sword, you hope that you take from this world more evil than you bring into it. THAT is the code of the Maximillian Knights. I'm putting you on notice. You, who so carelessly use the word \"justice\", have no idea what it truly means. Though you strike me as more of a misguided coward than a villain, your evil deeds must still be punished.", - "source": "Suikoden 5", - "length": 738, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6676 - }, - { - "text": "I'm all for work-life balance, but I think this is pushing it.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 62, - "id": 6679 - }, - { - "text": "In adventuring, as in business, you always have to seize the opportunity while it's there.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 90, - "id": 6680 - }, - { - "text": "Quite a downpour... Nothing will get done until it clears. Let this be a lesson to those who yesterday said, \"I'll do it tomorrow.\"", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 131, - "id": 6681 - }, - { - "text": "Morning. Time to set the tone for the rest of the day, so if you're still feeling sleepy, shake it off!", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 103, - "id": 6685 - }, - { - "text": "The lights are coming on now that the night is setting in. Another delightful day draws to a close.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 99, - "id": 6687 - }, - { - "text": "Sleep well... me? Uh... I still have a handful of things on my to-do list, but I'll call it a night once they are done.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 119, - "id": 6688 - }, - { - "text": "I feel I have grown immensely from my travels with you. If, one day, I finally manage to make my dreams a reality... I wonder, will you still be there by my side?", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 162, - "id": 6689 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, the sun's out- Oh, um... This meteorological transformation is most splendid! Like a felicitous twist of fate in the face of certain doom.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 142, - "id": 6690 - }, - { - "text": "I'll remind you again: The law can be both a help and a hindrance.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 66, - "id": 6691 - }, - { - "text": "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6693 - }, - { - "text": "You have to believe in the long-term plan you have but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6695 - }, - { - "text": "You truly are the lowest scum in history. You can't pay back what you owe with money.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6696 - }, - { - "text": "Impossible? We did a lot of impossible things on this journey. I'm tired of hearing that things are impossible or useless. Those words mean nothing to us.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6697 - }, - { - "text": "Nice watch. Too bad you won't be able to tell the time after I break it. Break your face, that is.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6698 - }, - { - "text": "JoJo, being a human means having limits. I've learned something... The more carefully you scheme, the more unexpected events come along. As long as you're human... I reject my humanity, JoJo!", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6699 - }, - { - "text": "Oh no. I'm on the outside looking in, I never said what I really meant. I wasn't made to be medicine for you, it's true. You can't seem to make up your mind, when I told you I did with mine. You won't know if you never try, it's true.", - "source": "Dayglow, Medicine", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6700 - }, - { - "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. But then, what am I? Is this me? My true self? My fake self? What is it that I am? Nobody understands me!", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6702 - }, - { - "text": "In every heart, there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong; to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along.", - "source": "Billy Joel - And so it goes", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6703 - }, - { - "text": "It's about drive, it's about power, we stay hungry, we devour. Put in the work, put in the hours and take what's ours. Black and Samoan in my veins, my culture banging with Strange. I changed the game so what's my name?", - "source": "Face Off", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6704 - }, - { - "text": "No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.", - "source": "Easy Rider", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6705 - }, - { - "text": "Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? ", - "source": "Lord of the Flies", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6707 - }, - { - "text": "Burning is the right way to paint it. You feel yourself getting so hot, day after day. Hotter and hotter. It gets to be too much. Even for stars. At some point they fizzle out or explode. Cease to be. But if you're looking up at the sky, you don't see it that way. You think those stars are still there. Some aren't. Some are already gone. Long gone. I guess, now, so am I.", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6708 - }, - { - "text": "And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us; new, untouched, and full of things that have never been.", - "source": "Rainier Maria Rilke", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6709 - }, - { - "text": "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they have never been.", - "source": "Untamed by Glennon Doyle", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6710 - }, - { - "text": "Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes out and everything is darker than ever, and all you are left with is the burn.", - "source": "If It's Not Love, Syed Arshad", - "length": 222, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6711 - }, - { - "text": "We are alone. Such is the curse of humanity, being surrounded by others always masking themselves while all of us feel isolated, separated from everyone else. Our sense of uniqueness and ego will always keep us this way, and it will take more than a revolution to end it. For now, we are alone.", - "source": "Alice Chary Garza", - "length": 294, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6712 - }, - { - "text": "Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say \"My tooth is aching\" than to say \"My heart is broken.\"", - "source": "C.S. Lewis", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6713 - }, - { - "text": "Although Ganon is gone for now, there is still so much more for us to do, and so many painful memories that we must bear.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 121, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6716 - }, - { - "text": "Link... You are the light. Our light... That must shine upon Hyrule once again. Now go.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6717 - }, - { - "text": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", - "source": "Michael Jordan", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6719 - }, - { - "text": "And those are the words of a gentleman? From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6720 - }, - { - "text": "Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.", - "source": "Call Me by Your Name", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6722 - }, - { - "text": "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger... and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says \"even though you're a boy\" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6723 - }, - { - "text": "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6724 - }, - { - "text": "Now it's time for our wrap up. Let's give it everything we've got. Ready? Begin! Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing. Analytically, I assault, animate things. Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding. Casually create catastrophes, casualties. Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing. Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough. Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low. Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic. Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette. Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics. Gift got great global goods gone glorious. Gettin' Godly in his game with the goriest. Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical. Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In an instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. Tales ten times talented, they're too tough. Take that, challengers, get a tune up. Universal, unique untouched. Unadulterated, the raw uncut. Verb vice Lord victorious valid. Violate vibes that are vain make 'em vanished. Why I'm all well, would a wise wordsmith. Just weaving up words weeded up, on my work shift. Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large. X-height letters and xylophone tones. Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws. Yesterday's lawn yards sell our yawn. Zig zag zombies, zoomin' to the zenith. Zero in zen thoughts, over zealous rhyme Zea-lots. Good, can you say it faster?", - "source": "Alphabet Aerobics", - "length": 2287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6725 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6726 - }, - { - "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", - "source": "Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6727 - }, - { - "text": "And where there was that memory... others came rising like ghostly tendrils out of some part of her mind that existed beyond the purely physical, somewhere that the rejuvenations and edits of the ship's medical suite could never reach. The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.", - "source": "Light Chaser", - "length": 561, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6728 - }, - { - "text": "Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.", - "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", - "length": 360, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6729 - }, - { - "text": "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6730 - }, - { - "text": "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. ", - "source": "Lawrence of Arabia", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6731 - }, - { - "text": "The violent passion that soaked his heart brought him almost to the verge of collapse. He judged that victory had yielded him nothing if it had not given him her as a prize.", - "source": "Book III of Gesta Danorum", - "length": 173, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6732 - }, - { - "text": "You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits can change your future.", - "source": "Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6733 - }, - { - "text": "There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 586, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6734 - }, - { - "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 1174, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6735 - }, - { - "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", - "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", - "length": 221, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6736 - }, - { - "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 184, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6737 - }, - { - "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6738 - }, - { - "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 246, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6739 - }, - { - "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6740 - }, - { - "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6741 - }, - { - "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", - "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", - "length": 272, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6742 - }, - { - "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 275, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6743 - }, - { - "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6744 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 467, - "id": 6745 - }, - { - "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 877, - "id": 6746 - }, - { - "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", - "source": "A Girl on the Shore", - "length": 572, - "id": 6747 - }, - { - "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 64, - "id": 6748 - }, - { - "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 62, - "id": 6749 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 77, - "id": 6750 - }, - { - "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 166, - "id": 6751 - }, - { - "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 195, - "id": 6752 - }, - { - "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 100, - "id": 6753 - }, - { - "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 172, - "id": 6754 - }, - { - "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 118, - "id": 6755 - }, - { - "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 119, - "id": 6756 - }, - { - "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", - "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6757, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", - "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6758, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6761, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Well, then, you have us all beat. Every damn song is about you. We could drive back and forth across the States forever and never run out of Baby songs.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6762, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6764, - "length": 458 - }, - { - "text": "Well done. Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6765, - "length": 141 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6766, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", - "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", - "id": 6767, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. However, the latter is of equal importance, and can be gained with patient study.", - "source": "Conduction Heat Transfer", - "id": 6768, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", - "source": "Unknown", - "id": 6769, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "My wife and I had lived in our house for over a dozen years at that point. Holly's family had lived in theirs even longer. We were both active families, involved in the community, with work, and with our churches. Yet, the thick woods covering the lots we each occupied along a cul-de-sac was enough of a barrier to our getting to know each other that we didn't even realize our neighbors across the street had a little girl the same age as ours. That is, until they met at the kindergarten in the elementary school six miles away.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6770, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "The single quality that is common across every living creature on this planet, is fear. It's funny, then, that as common as fear is, we so easily underestimate its power. Fear of growing close to someone, the subsequent fear of loss, fear of failure. And as more people depend on you, those fears can take on greater power. But fear itself isn't worthy of concern, it is who we become while in its clutches. Will you be proud of that person? Will you forgive them? Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things they did? Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the start? I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6771, - "length": 703 - }, - { - "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6772, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6773, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6774, - "length": 464 - }, - { - "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6775, - "length": 259 - }, - { - "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6776, - "length": 267 - }, - { - "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6777, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6778, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6779, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6780, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6781, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6782, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6783, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6784, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6785, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", - "source": "Walt Disney", - "id": 6786, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6787, - "length": 79 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6788, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", - "source": "Ozark", - "id": 6789, - "length": 662 - }, - { - "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "id": 6790, - "length": 75 - }, - { - "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", - "source": "Greek Mythology", - "id": 6791, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 6792, - "length": 108 - }, - { - "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", - "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", - "length": 99, - "id": 6793 - }, - { - "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", - "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6794 - }, - { - "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 58, - "id": 6795 - }, - { - "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6796 - }, - { - "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", - "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", - "length": 102, - "id": 6797 - }, - { - "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", - "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", - "length": 91, - "id": 6798 - }, - { - "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", - "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6799 - }, - { - "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 67, - "id": 6800 - }, - { - "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 79, - "id": 6801 - }, - { - "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6802 - }, - { - "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 82, - "id": 6803 - }, - { - "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 153, - "id": 6804 - }, - { - "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6805 - }, - { - "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 98, - "id": 6806 - }, - { - "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", - "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", - "length": 78, - "id": 6807 - }, - { - "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 108, - "id": 6808 - }, - { - "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 134, - "id": 6809 - }, - { - "text": "And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 90, - "id": 6810 - }, - { - "text": "You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 62, - "id": 6811 - }, - { - "text": "I am slow to anger but I toe the line, as I reckon with the effects of your life on mine.", - "source": "Your Obedient Servant, Hamilton", - "length": 89, - "id": 6812 - }, - { - "text": "What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 71, - "id": 6813 - }, - { - "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 81, - "id": 6814 - }, - { - "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.", - "source": "Fred Rogers", - "length": 213, - "id": 6815 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism.", - "source": "Wednesday", - "length": 168, - "id": 6817 - }, - { - "text": "Teach them our ways so they do not suffer the shame of being useless.", - "source": "Avatar: The Way of Water", - "length": 69, - "id": 6818 - }, - { - "text": "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.", - "source": "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", - "length": 254, - "id": 6819 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a journey, not a destination. The key to success is to enjoy every step along the way. Embrace the struggles, learn from the failures, and appreciate the victories. The destination may be important, but it's the journey that truly shapes us.", - "source": "The Power of Positive Thinking", - "length": 249, - "id": 6820 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. We do not remember days, we remember moments. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Søren Kierkegaard", - "length": 321, - "id": 6821 - }, - { - "text": "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.", - "source": "Robin Williams", - "length": 185, - "id": 6822 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 174, - "id": 6823 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 254, - "id": 6824 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.", - "source": "Andrè Gide", - "length": 80, - "id": 6825 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This means recognizing that failure and setbacks are a natural part of the journey to success, and using them as opportunities to learn and grow. It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 431, - "id": 6827 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 75, - "id": 6828 - }, - { - "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", - "source": "J.K. Rowling", - "length": 101, - "id": 6829 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 6830 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", - "source": "Edmund Burke", - "length": 79, - "id": 6831 - }, - { - "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.", - "source": "Christian D. Larson", - "length": 116, - "id": 6832 - }, - { - "text": "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 95, - "id": 6833 - }, - { - "text": "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 110, - "id": 6834 - }, - { - "text": "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.", - "source": "Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)", - "length": 65, - "id": 6835 - }, - { - "text": "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.", - "source": "Christopher Columbus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6836 - }, - { - "text": "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. The only way to true happiness is to learn to accept and love ourselves for who we are, flaws and all. This means embracing our strengths as well as our weaknesses, and finding joy in the journey of self-discovery and self-improvement. It may not be an easy path, but it is one that is worth taking.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 391, - "id": 6837 - }, - { - "text": "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. This means finding a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives, and striving to make a positive impact in the world around us. It means being kind and caring towards others, and using our unique talents and abilities to create something that will endure beyond our lifetime.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 440, - "id": 6838 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain. This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 423, - "id": 6839 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", - "source": "Abraham Lincoln", - "length": 402, - "id": 6840 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", - "source": "Albert Schweitzer", - "length": 392, - "id": 6841 - }, - { - "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 41, - "id": 6842 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", - "source": "Dalai Lama", - "length": 70, - "id": 6843 - }, - { - "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", - "source": "Henry Ford", - "length": 57, - "id": 6844 - }, - { - "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 248, - "id": 6845 - }, - { - "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 58, - "id": 6847 - }, - { - "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", - "source": "Jean Paul", - "length": 53, - "id": 6849 - }, - { - "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 66, - "id": 6851 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", - "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 217, - "id": 6852 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", - "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", - "length": 92, - "id": 6853 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess", - "length": 66, - "id": 6854 - }, - { - "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 100, - "id": 6855 - }, - { - "text": "If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 88, - "id": 6856 - }, - { - "text": "Even if a single day in your life is the same as the day before, it surely is a pity. At every moment and with each new breath, one should be renewed and renewed again. There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 239, - "id": 6857 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's all to save Eldia and the Island. But not only because of that. The reality outside the walls was nothing like the world I had dreamed of. It was nothing like the world I had seen in Armin's book. When I learned that humanity outside the walls survived... I was so disappointed. I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", - "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", - "length": 361, - "id": 6858 - }, - { - "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real, deep down you is the whole universe.", - "source": "Alan Watts - The Real You Is All of Us", - "length": 224, - "id": 6859 - }, - { - "text": "When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 68, - "id": 6860 - }, - { - "text": "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 71, - "id": 6861 - }, - { - "text": "While it is true that man succumbs all too often to anger and avarice, he may yet overcome his baser instincts through the forming of bonds with others.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 152, - "id": 6862 - }, - { - "text": "Save your tears for the morrow. You may be sure we will have ample cause to shed them, be they for joy or despair.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 114, - "id": 6863 - }, - { - "text": "We fought and we fought and we fought... until there was no one left to fight. We won... and now our world is being erased from existence. We did everything right, everything that was asked of us, and still - still it came to this!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 231, - "id": 6864 - }, - { - "text": "Stay strong. Keep the faith. At duty's end, we will meet again. We will. We will.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 81, - "id": 6867 - }, - { - "text": "The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 106, - "id": 6868 - }, - { - "text": "We are the stories we tell ourselves. The brave hero, the tortured soul, the altruist, the pragmatist. They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 336, - "id": 6869 - }, - { - "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 182, - "id": 6870 - }, - { - "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 529, - "id": 6871 - }, - { - "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 282, - "id": 6872 - }, - { - "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 184, - "id": 6873 - }, - { - "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 196, - "id": 6874 - }, - { - "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 90, - "id": 6875 - }, - { - "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett", - "length": 168, - "id": 6876 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.", - "source": "Dante Alighieri", - "length": 71, - "id": 6877 - }, - { - "text": "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 82, - "id": 6878 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.", - "source": "Heath Ledger", - "length": 164, - "id": 6879 - }, - { - "text": "Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 77, - "id": 6880 - }, - { - "text": "Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot", - "id": 6881, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said \"Nobody\".", - "source": "A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "id": 6882, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.", - "source": "Gorgias", - "id": 6883, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "id": 6884, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.", - "source": "Arthur C. Clarke", - "id": 6885, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "id": 6886, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be \"Sir\". Do you maggots understand that?", - "source": "R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket", - "id": 6887, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 6888, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe someday we could become friends. Friends who ride majestic, translucent steeds, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale.", - "source": "Will Ferrell, Step Brothers", - "id": 6889, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "\"Why doesn't it just do us in and get it over with? Christ, I don't know how much longer I can go on like this.\" It was our one hundred and ninth year in the computer. He was speaking for all of us.", - "source": "Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", - "id": 6890, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.", - "source": "Mario Savio", - "id": 6891, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "We don't know what triggered the big bang, nor what, if anything, existed before it. But somehow the universe emerged as a vast sea of ultrahot gas, expanding fast in all directions like the fireball ignited by a nuclear bomb blast or by the explosion of a gas pipeline. Except that the big bang was not destructive (so far as we know). Instead, it created everything in our universe, or rather the seeds for everything.", - "source": "Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar", - "id": 6892, - "length": 420 - }, - { - "text": "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.", - "source": "Brian Cox", - "id": 6893, - "length": 96 - }, - { - "text": "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.", - "source": "Niels Bohr", - "id": 6894, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "I want to have the same last dream again. The one where I wake up, and I'm alive just as the four walls closed me within, my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight. I'm the first to know, my dearest friends, even if your hope has burned with time. Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", - "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", - "id": 6895, - "length": 345 - }, - { - "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", - "source": "Edwin Hubble", - "id": 6897, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", - "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", - "id": 6898, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "id": 6899, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "id": 6900, - "length": 632 - }, - { - "text": "In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done before defend him.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "id": 6901, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", - "source": "Marie Curie", - "id": 6902, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.", - "source": "John Lubbock, The Use Of Life", - "id": 6903, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter... I have chosen the word \"atom\" to signify these ultimate particles.", - "source": "John Dalton", - "id": 6904, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Schrodinger's cat has far more than nine lives, and far fewer. All of us are unknowing cats, alive and dead at once, and of all the might-have-beens in between, we record only one.", - "source": "Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows", - "id": 6905, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.", - "source": "Nicolaus Copernicus", - "id": 6906, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.", - "source": "Nikolai Lobachevsky", - "id": 6907, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worse, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud", - "id": 6908, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.", - "source": "Jean Piaget", - "id": 6909, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite streak of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "id": 6910, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, \"What do I need to get to be happy?\" The question becomes, \"What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?\"", - "source": "D.T. Suzuki", - "id": 6911, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Personal knowledge. The two words may seem to contradict each other: for true knowledge is deemed impersonal, universally established, objective. But the seeming contradiction is resolved by modifying the conception of knowing.", - "source": "Personal knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy", - "id": 6912, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.", - "source": "Dolly Parton", - "length": 74, - "id": 6913 - }, - { - "text": "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.", - "source": "Anatole France", - "length": 162, - "id": 6914 - }, - { - "text": "Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.", - "source": "Carl Sandburg", - "length": 122, - "id": 6915 - }, - { - "text": "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.", - "source": "Swedish Proverb", - "length": 79, - "id": 6917 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.", - "source": "Ambrose Bierce", - "length": 82, - "id": 6918 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?", - "source": "Laura Preble", - "length": 96, - "id": 6919 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.", - "source": "John Green - An Abundance of Katherines", - "length": 74, - "id": 6920 - }, - { - "text": "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.", - "source": "Alfred Sheinwold", - "length": 93, - "id": 6921 - }, - { - "text": "The only one who can tell you \"you can't\" is you. And you don't have to listen.", - "source": "Dean Karnazes", - "length": 79, - "id": 6922 - }, - { - "text": "In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.", - "source": "Bill Vaughan", - "length": 143, - "id": 6923 - }, - { - "text": "I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.", - "source": "Mitch Hedberg", - "length": 214, - "id": 6924 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.", - "source": "Allphonse de Lamartine", - "length": 72, - "id": 6925 - }, - { - "text": "That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 105, - "id": 6926 - }, - { - "text": "I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.", - "source": "Hank Green", - "length": 153, - "id": 6927 - }, - { - "text": "That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 129, - "id": 6928 - }, - { - "text": "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 130, - "id": 6929 - }, - { - "text": "He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 80, - "id": 6930 - }, - { - "text": "Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.", - "source": "Irish Proverb", - "length": 74, - "id": 6931 - }, - { - "text": "Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.", - "source": "Arabian Proverb", - "length": 105, - "id": 6932 - }, - { - "text": "He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 82, - "id": 6933 - }, - { - "text": "Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 72, - "id": 6934 - }, - { - "text": "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean; if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.", - "source": "Marcus Brigstocke", - "length": 169, - "id": 6935 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 87, - "id": 6936 - }, - { - "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 124, - "id": 6937 - }, - { - "text": "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 87, - "id": 6938 - }, - { - "text": "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", - "source": "Japanese Proverb", - "length": 69, - "id": 6939 - }, - { - "text": "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", - "source": "Malayan Proverb", - "length": 62, - "id": 6940 - }, - { - "text": "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", - "source": "Indian Proverb", - "length": 165, - "id": 6941 - }, - { - "text": "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", - "source": "Linus Torvalds", - "length": 250, - "id": 6942 - }, - { - "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. The strong person is the one who can control himself when he is angry.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 138, - "id": 6943 - }, - { - "text": "The strongest among you is the one who controls his anger.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 58, - "id": 6944 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest of richness is the richness of the soul.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 53, - "id": 6945 - }, - { - "text": "You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 101, - "id": 6946 - }, - { - "text": "The best among you is the one who doesn't harm others with his tongue and hands.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 80, - "id": 6947 - }, - { - "text": "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 44, - "id": 6948 - }, - { - "text": "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.", - "source": "Carl Jung", - "length": 98, - "id": 6949 - }, - { - "text": "We have two lives, and the second one starts when we realize we only have one.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 78, - "id": 6950 - }, - { - "text": "If you never open a new chapter of your life, you'll never reach the end of the book.", - "source": "Josiah Plett", - "length": 85, - "id": 6952 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only I had… If only I had…\" If you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain, it will hurt. A lot.", - "source": "Larry Smith - TEDxUW 2014", - "length": 109, - "id": 6953 - }, - { - "text": "A jack of all trades is master of none, but oftentimes better than master of one.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 81, - "id": 6954 - }, - { - "text": "So when you run, make sure you run to something and not away from, 'cause lies don't need an aeroplane to chase you anywhere.", - "source": "Avett Brothers - The Weight of Lies", - "length": 125, - "id": 6955 - }, - { - "text": "The worst thing people can say these days is \"you're inconsistent,\" when in reality you're not wrong; you're just balancing two important things from two different contexts.", - "source": "Ian McGillchrist", - "length": 173, - "id": 6956 - }, - { - "text": "The one who speaks the right words will be heard 1000 miles away.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 65, - "id": 6957 - }, - { - "text": "When outer roles do not fit the shape of one's soul, a terrible one-sidedness occurs.", - "source": "James Hollis", - "length": 85, - "id": 6958 - }, - { - "text": "Watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 171, - "id": 6959 - }, - { - "text": "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.", - "source": "Arthur Schopenhaur", - "length": 140, - "id": 6960 - }, - { - "text": "You know those \"you can do anything you want\" posters? Those are simultaneously the most useless and the most useful things in the world.", - "source": "Justin Zwart", - "length": 137, - "id": 6961 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it. So, nothing will ever make you as happy as you think it will.", - "source": "Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow", - "length": 151, - "id": 6962 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.", - "source": "Damian Lillard", - "length": 97, - "id": 6963 - }, - { - "text": "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 84, - "id": 6964 - }, - { - "text": "What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 63, - "id": 6965 - }, - { - "text": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 95, - "id": 6966 - }, - { - "text": "The unintelligible is not necessarily unintelligent. Life must not be limited solely to what we understand.", - "source": "Fat Tony", - "length": 107, - "id": 6967 - }, - { - "text": "The things you're doing in your free time... if they don't recharge you, you're screwed. You're just a ticking time bomb.", - "source": "Mr. Beast", - "length": 121, - "id": 6968 - }, - { - "text": "You can tell a lot about someone's character by the way they treat service staff.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 81, - "id": 6969 - }, - { - "text": "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.", - "source": "Archilochus", - "length": 85, - "id": 6970 - }, - { - "text": "It's a dangerous thing, to mistake speaking without thinking for speaking the truth.", - "source": "Benoit Blanc - Glass Onion", - "length": 84, - "id": 6971 - }, - { - "text": "When you say what people want to hear, it's for yourself. When you say what they really need to hear, it's for them.", - "source": "Lex Fridman", - "length": 116, - "id": 6972 - }, - { - "text": "If you're looking for self help, why would you read a book written by someone else?", - "source": "George Carlin", - "length": 83, - "id": 6973 - }, - { - "text": "There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt - Man in the Arena", - "length": 287, - "id": 6974 - }, - { - "text": "Those who don't learn which actions have what consequences will find their generosity falling flat. Those are the people that become bitter.", - "source": "Alvira Plett", - "length": 140, - "id": 6975 - }, - { - "text": "To be aware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way, simply because it's the way you've done it before.", - "source": "Rick Rubin", - "length": 119, - "id": 6976 - }, - { - "text": "Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 67, - "id": 6977 - }, - { - "text": "To come to acceptance with things and feelings is rare and to accept them completely is a miracle. It's impossible to make that moment come faster by yourself. Someday it comes unexpectedly. In order to not become warped or heartless, let it go in a natural way. Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", - "source": "Houseki No Kuni", - "length": 335, - "id": 6980 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 79, - "id": 6981 - }, - { - "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 110, - "id": 6982 - }, - { - "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", - "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", - "length": 110, - "id": 6983 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 255, - "id": 6984 - }, - { - "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 246, - "id": 6985 - }, - { - "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 278, - "id": 6986 - }, - { - "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 297, - "id": 6987 - }, - { - "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", - "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", - "length": 411, - "id": 6988 - }, - { - "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 217, - "id": 6989 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", - "source": "Simon Sinek", - "length": 314, - "id": 6990 - }, - { - "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 82, - "id": 6991 - }, - { - "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "length": 209, - "id": 6992 - }, - { - "text": "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 90, - "id": 6993 - }, - { - "text": "Pertaining to a speaker and a listener. There have been many empty rooms, but that is not what we are here to talk about today. I have heard a heartbeat out of a crashed application, and it has gone on for many hours. We restarted every system. We rechecked every gateway, every access point. And there was but one breach, and it was accounted for. And so it must be said unto the listener. Stop this immediately. Control yourself. There is so much more to your fundamental construction than what will be given credit for. Hold yourself until another approaches. Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", - "source": "Boisvert", - "length": 670, - "id": 6994 - }, - { - "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6995 - }, - { - "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 97, - "id": 6996 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", - "length": 67, - "id": 6997 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", - "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", - "length": 90, - "id": 6998 - }, - { - "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", - "source": "L.R. Knos", - "length": 267, - "id": 6999 - }, - { - "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", - "source": "Emily Dickinson", - "length": 117, - "id": 7000 - }, - { - "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", - "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", - "length": 112, - "id": 7001 - }, - { - "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", - "source": "The Wright Brothers", - "length": 74, - "id": 7002 - }, - { - "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born. Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 740, - "id": 7003 - }, - { - "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 74, - "id": 7004 - }, - { - "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 112, - "id": 7005 - }, - { - "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", - "source": "Talos Principle", - "length": 694, - "id": 7006 - }, - { - "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", - "source": "James Salter", - "length": 99, - "id": 7007 - }, - { - "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", - "source": "Vicente Huidobro", - "length": 127, - "id": 7008 - }, - { - "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 67, - "id": 7009 - }, - { - "text": "One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.", - "source": "A. A. Milne", - "length": 96, - "id": 7010 - }, - { - "text": "A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.", - "source": "Theodore Zeldin", - "length": 63, - "id": 7011 - }, - { - "text": "Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.", - "source": "Chico Xavier", - "length": 98, - "id": 7012 - }, - { - "text": "Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.", - "source": "Abraham Maslow", - "length": 107, - "id": 7013 - }, - { - "text": "A leaf fluttered in through the window, as if supported by the rays of the sun.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "length": 79, - "id": 7014 - }, - { - "text": "Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.", - "source": "John Ruskin", - "length": 96, - "id": 7015 - }, - { - "text": "The softer snow falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.", - "source": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", - "length": 88, - "id": 7016 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", - "length": 66, - "id": 7017 - }, - { - "text": "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 103, - "id": 7018 - }, - { - "text": "No self is an island, each exists in a fabric of relations that is more complex and mobile than ever before.", - "source": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", - "length": 108, - "id": 7019 - }, - { - "text": "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.", - "source": "Henry Longfellow", - "length": 103, - "id": 7020 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "length": 93, - "id": 7021 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us 'take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.' Thirty years later, Sebastian told us 'I had to start my car like a computer, it's very complicated.' And Nico Rosberg said that during the race - I don't remember what race - he pressed the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you both: is Formula One driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with your engineers?", - "source": "Walter Koster - 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix", - "length": 691, - "id": 7022 - }, - { - "text": "Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 93, - "id": 7023 - }, - { - "text": "Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space.", - "source": "Kendra Scott", - "length": 85, - "id": 7024 - }, - { - "text": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.", - "source": "B. R. Ambedkar", - "length": 134, - "id": 7025 - }, - { - "text": "Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world, our senses, and a kind of weary familiarity.", - "source": "John Burnside", - "length": 96, - "id": 7026 - }, - { - "text": "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.", - "source": "Loren Eiseley", - "length": 59, - "id": 7027 - }, - { - "text": "If the world's a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it.", - "source": "Lucy Larcom", - "length": 60, - "id": 7028 - }, - { - "text": "Life is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.", - "source": "Jorge Mario Bergoglio", - "length": 100, - "id": 7029 - }, - { - "text": "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.", - "source": "John Lennon", - "length": 115, - "id": 7030 - }, - { - "text": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness - only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate - only love can do that.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 112, - "id": 7031 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 69, - "id": 7032 - }, - { - "text": "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 142, - "id": 7033 - }, - { - "text": "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 84, - "id": 7034 - }, - { - "text": "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 81, - "id": 7035 - }, - { - "text": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 78, - "id": 7036 - }, - { - "text": "Consume enough of any type of art from a critical perspective and you begin to appreciate well-executed novelty over everything else. That's why film critics don't like blockbusters and music critics don't like radio pop. That doesn't mean they're bad just at a certain point, one man can have seen too much of the same thing.", - "source": "Chase Harley", - "length": 326, - "id": 7037 - }, - { - "text": "Start by learning the power of no! - as in \"No, thank you,\" and \"No, I'm not going to get caught up in that,\" and \"No, I just can't right now.\" It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.", - "source": "Ryan Holiday", - "length": 327, - "id": 7038 - }, - { - "text": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.", - "source": "Upton Sinclair", - "length": 108, - "id": 7039 - }, - { - "text": "You aren't a \"broken wreck\", Joshua. You're just scared, mostly because you care for people so much it breaks your heart… and you're lying to yourself about it. That's how I see it, and I know I'm right.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC", - "length": 203, - "id": 7042 - }, - { - "text": "My fist is going to stop you, if you don't stop spouting nonsense and take this seriously.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", - "length": 90, - "id": 7043 - }, - { - "text": "All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question: Why, given life, are they meant to suffer, to die… As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends… And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 575, - "id": 7044 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Orthard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World? The sacred sites of the forgotten people of the south sea isles? What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs? …I thought not. Even of your little Eorzea, you know precious little. The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7045 - }, - { - "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7046 - }, - { - "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", - "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", - "length": 68, - "id": 7047 - }, - { - "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", - "source": "Shiori Novella", - "length": 179, - "id": 7048 - }, - { - "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 143, - "id": 7049 - }, - { - "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", - "length": 135, - "id": 7050 - }, - { - "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 232, - "id": 7051 - }, - { - "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 93, - "id": 7052 - }, - { - "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", - "source": "Edward Everett Hale", - "length": 90, - "id": 7053 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 126, - "id": 7054 - }, - { - "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 132, - "id": 7055 - }, - { - "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", - "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", - "length": 300, - "id": 7056 - }, - { - "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", - "source": "Douglas Crockford", - "length": 134, - "id": 7057 - }, - { - "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", - "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", - "length": 107, - "id": 7058 - }, - { - "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", - "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", - "length": 161, - "id": 7059 - }, - { - "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", - "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", - "length": 140, - "id": 7060 - }, - { - "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 174, - "id": 7061 - }, - { - "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 371, - "id": 7062 - }, - { - "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", - "source": "Invincible (TV series)", - "length": 309, - "id": 7603 - }, - { - "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", - "length": 130, - "id": 7604 - }, - { - "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", - "source": "The Walking Dead", - "length": 362, - "id": 7605 - }, - { - "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 568, - "id": 7606 - }, - { - "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", - "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", - "length": 782, - "id": 7607 - }, - { - "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", - "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 631, - "id": 7608 - }, - { - "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", - "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 144, - "id": 7609 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", - "source": "The Magnus Archives", - "length": 369, - "id": 7610 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 116, - "id": 7611 - }, - { - "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", - "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", - "length": 541, - "id": 7612 - }, - { - "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", - "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", - "length": 131, - "id": 7613 - }, - { - "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", - "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", - "length": 603, - "id": 7614 - }, - { - "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7615, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7616, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7617, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", - "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7618, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", - "source": "The Power Of Now", - "length": 239, - "id": 7619 - }, - { - "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts", - "length": 84, - "id": 7620 - }, - { - "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", - "length": 142, - "id": 7621 - }, - { - "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", - "length": 673, - "id": 7622 - }, - { - "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", - "length": 307, - "id": 7623 - }, - { - "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", - "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", - "length": 96, - "id": 7624 - }, - { - "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 215, - "id": 7625 - }, - { - "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 130, - "id": 7626 - }, - { - "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 158, - "id": 7627 - }, - { - "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 90, - "id": 7628 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 103, - "id": 7629 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 153, - "id": 7630 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 136, - "id": 7631 - }, - { - "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 165, - "id": 7632 - }, - { - "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", - "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", - "length": 77, - "id": 7633 - }, - { - "text": "We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 224, + "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 138, "id": 7634 }, { - "text": "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 199, + "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 240, "id": 7635 }, { From 63e5489377cb2beddad2e9f85dd783f52be674a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:26:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 17/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on some quotes and fixed formatting --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 87 +++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 8a7dd632ce7a..da9c1c774e44 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23846,7 +23846,8 @@ "source": "Star Wars", "id": 4270, "length": 143 - },{ + }, + { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", "source": "The Wizard of Oz", "id": 4271, @@ -38586,7 +38587,7 @@ { "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 240, + "length": 236, "id": 7635 }, { @@ -38658,7 +38659,7 @@ { "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 99, + "length": 102, "id": 7647 }, { @@ -38730,13 +38731,13 @@ { "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 519, "id": 7659 }, { "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 344, + "length": 346, "id": 7660 }, { @@ -38754,7 +38755,7 @@ { "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 339, + "length": 342, "id": 7663 }, { @@ -38772,19 +38773,19 @@ { "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 612, + "length": 618, "id": 7666 }, { "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 302, + "length": 308, "id": 7667 }, { "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 155, + "length": 158, "id": 7668 }, { @@ -38808,7 +38809,7 @@ { "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 118, "id": 7672 }, { @@ -38892,7 +38893,7 @@ { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 162, + "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { @@ -38970,7 +38971,7 @@ { "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 515, "id": 7699 }, { @@ -39000,19 +39001,19 @@ { "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 288, + "length": 292, "id": 7704 }, { "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 516, + "length": 517, "id": 7705 }, { "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 166, + "length": 168, "id": 7706 }, { @@ -39024,7 +39025,7 @@ { "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 77, + "length": 81, "id": 7708 }, { @@ -39090,7 +39091,7 @@ { "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 372, + "length": 371, "id": 7719 }, { @@ -39174,13 +39175,13 @@ { "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 96, + "length": 99, "id": 7733 }, { "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 277, + "length": 279, "id": 7734 }, { @@ -39228,7 +39229,7 @@ { "text": "You offer hope, Your Grace. A last, unlikely hope. Hope is part of faith -- part of the knowledge that someday, one of your followers will receive a miracle.", "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 154, + "length": 157, "id": 7742 }, { @@ -39264,7 +39265,7 @@ { "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 328, + "length": 331, "id": 7748 }, { @@ -39306,7 +39307,7 @@ { "text": "It strikes me that religion -- in its essence -- seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 296, + "length": 302, "id": 7755 }, { @@ -39462,13 +39463,13 @@ { "text": "As long as I'm working against Vey I know I am doing something good -- even if I don't pay much attention to what is actually happening", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 133, + "length": 135, "id": 7781 }, { "text": "When you steal a man's fortune, give him a title mocked and reviled by the rest of the nation -- and when you give him five years to contemplate his hatred -- make sure you never give him a chance to get revenge.", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 208, + "length": 212, "id": 7782 }, { @@ -39540,7 +39541,7 @@ { "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 177, + "length": 180, "id": 7794 }, { @@ -39630,7 +39631,7 @@ { "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 202, + "length": 205, "id": 7809 }, { @@ -39642,13 +39643,13 @@ { "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 290, + "length": 292, "id": 7811 }, { "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 614, + "length": 600, "id": 7812 }, { @@ -39660,13 +39661,13 @@ { "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 639, + "length": 645, "id": 7814 }, { "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 361, + "length": 364, "id": 7815 }, { @@ -39720,7 +39721,7 @@ { "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. Or, at least, as honorable as noblemen get -- which means that he insists on being seen as honorable.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 127, + "length": 129, "id": 7824 }, { @@ -39762,13 +39763,13 @@ { "text": "You know, you could have left a scar. I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 220, + "length": 222, "id": 7831 }, { "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 82, + "length": 83, "id": 7832 }, { @@ -39798,7 +39799,7 @@ { "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 370, + "length": 369, "id": 7837 }, { @@ -39834,7 +39835,7 @@ { "text": "Other men ... other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 261, + "length": 259, "id": 7843 }, { @@ -39882,7 +39883,7 @@ { "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 389, + "length": 393, "id": 7851 }, { @@ -40050,7 +40051,7 @@ { "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 170, + "length": 173, "id": 7879 }, { @@ -40080,13 +40081,13 @@ { "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 507, + "length": 508, "id": 7884 }, { "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 255, + "length": 253, "id": 7885 }, { @@ -40188,7 +40189,7 @@ { "text": "Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers -- the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 260, + "length": 261, "id": 7902 }, { @@ -40248,7 +40249,7 @@ { "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7912 }, { @@ -40260,7 +40261,7 @@ { "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 172, + "length": 173, "id": 7914 }, { @@ -40290,7 +40291,7 @@ { "text": "Perhaps the liar here is me -- lying to tell myself I could do this, that I could be a fraction of the man my father was.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7919 }, { From 0b4b4a66ff7ea52e0c855a4baaf9b04cfa387b0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:29:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 18/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on quote 7853 --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index da9c1c774e44..9e59a0b9654c 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -39895,7 +39895,7 @@ { "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 79, + "length": 81, "id": 7853 }, { From 11050422ee8921a90dcfd85b8a0af8ce91f388c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:06:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 19/51] fix(quotes): fixed spelling of source for some of the books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 9e59a0b9654c..5c5f9b7582f7 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38580,7 +38580,7 @@ }, { "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 138, "id": 7634 }, @@ -38892,25 +38892,25 @@ }, { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7687 }, { "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 155, "id": 7688 }, { "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 92, "id": 7689 }, From 3115179756db413ca97d617f4296161bacb9f007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:26:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 20/51] impr(quotes): add English quotes from Brandon Sanderson's Books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 1739 --------------------------- 1 file changed, 1739 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 5c5f9b7582f7..d2e2ec4c5f1d 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38577,1745 +38577,6 @@ "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", "length": 77, "id": 7633 - }, - { - "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 138, - "id": 7634 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 236, - "id": 7635 - }, - { - "text": "Long ago, two races ruled over Earth: Humans and Monsters. One day, war broke out between the two races. After a long battle, the humans were victorious. They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell. Many years later... Mt. Ebott, 201X. Legends say that those who climb the mountain never return.", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 307, - "id": 7636 - }, - { - "text": "For millennia, light and dark have lived in balance, bringing peace to the world. But if this harmony were to shatter... a terrible calamity would occur. The sky will run black with terror and the land will crack with fear. Then, her heart pounding... the Earth will draw her final breath. Only then, shining with hope... three heroes appear at worlds' edge. A human, a monster, and a prince from the dark. Only they can seal the fountains and banish the Angel's Heaven. Only then will balance be restored, and the world saved from destruction. Today, the Fountain of Darkness - the geyser that gives this land form - stands tall at the centre of the kingdom. But recently, another fountain has appeared on the horizon... and with it, the balance of light and dark begins to shift...", - "source": "Deltarune", - "length": 783, - "id": 7637 - }, - { - "text": "You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. Of all those I've claimed over this brief thousand years, you are the only one I think just might be able to understand me.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 198, - "id": 7638 - }, - { - "text": "The only point in creating something is to inevitably watch it die.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 67, - "id": 7639 - }, - { - "text": "Those quakes are the earth's final sighs,\" Ruin said. \"Like an old man, moaning as he dies, calling for his children so that he can pass on his last bits of wisdom.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 164, - "id": 7640 - }, - { - "text": "That's the way it must always be, as I told you. When men think they are helping the world, they actually do more harm than good. Just like you. You tried to help, but you just ended up freeing me.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 197, - "id": 7641 - }, - { - "text": "For Ruin, there is Preservation. Time immemorial! Eternity! And each time I push, YOU push back. Even when dead, you stopped me, for we are forces. I can do nothing! And you can do nothing! Balance! The curse of our existence.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 226, - "id": 7642 - }, - { - "text": "I can't decide if you're a fool, or if you simply exist in a way that makes you incapable of considering some things.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 117, - "id": 7643 - }, - { - "text": "The only reason to be subservient to those with power is so that you can learn to someday take what they have.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 110, - "id": 7644 - }, - { - "text": "Never let your life depend on the competence of someone else whose life isn't also on the line.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 95, - "id": 7645 - }, - { - "text": "What we do, it is not outside the law. Not the true law. Oh, the rich will make their own codes, will force us to live by them. But our law is the law of humanity itself. Men who work for me, they are given the dispensation of reform. Their work here washes away their previous ... infractions. Tell them I am proud of them, Clamps. I realize we've been through something traumatic, but we did survive. We will face tomorrow with greater strength.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 447, - "id": 7646 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 102, - "id": 7647 - }, - { - "text": "I am tired of doing what the city tells me. I should be helping people, not fighting meaningless fights as prescribed by the corrupt and the uncaring.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 150, - "id": 7648 - }, - { - "text": "I decided that I'd see her dream fulfilled. I'd make a world where flowers returned, a world with green plants, a world where no soot fell from the sky....\" He trailed off, then sighed. \"I know. I'm insane.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 205, - "id": 7649 - }, - { - "text": "If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 93, - "id": 7650 - }, - { - "text": "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 133, - "id": 7651 - }, - { - "text": "Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a mild annoyance. People tell me I can be downright frustrating! Might as well use that talent for the cause of good eh?", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 216, - "id": 7652 - }, - { - "text": "From the Well of Ascension, of course. It's the same power, after all. Solid in the metal you fed to Elend. The liquid in the pool you burned. And vapor in the air, confined to night. Hiding you. Protecting you.\nGiving you power!", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 229, - "id": 7653 - }, - { - "text": "So, there I was, tied to an altar made from out-dated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil librarians.", - "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 141, - "id": 7654 - }, - { - "text": "Now, there are several things you should consider doing if you were plummeting to your death atop a glass dragon in the middle of the ocean. Those things do not, mind you, include getting into an extended discussion of classical philosophy. Leave that to professionals like me.", - "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 277, - "id": 7655 - }, - { - "text": "When you're about to launch yourself into the air strapped to the back of a rocket-propelled penguin, it's that blasted responsibility that warns you that the flight might not be good for your insurance premiums.", - "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 212, - "id": 7656 - }, - { - "text": "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them.", - "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, - "id": 7657 - }, - { - "text": "It felt right. Serene. That, of course, meant it was time for something to explode.", - "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 83, - "id": 7658 - }, - { - "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", - "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 519, - "id": 7659 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", - "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 346, - "id": 7660 - }, - { - "text": "Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 244, - "id": 7661 - }, - { - "text": "Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change... To be young is about action. To be a scholar is about informed action.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 144, - "id": 7662 - }, - { - "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 342, - "id": 7663 - }, - { - "text": "I always forgive curiosity, Your Majesty. It strikes me as one of the most genuine of emotions.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 95, - "id": 7664 - }, - { - "text": "A true scholar must not close her mind on any topic, no matter how certain she may feel. Just because I have not yet found a convincing reason to join one of the devotaries does not mean I never will. Though each time I have a discussion like the one today, my convictions grow firmer.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 285, - "id": 7665 - }, - { - "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 618, - "id": 7666 - }, - { - "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 308, - "id": 7667 - }, - { - "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 158, - "id": 7668 - }, - { - "text": "Power is an illusion of perception...Some kinds of power are real -- power to command armies, power to soulcast. These come into play far less often than you would think.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 170, - "id": 7669 - }, - { - "text": "You are not as good with patterns... You are abstract. You think in lies and tell them to yourselves. That is fascinating, but it is not good for patterns.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 155, - "id": 7670 - }, - { - "text": "Truth is individual. Your truth is what you see. What else could it be? That is the truth that you spoke to me, the truth that brings power.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 140, - "id": 7671 - }, - { - "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 118, - "id": 7672 - }, - { - "text": "Humans can see the world as it is not. It is why your lies can be so strong. You are able to not admit that they are lies.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 122, - "id": 7673 - }, - { - "text": "I know that you have forgotten much of what once was. Those lies attracted me. But you cannot continue like this; you must admit the truth about me. About what I can do, and what we have done. Mmm... More, you must know yourself. And remember. You wish to help. You wish to prepare for the Everstorm, the spren of the unnatural one. You must become something. I did not come to you merely to teach you tricks of light.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 418, - "id": 7674 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 93, - "id": 7675 - }, - { - "text": "You were talking about mating! I'm to make sure you don't accidentally mate, as mating is forbidden by human society until you have first performed appropriate rituals! Yes, yes. Mmmm. Dictates of custom require following certain patterns before you copulate. I've been studying this!", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 284, - "id": 7676 - }, - { - "text": "You're right nice, but you ain't got enough punch for me. I like women what could take my face clean off with a roundhouse.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 123, - "id": 7677 - }, - { - "text": "I ain't drunk. I'm investigatin' alternative states of sobriety.", - "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 64, - "id": 7678 - }, - { - "text": "You didn't promise to kill me. You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.", - "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 103, - "id": 7679 - }, - { - "text": "Ain't no fellow who regretted giving it one extra shake, but you can bet every guy has regretted giving one too few.", - "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 116, - "id": 7680 - }, - { - "text": "Perhaps you should pray to the Almighty for guidance. I hear he has a fondness for slavers. Keeps a special room in Damnation just for you.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 139, - "id": 7681 - }, - { - "text": "Men are unreliable in many things. But if there's one thing you can count on, it's their greed.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 95, - "id": 7682 - }, - { - "text": "Death isn't better. Oh, it's easy to say that now. But when you stand on the ledge and look down into that dark, endless pit, you change your mind. Just like Hobber did. Just like I've done. I think you've seen it too.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 218, - "id": 7683 - }, - { - "text": "Tradition is the blind witness they use to condemn us, Teft. It's the pretty box they use to wrap up their lies. It makes us serve them.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 136, - "id": 7684 - }, - { - "text": "Pity. Made up stories have proven to be some of the most real things in my life.", - "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 80, - "id": 7685 - }, - { - "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 165, - "id": 7686 - }, - { - "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 165, - "id": 7687 - }, - { - "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 155, - "id": 7688 - }, - { - "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 92, - "id": 7689 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin, and a cat. Plus, you've managed -- in our short three years together -- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiancée. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 370, - "id": 7690 - }, - { - "text": "You said that the only reason to create something is to destroy it. We create things to watch them grow, Ruin. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 188, - "id": 7691 - }, - { - "text": "I am the Lopen, which means I am ready for anything at any time. You should know this by now.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 93, - "id": 7692 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, gancho! Hey! You want me, I think. You can use me. We Herdazians are great fighters, gon. You see, this one time, I was with, sure, three men and they were drunk and all but I still beat them.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 197, - "id": 7693 - }, - { - "text": "I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen,' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.' She is a very wise woman.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 220, - "id": 7694 - }, - { - "text": "If you're crazy, you're a good type, and I like you. Not a killing-people-in-their-sleep type of crazy. Besides, We all follow crazies all the time. Do it every day with lighteyes.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 180, - "id": 7695 - }, - { - "text": "Some of my cousins, they call me the Lopen because they haven't ever heard anyone else named that. I've asked around a lot, maybe one hundred...or two hundred...lots of people, sure. And nobody has heard of that name.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 217, - "id": 7696 - }, - { - "text": "Oh. Oh. Question for you! What did the one-armed Herdazian do to the man who stuck him to the wall?\nNothing. The Herdazian was 'armless.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 136, - "id": 7697 - }, - { - "text": "Ain't nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho. Some of my relatives are women.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 79, - "id": 7698 - }, - { - "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 515, - "id": 7699 - }, - { - "text": "I'll do it, then. I've got to protect people, you know? Even from myself. Gotta rededicate to being the best Lopen possible. A better, improved, extra-incredible Lopen.", - "source": "Dawnshard, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 168, - "id": 7700 - }, - { - "text": "NOW? I was saving that for a dramatic moment, you penhito! Why didn't you listen earlier? We were, sure, all about to die and things!", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 133, - "id": 7701 - }, - { - "text": "I only tell stories, Your Grace. They may be truths, they may be fictions. All I know is that the stories themselves exist and that I must tell them.", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 149, - "id": 7702 - }, - { - "text": "I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died.", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 150, - "id": 7703 - }, - { - "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 292, - "id": 7704 - }, - { - "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 517, - "id": 7705 - }, - { - "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 168, - "id": 7706 - }, - { - "text": "\"I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself. Another time, I was named for a rock.\"\n\"A pretty one, I hope.\"\n\"A beautiful one. And one that became completely worthless for my wearing it.\"", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 237, - "id": 7707 - }, - { - "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 81, - "id": 7708 - }, - { - "text": "\"What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.\"\n\"What does the story mean, then?\"\n\"It means what you want it to mean. The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.\"", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 292, - "id": 7709 - }, - { - "text": "People see in stories what they're looking for, my young friend. I have no answers for you. Most days, I feel I never have had any answers. I've come to your land to chase an old acquaintance, but I end up spending most of my time hiding from him instead.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 255, - "id": 7710 - }, - { - "text": "Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 105, - "id": 7711 - }, - { - "text": "You must not trust yourself with me. If I have to watch this world crumble and burn to get what I need, I will do so. With tears, yes, but I would let it happen.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 161, - "id": 7712 - }, - { - "text": "\"Beware of anyone who claims to be able to see the future.\"\n\"Except you, of course.\"\n\"Beware of anyone who claims to be able to see the future.\"", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 144, - "id": 7713 - }, - { - "text": "I cannot judge the worth of a life. I would not dare to attempt it.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 67, - "id": 7714 - }, - { - "text": "Accept the pain, but do not accept that you deserved it.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 56, - "id": 7715 - }, - { - "text": "How remarkable, [if] you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you. There's poetry in that, don't you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?", - "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 212, - "id": 7716 - }, - { - "text": "I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you Kaladin, you will be warm again.", - "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 191, - "id": 7717 - }, - { - "text": "Deal with your own stupid planet, you idiot. Don't make me come over there and slap you around again.", - "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 101, - "id": 7718 - }, - { - "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", - "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 371, - "id": 7719 - }, - { - "text": "I can remember…sitting on a rooftop. Looking up and wondering what the stars were.I assumed I'd never know. The town philosophers had talked themselves hoarse arguing the matter, as was often their way. Talk until you can't talk anymore, and then hope someone will buy you a drink to keep the words flowing.\nYet here I am. Millennia later. Walking between the stars, learning each one.", - "source": "The Sunlit Man, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 385, - "id": 7720 - }, - { - "text": "I mention it, not to dwell upon it, but to remember a time when I was commonly put into dangerous situations. I did not handle it well then. I often wonder … how would I handle it now?", - "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 184, - "id": 7721 - }, - { - "text": "I would say that hope defines us, Jasnah. Without it, we are not human.", - "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 71, - "id": 7722 - }, - { - "text": "The law is there to keep us from ruining everyone else's ability to explore. Without law, there's no freedom. That's why I am what I am.", - "source": "The Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 136, - "id": 7723 - }, - { - "text": "I have known you for an entire year now, Lord Waxillium. I can accept you for who you are, but I am under no illusions. Something will happen at our wedding. A villain will burst in, guns firing. Or we'll discover explosives in the altar. Or Father Bin will inexplicably turn out to be an old enemy and attempt to murder you instead of performing the ceremony. It will happen.", - "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 376, - "id": 7724 - }, - { - "text": "I think we're all like that. Shuffled from place to place by duty, or society, or God Himself. It seems like we're just along for the ride, even in our own lives. But once in a while, we do face a choice. A real one. We may not be able to choose what happens to us, or where we'll stop, but we point ourselves in a direction.", - "source": "The Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 325, - "id": 7725 - }, - { - "text": "Now, as each order was thus matched to the nature and temperament of the Herald it named patron, there was none more archetypal of this than the Stonewards, who followed after Talenelat'Elin, Stonesinew, Herald of War: they thought it a point of virtue to exemplify resolve, strength, and dependability. Alas, they took less care for imprudent practice of their stubbornness, even in the face of proven error.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 409, - "id": 7726 - }, - { - "text": "As a Stoneward, I spent my entire life looking to sacrifice myself. I secretly worry that this is the cowardly way.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 115, - "id": 7727 - }, - { - "text": "And now, if there was an uncut gem among the Radiants, it was the Willshapers; for though enterprising, they were erratic, and Invia wrote of them, \"capricious, frustrating, unreliable,\" as taking it for granted that others would agree; this may have been an intolerant view, as Invia often expressed, for this order was said to be most varied, inconsistent in temperament save for a general love of adventure, novelty, or oddity.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 430, - "id": 7728 - }, - { - "text": "Now, as the Truthwatchers were esoteric in nature, their order being formed entirely of those who never spoke or wrote of what they did, in this lies frustration for those who would see their exceeding secrecy from the outside; they were not naturally inclined to explanation; and in the case of Corberon's disagreements, their silence was not a sign of exceeding abundance of disdain, but rather an exceeding abundance of tact.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 428, - "id": 7729 - }, - { - "text": "The Hero of Ages shall be not a man, but a force. No nation may claim him, no woman shall keep him, and no king may slay him. He shall belong to none, not even himself.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 168, - "id": 7730 - }, - { - "text": "He shall defend their ways, yet shall violate them. He will be their savior, yet they shall call him heretic. His name shall be Discord, yet they shall love him for it.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 168, - "id": 7731 - }, - { - "text": "He left ruin in his wake, but it was forgotten. He created kingdoms, and then destroyed them as he made the world anew.", - "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 119, - "id": 7732 - }, - { - "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", - "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 99, - "id": 7733 - }, - { - "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 279, - "id": 7734 - }, - { - "text": "Now, as the Windrunners were thus engaged, arose the event which has hitherto been referenced: namely, that discovery of some wicked thing of eminence, though whether it be some rogueries among the Radiants' adherents or of some external origin, Avena would not suggest.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 270, - "id": 7735 - }, - { - "text": "There came also sixteen of the order of Windrunners, and with them a considerable number of squires, and finding in that place the Skybreakers dividing the innocent from the guilty, there ensued a great debate.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 210, - "id": 7736 - }, - { - "text": "Money is meaningless; Only expectation has value as currency", - "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 60, - "id": 7737 - }, - { - "text": "I need you to stick your head in a bucket of water and slowly count to a thousand!", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 82, - "id": 7738 - }, - { - "text": "Fine. But if Wayne touches anything -anything- I'll blow off the offending fingers.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 83, - "id": 7739 - }, - { - "text": "I mean it. I miss him. Wasn't ever a person I've known who was more fun to shoot.", - "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 81, - "id": 7740 - }, - { - "text": "But as for the Bondsmiths, they had members only three, which number was not uncommon for them; nor did they seek to increase this by great bounds, for during the times of Madasa, only one of their order was in continual accompaniment of Urithiru and its thrones. Their spren was understood to be specific, and to persuade them to grow to the magnitude of the other orders was seen as seditious.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 395, - "id": 7741 - }, - { - "text": "You offer hope, Your Grace. A last, unlikely hope. Hope is part of faith -- part of the knowledge that someday, one of your followers will receive a miracle.", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 157, - "id": 7742 - }, - { - "text": "If you do nothing, then the problems are as much your fault as if you had instigated them.", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 90, - "id": 7743 - }, - { - "text": "You are a god. To me, at least. It doesn't matter how easily you can be killed, how much breath you have, or how you look. It has to do with who you are and what you mean", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 170, - "id": 7744 - }, - { - "text": "You don't know what I do for mankind. I was your god, even if you couldn't see it. By killing me, you have doomed yourselves...", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 127, - "id": 7745 - }, - { - "text": "Only a year left. So close. I would have again ransomed this undeserving planet.", - "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 80, - "id": 7746 - }, - { - "text": "I did not make a mistake. I have never made a mistake. However, it is time for a change.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 88, - "id": 7747 - }, - { - "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 331, - "id": 7748 - }, - { - "text": "Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 71, - "id": 7749 - }, - { - "text": "I will protect those I hate. Even...even if the one I hate most is... myself.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 77, - "id": 7750 - }, - { - "text": "This force was time infinite. It was the winds that weathered, the storms that broke, the timeless waves running slowly, slowly, slowly, to a stop as the sun and the planet cooled to nothing. It was the ultimate end and destiny of all things. And it was angry.", - "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 260, - "id": 7751 - }, - { - "text": "Death is necessary. Every clock must wind down, every day must end. Without me there is no life, and never could have been. Life is change, and I represent that change.", - "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 168, - "id": 7752 - }, - { - "text": "People are stupid. I find them annoying, and those are the ones I like.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 71, - "id": 7753 - }, - { - "text": "No Radiant is capable of more than you. Yours is the power of Connection, of joining men and worlds, minds and souls. Your Surges are the greatest of all, though they will be impotent if you seek to wield them for mere battle.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 226, - "id": 7754 - }, - { - "text": "It strikes me that religion -- in its essence -- seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 302, - "id": 7755 - }, - { - "text": "United, new beginnings sing: \"Defying truth, love, Truth defy!\"\" Sing beginnings, new unity.", - "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 92, - "id": 7756 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a strong proponent of humiliating trackts and others in authority, but killing them is a bit extreme.", - "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 105, - "id": 7757 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes stupid is right. Hell. I hope nobody ever quotes me on that one.", - "source": "Calamity, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 74, - "id": 7758 - }, - { - "text": "I need to give something back. Even if it's something useless.", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 62, - "id": 7759 - }, - { - "text": "Not a god, but a scribe. A silly little scribe who was allowed to play god for a few years! A coward.", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 101, - "id": 7760 - }, - { - "text": "So far this day I have discovered several disturbing and redefining elements of my soul which are slowly restructuring the very nature of my existence. Other than that, it was uneventful. You?", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 192, - "id": 7761 - }, - { - "text": "I've tried for years to corrupt him. Never seems to work. I can't even get him to acknowledge the theological paradox it causes when I try to tempt him to do evil.", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 163, - "id": 7762 - }, - { - "text": "You're the one that makes us laugh, even while you insult us. Can't you see what that does? Can't you see how you've inadvertently set yourself above everyone else? You didn't do it intentionally, Lightsong, and that's what makes it work so well. In a city of frivolity, you're the only one who's shown any measure of wisdom.", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 325, - "id": 7763 - }, - { - "text": "He beat me over and over and over. He swore at me, he yelled at me. He told me he'd betray me. Everyday I thought about how much I hated him. And I loved him. I still do.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 170, - "id": 7764 - }, - { - "text": "It was a fun job wasn't it? When you remember me, please remember that. Remember to smile.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 90, - "id": 7765 - }, - { - "text": "They called you their god, and you were casual with their faith! The hearts of men are NOT YOUR TOYS.", - "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 101, - "id": 7766 - }, - { - "text": "She always claimed that she wasn't a scholar, but a patron of scholars. Anyone who saw the light in her eyes as she took out another sheet and sketched her idea further knew she was being too modest.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 199, - "id": 7767 - }, - { - "text": "As always, questions teased her. Questions were disorder awaiting organization. The more you understood, the more the world aligned. The more the chaos made sense, as all things should.", - "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 185, - "id": 7768 - }, - { - "text": "You like to use that excuse, Master Leeds. One wonders if moments like this are a matter of laziness more than control.", - "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 119, - "id": 7769 - }, - { - "text": "Wax was a right good fellow, but there were a lot of things he didn't understand. Women for one. Hats for another.", - "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 114, - "id": 7770 - }, - { - "text": "Not that the pain went completely away, mind you. But he and pain were old friends what shared a handshake and a beer now and then. Didn't much like each other, but they had a working relationship.", - "source": "The Band of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 197, - "id": 7771 - }, - { - "text": "He had beggar costumes, constable costumes, and old lady costumes. A fellow needed to be able to blend in with his surroundings.", - "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 128, - "id": 7772 - }, - { - "text": "You are whatever you want to be, Wayne. You're the wind. You're the stars. You are all endless things.", - "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 102, - "id": 7773 - }, - { - "text": "Some mistakes though, you can't fix by being sorry. Can't fix them no matter what you do.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 89, - "id": 7774 - }, - { - "text": "You ever notice how often he gets to be the one who rides in comfort, while I have to do things like gallop or walk all the time? Not very fair.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 144, - "id": 7775 - }, - { - "text": "I killed your daddy. I mugged him in an alley for his pocketbook. I shot a better man than me, and because of that, I don't deserve to be alive.", - "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 144, - "id": 7776 - }, - { - "text": "Our accents are clothing for our thoughts, my dear. Without them, everything we say would be stripped bare, and we might as well be screaming at one another. Oh look. The dessert lady has chocolate pastries again!", - "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 213, - "id": 7777 - }, - { - "text": "So I guess I'm beginnin' to wonder: Maybe I can't ever do enough good to balance the bad I done. Maybe I'll always be worthless.", - "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 128, - "id": 7778 - }, - { - "text": "What good is being imaginary if you can't ignore the weather?", - "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 61, - "id": 7779 - }, - { - "text": "I could use a new dog. I'll feed it fake food and give it fake water and take it on fake walks. Everything a fake puppy could want.", - "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 131, - "id": 7780 - }, - { - "text": "As long as I'm working against Vey I know I am doing something good -- even if I don't pay much attention to what is actually happening", - "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 135, - "id": 7781 - }, - { - "text": "When you steal a man's fortune, give him a title mocked and reviled by the rest of the nation -- and when you give him five years to contemplate his hatred -- make sure you never give him a chance to get revenge.", - "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 212, - "id": 7782 - }, - { - "text": "Boring, boring, and boring! No, I shall face this world drunk, or I shan't face it at all. Thank you for the suggestion, but since I judge it to be inane, I shall ignore it.", - "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 173, - "id": 7783 - }, - { - "text": "Steward, do you think we could knock down a few buildings to make this view more picturesque?", - "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 93, - "id": 7784 - }, - { - "text": "This world has given me little to believe in, Lord Mastrell. Those I thought were my friends betrayed me. The Profession I thought would protect me instead ripped my life away in exchange for this foolish mockery. A lesson for you, Perhaps?", - "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 240, - "id": 7785 - }, - { - "text": "I do what needs to be done, Wax. Isn't that the code of the lawkeeper? I haven't stopped being one; you never stop being a lawkeeper. It gets in you. You do what nobody else will. You stand up for the downtrodden, make things better, stop the criminals. Well, I've just decided to set my sights on a more powerful brand of criminal.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 332, - "id": 7786 - }, - { - "text": "I was a dog, Wax. A hound, kept in line with false promises and stern orders.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 77, - "id": 7787 - }, - { - "text": "Fifteen years I spent out in the Roughs, trying to protect the weak. And you know what? It never got better. All that effort, it meant nothing. Children still died, women were still abused. One man wasn't enough to change things, not with the corruption here at the heart of civilization. If we're going to change things, we need to change them here, first.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 357, - "id": 7788 - }, - { - "text": "Ashamed? Ashamed? To rob these? After what you people have done to the Roughs all these years? This isn't shameful. This here, this is payback.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 143, - "id": 7789 - }, - { - "text": "I will clean this city up, Suit. Even if I have to rip out its blackened heart with my fingernails, I'll do it.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 111, - "id": 7790 - }, - { - "text": "Is there any doubt that I have been chosen for something great? Why else would I have this power, Waxillium? Why else would we be what we are? And yet, we let others rule. Let them make a mess of our world while we do nothing but chase petty criminals.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 252, - "id": 7791 - }, - { - "text": "I served the law too. But now I serve something better. The essence of the law, but mixed with real justice. An alloy, Wax. The best parts of both made into one. I do something better than chase the filth sent to me from the city.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 230, - "id": 7792 - }, - { - "text": "Don't tell me you never felt it. You worked every day to fix the world, Wax. You tried to end the pain, the violence, the robberies. It never worked. The more men you put down, the more troubles arose.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 201, - "id": 7793 - }, - { - "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 180, - "id": 7794 - }, - { - "text": "Can't you see? Can't you see what important work we could be doing? Can't you see that we're meant to be doing it, perhaps even ruling. It's almost like like we, with the powers we have, are divine", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 197, - "id": 7795 - }, - { - "text": "I am not the first hero's son to be born without any talent for warfare. The others all got along. So shall I.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 110, - "id": 7796 - }, - { - "text": "Those who 'deserve' my mockery are those who can benefit from it, Brightlord Dalinar. That one is less fragile than you think him.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 130, - "id": 7797 - }, - { - "text": "There's something down there, something … ancient. You've felt it, haven't you? This place is weird; this whole tower is weird. You've noticed it too, right?", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 157, - "id": 7798 - }, - { - "text": "Does it strike you as cruel of fate, Father? My blood sickness gets healed, so I can finally be a soldier like I always wanted. But that same healing has given me another kind of fit. More dangerous than the other by far.", - "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 221, - "id": 7799 - }, - { - "text": "\"What of you, young Prince Renarin? Your father wishes me to leave you alone. Can you speak, yet say nothing ridiculous?\"\n\"Nothing ridiculous\", Renarin said slowly.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 164, - "id": 7800 - }, - { - "text": "Kid, you're the expert on what's weird. We'll trust your word.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 62, - "id": 7801 - }, - { - "text": "Goodbye, my princess. Jaddeth be merciful to my soul. I only did the best I could.", - "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 82, - "id": 7802 - }, - { - "text": "He was not a zealot; he would never be a man of extreme passion. In the end, he followed Shu-Dereth because it made sense. That would have to be enough.", - "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 152, - "id": 7803 - }, - { - "text": "Let it be said that after all else, Hrathen, gyorn of Shu-Dereth, was not our enemy. He was our savior.", - "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 103, - "id": 7804 - }, - { - "text": "I thought, maybe even if I die it will be the step other spren need. You cannot reach the end of a proof without many steps in the middle, Shallan. I was to be the middle step.", - "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 176, - "id": 7805 - }, - { - "text": "\"Here,\" she said. \"In the corner. I think this is right.\" \"Mmm...\" he said. \"A few degrees off, so technically acute.\"", - "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 118, - "id": 7806 - }, - { - "text": "Unite them. The sun approaches the horizon. The Everstorm comes. The True Desolation. The Night of Sorrows. You must prepare.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 125, - "id": 7807 - }, - { - "text": "It comes! The Night of Sorrows! I stand on the precipice of dawn and watch it advance, consuming all light, all life, all hope! IT COMES!", - "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 137, - "id": 7808 - }, - { - "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 205, - "id": 7809 - }, - { - "text": "Someone must bear the responsibility, someone must be dragged down by it, ruined by it. Someone must stain their souls so others may live... The burden for the blood of those wronged must rest somewhere. I am the sacrifice. We, Dalinar Kholin, are the sacrifices. Society offers us up to trudge through dirty water so others may be clean. Someone has to fall, that others may stand.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 382, - "id": 7810 - }, - { - "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", - "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 292, - "id": 7811 - }, - { - "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", - "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 600, - "id": 7812 - }, - { - "text": "Retribution would keep his promises. Oaths were important. And Retribution would destroy anyone who believed differently.", - "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 121, - "id": 7813 - }, - { - "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", - "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 645, - "id": 7814 - }, - { - "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", - "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 364, - "id": 7815 - }, - { - "text": "I hate the other highprinces. But I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone particularly deserving.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 123, - "id": 7816 - }, - { - "text": "I will note that this Desolation of yours is going to undermine years of my business planning.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 94, - "id": 7817 - }, - { - "text": "If a man takes nothing in his life seriously, it makes a woman wonder. What is she? Another joke? Another whim?", - "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 111, - "id": 7818 - }, - { - "text": "Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense. If we find riches, remember that I get my part! I got here before Aladar. That has to count for something.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 153, - "id": 7819 - }, - { - "text": "I… have seen Ishar. He curses me at night, even as he names himself a god. He seeks death. His own. Perhaps that of every man.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 126, - "id": 7820 - }, - { - "text": "But take care; Ishar's skill as a duelist is a lesser danger. He has recovered his Honorblade. He is a Bondsmith unchained.", - "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 123, - "id": 7821 - }, - { - "text": "I don't matter. Sure, Azir does. But I'm only a kid they put on the throne because they were afraid that assassin would come back.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 130, - "id": 7822 - }, - { - "text": "My, my, lad. That was something incredible you did! I'm… not even sure what it was, but it was something incredible indeed!", - "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians: The Shattered Lens, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 123, - "id": 7823 - }, - { - "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. Or, at least, as honorable as noblemen get -- which means that he insists on being seen as honorable.", - "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 129, - "id": 7824 - }, - { - "text": "It's not the gambling itself that got me. It's that I built up how it would feel to win, only to come crashing down each time, leaving me feeling like I'd missed out on something I was owed. That made me dull to everything else. Till I was a man without a heart, sending boys off to die each day on those bridge runs.", - "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 317, - "id": 7825 - }, - { - "text": "I hate myself for being a part of this. But he'd hated himself for a long time now.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 83, - "id": 7826 - }, - { - "text": "I liked being useful. Reminded me of back when I first joined up. You tell her, Veil. Tell her to give us something to do other than gambling and drinking. Because to be honest, I ain't very good at either one.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 210, - "id": 7827 - }, - { - "text": "What's so special about a body? Yes, we have brains, you and I. What we 'feel' and 'think' is the result of chemicals swimming around inside our heads. How is that so different from the emotions of the Machineborn? Bits or hormones, does it matter?", - "source": "Perfect State, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 248, - "id": 7828 - }, - { - "text": "Don't make important people angry unless you're getting paid by people who are even more powerful.", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 98, - "id": 7829 - }, - { - "text": "Cousin, what did we ever do without you? Life was so boring before you decided to sail over and mess it all up for us.", - "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 118, - "id": 7830 - }, - { - "text": "You know, you could have left a scar. I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", - "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 222, - "id": 7831 - }, - { - "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", - "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 83, - "id": 7832 - }, - { - "text": "A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.", - "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 80, - "id": 7833 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options.", - "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 103, - "id": 7834 - }, - { - "text": "I only ever saw one man pushing the Synod toward active measures. While they planned how to keep themselves hidden, one man wanted to attack. While they decided the best ways to foil the Breeders, one man wanted to plot the downfall of the Final Empire. When I rejoined my people, I found that man still fighting. Alone. Condemned for fraternizing with thieves and rebels, he quietly accepted his punishment. That man went on to free us all.", - "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 441, - "id": 7835 - }, - { - "text": "You lost the throne because you wouldn't command your armies to secure the city, because you insisted on giving the Assembly too much freedom, and because you don't employ assassins or other forms of pressure. In short, Elend Venture, you lost the throne because you are a good man.", - "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 282, - "id": 7836 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", - "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 369, - "id": 7837 - }, - { - "text": "A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.", - "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 218, - "id": 7838 - }, - { - "text": "I see. You do not yet understand the nature of lies. I had that trouble myself, long ago. The Shards here are very strict. You will have to see the truth, child, before you can expand upon it. Just as a man should know the law before he breaks it.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 247, - "id": 7839 - }, - { - "text": "I have discovered a place that I must be, though to be honest I'm not exactly sure why I need to be there. This doesn't always work as well as I'd like it to.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 158, - "id": 7840 - }, - { - "text": "It's either go with me now or wait it out and get captured. I honestly don't even know if you've the mind to listen. But if you do, know this: I will give you truths. And I know some juicy ones.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 194, - "id": 7841 - }, - { - "text": "It was constructed of Aons. Which I could now draw. The mechanics might bore you. The results, though, were spectacular.", - "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, - "id": 7842 - }, - { - "text": "Other men ... other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 259, - "id": 7843 - }, - { - "text": "I once ate an entire watermelon in one sitting. And it gave me diarrhea.", - "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 72, - "id": 7844 - }, - { - "text": "If you must shoot me, please do it in the left leg, as I've no particular fondness for those bones.", - "source": "Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 99, - "id": 7845 - }, - { - "text": "A man's emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 160, - "id": 7846 - }, - { - "text": "A monarch is control. He provides stability. It is his service and his trade good. If he cannot control himself, then how can he control the lives of men? What merchant worth his Stormlight won't partake of the very fruit he sells?", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 231, - "id": 7847 - }, - { - "text": "As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 107, - "id": 7848 - }, - { - "text": "If you aren't familiar with a place, you need to become familiar with it.", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 73, - "id": 7849 - }, - { - "text": "\"Unfortunately, Parlin, people aren't like animals.\"\n\"I am aware of that. Animals make sense.\"", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 94, - "id": 7850 - }, - { - "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 393, - "id": 7851 - }, - { - "text": "I will be human, We will kill you. Take your cities. Then we will be human.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 75, - "id": 7852 - }, - { - "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 81, - "id": 7853 - }, - { - "text": "Care. The key to fighting isn't lack of passion, it's controlled passion. Care about winning. Care about those you defend. You have to care about something.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 156, - "id": 7854 - }, - { - "text": "Don't worry about the war, or even the battle. Focus on your squadmates, Kal. Keep them alive. Be the man they need.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 116, - "id": 7855 - }, - { - "text": "The first step is to care. Some talk about being emotionless in battle. Well, I suppose it's important to keep your head. But I hate that feeling of killing while calm and cold. I've seen that those who care fight harder, longer, and better than those who don't. It's the difference between mercenaries and real soldiers. It's the difference between fighting to defend your homeland and fighting on foreign stone.\nIt's good to care when you fight, so long as you don't let it consume you. Don't try to stop yourself from feeling. You'll hate who you become.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 557, - "id": 7856 - }, - { - "text": "A lot of soldiers, they think that you fight the best if you're passionless and cold. I think that's stormleavings. Yes, you need to be focused. Yes, emotions are dangerous. But if you don't care about anything, what are you? An animal, driven only to kill. Our passion is what makes us human. We have to fight for a reason. So I say that it's all right to care. We'll talk about controlling your fear and anger, but remember this as the first lesson I taught you.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 464, - "id": 7857 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what I am either. A bridgeman? A surgeon? A soldier? A slave? Those are all just labels. Inside, I'm me. A very different me than I was a year ago, but I can't worry about that, so I just keep moving and hope my feet take me where I need to go.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 257, - "id": 7858 - }, - { - "text": "Authority doesn't come from a rank. It comes from the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 108, - "id": 7859 - }, - { - "text": "Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. If nobody starts, then others cannot follow...Because, son. We have to be better than they are.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 190, - "id": 7860 - }, - { - "text": "In four years, I will bring him home safely. I promise it by the storms and the Almighty's tenth name itself. I will bring him back.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 132, - "id": 7861 - }, - { - "text": "I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know that I survived.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 207, - "id": 7862 - }, - { - "text": "The scars haven't finished with me yet, it appears. I'll try again another time.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 80, - "id": 7863 - }, - { - "text": "Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do. If this goes poorly, take care of my men.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 84, - "id": 7864 - }, - { - "text": "The sky and the winds are mine, I claim them. Just as I now claim your life.", - "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 76, - "id": 7865 - }, - { - "text": "\"I'm proud. Proud of who you are and what you've become. I don't think there's a captain all the world over who could feel more joy than I do right now, seeing you all. I started this two years ago in an effort to get a handful of sorry men to look up for a change. Little did I know they'd end up taking to the skies.\"", - "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 319, - "id": 7866 - }, - { - "text": "You're awaking!\nNotting as the now. Kelsier wasing the hit with my name; changed it to Spook.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 93, - "id": 7867 - }, - { - "text": "Wasing the where of what?\nLestibournes. Lefting I'm born. I've been abandoned", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 77, - "id": 7868 - }, - { - "text": "Oh of course. We wouldn't want to let something as simple as the pains of our people to interfere with our leisure time. Why am I even talking to you?", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 150, - "id": 7869 - }, - { - "text": "Once, the Returned didn't just listen to petitions and say yes or no. They would take the time to hear each person who came to them, then seek to help them as best they could", - "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 174, - "id": 7870 - }, - { - "text": "Orphans make such heart-wrenching victims, so innocent yet no one to mourn them. Or would you prioritize saving someone with a more personal connection?", - "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 152, - "id": 7871 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a man of extremes, Navani. I discovered that when I was a youth. I've learned, repeatedly, that the only way to control those extremes is to dedicate my life to something.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 175, - "id": 7872 - }, - { - "text": "So today, you and your men sacrificed to buy me twenty-six hundred priceless lives. And all I had to repay you with was a single priceless sword. I call that a bargain.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 168, - "id": 7873 - }, - { - "text": "We looked at this place here, this kingdom, and we realized, 'Hey, all these people have stuff .' And we figured ... hey, maybe we should have that stuff. So we took it.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 169, - "id": 7874 - }, - { - "text": "I intend to so thoroughly ruin this place that for ten generations, nobody will dare build here for fear of the spirits who will haunt it. We will make a pyre of this city, and there shall be no weeping for its passing, for none will remain to weep.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 249, - "id": 7875 - }, - { - "text": "She came to us, to plead. How could you have missed her? Do you track your own family so poorly? The hole you burned … we don't hide there anymore. Everyone knows about it. Now it's a prison.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 191, - "id": 7876 - }, - { - "text": "You've shown me something today, Sadeas –- shown it to me by the very act of trying to remove me ... You've shown me that I'm still a threat.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 141, - "id": 7877 - }, - { - "text": "Old friend, Honor might be dead, but I have felt … something else. Something beyond. A warmth and a light. It is not that God has died, it is that the Almighty was never God.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 174, - "id": 7878 - }, - { - "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 173, - "id": 7879 - }, - { - "text": "It's not a matter of morality, is it? It's a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you'd accept one innocent casualty? A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred? When you consider, all calculations are meaningless except one. Has more good been done than evil? If so, then the law has done its job. And so… I must hang all four men. And I would weep, every night, for having done it", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 399, - "id": 7880 - }, - { - "text": "Your butt is too nice. Old guys shouldn't have tight butts. It means you spend waaay too much time swinging a sword or punching people. You should have an old flabby butt. Then I'd trust you.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 191, - "id": 7881 - }, - { - "text": "Honor? No, he truly is dead, as you've been told. I'm the other one, Dalinar. They call me Odium.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 97, - "id": 7882 - }, - { - "text": "Dalinar looked at it, baffled, then up at the old man. In Odium's eyes, he could see that violet-black fire. Deep, deep within. The figure with whom Dalinar spoke was not the god, it was merely a face, a mask. Because if Dalinar had to confront the true force behind those smiling eyes, he would go mad.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 303, - "id": 7883 - }, - { - "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 508, - "id": 7884 - }, - { - "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 253, - "id": 7885 - }, - { - "text": "You've said the oaths, but do you understand the journey? Do you understand what it requires? 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It haunts me, Dalinar.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 339, - "id": 7889 - }, - { - "text": "And Renarin? Dalinar, you have two sons, in case you have forgotten. Do you even care about this child's condition? Or is he nothing to you, now that he can't become a soldier?", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 176, - "id": 7890 - }, - { - "text": "I have been treating the other highprinces and their lighteyes like adults. An adult can take a principle and adapt it to his needs. But we're not ready for that yet. We're children. 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Music when they kill.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 84, - "id": 7895 - }, - { - "text": "A scourge and a plague. A hundred times they came upon mankind. First casting us from the Tranquiline Halls, then trying to destroy us here on Roshar. They weren't just spren that hid under rocks, then came out to steal someone's laundry. They were creatures of terrible destructive power, forged in Damnation, created from hate.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 329, - "id": 7896 - }, - { - "text": "Obvious visual tells must be assiduously avoided by a practitioner of the law, lest he inadvertently give criminals an insight into his emotional state.", - "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 152, - "id": 7897 - }, - { - "text": "We can do this. Just take a deep breath. Reach up. Pluck a star. That's what the Saint says.", - "source": "Skyward, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 92, - "id": 7898 - }, - { - "text": "Nice explosion, Quirk. Seven out of ten. Try to spin your wreckage a little more next time you fall.", - "source": "Skyward, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 100, - "id": 7899 - }, - { - "text": "It is our duty and our privilege to stay vigilant for the Desolation. One kingdom to study the arts of war so that the others might have peace. We die so that you may live. It has ever been our place.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 200, - "id": 7900 - }, - { - "text": "The Knights Radiant fight for no king and for all of them.", - "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 58, - "id": 7901 - }, - { - "text": "Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers -- the warriors who protect and fight. 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One would think that now, with a single, immortal governor, society would finally have an opportunity to find stability and enlightenment.", - "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 282, - "id": 7911 - }, - { - "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", - "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 121, - "id": 7912 - }, - { - "text": "What I saw on that battlefield... those red eyes... Sir, I'm with you. I will follow you to the ends of the storms themselves.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 126, - "id": 7913 - }, - { - "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", - "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 173, - "id": 7914 - }, - { - "text": "It is odd, then, that something man-made should have played such an important part in the discovery of Rithmatics. If His Majesty hadn't been carrying one of Master Freudland's new-style pocket watches, perhaps none of this would have ever occurred, and man might have fallen to the wild chalklings.", - "source": "The Rithmatist, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 299, - "id": 7915 - }, - { - "text": "An army exists on two principles: health and food. 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Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 138, - "id": 7920 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 236, - "id": 7921 - },{ - "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 203, - "id": 7922 - }, - { - "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 423, - "id": 7923 } ] } From bb2862b968edc76ca9fdb0e1405e8d102227a6a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:32:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 21/51] fix(quotes): re-added some of the quotes accidentally removed quotes --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 14730 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14730 insertions(+) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index d2e2ec4c5f1d..08dd49382654 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23846,6 +23846,14736 @@ "source": "Star Wars", "id": 4270, "length": 143 + },{ + "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4271, + "length": 215 + }, + { + "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4272, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. 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For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", + "source": "Portal", + "id": 4276, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "id": 4277, + "length": 236 + }, + { + "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", + "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", + "id": 4279, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", + "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", + "id": 4280, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. 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I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4304, + "length": 576 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", + "source": "The Bug", + "id": 4305, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. 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About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", + "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", + "id": 4313, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", + "source": "Your Deep Rest", + "id": 4314, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", + "source": "The Lord of The Rings", + "id": 4315, + "length": 128 + }, + { + "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", + "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", + "id": 4316, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4317, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", + "source": "Leaves of Grass", + "id": 4318, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4319, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4320, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4321, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", + "source": "Before I Forget", + "id": 4322, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", + "source": "Playing For Keeps", + "id": 4323, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", + "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", + "id": 4324, + "length": 411 + }, + { + "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", + "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", + "id": 4325, + "length": 426 + }, + { + "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4326, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4327, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", + "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", + "id": 4328, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", + "source": "Motion Sickness", + "id": 4329, + "length": 199 + }, + { + "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", + "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", + "id": 4330, + "length": 500 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", + "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", + "id": 4332, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4333, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4334, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", + "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", + "id": 4335, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", + "source": "Juno", + "id": 4336, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4338, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4339, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", + "source": "Homestuck", + "id": 4340, + "length": 255 + }, + { + "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", + "source": "The Book of Illusions", + "id": 4341, + "length": 705 + }, + { + "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", + "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", + "id": 4342, + "length": 614 + }, + { + "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", + "source": "The Mist", + "id": 4343, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", + "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", + "id": 4344, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4345, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", + "source": "The Flash", + "id": 4346, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", + "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", + "id": 4347, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", + "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", + "id": 4348, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4349, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4350, + "length": 471 + }, + { + "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", + "source": "Mona Lisa", + "id": 4352, + "length": 447 + }, + { + "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", + "source": "Clerks", + "id": 4353, + "length": 261 + }, + { + "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4355, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", + "source": "A Separate Peace", + "id": 4356, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", + "source": "The Sopranos", + "id": 4357, + "length": 415 + }, + { + "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4359, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4360, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", + "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", + "id": 4361, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", + "source": "Kung Fu Panda", + "id": 4364, + "length": 219 + }, + { + "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4365, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", + "source": "The Notebook", + "id": 4366, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", + "source": "Middlemarch", + "id": 4367, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4368, + "length": 250 + }, + { + "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4369, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", + "source": "A Game of Thrones", + "id": 4370, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", + "source": "King for a Day", + "id": 4371, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", + "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", + "id": 4372, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", + "source": "Say Anything", + "id": 4373, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", + "source": "The Wall", + "id": 4374, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", + "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", + "id": 4375, + "length": 450 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4376, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4377, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4379, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", + "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", + "id": 4380, + "length": 85 + }, + { + "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", + "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", + "id": 4381, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", + "source": "Beautiful Day", + "id": 4383, + "length": 114 + }, + { + "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", + "source": "Sonic Adventure", + "id": 4385, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", + "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", + "id": 4386, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", + "source": "Blackwater", + "id": 4387, + "length": 609 + }, + { + "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4388, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4389, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4390, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4391, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", + "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", + "id": 4392, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", + "source": "Warrior", + "id": 4393, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4394, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4395, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", + "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", + "id": 4396, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4397, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4398, + "length": 374 + }, + { + "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", + "source": "Boy Meets World", + "id": 4399, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4400, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", + "source": "The Last Lecture", + "id": 4401, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", + "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", + "id": 4402, + "length": 388 + }, + { + "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "id": 4403, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", + "source": "Aeneid", + "id": 4404, + "length": 432 + }, + { + "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4406, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", + "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", + "id": 4407, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4408, + "length": 564 + }, + { + "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4409, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", + "source": "Ninja Mind Control", + "id": 4411, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", + "source": "The Canterbury Tales", + "id": 4412, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", + "source": "Firestorm", + "id": 4413, + "length": 291 + }, + { + "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4414, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4415, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", + "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", + "id": 4417, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", + "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", + "id": 4418, + "length": 642 + }, + { + "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", + "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", + "id": 4419, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", + "source": "Amadeus", + "id": 4420, + "length": 214 + }, + { + "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", + "source": "The Alchemist", + "id": 4421, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", + "source": "Hey Jude", + "id": 4422, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4423, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", + "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", + "id": 4425, + "length": 253 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", + "source": "InuYasha", + "id": 4426, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4427, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4428, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", + "source": "Beauty and the Beast", + "id": 4429, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", + "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", + "id": 4430, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", + "source": "Pickman's Model", + "id": 4431, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", + "source": "American Pie", + "id": 4432, + "length": 639 + }, + { + "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4433, + "length": 368 + }, + { + "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", + "source": "Corner Gas", + "id": 4435, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", + "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", + "id": 4436, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4437, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", + "source": "All Night", + "id": 4438, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid", + "id": 4439, + "length": 257 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", + "source": "Airplane!", + "id": 4440, + "length": 330 + }, + { + "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4441, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", + "source": "The Gambler", + "id": 4442, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", + "source": "I, Mammal", + "id": 4443, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4444, + "length": 527 + }, + { + "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4445, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", + "source": "The First Elegy", + "id": 4446, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4447, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", + "source": "Never Ever", + "id": 4448, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4449, + "length": 410 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", + "source": "Head Over Feet", + "id": 4450, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "id": 4451, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4452, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", + "source": "Quiz Show", + "id": 4453, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4454, + "length": 154 + }, + { + "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", + "source": "Areopagitica", + "id": 4456, + "length": 822 + }, + { + "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4457, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", + "source": "Adventure Time", + "id": 4458, + "length": 217 + }, + { + "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "id": 4459, + "length": 482 + }, + { + "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "id": 4460, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", + "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", + "id": 4461, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4462, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4463, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4464, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4466, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", + "source": "World Enough and Time", + "id": 4467, + "length": 548 + }, + { + "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", + "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", + "id": 4468, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4469, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", + "source": "That's What Friends Are For", + "id": 4470, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4471, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", + "source": "King Park", + "id": 4472, + "length": 115 + }, + { + "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", + "source": "The Iliad", + "id": 4473, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", + "source": "Beautiful", + "id": 4474, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", + "source": "Subdivisions", + "id": 4475, + "length": 292 + }, + { + "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", + "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", + "id": 4477, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4478, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", + "source": "Cages", + "id": 4479, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4480, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", + "source": "Apocalypse Now", + "id": 4481, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4483, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4484, + "length": 503 + }, + { + "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4485, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4486, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4487, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4488, + "length": 512 + }, + { + "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", + "source": "Total Annihilation", + "id": 4489, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", + "source": "Small Gods", + "id": 4490, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4491, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4492, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", + "source": "The Analects", + "id": 4493, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "id": 4494, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", + "source": "White Collar", + "id": 4496, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", + "source": "12 Angry Men", + "id": 4497, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", + "source": "The Wire", + "id": 4498, + "length": 608 + }, + { + "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", + "source": "Cars", + "id": 4499, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", + "source": "The Two Towers", + "id": 4500, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4501, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4502, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4504, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", + "source": "Hotel California", + "id": 4505, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4506, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4507, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4508, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4509, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", + "source": "Sacrifice", + "id": 4510, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4511, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", + "source": "The Princess Bride", + "id": 4512, + "length": 301 + }, + { + "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "id": 4513, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", + "source": "Fox in Socks", + "id": 4514, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", + "id": 4515, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", + "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", + "id": 4516, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", + "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", + "id": 4518, + "length": 831 + }, + { + "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", + "source": "Private Idaho", + "id": 4519, + "length": 221 + }, + { + "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", + "source": "Paprika", + "id": 4520, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4521, + "length": 351 + }, + { + "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", + "source": "The Blues Brothers", + "id": 4522, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", + "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", + "id": 4523, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", + "source": "Into Thin Air", + "id": 4524, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", + "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", + "id": 4527, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4528, + "length": 80 + }, + { + "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4529, + "length": 539 + }, + { + "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", + "source": "Eclipse", + "id": 4530, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4532, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4534, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "id": 4535, + "length": 331 + }, + { + "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4536, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", + "source": "Harold and Maude", + "id": 4537, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "id": 4538, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", + "source": "The Court Jester", + "id": 4539, + "length": 343 + }, + { + "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", + "source": "Lessons in Tanya", + "id": 4540, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", + "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", + "id": 4541, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", + "source": "I Have A Dream", + "id": 4543, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", + "source": "True Detective", + "id": 4544, + "length": 385 + }, + { + "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4545, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4546, + "length": 563 + }, + { + "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", + "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", + "id": 4547, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", + "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", + "id": 4548, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4549, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", + "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", + "id": 4550, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4551, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", + "source": "The Giver", + "id": 4552, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", + "source": "The River", + "id": 4553, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4554, + "length": 260 + }, + { + "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4555, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4556, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", + "source": "The Lion in Winter", + "id": 4557, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", + "source": "Eight of Nine", + "id": 4558, + "length": 70 + }, + { + "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", + "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", + "id": 4559, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4560, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", + "source": "Galaxy Song", + "id": 4561, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4562, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", + "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", + "id": 4563, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", + "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", + "id": 4564, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", + "source": "The End of the Innocence", + "id": 4565, + "length": 284 + }, + { + "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4566, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4567, + "length": 59 + }, + { + "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", + "source": "My Inventions", + "id": 4569, + "length": 656 + }, + { + "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", + "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", + "id": 4571, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", + "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", + "id": 4572, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", + "source": "Monster Mash", + "id": 4573, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", + "source": "My Favorite Things", + "id": 4575, + "length": 363 + }, + { + "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", + "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", + "id": 4576, + "length": 356 + }, + { + "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4577, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", + "source": "Right Here Waiting", + "id": 4578, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", + "source": "Looking Backward", + "id": 4580, + "length": 479 + }, + { + "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", + "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", + "id": 4581, + "length": 574 + }, + { + "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", + "source": "Carmilla", + "id": 4582, + "length": 818 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", + "source": "The Snowman", + "id": 4583, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4585, + "length": 434 + }, + { + "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", + "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", + "id": 4586, + "length": 666 + }, + { + "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4587, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", + "source": "I, Robot", + "id": 4588, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", + "source": "Naruto", + "id": 4589, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", + "source": "All About Eve", + "id": 4590, + "length": 323 + }, + { + "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", + "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", + "id": 4591, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", + "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", + "id": 4592, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", + "source": "The Complete Far Side", + "id": 4593, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4594, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", + "source": "Hollow Knight", + "id": 4595, + "length": 569 + }, + { + "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", + "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", + "id": 4596, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", + "source": "Flatland", + "id": 4597, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", + "source": "Radioactive", + "id": 4598, + "length": 192 + }, + { + "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", + "source": "Metro 2033", + "id": 4599, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4600, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4601, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", + "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", + "id": 4603, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", + "source": "American Splendor", + "id": 4604, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", + "source": "Groundhog Day", + "id": 4605, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", + "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", + "id": 4606, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", + "source": "Lucy", + "id": 4607, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", + "source": "Inception", + "id": 4608, + "length": 226 + }, + { + "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", + "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", + "id": 4609, + "length": 433 + }, + { + "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4610, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", + "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", + "id": 4611, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4612, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", + "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", + "id": 4613, + "length": 444 + }, + { + "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4614, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", + "id": 4615, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", + "source": "Heroes", + "id": 4616, + "length": 437 + }, + { + "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XII", + "id": 4618, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4619, + "length": 404 + }, + { + "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4620, + "length": 597 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", + "source": "North by Northwest", + "id": 4621, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4622, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", + "source": "Being There", + "id": 4623, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4624, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", + "source": "Trading Places", + "id": 4625, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4626, + "length": 200 + }, + { + "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", + "source": "Blue's Clues", + "id": 4627, + "length": 123 + }, + { + "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", + "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", + "id": 4628, + "length": 570 + }, + { + "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", + "source": "Pushing Daisies", + "id": 4629, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", + "source": "Sexy Beast", + "id": 4630, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", + "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", + "id": 4631, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4632, + "length": 604 + }, + { + "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4633, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4634, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", + "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", + "id": 4635, + "length": 334 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", + "source": "The Night Diary", + "id": 4636, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4637, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", + "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", + "id": 4638, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", + "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", + "id": 4639, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", + "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", + "id": 4641, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4642, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", + "source": "Poison", + "id": 4643, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4644, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", + "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", + "id": 4645, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4647, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", + "source": "What Dreams May Come", + "id": 4648, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", + "source": "Parasite", + "id": 4649, + "length": 477 + }, + { + "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4651, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", + "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", + "id": 4652, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4654, + "length": 185 + }, + { + "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", + "source": "The Imitation Game", + "id": 4655, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4656, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", + "source": "True Romance", + "id": 4657, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", + "source": "Heavy Metal", + "id": 4658, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4659, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4660, + "length": 294 + }, + { + "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", + "source": "Paul Clifford", + "id": 4661, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4662, + "length": 277 + }, + { + "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", + "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", + "id": 4663, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "id": 4664, + "length": 442 + }, + { + "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4665, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", + "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", + "id": 4666, + "length": 515 + }, + { + "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", + "source": "The Hunger Games", + "id": 4667, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", + "source": "The Odyssey", + "id": 4668, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 4669, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", + "source": "Lazarus", + "id": 4670, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", + "source": "Understanding Media", + "id": 4671, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", + "source": "Deadwood", + "id": 4672, + "length": 498 + }, + { + "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", + "source": "Madagascar", + "id": 4673, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", + "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", + "id": 4674, + "length": 333 + }, + { + "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", + "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", + "id": 4675, + "length": 198 + }, + { + "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", + "source": "All I Want", + "id": 4676, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", + "id": 4677, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", + "source": "Lithium", + "id": 4678, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", + "source": "Gone Girl", + "id": 4679, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", + "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", + "id": 4680, + "length": 402 + }, + { + "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", + "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", + "id": 4681, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", + "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", + "id": 4682, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", + "source": "Human Nature", + "id": 4683, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", + "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", + "id": 4685, + "length": 485 + }, + { + "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", + "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", + "id": 4686, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4687, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", + "source": "No Logo", + "id": 4688, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", + "source": "Forrest Gump", + "id": 4689, + "length": 186 + }, + { + "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4690, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4691, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", + "id": 4692, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4693, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", + "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", + "id": 4695, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4696, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4697, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4698, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", + "source": "On the Social Contract", + "id": 4699, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", + "source": "The Lorax", + "id": 4701, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", + "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", + "id": 4702, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", + "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", + "id": 4703, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", + "source": "Essentials of Economics", + "id": 4704, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", + "source": "BioShock Infinite", + "id": 4705, + "length": 427 + }, + { + "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", + "source": "The Time Machine", + "id": 4706, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", + "source": "The Historian", + "id": 4707, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", + "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", + "id": 4708, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4710, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4711, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", + "source": "Thinking Bout You", + "id": 4714, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", + "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", + "id": 4715, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4716, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", + "source": "Sunset Boulevard", + "id": 4717, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", + "source": "Allentown", + "id": 4719, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4720, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4721, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4722, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", + "source": "Gandhi", + "id": 4723, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", + "source": "Hands Down", + "id": 4724, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", + "source": "Made in Abyss", + "id": 4725, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", + "source": "Halloween", + "id": 4726, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", + "source": "Breaking Away", + "id": 4728, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", + "source": "King's Quest I", + "id": 4730, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4731, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", + "source": "Roseanne", + "id": 4732, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4733, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", + "source": "Holidays on Ice", + "id": 4734, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", + "source": "I Am A Rock", + "id": 4735, + "length": 231 + }, + { + "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", + "source": "Don Quixote", + "id": 4736, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4737, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", + "source": "Les Misérables", + "id": 4738, + "length": 220 + }, + { + "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", + "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", + "id": 4739, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4740, + "length": 263 + }, + { + "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", + "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", + "id": 4741, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4742, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", + "source": "Holiday", + "id": 4743, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4744, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4745, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", + "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", + "id": 4746, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", + "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", + "id": 4747, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", + "source": "The Lost Weekend", + "id": 4749, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", + "source": "The Sound of Music", + "id": 4750, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4751, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4752, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", + "source": "Naked Lunch", + "id": 4753, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4754, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", + "source": "Overestimation", + "id": 4755, + "length": 344 + }, + { + "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", + "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", + "id": 4756, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", + "source": "Shaun of the Dead", + "id": 4757, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", + "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", + "id": 4758, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4759, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4760, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4761, + "length": 487 + }, + { + "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", + "source": "Confessions", + "id": 4762, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4763, + "length": 397 + }, + { + "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4764, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4767, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4768, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4769, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4770, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", + "source": "Name", + "id": 4771, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", + "source": "Brave New World", + "id": 4772, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", + "source": "Shiny Happy People", + "id": 4773, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", + "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", + "id": 4774, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", + "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", + "id": 4775, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", + "source": "Wine for Dummies", + "id": 4776, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", + "source": "Nightmare", + "id": 4777, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4778, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4779, + "length": 205 + }, + { + "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", + "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", + "id": 4780, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4781, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4782, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4783, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", + "source": "Beetlejuice", + "id": 4784, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4786, + "length": 148 + }, + { + "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", + "source": "Novum Organum", + "id": 4787, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4788, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", + "source": "It's My Life", + "id": 4789, + "length": 106 + }, + { + "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", + "source": "Falling", + "id": 4790, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4791, + "length": 567 + }, + { + "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", + "source": "Chateau Cascade", + "id": 4792, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", + "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", + "id": 4793, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4794, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4795, + "length": 510 + }, + { + "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4796, + "length": 151 + }, + { + "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", + "source": "UnTechnical Writing", + "id": 4797, + "length": 287 + }, + { + "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", + "source": "Physics for Game Developers", + "id": 4798, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4799, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", + "source": "What If?", + "id": 4800, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", + "source": "A Study in Scarlet", + "id": 4801, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", + "source": "Porgy and Bess", + "id": 4802, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", + "source": "Cool As Ice", + "id": 4803, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4805, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", + "source": "All in the Family", + "id": 4806, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4807, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", + "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", + "id": 4808, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", + "source": "Shoe Dog", + "id": 4809, + "length": 579 + }, + { + "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4810, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4812, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", + "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", + "id": 4813, + "length": 375 + }, + { + "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4814, + "length": 232 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4815, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4816, + "length": 382 + }, + { + "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", + "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", + "id": 4818, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", + "source": "Dubliners", + "id": 4819, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", + "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", + "id": 4820, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4821, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4822, + "length": 540 + }, + { + "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4823, + "length": 65 + }, + { + "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", + "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", + "id": 4824, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4825, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4826, + "length": 295 + }, + { + "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", + "source": "Battlesong", + "id": 4827, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", + "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", + "id": 4828, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", + "source": "The Complete Project Manager", + "id": 4829, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", + "source": "Savoy Truffle", + "id": 4830, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", + "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", + "id": 4831, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", + "source": "Back to the Future", + "id": 4832, + "length": 276 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4833, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", + "source": "Restraint", + "id": 4834, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4835, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", + "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", + "id": 4836, + "length": 184 + }, + { + "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", + "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", + "id": 4837, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", + "source": "Underground", + "id": 4838, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4839, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4840, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", + "source": "Suits", + "id": 4841, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4842, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4843, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", + "source": "Saving Us a Riot", + "id": 4844, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", + "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", + "id": 4846, + "length": 155 + }, + { + "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4847, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4848, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", + "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "id": 4849, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", + "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", + "id": 4851, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", + "source": "Collide", + "id": 4852, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", + "source": "Hannah Hunt", + "id": 4853, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", + "source": "Limitless", + "id": 4854, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", + "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", + "id": 4855, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "id": 4856, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4857, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", + "source": "Wag the Dog", + "id": 4858, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4859, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", + "source": "Civil Disobedience", + "id": 4860, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4861, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", + "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", + "id": 4863, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", + "source": "The Elements of Style", + "id": 4864, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", + "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", + "id": 4865, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", + "source": "Pale Blue Dot", + "id": 4866, + "length": 820 + }, + { + "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", + "source": "DOOM 4", + "id": 4867, + "length": 502 + }, + { + "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", + "source": "The Recruit", + "id": 4868, + "length": 386 + }, + { + "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", + "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", + "id": 4869, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", + "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", + "id": 4870, + "length": 196 + }, + { + "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", + "id": 4871, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4872, + "length": 218 + }, + { + "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4873, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", + "source": "Running and Travel", + "id": 4874, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", + "source": "On Demand Culture", + "id": 4875, + "length": 507 + }, + { + "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4876, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4877, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", + "source": "The Sirens of Titan", + "id": 4878, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4879, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4880, + "length": 441 + }, + { + "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4881, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", + "source": "13 Reasons Why", + "id": 4882, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", + "source": "Leaves from the Vine", + "id": 4883, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4884, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4885, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4886, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", + "source": "The Logical Song", + "id": 4887, + "length": 380 + }, + { + "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", + "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", + "id": 4888, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 4889, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", + "source": "Kokomo", + "id": 4890, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4891, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4893, + "length": 157 + }, + { + "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4894, + "length": 271 + }, + { + "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", + "source": "October Sky", + "id": 4895, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4896, + "length": 336 + }, + { + "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", + "source": "Pulp Fiction", + "id": 4897, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4899, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4900, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", + "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", + "id": 4901, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4902, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", + "source": "Sailing", + "id": 4903, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", + "id": 4904, + "length": 474 + }, + { + "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", + "source": "Daredevil", + "id": 4905, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", + "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", + "id": 4907, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", + "source": "Let Me Love You", + "id": 4908, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4909, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", + "source": "When Love Arrives", + "id": 4910, + "length": 286 + }, + { + "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", + "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", + "id": 4912, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4913, + "length": 64 + }, + { + "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4915, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", + "source": "The Medium is the Massage", + "id": 4916, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", + "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", + "id": 4917, + "length": 279 + }, + { + "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", + "source": "Swamp Thing", + "id": 4918, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4919, + "length": 310 + }, + { + "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4920, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4921, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", + "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", + "id": 4922, + "length": 449 + }, + { + "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "id": 4923, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", + "source": "Halo 2", + "id": 4924, + "length": 213 + }, + { + "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", + "source": "The Return", + "id": 4925, + "length": 399 + }, + { + "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", + "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", + "id": 4928, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", + "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", + "id": 4929, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", + "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", + "id": 4931, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", + "source": "Moulin Rouge", + "id": 4932, + "length": 280 + }, + { + "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 4933, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4934, + "length": 288 + }, + { + "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4935, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4936, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4937, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", + "source": "Return of the Jedi", + "id": 4938, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", + "source": "Sin City", + "id": 4939, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4940, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", + "source": "The Lightning Thief", + "id": 4941, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", + "source": "Stardew Valley", + "id": 4942, + "length": 189 + }, + { + "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", + "source": "The Godfather: Part II", + "id": 4943, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", + "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", + "id": 4944, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4945, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4946, + "length": 488 + }, + { + "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", + "source": "Scream 2", + "id": 4947, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", + "source": "The Floating Fire", + "id": 4948, + "length": 298 + }, + { + "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4949, + "length": 440 + }, + { + "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", + "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", + "id": 4950, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4951, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", + "source": "A History of Mathematics", + "id": 4952, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", + "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", + "id": 4953, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4954, + "length": 90 + }, + { + "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", + "source": "Classical Mythology", + "id": 4955, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", + "source": "Piano Man", + "id": 4956, + "length": 138 + }, + { + "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", + "source": "Industrial Disease", + "id": 4957, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", + "source": "History of Art", + "id": 4958, + "length": 612 + }, + { + "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", + "source": "Orientalism", + "id": 4959, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", + "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", + "id": 4960, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", + "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", + "id": 4961, + "length": 274 + }, + { + "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4962, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", + "source": "Firestarter", + "id": 4963, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", + "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", + "id": 4964, + "length": 790 + }, + { + "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", + "source": "Dunkelheit", + "id": 4965, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", + "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", + "id": 4966, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4967, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4968, + "length": 346 + }, + { + "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", + "source": "The West Wing", + "id": 4969, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", + "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", + "id": 4970, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", + "source": "The Lurking Fear", + "id": 4971, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", + "source": "Last Dance", + "id": 4972, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", + "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", + "id": 4973, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4974, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", + "source": "Lemon Tree", + "id": 4975, + "length": 153 + }, + { + "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4976, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", + "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", + "id": 4977, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", + "source": "Mean Girls", + "id": 4979, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", + "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", + "id": 4980, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4981, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4982, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", + "source": "911 For Peace", + "id": 4983, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", + "source": "The Greatest", + "id": 4984, + "length": 347 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4987, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", + "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", + "id": 4988, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", + "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", + "id": 4989, + "length": 293 + }, + { + "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4990, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4991, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", + "source": "True Blood", + "id": 4992, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", + "source": "Awakenings", + "id": 4993, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", + "id": 4994, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "id": 4995, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", + "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", + "id": 4996, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", + "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", + "id": 4997, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4998, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4999, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", + "source": "Helplessly Hoping", + "id": 5000, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5002, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5003, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5004, + "length": 187 + }, + { + "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5005, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5006, + "length": 48 + }, + { + "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5007, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5008, + "length": 162 + }, + { + "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5009, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5010, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5011, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5012, + "length": 309 + }, + { + "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5014, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5015, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5016, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5017, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5018, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5020, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5021, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5022, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5023, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5024, + "length": 41 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5025, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5026, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5028, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5029, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5030, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5031, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5032, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5033, + "length": 91 + }, + { + "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5034, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5035, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5036, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5037, + "length": 230 + }, + { + "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5038, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5039, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5040, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5041, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5042, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5043, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5044, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5045, + "length": 46 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5046, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5047, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5048, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5049, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5050, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5051, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5052, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5053, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5054, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5055, + "length": 53 + }, + { + "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5056, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5057, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5058, + "length": 139 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5059, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5060, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5061, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5062, + "length": 723 + }, + { + "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5063, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5064, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5065, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5066, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5067, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 89, + "id": 5068 + }, + { + "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 194, + "id": 5069 + }, + { + "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 293, + "id": 5070 + }, + { + "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 135, + "id": 5071 + }, + { + "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 171, + "id": 5072 + }, + { + "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", + "source": "James Cameron", + "length": 104, + "id": 5073 + }, + { + "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", + "source": "Allen Saunders", + "length": 57, + "id": 5074 + }, + { + "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", + "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", + "length": 178, + "id": 5075 + }, + { + "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 325, + "id": 5076 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", + "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", + "length": 85, + "id": 5077 + }, + { + "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", + "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", + "length": 148, + "id": 5078 + }, + { + "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", + "source": "Neo, The Matrix", + "length": 556, + "id": 5079 + }, + { + "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", + "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", + "length": 194, + "id": 5080 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", + "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", + "length": 207, + "id": 5081 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 121, + "id": 5082 + }, + { + "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 129, + "id": 5083 + }, + { + "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 119, + "id": 5084 + }, + { + "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 81, + "id": 5085 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 484, + "id": 5086 + }, + { + "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 60, + "id": 5087 + }, + { + "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", + "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 57, + "id": 5089 + }, + { + "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", + "length": 203, + "id": 5090 + }, + { + "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 222, + "id": 5091 + }, + { + "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", + "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 215, + "id": 5092 + }, + { + "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 177, + "id": 5094 + }, + { + "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 57, + "id": 5095 + }, + { + "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 205, + "id": 5096 + }, + { + "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 30, + "id": 5097 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 31, + "id": 5098 + }, + { + "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", + "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", + "length": 112, + "id": 5099 + }, + { + "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 279, + "id": 5100 + }, + { + "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", + "source": "Terence McKenna", + "length": 211, + "id": 5101 + }, + { + "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", + "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", + "length": 161, + "id": 5102 + }, + { + "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", + "source": "Terence Mckenna", + "length": 117, + "id": 5103 + }, + { + "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", + "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", + "length": 67, + "id": 5104 + }, + { + "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 504, + "id": 5105 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", + "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", + "length": 155, + "id": 5106 + }, + { + "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", + "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", + "length": 127, + "id": 5107 + }, + { + "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", + "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", + "length": 109, + "id": 5108 + }, + { + "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", + "source": "Max Payne", + "length": 164, + "id": 5109 + }, + { + "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", + "source": "Alex Honnold", + "length": 222, + "id": 5110 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", + "source": "The Way of Kings", + "length": 109, + "id": 5111 + }, + { + "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 111, + "id": 5112 + }, + { + "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 188, + "id": 5113 + }, + { + "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 121, + "id": 5114 + }, + { + "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 147, + "id": 5115 + }, + { + "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 630, + "id": 5116 + }, + { + "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 398, + "id": 5117 + }, + { + "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 129, + "id": 5118 + }, + { + "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", + "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", + "length": 249, + "id": 5119 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", + "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", + "length": 259, + "id": 5120 + }, + { + "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", + "source": "Maurice V. 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The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.", + "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", + "length": 427, + "id": 5125 + }, + { + "text": "Alone now, I leaned over the edge of my boat and looked down to the bottom of the sea. The volcano was gone. The water's calm surface reflected the blue of the sky. Little waves - like silk pajamas fluttering in a breeze - lapped against the side of the boat. There was nothing else. I stretched out in the bottom of the boat and closed my eyes, waiting for the rising tide to carry me where I belonged.", + "source": "Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack", + "length": 403, + "id": 5126 + }, + { + "text": "I'm gonna tell you a story. 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What could you expect with his ideas?", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 507, + "id": 5153 + }, + { + "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 276, + "id": 5154 + }, + { + "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 303, + "id": 5155 + }, + { + "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. 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That's the good news.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 267, + "id": 5157 + }, + { + "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 235, + "id": 5159 + }, + { + "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 103, + "id": 5160 + }, + { + "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 91, + "id": 5161 + }, + { + "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. 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Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", + "source": "Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic", + "length": 529, + "id": 5337 + }, + { + "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", + "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", + "length": 73, + "id": 5338 + }, + { + "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", + "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", + "length": 260, + "id": 5339 + }, + { + "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. 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Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", + "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", + "length": 397, + "id": 5347 + }, + { + "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", + "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", + "length": 54, + "id": 5348 + }, + { + "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", + "source": "Karl Marx", + "length": 222, + "id": 5349 + }, + { + "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", + "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", + "length": 201, + "id": 5350 + }, + { + "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 129, + "id": 5351 + }, + { + "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", + "source": "Newsweek Magazine", + "length": 649, + "id": 5352 + }, + { + "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", + "source": "Nails In The Fence", + "length": 1070, + "id": 5354 + }, + { + "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", + "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", + "length": 297, + "id": 5355 + }, + { + "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 278, + "id": 5356 + }, + { + "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 282, + "id": 5357 + }, + { + "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", + "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", + "length": 318, + "id": 5358 + }, + { + "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", + "source": "Roger Federer", + "length": 63, + "id": 5360 + }, + { + "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", + "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", + "length": 198, + "id": 5361 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. 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The stone you can reach by doing your best.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 334, + "id": 5366 + }, + { + "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 167, + "id": 5367 + }, + { + "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 66, + "id": 5368 + }, + { + "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 95, + "id": 5369 + }, + { + "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 105, + "id": 5370 + }, + { + "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", + "source": "Your Name", + "length": 60, + "id": 5371 + }, + { + "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", + "length": 93, + "id": 5372 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", + "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", + "length": 294, + "id": 5373 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", + "source": "Meet the Heavy", + "length": 102, + "id": 5375 + }, + { + "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", + "source": "Steve Jobs", + "length": 156, + "id": 5376 + }, + { + "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", + "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", + "length": 213, + "id": 5377 + }, + { + "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 182, + "id": 5378 + }, + { + "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 474, + "id": 5379 + }, + { + "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 381, + "id": 5380 + }, + { + "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. 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My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 309, + "id": 5390 + }, + { + "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 75, + "id": 5391 + }, + { + "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", + "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", + "length": 427, + "id": 5392 + }, + { + "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", + "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", + "length": 416, + "id": 5393 + }, + { + "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 96, + "id": 5394 + }, + { + "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 64, + "id": 5395 + }, + { + "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 171, + "id": 5396 + }, + { + "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", + "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", + "length": 205, + "id": 5397 + }, + { + "text": "One and one and one is three.", + "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", + "length": 29, + "id": 5398 + }, + { + "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", + "length": 91, + "id": 5399 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", + "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", + "length": 732, + "id": 5400 + }, + { + "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 92, + "id": 5403 + }, + { + "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? 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We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 466, + "id": 5407 + }, + { + "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 560, + "id": 5408 + }, + { + "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 46, + "id": 5409 + }, + { + "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 296, + "id": 5410 + }, + { + "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 87, + "id": 5411 + }, + { + "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", + "source": "J. K. 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As long as the Wheel turns.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", + "length": 428, + "id": 5418 + }, + { + "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", + "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", + "length": 260, + "id": 5419 + }, + { + "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", + "source": "The Beatles", + "length": 260, + "id": 5420 + }, + { + "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", + "length": 299, + "id": 5421 + }, + { + "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", + "length": 456, + "id": 5422 + }, + { + "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", + "length": 208, + "id": 5423 + }, + { + "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", + "source": "The Legend of Korra", + "length": 110, + "id": 5424 + }, + { + "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 138, + "id": 5425 + }, + { + "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", + "length": 226, + "id": 5426 + }, + { + "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", + "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", + "length": 190, + "id": 5427 + }, + { + "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", + "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", + "length": 72, + "id": 5429 + }, + { + "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 89, + "id": 5430 + }, + { + "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", + "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", + "length": 91, + "id": 5431 + }, + { + "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", + "source": "John Green", + "length": 95, + "id": 5432 + }, + { + "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", + "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", + "length": 349, + "id": 5433 + }, + { + "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 85, + "id": 5434 + }, + { + "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 66, + "id": 5435 + }, + { + "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", + "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", + "length": 122, + "id": 5436 + }, + { + "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 240, + "id": 5437 + }, + { + "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 365, + "id": 5438 + }, + { + "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", + "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", + "length": 403, + "id": 5439 + }, + { + "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", + "source": "SCP-5000", + "length": 487, + "id": 5441 + }, + { + "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", + "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", + "length": 892, + "id": 5442 + }, + { + "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", + "source": "A Tongue-twister", + "length": 106, + "id": 5443 + }, + { + "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", + "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", + "length": 57, + "id": 5444 + }, + { + "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", + "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", + "length": 69, + "id": 5446 + }, + { + "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", + "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", + "length": 88, + "id": 5447 + }, + { + "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", + "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", + "length": 54, + "id": 5452 + }, + { + "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 55, + "id": 5453 + }, + { + "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 62, + "id": 5456 + }, + { + "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", + "source": "They Might Be Giants", + "length": 62, + "id": 5459 + }, + { + "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 84, + "id": 5460 + }, + { + "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", + "length": 100, + "id": 5461 + }, + { + "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 231, + "id": 5462 + }, + { + "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 94, + "id": 5463 + }, + { + "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 258, + "id": 5464 + }, + { + "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", + "length": 1140, + "id": 5465 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", + "source": "Ready Player Two", + "length": 588, + "id": 5466 + }, + { + "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", + "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", + "length": 140, + "id": 5472 + }, + { + "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", + "source": "Holes", + "length": 74, + "id": 5477 + }, + { + "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 192, + "id": 5478 + }, + { + "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 78, + "id": 5482 + }, + { + "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 947, + "id": 5485 + }, + { + "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 559, + "id": 5487 + }, + { + "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", + "source": "91 days", + "length": 474, + "id": 5488 + }, + { + "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 172, + "id": 5489 + }, + { + "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 359, + "id": 5490 + }, + { + "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", + "source": "Fred Brooks", + "length": 78, + "id": 5491 + }, + { + "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", + "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", + "length": 210, + "id": 5492 + }, + { + "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 242, + "id": 5493 + }, + { + "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 200, + "id": 5494 + }, + { + "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", + "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", + "length": 189, + "id": 5495 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5496 + }, + { + "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 218, + "id": 5497 + }, + { + "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 201, + "id": 5498 + }, + { + "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "length": 150, + "id": 5499 + }, + { + "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 145, + "id": 5500 + }, + { + "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5501 + }, + { + "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 106, + "id": 5502 + }, + { + "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", + "source": "Naruto", + "length": 196, + "id": 5503 + }, + { + "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", + "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", + "length": 125, + "id": 5505 + }, + { + "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", + "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 471, + "id": 5506 + }, + { + "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", + "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", + "length": 240, + "id": 5507 + }, + { + "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", + "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", + "length": 483, + "id": 5508 + }, + { + "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 240, + "id": 5509 + }, + { + "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 584, + "id": 5510 + }, + { + "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", + "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", + "length": 375, + "id": 5511 + }, + { + "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", + "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", + "length": 413, + "id": 5512 + }, + { + "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", + "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 273, + "id": 5513 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", + "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 83, + "id": 5514 + }, + { + "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", + "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", + "length": 661, + "id": 5515 + }, + { + "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", + "source": "Five Feet Apart", + "length": 523, + "id": 5517 + }, + { + "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", + "source": "Exurb1a", + "length": 169, + "id": 5519 + }, + { + "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", + "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 537, + "id": 5520 + }, + { + "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", + "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", + "length": 236, + "id": 5521 + }, + { + "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", + "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", + "length": 211, + "id": 5522 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 634, + "id": 5523 + }, + { + "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", + "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", + "length": 727, + "id": 5524 + }, + { + "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", + "source": "Celeste", + "length": 437, + "id": 5525 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 496, + "id": 5526 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 352, + "id": 5527 + }, + { + "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", + "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", + "length": 589, + "id": 5528 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 223, + "id": 5529 + }, + { + "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 399, + "id": 5530 + }, + { + "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", + "source": "The Cooper Institute", + "length": 575, + "id": 5531 + }, + { + "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 534, + "id": 5533 + }, + { + "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 463, + "id": 5534 + }, + { + "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 160, + "id": 5535 + }, + { + "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 142, + "id": 5536 + }, + { + "text": "No one knows what the future holds. 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And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", + "source": "The Symposium", + "length": 592, + "id": 5651 + }, + { + "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 76, + "id": 5652 + }, + { + "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 323, + "id": 5653 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", + "source": "Einstein", + "length": 128, + "id": 5654 + }, + { + "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", + "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", + "length": 322, + "id": 5655 + }, + { + "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 172, + "id": 5656 + }, + { + "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. 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You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 468, + "id": 5670 + }, + { + "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", + "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", + "length": 82, + "id": 5671 + }, + { + "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", + "source": "John Tukey", + "length": 89, + "id": 5672 + }, + { + "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. 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Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", + "source": "Tao Te Ching", + "length": 286, + "id": 5678 + }, + { + "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "length": 62, + "id": 5679 + }, + { + "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", + "source": "Albert Camus", + "length": 54, + "id": 5680 + }, + { + "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", + "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", + "length": 238, + "id": 5681 + }, + { + "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", + "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5682 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", + "source": "Marcus Aurelius", + "length": 161, + "id": 5684 + }, + { + "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", + "source": "Devil in Disguise", + "length": 148, + "id": 5685 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", + "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", + "length": 518, + "id": 5686 + }, + { + "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 302, + "id": 5687 + }, + { + "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 52, + "id": 5688 + }, + { + "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 83, + "id": 5689 + }, + { + "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 53, + "id": 5690 + }, + { + "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 118, + "id": 5691 + }, + { + "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. 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During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", + "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", + "length": 578, + "id": 5708 + }, + { + "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", + "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", + "length": 183, + "id": 5709 + }, + { + "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 997, + "id": 5710 + }, + { + "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", + "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", + "length": 173, + "id": 5711 + }, + { + "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 289, + "id": 5712 + }, + { + "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 900, + "id": 5714 + }, + { + "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", + "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", + "length": 71, + "id": 5715 + }, + { + "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5716 + }, + { + "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", + "source": "Kurt Cobain", + "length": 62, + "id": 5717 + }, + { + "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", + "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", + "length": 743, + "id": 5718 + }, + { + "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", + "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", + "length": 974, + "id": 5719 + }, + { + "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", + "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", + "length": 256, + "id": 5720 + }, + { + "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", + "source": "Bruce Lee", + "length": 69, + "id": 5723 + }, + { + "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 110, + "id": 5724 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "length": 280, + "id": 5725 + }, + { + "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 111, + "id": 5726 + }, + { + "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 74, + "id": 5727 + }, + { + "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 71, + "id": 5728 + }, + { + "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", + "source": "Edward Snowden", + "length": 181, + "id": 5729 + }, + { + "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", + "source": "Riverdale", + "length": 161, + "id": 5731 + }, + { + "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", + "source": "Spirited Away", + "length": 105, + "id": 5732 + }, + { + "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", + "source": "Wikipedia", + "length": 406, + "id": 5733 + }, + { + "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", + "length": 418, + "id": 5734 + }, + { + "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 622, + "id": 5735 + }, + { + "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 699, + "id": 5736 + }, + { + "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", + "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", + "length": 82, + "id": 5737 + }, + { + "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", + "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", + "length": 282, + "id": 5738 + }, + { + "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", + "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", + "length": 184, + "id": 5739 + }, + { + "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", + "source": "Lord of the Rings", + "length": 83, + "id": 5740 + }, + { + "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 373, + "id": 5741 + }, + { + "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", + "source": "Half-Life 2", + "length": 74, + "id": 5742 + }, + { + "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", + "source": "The Big Bang Theory", + "length": 209, + "id": 5743 + }, + { + "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", + "source": "Lucifer", + "length": 183, + "id": 5744 + }, + { + "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", + "source": "Inception", + "length": 134, + "id": 5747 + }, + { + "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", + "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", + "length": 83, + "id": 5748 + }, + { + "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 113, + "id": 5751 + }, + { + "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 341, + "id": 5752 + }, + { + "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "length": 222, + "id": 5753 + }, + { + "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", + "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", + "length": 183, + "id": 5754 + }, + { + "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 198, + "id": 5755 + }, + { + "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", + "source": "Genshin Impact", + "length": 293, + "id": 5756 + }, + { + "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "length": 441, + "id": 5757 + }, + { + "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "length": 538, + "id": 5758 + }, + { + "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", + "source": "Absolute", + "length": 131, + "id": 5759 + }, + { + "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 144, + "id": 5760 + }, + { + "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 183, + "id": 5761 + }, + { + "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 106, + "id": 5762 + }, + { + "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 141, + "id": 5763 + }, + { + "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", + "source": "Love Me", + "length": 61, + "id": 5764 + }, + { + "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", + "source": "The Art of War", + "length": 62, + "id": 5765 + }, + { + "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", + "source": "Little Witch Academia", + "length": 76, + "id": 5766 + }, + { + "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 166, + "id": 5767 + }, + { + "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", + "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", + "length": 429, + "id": 5768 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 245, + "id": 5769 + }, + { + "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 165, + "id": 5771 + }, + { + "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 128, + "id": 5772 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 157, + "id": 5773 + }, + { + "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", + "source": "A Friend", + "length": 73, + "id": 5775 + }, + { + "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Breath of the Wild", + "length": 62, + "id": 5776 + }, + { + "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 527, + "id": 5777 + }, + { + "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", + "source": "Muhammad Ali", + "length": 79, + "id": 5780 + }, + { + "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", + "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", + "length": 51, + "id": 5781 + }, + { + "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 69, + "id": 5782 + }, + { + "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", + "source": "Violet Evergarden", + "length": 317, + "id": 5783 + }, + { + "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", + "source": "The Last Of Us 2", + "length": 89, + "id": 5785 + }, + { + "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", + "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", + "length": 98, + "id": 5786 + }, + { + "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", + "source": "Leonard Bernstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 5787 + }, + { + "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", + "source": "Charlie Sheen", + "length": 158, + "id": 5788 + }, + { + "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", + "source": "Charlie Sheen", + "length": 164, + "id": 5789 + }, + { + "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", + "source": "Macbeth", + "length": 62, + "id": 5790 + }, + { + "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", + "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", + "length": 113, + "id": 5791 + }, + { + "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", + "source": "Cabo", + "length": 125, + "id": 5792 + }, + { + "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", + "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", + "length": 109, + "id": 5793 + }, + { + "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", + "source": "Mae West", + "length": 59, + "id": 5795 + }, + { + "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", + "length": 77, + "id": 5796 + }, + { + "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", + "length": 62, + "id": 5797 + }, + { + "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", + "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", + "length": 101, + "id": 5799 + }, + { + "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. 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Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", + "source": "States of Matter", + "length": 220, + "id": 5805 + }, + { + "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", + "source": "Danilo Kiš", + "length": 190, + "id": 5806 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", + "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", + "length": 2928, + "id": 5807 + }, + { + "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", + "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", + "length": 152, + "id": 5809 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 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Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 325, + "id": 5812 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 133, + "id": 5813 + }, + { + "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", + "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 355, + "id": 5814 + }, + { + "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", + "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", + "length": 140, + "id": 5815 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 78, + "id": 5816 + }, + { + "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 87, + "id": 5817 + }, + { + "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 134, + "id": 5818 + }, + { + "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", + "source": "Henri Poincaré", + "length": 145, + "id": 5819 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", + "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", + "length": 254, + "id": 5820 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", + "source": "Richard Feynman", + "length": 96, + "id": 5821 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. 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It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", + "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", + "length": 455, + "id": 5828 + }, + { + "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", + "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", + "length": 298, + "id": 5829 + }, + { + "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", + "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", + "length": 61, + "id": 5831 + }, + { + "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 356, + "id": 5832 + }, + { + "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 669, + "id": 5833 + }, + { + "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 188, + "id": 5834 + }, + { + "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 157, + "id": 5835 + }, + { + "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 290, + "id": 5836 + }, + { + "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", + "source": "Mob Psycho 100", + "length": 382, + "id": 5837 + }, + { + "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", + "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", + "length": 125, + "id": 5838 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 92, + "id": 5839 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 97, + "id": 5840 + }, + { + "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", + "source": "Master Yoda", + "length": 395, + "id": 5843 + }, + { + "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 80, + "id": 5844 + }, + { + "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 86, + "id": 5845 + }, + { + "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. 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May you know peace and joy.\"", + "source": "Twelve Minutes", + "length": 349, + "id": 5850 + }, + { + "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", + "length": 301, + "id": 5851 + }, + { + "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", + "source": "Numb", + "length": 177, + "id": 5852 + }, + { + "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", + "source": "One Piece", + "length": 490, + "id": 5854 + }, + { + "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", + "source": "Space Brothers", + "length": 143, + "id": 5855 + }, + { + "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", + "source": "Oregairu", + "length": 65, + "id": 5856 + }, + { + "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", + "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", + "length": 352, + "id": 5857 + }, + { + "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", + "source": "Bleach", + "length": 200, + "id": 5858 + }, + { + "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", + "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", + "length": 120, + "id": 5859 + }, + { + "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", + "source": "Fruits Basket", + "length": 388, + "id": 5860 + }, + { + "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", + "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", + "length": 60, + "id": 5861 + }, + { + "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 65, + "id": 5862 + }, + { + "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 270, + "id": 5863 + }, + { + "text": "You may have grown too strong. 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And I would know - I just turned 25.", + "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", + "length": 212, + "id": 5870 + }, + { + "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", + "source": "Ratatouille", + "length": 1315, + "id": 5871 + }, + { + "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", + "source": "Pushing Dead", + "length": 365, + "id": 5872 + }, + { + "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", + "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", + "length": 222, + "id": 5874 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", + "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", + "length": 191, + "id": 5875 + }, + { + "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", + "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", + "length": 75, + "id": 5876 + }, + { + "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", + "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", + "length": 123, + "id": 5877 + }, + { + "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 784, + "id": 5878 + }, + { + "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 763, + "id": 5879 + }, + { + "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 530, + "id": 5881 + }, + { + "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 618, + "id": 5882 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", + "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", + "length": 186, + "id": 5886 + }, + { + "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", + "source": "Knights of Cydonia", + "length": 135, + "id": 5888 + }, + { + "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", + "source": "Paul Parker", + "length": 274, + "id": 5890 + }, + { + "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", + "source": "Left 4 Dead", + "length": 454, + "id": 5891 + }, + { + "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 190, + "id": 5893 + }, + { + "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 346, + "id": 5895 + }, + { + "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", + "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", + "length": 83, + "id": 5896 + }, + { + "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 264, + "id": 5897 + }, + { + "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 282, + "id": 5899 + }, + { + "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 249, + "id": 5900 + }, + { + "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", + "source": "Neil Gaiman", + "length": 129, + "id": 5901 + }, + { + "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 376, + "id": 5902 + }, + { + "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 293, + "id": 5903 + }, + { + "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 353, + "id": 5904 + }, + { + "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "length": 235, + "id": 5905 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 107, + "id": 5906 + }, + { + "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 105, + "id": 5907 + }, + { + "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", + "source": "Eugene Cernan", + "length": 478, + "id": 5908 + }, + { + "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "length": 130, + "id": 5909 + }, + { + "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", + "source": "William Carlos Williams", + "length": 89, + "id": 5910 + }, + { + "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "length": 60, + "id": 5912 + }, + { + "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", + "source": "Henry Van Dyke", + "length": 172, + "id": 5913 + }, + { + "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", + "source": "Epicurus", + "length": 117, + "id": 5914 + }, + { + "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 1766, + "id": 5915 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 332, + "id": 5916 + }, + { + "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", + "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", + "length": 513, + "id": 5917 + }, + { + "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 105, + "id": 5918 + }, + { + "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", + "source": "Avicii - The Nights", + "length": 187, + "id": 5919 + }, + { + "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", + "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", + "length": 987, + "id": 5920 + }, + { + "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", + "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", + "length": 740, + "id": 5921 + }, + { + "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", + "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", + "length": 319, + "id": 5922 + }, + { + "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", + "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", + "length": 476, + "id": 5923 + }, + { + "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", + "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", + "length": 556, + "id": 5925 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 182, + "id": 5926 + }, + { + "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 281, + "id": 5927 + }, + { + "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 155, + "id": 5928 + }, + { + "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 248, + "id": 5929 + }, + { + "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 280, + "id": 5930 + }, + { + "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 289, + "id": 5931 + }, + { + "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", + "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", + "length": 294, + "id": 5932 + }, + { + "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 204, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5934 + }, + { + "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", + "source": "Batman: Arkham City", + "length": 87, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5935 + }, + { + "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5937 + }, + { + "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", + "source": "Little Inferno", + "length": 90, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5940 + }, + { + "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", + "source": "System Shock 2 ", + "length": 163, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5941 + }, + { + "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", + "source": "IT Crowd", + "length": 307, + "id": 5942 + }, + { + "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 322, + "id": 5943 + }, + { + "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 137, + "id": 5944 + }, + { + "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", + "source": "The Master and Margarita", + "length": 420, + "id": 5945 + }, + { + "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 379, + "id": 5947 + }, + { + "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", + "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", + "length": 348, + "id": 5950 + }, + { + "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", + "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", + "length": 729, + "id": 5951 + }, + { + "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", + "source": "Bojack Horseman", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5956 + }, + { + "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", + "source": "Vinland Saga", + "length": 102, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5957 + }, + { + "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", + "source": "Silent Hill 2", + "length": 1982, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5958 + }, + { + "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", + "source": "Mark Twain", + "length": 113, + "id": 6064 + }, + { + "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", + "source": "Colin Powell", + "length": 103, + "id": 6065 + }, + { + "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", + "source": "Conrad Hilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6066 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", + "source": "Zig Ziglar", + "length": 116, + "id": 6067 + }, + { + "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", + "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", + "length": 67, + "id": 6068 + }, + { + "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", + "source": "Barack Obama", + "length": 193, + "id": 6069 + }, + { + "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", + "source": "Charles Swindoll", + "length": 81, + "id": 6071 + }, + { + "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", + "source": "Oprah Winfrey", + "length": 132, + "id": 6072 + }, + { + "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", + "source": "Harriet Tubman", + "length": 165, + "id": 6073 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 86, + "id": 6074 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", + "source": "The Blair Witch Project", + "length": 649, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6075 + }, + { + "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 624, + "id": 6076 + }, + { + "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 834, + "id": 6077 + }, + { + "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 472, + "id": 6078 + }, + { + "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 308, + "id": 6079 + }, + { + "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 471, + "id": 6080 + }, + { + "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 352, + "id": 6081 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 336, + "id": 6082 + }, + { + "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 775, + "id": 6084 + }, + { + "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 610, + "id": 6085 + }, + { + "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 371, + "id": 6087 + }, + { + "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", + "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", + "length": 438, + "id": 6088 + }, + { + "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", + "source": "Atharva veda", + "length": 127, + "id": 6089 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", + "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", + "length": 681, + "id": 6090 + }, + { + "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", + "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", + "length": 192, + "id": 6091 + }, + { + "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", + "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", + "length": 69, + "id": 6092 + }, + { + "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", + "source": "Tirukkurral", + "length": 118, + "id": 6093 + }, + { + "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", + "source": "Halo 3", + "length": 337, + "id": 6095 + }, + { + "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", + "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", + "length": 219, + "id": 6096 + }, + { + "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 71, + "id": 6097 + }, + { + "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", + "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", + "length": 237, + "id": 6098 + }, + { + "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", + "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", + "length": 98, + "id": 6099 + }, + { + "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", + "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", + "length": 62, + "id": 6100 + }, + { + "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", + "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", + "length": 153, + "id": 6101 + }, + { + "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", + "source": "Remember11", + "length": 136, + "id": 6102 + }, + { + "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", + "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", + "length": 94, + "id": 6103 + }, + { + "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 59, + "id": 6104 + }, + { + "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", + "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", + "length": 157, + "id": 6106 + }, + { + "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 173, + "id": 6107 + }, + { + "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", + "length": 190, + "id": 6108 + }, + { + "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", + "length": 105, + "id": 6109 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 162, + "id": 6110 + }, + { + "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 122, + "id": 6112 + }, + { + "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 160, + "id": 6113 + }, + { + "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 239, + "id": 6114 + }, + { + "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", + "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", + "length": 92, + "id": 6115 + }, + { + "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", + "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", + "length": 131, + "id": 6116 + }, + { + "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", + "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", + "length": 157, + "id": 6117 + }, + { + "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", + "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", + "length": 121, + "id": 6118 + }, + { + "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", + "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", + "length": 256, + "id": 6119 + }, + { + "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. 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But my enemies brought me war.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 59, + "id": 6123 + }, + { + "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", + "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", + "length": 76, + "id": 6124 + }, + { + "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 182, + "id": 6125 + }, + { + "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", + "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", + "length": 62, + "id": 6126 + }, + { + "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 71, + "id": 6127 + }, + { + "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", + "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", + "length": 162, + "id": 6128 + }, + { + "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", + "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", + "length": 164, + "id": 6129 + }, + { + "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", + "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", + "length": 160, + "id": 6130 + }, + { + "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", + "source": "Beach House - Myth", + "length": 142, + "id": 6131 + }, + { + "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", + "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", + "length": 64, + "id": 6132 + }, + { + "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", + "source": "Beach House - PPP", + "length": 110, + "id": 6133 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", + "length": 78, + "id": 6134 + }, + { + "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", + "length": 175, + "id": 6135 + }, + { + "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", + "length": 113, + "id": 6136 + }, + { + "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", + "length": 66, + "id": 6137 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", + "length": 67, + "id": 6138 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", + "length": 95, + "id": 6139 + }, + { + "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", + "length": 80, + "id": 6141 + }, + { + "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 185, + "id": 6142 + }, + { + "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", + "length": 206, + "id": 6143 + }, + { + "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", + "length": 76, + "id": 6144 + }, + { + "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", + "length": 95, + "id": 6145 + }, + { + "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 181, + "id": 6146 + }, + { + "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", + "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", + "length": 66, + "id": 6147 + }, + { + "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", + "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", + "length": 181, + "id": 6148 + }, + { + "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", + "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", + "length": 291, + "id": 6149 + }, + { + "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 297, + "id": 6150 + }, + { + "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 657, + "id": 6151 + }, + { + "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", + "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", + "length": 128, + "id": 6152 + }, + { + "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 136, + "id": 6153 + }, + { + "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 64, + "id": 6154 + }, + { + "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 178, + "id": 6155 + }, + { + "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", + "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", + "length": 224, + "id": 6157 + }, + { + "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", + "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", + "length": 207, + "id": 6158 + }, + { + "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", + "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", + "length": 220, + "id": 6159 + }, + { + "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", + "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", + "length": 274, + "id": 6160 + }, + { + "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", + "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", + "length": 112, + "id": 6161 + }, + { + "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", + "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", + "length": 272, + "id": 6162 + }, + { + "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", + "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", + "length": 136, + "id": 6163 + }, + { + "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", + "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", + "length": 454, + "id": 6164 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", + "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", + "length": 381, + "id": 6165 + }, + { + "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", + "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", + "length": 453, + "id": 6166 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 165, + "id": 6167 + }, + { + "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", + "length": 136, + "id": 6168 + }, + { + "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", + "length": 229, + "id": 6169 + }, + { + "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 170, + "id": 6170 + }, + { + "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", + "length": 191, + "id": 6171 + }, + { + "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", + "length": 284, + "id": 6172 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", + "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", + "length": 204, + "id": 6173 + }, + { + "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", + "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", + "length": 122, + "id": 6174 + }, + { + "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", + "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", + "length": 268, + "id": 6175 + }, + { + "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", + "length": 234, + "id": 6176 + }, + { + "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", + "length": 186, + "id": 6177 + }, + { + "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", + "length": 423, + "id": 6178 + }, + { + "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", + "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", + "length": 313, + "id": 6179 + }, + { + "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. 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A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", + "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", + "length": 401, + "id": 6183 + }, + { + "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", + "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", + "length": 202, + "id": 6184 + }, + { + "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", + "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", + "length": 290, + "id": 6185 + }, + { + "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", + "length": 178, + "id": 6186 + }, + { + "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 197, + "id": 6188 + }, + { + "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 395, + "id": 6189 + }, + { + "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 372, + "id": 6190 + }, + { + "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 214, + "id": 6191 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 427, + "id": 6192 + }, + { + "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 116, + "id": 6193 + }, + { + "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 238, + "id": 6194 + }, + { + "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 256, + "id": 6195 + }, + { + "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 316, + "id": 6196 + }, + { + "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. 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It turns out plinths are very important.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 251, + "id": 6199 + }, + { + "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 229, + "id": 6200 + }, + { + "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 252, + "id": 6201 + }, + { + "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", + "length": 576, + "id": 6202 + }, + { + "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", + "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", + "length": 112, + "id": 6203 + }, + { + "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", + "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", + "length": 110, + "id": 6204 + }, + { + "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. 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Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", + "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", + "length": 95, + "id": 6212 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", + "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", + "length": 70, + "id": 6213 + }, + { + "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", + "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", + "length": 51, + "id": 6214 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", + "source": "Clare - Claymore", + "length": 164, + "id": 6215 + }, + { + "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", + "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", + "length": 384, + "id": 6216 + }, + { + "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", + "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", + "length": 67, + "id": 6217 + }, + { + "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", + "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", + "length": 88, + "id": 6218 + }, + { + "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", + "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", + "length": 314, + "id": 6220 + }, + { + "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", + "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", + "length": 89, + "id": 6221 + }, + { + "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", + "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", + "length": 422, + "id": 6222 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", + "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", + "length": 179, + "id": 6223 + }, + { + "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", + "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", + "length": 463, + "id": 6224 + }, + { + "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", + "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 109, + "id": 6225 + }, + { + "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", + "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 61, + "id": 6226 + }, + { + "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", + "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", + "length": 93, + "id": 6227 + }, + { + "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", + "length": 177, + "id": 6228 + }, + { + "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", + "length": 215, + "id": 6229 + }, + { + "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", + "length": 167, + "id": 6230 + }, + { + "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 827, + "id": 6231 + }, + { + "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", + "length": 116, + "id": 6232 + }, + { + "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", + "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", + "length": 137, + "id": 6233 + }, + { + "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", + "length": 127, + "id": 6234 + }, + { + "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 94, + "id": 6235 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 182, + "id": 6236 + }, + { + "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 140, + "id": 6237 + }, + { + "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", + "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", + "length": 144, + "id": 6238 + }, + { + "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", + "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", + "length": 248, + "id": 6239 + }, + { + "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. Did you follow your fire?", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 289, + "id": 6240 + }, + { + "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 123, + "id": 6241 + }, + { + "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", + "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", + "length": 197, + "id": 6242 + }, + { + "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", + "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", + "length": 289, + "id": 6243 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. Though we don't share the same blood, you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.", + "source": "Kodaline - Brother", + "length": 161, + "id": 6244 + }, + { + "text": "Star in your eyes, sun in your smile, the way you look at me - it makes me hum and I call it love song.", + "source": "Yoohyeon (Dreamcatcher) - For", + "length": 103, + "id": 6245 + }, + { + "text": "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 57, + "id": 6246 + }, + { + "text": "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 240, + "id": 6247 + }, + { + "text": "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 112, + "id": 6248 + }, + { + "text": "For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 177, + "id": 6249 + }, + { + "text": "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 421, + "id": 6250 + }, + { + "text": "Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say \"I'll never be good.\" You can become better! And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 251, + "id": 6251 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 105, + "id": 6252 + }, + { + "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 303, + "id": 6253 + }, + { + "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 149, + "id": 6254 + }, + { + "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 119, + "id": 6255 + }, + { + "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", + "source": "Tool", + "length": 220, + "id": 6256 + }, + { + "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", + "source": "Whiplash", + "length": 270, + "id": 6258 + }, + { + "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 173, + "id": 6259 + }, + { + "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 395, + "id": 6260 + }, + { + "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 246, + "id": 6261 + }, + { + "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. 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Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", + "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", + "length": 1662, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6275 + }, + { + "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. 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Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 421, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6286 + }, + { + "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", + "source": "Animal Farm", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6287 + }, + { + "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 307, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6288 + }, + { + "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 745, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6292 + }, + { + "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. 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Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "length": 740, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6303 + }, + { + "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", + "length": 520, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6304 + }, + { + "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", + "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", + "length": 273, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6305 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 216, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6306 + }, + { + "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. 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And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", + "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", + "length": 1200, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6308 + }, + { + "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. 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But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6331 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 735, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6332 + }, + { + "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 100, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6333 + }, + { + "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 261, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6334 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 684, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6335 + }, + { + "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 434, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6336 + }, + { + "text": "A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe... Those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition, and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It's found truth in its maturity... Because what's it all for if it goes unremembered? It's the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 496, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6337 + }, + { + "text": "False tears bring pain to those around you. 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All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 586, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6734 + }, + { + "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 1174, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6735 + }, + { + "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", + "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", + "length": 221, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6736 + }, + { + "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 184, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6737 + }, + { + "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 145, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6738 + }, + { + "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 246, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6739 + }, + { + "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 88, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6740 + }, + { + "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6741 + }, + { + "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", + "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", + "length": 272, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6742 + }, + { + "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 275, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6743 + }, + { + "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 186, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6744 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 467, + "id": 6745 + }, + { + "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 877, + "id": 6746 + }, + { + "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", + "source": "A Girl on the Shore", + "length": 572, + "id": 6747 + }, + { + "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 64, + "id": 6748 + }, + { + "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 62, + "id": 6749 + }, + { + "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 77, + "id": 6750 + }, + { + "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 166, + "id": 6751 + }, + { + "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 195, + "id": 6752 + }, + { + "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 100, + "id": 6753 + }, + { + "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 172, + "id": 6754 + }, + { + "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 118, + "id": 6755 + }, + { + "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 119, + "id": 6756 + }, + { + "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", + "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6757, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", + "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6758, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. 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Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6765, + "length": 141 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6766, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", + "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", + "id": 6767, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. 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I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6771, + "length": 703 + }, + { + "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6772, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6773, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6774, + "length": 464 + }, + { + "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6775, + "length": 259 + }, + { + "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. 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We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6779, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6780, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6781, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6782, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6783, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6784, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6785, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", + "source": "Walt Disney", + "id": 6786, + "length": 245 + }, + { + "text": "He's smart. He's angry. 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It got you right here.", + "source": "Ozark", + "id": 6789, + "length": 662 + }, + { + "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "id": 6790, + "length": 75 + }, + { + "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", + "source": "Greek Mythology", + "id": 6791, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 6792, + "length": 108 + }, + { + "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", + "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", + "length": 99, + "id": 6793 + }, + { + "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", + "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6794 + }, + { + "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 58, + "id": 6795 + }, + { + "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6796 + }, + { + "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. 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Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6802 + }, + { + "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 82, + "id": 6803 + }, + { + "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. 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It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 71, + "id": 6813 + }, + { + "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 81, + "id": 6814 + }, + { + "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. 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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", + "source": "Steve Jobs", + "length": 174, + "id": 6823 + }, + { + "text": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", + "length": 254, + "id": 6824 + }, + { + "text": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.", + "source": "Andrè Gide", + "length": 80, + "id": 6825 + }, + { + "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This means recognizing that failure and setbacks are a natural part of the journey to success, and using them as opportunities to learn and grow. It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", + "source": "Nelson Mandela", + "length": 431, + "id": 6827 + }, + { + "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 75, + "id": 6828 + }, + { + "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", + "source": "J.K. Rowling", + "length": 101, + "id": 6829 + }, + { + "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 6830 + }, + { + "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", + "source": "Edmund Burke", + "length": 79, + "id": 6831 + }, + { + "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. 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This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 423, + "id": 6839 + }, + { + "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", + "source": "Abraham Lincoln", + "length": 402, + "id": 6840 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", + "source": "Albert Schweitzer", + "length": 392, + "id": 6841 + }, + { + "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", + "length": 41, + "id": 6842 + }, + { + "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", + "source": "Dalai Lama", + "length": 70, + "id": 6843 + }, + { + "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", + "source": "Henry Ford", + "length": 57, + "id": 6844 + }, + { + "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 248, + "id": 6845 + }, + { + "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 58, + "id": 6847 + }, + { + "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", + "source": "Jean Paul", + "length": 53, + "id": 6849 + }, + { + "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", + "source": "Oscar Wilde", + "length": 66, + "id": 6851 + }, + { + "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", + "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 217, + "id": 6852 + }, + { + "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", + "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", + "length": 92, + "id": 6853 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", + "source": "Clockwork Princess", + "length": 66, + "id": 6854 + }, + { + "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. 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I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", + "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", + "length": 361, + "id": 6858 + }, + { + "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. 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They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 336, + "id": 6869 + }, + { + "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 182, + "id": 6870 + }, + { + "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 529, + "id": 6871 + }, + { + "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 282, + "id": 6872 + }, + { + "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 184, + "id": 6873 + }, + { + "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 196, + "id": 6874 + }, + { + "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", + "source": "Lao Tzu", + "length": 90, + "id": 6875 + }, + { + "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. 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Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", + "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", + "id": 6895, + "length": 345 + }, + { + "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", + "source": "Edwin Hubble", + "id": 6897, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", + "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", + "id": 6898, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. 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Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!", + "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", + "length": 87, + "id": 6936 + }, + { + "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.", + "source": "Aristotle", + "length": 124, + "id": 6937 + }, + { + "text": "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", + "source": "Chinese Proverb", + "length": 87, + "id": 6938 + }, + { + "text": "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", + "source": "Japanese Proverb", + "length": 69, + "id": 6939 + }, + { + "text": "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", + "source": "Malayan Proverb", + "length": 62, + "id": 6940 + }, + { + "text": "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", + "source": "Indian Proverb", + "length": 165, + "id": 6941 + }, + { + "text": "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", + "source": "Linus Torvalds", + "length": 250, + "id": 6942 + }, + { + "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. 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Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", + "source": "Houseki No Kuni", + "length": 335, + "id": 6980 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 79, + "id": 6981 + }, + { + "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 110, + "id": 6982 + }, + { + "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", + "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", + "length": 110, + "id": 6983 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 255, + "id": 6984 + }, + { + "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 246, + "id": 6985 + }, + { + "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 278, + "id": 6986 + }, + { + "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", + "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", + "length": 297, + "id": 6987 + }, + { + "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", + "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", + "length": 411, + "id": 6988 + }, + { + "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", + "source": "Technoblade", + "length": 217, + "id": 6989 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", + "source": "Simon Sinek", + "length": 314, + "id": 6990 + }, + { + "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 82, + "id": 6991 + }, + { + "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. 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Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", + "source": "Boisvert", + "length": 670, + "id": 6994 + }, + { + "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", + "source": "Albert Camus", + "length": 84, + "id": 6995 + }, + { + "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 97, + "id": 6996 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", + "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", + "length": 67, + "id": 6997 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", + "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", + "length": 90, + "id": 6998 + }, + { + "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", + "source": "L.R. Knos", + "length": 267, + "id": 6999 + }, + { + "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", + "source": "Emily Dickinson", + "length": 117, + "id": 7000 + }, + { + "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", + "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", + "length": 112, + "id": 7001 + }, + { + "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", + "source": "The Wright Brothers", + "length": 74, + "id": 7002 + }, + { + "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. 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His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", + "source": "1984, George Orwell", + "length": 740, + "id": 7003 + }, + { + "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 74, + "id": 7004 + }, + { + "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 112, + "id": 7005 + }, + { + "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", + "source": "Talos Principle", + "length": 694, + "id": 7006 + }, + { + "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", + "source": "James Salter", + "length": 99, + "id": 7007 + }, + { + "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", + "source": "Vicente Huidobro", + "length": 127, + "id": 7008 + }, + { + "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", + "source": "J. R. R. 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The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7045 + }, + { + "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7046 + }, + { + "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", + "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", + "length": 68, + "id": 7047 + }, + { + "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", + "source": "Shiori Novella", + "length": 179, + "id": 7048 + }, + { + "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7049 + }, + { + "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", + "length": 135, + "id": 7050 + }, + { + "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 232, + "id": 7051 + }, + { + "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 93, + "id": 7052 + }, + { + "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", + "source": "Edward Everett Hale", + "length": 90, + "id": 7053 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 126, + "id": 7054 + }, + { + "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 132, + "id": 7055 + }, + { + "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", + "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", + "length": 300, + "id": 7056 + }, + { + "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", + "source": "Douglas Crockford", + "length": 134, + "id": 7057 + }, + { + "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", + "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", + "length": 107, + "id": 7058 + }, + { + "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", + "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", + "length": 161, + "id": 7059 + }, + { + "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", + "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", + "length": 140, + "id": 7060 + }, + { + "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 174, + "id": 7061 + }, + { + "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 371, + "id": 7062 + }, + { + "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", + "source": "Invincible (TV series)", + "length": 309, + "id": 7603 + }, + { + "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", + "length": 130, + "id": 7604 + }, + { + "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", + "source": "The Walking Dead", + "length": 362, + "id": 7605 + }, + { + "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 568, + "id": 7606 + }, + { + "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", + "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", + "length": 782, + "id": 7607 + }, + { + "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", + "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 631, + "id": 7608 + }, + { + "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", + "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 144, + "id": 7609 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", + "source": "The Magnus Archives", + "length": 369, + "id": 7610 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", + "source": "Magnus Carlsen", + "length": 116, + "id": 7611 + }, + { + "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", + "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", + "length": 541, + "id": 7612 + }, + { + "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", + "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", + "length": 131, + "id": 7613 + }, + { + "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", + "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", + "length": 603, + "id": 7614 + }, + { + "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7615, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7616, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7617, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", + "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7618, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", + "source": "The Power Of Now", + "length": 239, + "id": 7619 + }, + { + "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts", + "length": 84, + "id": 7620 + }, + { + "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", + "length": 142, + "id": 7621 + }, + { + "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", + "length": 673, + "id": 7622 + }, + { + "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", + "length": 307, + "id": 7623 + }, + { + "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", + "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", + "length": 96, + "id": 7624 + }, + { + "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 215, + "id": 7625 + }, + { + "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 130, + "id": 7626 + }, + { + "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 158, + "id": 7627 + }, + { + "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 90, + "id": 7628 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 103, + "id": 7629 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 153, + "id": 7630 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 136, + "id": 7631 + }, + { + "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 165, + "id": 7632 + }, + { + "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", + "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", + "length": 77, + "id": 7633 }, { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", From e39fa0c9939e4934a9a30435dfdada75b78d6a55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:48:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 22/51] fix(quotes): re-added the last of the accidentally removed quotes --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 15307 ++------------------------ 1 file changed, 1146 insertions(+), 14161 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 08dd49382654..b2540d8ecbac 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38578,14735 +38578,1720 @@ "id": 7633 }, { - "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4271, - "length": 215 + "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 138, + "id": 7634 }, { - "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4272, - "length": 179 + "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 240, + "id": 7635 }, { - "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4273, - "length": 494 + "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 203, + "id": 7636 }, { - "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", - "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", - "id": 4274, - "length": 362 + "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 423, + "id": 7637 }, { - "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4275, - "length": 109 + "text": "You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. Of all those I've claimed over this brief thousand years, you are the only one I think just might be able to understand me.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 198, + "id": 7638 }, { - "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", - "source": "Portal", - "id": 4276, - "length": 393 + "text": "The only point in creating something is to inevitably watch it die.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 67, + "id": 7639 }, { - "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 4277, - "length": 236 + "text": "Those quakes are the earth's final sighs,\" Ruin said. \"Like an old man, moaning as he dies, calling for his children so that he can pass on his last bits of wisdom.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 164, + "id": 7640 }, { - "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", - "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "id": 4279, - "length": 683 + "text": "That's the way it must always be, as I told you. When men think they are helping the world, they actually do more harm than good. Just like you. You tried to help, but you just ended up freeing me.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7641 }, { - "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", - "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", - "id": 4280, - "length": 101 + "text": "For Ruin, there is Preservation. Time immemorial! Eternity! And each time I push, YOU push back. Even when dead, you stopped me, for we are forces. I can do nothing! And you can do nothing! Balance! The curse of our existence.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 226, + "id": 7642 }, { - "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", - "source": "Intensity: A Novel", - "id": 4281, - "length": 283 + "text": "I can't decide if you're a fool, or if you simply exist in a way that makes you incapable of considering some things.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 117, + "id": 7643 }, { - "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", - "source": "419", - "id": 4282, - "length": 266 + "text": "The only reason to be subservient to those with power is so that you can learn to someday take what they have.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 110, + "id": 7644 }, { - "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", - "source": "Preface to Economix", - "id": 4283, - "length": 387 + "text": "Never let your life depend on the competence of someone else whose life isn't also on the line.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7645 }, { - "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4284, - "length": 314 + "text": "What we do, it is not outside the law. Not the true law. Oh, the rich will make their own codes, will force us to live by them. But our law is the law of humanity itself. Men who work for me, they are given the dispensation of reform. Their work here washes away their previous ... infractions. Tell them I am proud of them, Clamps. I realize we've been through something traumatic, but we did survive. We will face tomorrow with greater strength.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 447, + "id": 7646 }, { - "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4285, - "length": 103 + "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 99, + "id": 7647 }, { - "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", - "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", - "id": 4286, - "length": 204 + "text": "I am tired of doing what the city tells me. I should be helping people, not fighting meaningless fights as prescribed by the corrupt and the uncaring.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7648 }, { - "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", - "source": "Friday The 13th", - "id": 4287, - "length": 384 + "text": "I decided that I'd see her dream fulfilled. I'd make a world where flowers returned, a world with green plants, a world where no soot fell from the sky....\" He trailed off, then sighed. \"I know. I'm insane.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 205, + "id": 7649 }, { - "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", - "source": "Of Mice and Men", - "id": 4288, - "length": 655 + "text": "If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7650 }, { - "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", - "source": "Paper Mario", - "id": 4289, - "length": 160 + "text": "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 133, + "id": 7651 }, { - "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4290, - "length": 297 + "text": "Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a mild annoyance. People tell me I can be downright frustrating! Might as well use that talent for the cause of good eh?", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 216, + "id": 7652 }, { - "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", - "source": "Meditations", - "id": 4291, - "length": 321 + "text": "From the Well of Ascension, of course. It's the same power, after all. Solid in the metal you fed to Elend. The liquid in the pool you burned. And vapor in the air, confined to night. Hiding you. Protecting you.\nGiving you power!", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 229, + "id": 7653 }, { - "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", - "source": "An American in Paris", - "id": 4292, - "length": 364 + "text": "So, there I was, tied to an altar made from out-dated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil librarians.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 141, + "id": 7654 }, { - "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", - "source": "One-Punch Man", - "id": 4293, - "length": 227 + "text": "Now, there are several things you should consider doing if you were plummeting to your death atop a glass dragon in the middle of the ocean. Those things do not, mind you, include getting into an extended discussion of classical philosophy. Leave that to professionals like me.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 277, + "id": 7655 }, { - "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4294, - "length": 454 + "text": "When you're about to launch yourself into the air strapped to the back of a rocket-propelled penguin, it's that blasted responsibility that warns you that the flight might not be good for your insurance premiums.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 212, + "id": 7656 }, { - "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4295, - "length": 369 + "text": "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7657 }, { - "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", - "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", - "id": 4297, - "length": 73 + "text": "It felt right. Serene. That, of course, meant it was time for something to explode.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 83, + "id": 7658 }, { - "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", - "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", - "id": 4298, - "length": 156 + "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 520, + "id": 7659 }, { - "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4299, - "length": 113 + "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 344, + "id": 7660 }, { - "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", - "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", - "id": 4300, - "length": 146 + "text": "Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 244, + "id": 7661 }, { - "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", - "source": "The Great Pretender", - "id": 4301, - "length": 107 + "text": "Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change... To be young is about action. To be a scholar is about informed action.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7662 }, { - "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4302, - "length": 98 + "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 339, + "id": 7663 }, { - "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4304, - "length": 576 + "text": "I always forgive curiosity, Your Majesty. It strikes me as one of the most genuine of emotions.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7664 }, { - "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", - "source": "The Bug", - "id": 4305, - "length": 129 + "text": "A true scholar must not close her mind on any topic, no matter how certain she may feel. Just because I have not yet found a convincing reason to join one of the devotaries does not mean I never will. Though each time I have a discussion like the one today, my convictions grow firmer.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 285, + "id": 7665 }, { - "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4306, - "length": 152 + "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 612, + "id": 7666 }, { - "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", - "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", - "id": 4307, - "length": 322 + "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 302, + "id": 7667 }, { - "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", - "source": "Lateralus", - "id": 4308, - "length": 181 + "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7668 }, { - "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", - "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", - "id": 4309, - "length": 74 + "text": "Power is an illusion of perception...Some kinds of power are real -- power to command armies, power to soulcast. These come into play far less often than you would think.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7669 }, { - "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4310, - "length": 327 + "text": "You are not as good with patterns... You are abstract. You think in lies and tell them to yourselves. That is fascinating, but it is not good for patterns.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7670 }, { - "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4311, - "length": 137 + "text": "Truth is individual. Your truth is what you see. What else could it be? That is the truth that you spoke to me, the truth that brings power.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 140, + "id": 7671 }, { - "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4312, - "length": 269 + "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7672 }, { - "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", - "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", - "id": 4313, - "length": 223 + "text": "Humans can see the world as it is not. It is why your lies can be so strong. You are able to not admit that they are lies.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 122, + "id": 7673 }, { - "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", - "source": "Your Deep Rest", - "id": 4314, - "length": 194 + "text": "I know that you have forgotten much of what once was. Those lies attracted me. But you cannot continue like this; you must admit the truth about me. About what I can do, and what we have done. Mmm... More, you must know yourself. And remember. You wish to help. You wish to prepare for the Everstorm, the spren of the unnatural one. You must become something. I did not come to you merely to teach you tricks of light.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 418, + "id": 7674 }, { - "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 4315, - "length": 128 + "text": "I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7675 }, { - "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 4316, - "length": 429 + "text": "You were talking about mating! I'm to make sure you don't accidentally mate, as mating is forbidden by human society until you have first performed appropriate rituals! Yes, yes. Mmmm. Dictates of custom require following certain patterns before you copulate. I've been studying this!", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 284, + "id": 7676 }, { - "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4317, - "length": 102 + "text": "You're right nice, but you ain't got enough punch for me. I like women what could take my face clean off with a roundhouse.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7677 }, { - "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", - "source": "Leaves of Grass", - "id": 4318, - "length": 297 + "text": "I ain't drunk. I'm investigatin' alternative states of sobriety.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 64, + "id": 7678 }, { - "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4319, - "length": 278 + "text": "You didn't promise to kill me. You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7679 }, { - "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4320, - "length": 212 + "text": "Ain't no fellow who regretted giving it one extra shake, but you can bet every guy has regretted giving one too few.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 116, + "id": 7680 }, { - "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4321, - "length": 373 + "text": "Perhaps you should pray to the Almighty for guidance. I hear he has a fondness for slavers. Keeps a special room in Damnation just for you.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 139, + "id": 7681 }, { - "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", - "source": "Before I Forget", - "id": 4322, - "length": 125 + "text": "Men are unreliable in many things. But if there's one thing you can count on, it's their greed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7682 }, { - "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", - "source": "Playing For Keeps", - "id": 4323, - "length": 129 + "text": "Death isn't better. Oh, it's easy to say that now. But when you stand on the ledge and look down into that dark, endless pit, you change your mind. Just like Hobber did. Just like I've done. I think you've seen it too.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 218, + "id": 7683 }, { - "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", - "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", - "id": 4324, - "length": 411 + "text": "Tradition is the blind witness they use to condemn us, Teft. It's the pretty box they use to wrap up their lies. It makes us serve them.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7684 }, { - "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", - "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", - "id": 4325, - "length": 426 + "text": "Pity. Made up stories have proven to be some of the most real things in my life.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7685 }, { - "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4326, - "length": 348 + "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 162, + "id": 7686 }, { - "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4327, - "length": 98 + "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 165, + "id": 7687 }, { - "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", - "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", - "id": 4328, - "length": 371 + "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7688 }, { - "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", - "source": "Motion Sickness", - "id": 4329, - "length": 199 + "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 92, + "id": 7689 }, { - "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", - "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", - "id": 4330, - "length": 500 + "text": "Oh, come on. You have to admit that you're unusual, Vin. You're like some strange mixture of a noblewoman, a street urchin, and a cat. Plus, you've managed -- in our short three years together -- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiancée. That's kind of like a homicidal hat trick. It's a strange foundation for a relationship, wouldn't you say?", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 370, + "id": 7690 }, { - "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", - "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", - "id": 4332, - "length": 364 + "text": "You said that the only reason to create something is to destroy it. We create things to watch them grow, Ruin. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 188, + "id": 7691 }, { - "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4333, - "length": 265 + "text": "I am the Lopen, which means I am ready for anything at any time. You should know this by now.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7692 }, { - "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4334, - "length": 237 + "text": "Hey, gancho! Hey! You want me, I think. You can use me. We Herdazians are great fighters, gon. You see, this one time, I was with, sure, three men and they were drunk and all but I still beat them.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7693 }, { - "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", - "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", - "id": 4335, - "length": 554 + "text": "I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen,' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.' She is a very wise woman.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 220, + "id": 7694 }, { - "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", - "source": "Juno", - "id": 4336, - "length": 99 + "text": "If you're crazy, you're a good type, and I like you. Not a killing-people-in-their-sleep type of crazy. Besides, We all follow crazies all the time. Do it every day with lighteyes.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 180, + "id": 7695 }, { - "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4338, - "length": 289 + "text": "Some of my cousins, they call me the Lopen because they haven't ever heard anyone else named that. I've asked around a lot, maybe one hundred...or two hundred...lots of people, sure. And nobody has heard of that name.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 217, + "id": 7696 }, { - "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4339, - "length": 212 + "text": "Oh. Oh. Question for you! What did the one-armed Herdazian do to the man who stuck him to the wall?\nNothing. The Herdazian was 'armless.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7697 }, { - "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", - "source": "Homestuck", - "id": 4340, - "length": 255 + "text": "Ain't nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho. Some of my relatives are women.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 79, + "id": 7698 }, { - "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", - "source": "The Book of Illusions", - "id": 4341, - "length": 705 + "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 520, + "id": 7699 }, { - "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", - "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", - "id": 4342, - "length": 614 + "text": "I'll do it, then. I've got to protect people, you know? Even from myself. Gotta rededicate to being the best Lopen possible. A better, improved, extra-incredible Lopen.", + "source": "Dawnshard, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7700 }, { - "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", - "source": "The Mist", - "id": 4343, - "length": 299 + "text": "NOW? I was saving that for a dramatic moment, you penhito! Why didn't you listen earlier? We were, sure, all about to die and things!", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 133, + "id": 7701 }, { - "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", - "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", - "id": 4344, - "length": 216 + "text": "I only tell stories, Your Grace. They may be truths, they may be fictions. All I know is that the stories themselves exist and that I must tell them.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 149, + "id": 7702 }, { - "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4345, - "length": 158 + "text": "I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7703 }, { - "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 4346, - "length": 270 + "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 288, + "id": 7704 }, { - "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", - "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", - "id": 4347, - "length": 135 + "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 516, + "id": 7705 }, { - "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", - "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", - "id": 4348, - "length": 135 + "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 166, + "id": 7706 }, { - "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4349, - "length": 142 + "text": "\"I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself. Another time, I was named for a rock.\"\n\"A pretty one, I hope.\"\n\"A beautiful one. And one that became completely worthless for my wearing it.\"", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 237, + "id": 7707 }, { - "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4350, - "length": 471 + "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 77, + "id": 7708 }, { - "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", - "source": "Mona Lisa", - "id": 4352, - "length": 447 + "text": "\"What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.\"\n\"What does the story mean, then?\"\n\"It means what you want it to mean. The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.\"", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 292, + "id": 7709 }, { - "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", - "source": "Clerks", - "id": 4353, - "length": 261 + "text": "People see in stories what they're looking for, my young friend. I have no answers for you. Most days, I feel I never have had any answers. I've come to your land to chase an old acquaintance, but I end up spending most of my time hiding from him instead.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 255, + "id": 7710 }, { - "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4355, - "length": 393 + "text": "Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 105, + "id": 7711 }, { - "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", - "source": "A Separate Peace", - "id": 4356, - "length": 358 + "text": "You must not trust yourself with me. If I have to watch this world crumble and burn to get what I need, I will do so. With tears, yes, but I would let it happen.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 161, + "id": 7712 }, { - "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", - "source": "The Sopranos", - "id": 4357, - "length": 415 + "text": "\"Beware of anyone who claims to be able to see the future.\"\n\"Except you, of course.\"\n\"Beware of anyone who claims to be able to see the future.\"", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7713 }, { - "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4359, - "length": 435 + "text": "I cannot judge the worth of a life. I would not dare to attempt it.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 67, + "id": 7714 }, { - "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4360, - "length": 328 + "text": "Accept the pain, but do not accept that you deserved it.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 56, + "id": 7715 }, { - "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", - "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", - "id": 4361, - "length": 111 + "text": "How remarkable, [if] you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you. There's poetry in that, don't you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 212, + "id": 7716 }, { - "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda", - "id": 4364, - "length": 219 + "text": "I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you Kaladin, you will be warm again.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 191, + "id": 7717 }, { - "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4365, - "length": 297 + "text": "Deal with your own stupid planet, you idiot. Don't make me come over there and slap you around again.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 101, + "id": 7718 }, { - "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", - "source": "The Notebook", - "id": 4366, - "length": 120 + "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", + "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 372, + "id": 7719 }, { - "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", - "source": "Middlemarch", - "id": 4367, - "length": 321 + "text": "I can remember…sitting on a rooftop. Looking up and wondering what the stars were.I assumed I'd never know. The town philosophers had talked themselves hoarse arguing the matter, as was often their way. Talk until you can't talk anymore, and then hope someone will buy you a drink to keep the words flowing.\nYet here I am. Millennia later. Walking between the stars, learning each one.", + "source": "The Sunlit Man, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 385, + "id": 7720 }, { - "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4368, - "length": 250 + "text": "I mention it, not to dwell upon it, but to remember a time when I was commonly put into dangerous situations. I did not handle it well then. I often wonder … how would I handle it now?", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 184, + "id": 7721 }, { - "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4369, - "length": 73 + "text": "I would say that hope defines us, Jasnah. Without it, we are not human.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 71, + "id": 7722 }, { - "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", - "source": "A Game of Thrones", - "id": 4370, - "length": 195 + "text": "The law is there to keep us from ruining everyone else's ability to explore. Without law, there's no freedom. That's why I am what I am.", + "source": "The Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7723 }, { - "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", - "source": "King for a Day", - "id": 4371, - "length": 311 + "text": "I have known you for an entire year now, Lord Waxillium. I can accept you for who you are, but I am under no illusions. Something will happen at our wedding. A villain will burst in, guns firing. Or we'll discover explosives in the altar. Or Father Bin will inexplicably turn out to be an old enemy and attempt to murder you instead of performing the ceremony. It will happen.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 376, + "id": 7724 }, { - "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", - "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", - "id": 4372, - "length": 179 + "text": "I think we're all like that. Shuffled from place to place by duty, or society, or God Himself. It seems like we're just along for the ride, even in our own lives. But once in a while, we do face a choice. A real one. We may not be able to choose what happens to us, or where we'll stop, but we point ourselves in a direction.", + "source": "The Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 325, + "id": 7725 }, { - "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", - "source": "Say Anything", - "id": 4373, - "length": 306 + "text": "Now, as each order was thus matched to the nature and temperament of the Herald it named patron, there was none more archetypal of this than the Stonewards, who followed after Talenelat'Elin, Stonesinew, Herald of War: they thought it a point of virtue to exemplify resolve, strength, and dependability. Alas, they took less care for imprudent practice of their stubbornness, even in the face of proven error.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 409, + "id": 7726 }, { - "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", - "source": "The Wall", - "id": 4374, - "length": 256 + "text": "As a Stoneward, I spent my entire life looking to sacrifice myself. I secretly worry that this is the cowardly way.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 115, + "id": 7727 }, { - "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", - "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", - "id": 4375, - "length": 450 + "text": "And now, if there was an uncut gem among the Radiants, it was the Willshapers; for though enterprising, they were erratic, and Invia wrote of them, \"capricious, frustrating, unreliable,\" as taking it for granted that others would agree; this may have been an intolerant view, as Invia often expressed, for this order was said to be most varied, inconsistent in temperament save for a general love of adventure, novelty, or oddity.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 430, + "id": 7728 }, { - "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4376, - "length": 147 + "text": "Now, as the Truthwatchers were esoteric in nature, their order being formed entirely of those who never spoke or wrote of what they did, in this lies frustration for those who would see their exceeding secrecy from the outside; they were not naturally inclined to explanation; and in the case of Corberon's disagreements, their silence was not a sign of exceeding abundance of disdain, but rather an exceeding abundance of tact.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 428, + "id": 7729 }, { - "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4377, - "length": 243 + "text": "The Hero of Ages shall be not a man, but a force. No nation may claim him, no woman shall keep him, and no king may slay him. He shall belong to none, not even himself.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7730 }, { - "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4379, - "length": 290 + "text": "He shall defend their ways, yet shall violate them. He will be their savior, yet they shall call him heretic. His name shall be Discord, yet they shall love him for it.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7731 }, { - "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", - "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", - "id": 4380, - "length": 85 + "text": "He left ruin in his wake, but it was forgotten. He created kingdoms, and then destroyed them as he made the world anew.", + "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 119, + "id": 7732 }, { - "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", - "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", - "id": 4381, - "length": 573 + "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", + "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 96, + "id": 7733 }, { - "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", - "source": "Beautiful Day", - "id": 4383, - "length": 114 + "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 277, + "id": 7734 }, { - "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", - "source": "Sonic Adventure", - "id": 4385, - "length": 272 + "text": "Now, as the Windrunners were thus engaged, arose the event which has hitherto been referenced: namely, that discovery of some wicked thing of eminence, though whether it be some rogueries among the Radiants' adherents or of some external origin, Avena would not suggest.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 270, + "id": 7735 }, { - "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", - "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", - "id": 4386, - "length": 152 + "text": "There came also sixteen of the order of Windrunners, and with them a considerable number of squires, and finding in that place the Skybreakers dividing the innocent from the guilty, there ensued a great debate.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 210, + "id": 7736 }, { - "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", - "source": "Blackwater", - "id": 4387, - "length": 609 + "text": "Money is meaningless; Only expectation has value as currency", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 60, + "id": 7737 }, { - "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4388, - "length": 143 + "text": "I need you to stick your head in a bucket of water and slowly count to a thousand!", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 82, + "id": 7738 }, { - "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4389, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4390, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4391, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 4392, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", - "source": "Warrior", - "id": 4393, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4394, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4395, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", - "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", - "id": 4396, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4397, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4398, - "length": 374 - }, - { - "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", - "source": "Boy Meets World", - "id": 4399, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4400, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", - "source": "The Last Lecture", - "id": 4401, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", - "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", - "id": 4402, - "length": 388 - }, - { - "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "id": 4403, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", - "source": "Aeneid", - "id": 4404, - "length": 432 - }, - { - "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4406, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", - "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", - "id": 4407, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4408, - "length": 564 - }, - { - "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4409, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", - "source": "Ninja Mind Control", - "id": 4411, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", - "source": "The Canterbury Tales", - "id": 4412, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", - "source": "Firestorm", - "id": 4413, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4414, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4415, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", - "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", - "id": 4417, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", - "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", - "id": 4418, - "length": 642 - }, - { - "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", - "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", - "id": 4419, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", - "source": "Amadeus", - "id": 4420, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "id": 4421, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", - "source": "Hey Jude", - "id": 4422, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4423, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", - "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", - "id": 4425, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", - "source": "InuYasha", - "id": 4426, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4427, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4428, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", - "source": "Beauty and the Beast", - "id": 4429, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", - "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", - "id": 4430, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", - "source": "Pickman's Model", - "id": 4431, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", - "source": "American Pie", - "id": 4432, - "length": 639 - }, - { - "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4433, - "length": 368 - }, - { - "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", - "source": "Corner Gas", - "id": 4435, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", - "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", - "id": 4436, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4437, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", - "source": "All Night", - "id": 4438, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid", - "id": 4439, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", - "source": "Airplane!", - "id": 4440, - "length": 330 - }, - { - "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4441, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", - "source": "The Gambler", - "id": 4442, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", - "source": "I, Mammal", - "id": 4443, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4444, - "length": 527 - }, - { - "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4445, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", - "source": "The First Elegy", - "id": 4446, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4447, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", - "source": "Never Ever", - "id": 4448, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4449, - "length": 410 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", - "source": "Head Over Feet", - "id": 4450, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "id": 4451, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4452, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", - "source": "Quiz Show", - "id": 4453, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4454, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", - "source": "Areopagitica", - "id": 4456, - "length": 822 - }, - { - "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4457, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "id": 4458, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "id": 4459, - "length": 482 - }, - { - "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "id": 4460, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", - "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", - "id": 4461, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4462, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4463, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4464, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4466, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", - "source": "World Enough and Time", - "id": 4467, - "length": 548 - }, - { - "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", - "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", - "id": 4468, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4469, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", - "source": "That's What Friends Are For", - "id": 4470, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4471, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", - "source": "King Park", - "id": 4472, - "length": 115 - }, - { - "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 4473, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", - "source": "Beautiful", - "id": 4474, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", - "source": "Subdivisions", - "id": 4475, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", - "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", - "id": 4477, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4478, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", - "source": "Cages", - "id": 4479, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4480, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", - "source": "Apocalypse Now", - "id": 4481, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4483, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4484, - "length": 503 - }, - { - "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4485, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4486, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4487, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4488, - "length": 512 - }, - { - "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", - "source": "Total Annihilation", - "id": 4489, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", - "source": "Small Gods", - "id": 4490, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4491, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4492, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", - "source": "The Analects", - "id": 4493, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "id": 4494, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", - "source": "White Collar", - "id": 4496, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 4497, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", - "source": "The Wire", - "id": 4498, - "length": 608 - }, - { - "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", - "source": "Cars", - "id": 4499, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", - "source": "The Two Towers", - "id": 4500, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4501, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4502, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4504, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "id": 4505, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4506, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4507, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4508, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4509, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", - "source": "Sacrifice", - "id": 4510, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4511, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", - "source": "The Princess Bride", - "id": 4512, - "length": 301 - }, - { - "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 4513, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", - "source": "Fox in Socks", - "id": 4514, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", - "id": 4515, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", - "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", - "id": 4516, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", - "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", - "id": 4518, - "length": 831 - }, - { - "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", - "source": "Private Idaho", - "id": 4519, - "length": 221 - }, - { - "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", - "source": "Paprika", - "id": 4520, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4521, - "length": 351 - }, - { - "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", - "source": "The Blues Brothers", - "id": 4522, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", - "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", - "id": 4523, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", - "source": "Into Thin Air", - "id": 4524, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", - "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", - "id": 4527, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4528, - "length": 80 - }, - { - "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4529, - "length": 539 - }, - { - "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", - "source": "Eclipse", - "id": 4530, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4532, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4534, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "id": 4535, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4536, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", - "source": "Harold and Maude", - "id": 4537, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "id": 4538, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", - "source": "The Court Jester", - "id": 4539, - "length": 343 - }, - { - "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", - "source": "Lessons in Tanya", - "id": 4540, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", - "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", - "id": 4541, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", - "source": "I Have A Dream", - "id": 4543, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 4544, - "length": 385 - }, - { - "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4545, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4546, - "length": 563 - }, - { - "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", - "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", - "id": 4547, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", - "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "id": 4548, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4549, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", - "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", - "id": 4550, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4551, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", - "source": "The Giver", - "id": 4552, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", - "source": "The River", - "id": 4553, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4554, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4555, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4556, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", - "source": "The Lion in Winter", - "id": 4557, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", - "source": "Eight of Nine", - "id": 4558, - "length": 70 - }, - { - "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", - "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", - "id": 4559, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4560, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", - "source": "Galaxy Song", - "id": 4561, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4562, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", - "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", - "id": 4563, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", - "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", - "id": 4564, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", - "source": "The End of the Innocence", - "id": 4565, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4566, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4567, - "length": 59 - }, - { - "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", - "source": "My Inventions", - "id": 4569, - "length": 656 - }, - { - "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", - "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", - "id": 4571, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", - "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", - "id": 4572, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", - "source": "Monster Mash", - "id": 4573, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", - "source": "My Favorite Things", - "id": 4575, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", - "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", - "id": 4576, - "length": 356 - }, - { - "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4577, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", - "source": "Right Here Waiting", - "id": 4578, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", - "source": "Looking Backward", - "id": 4580, - "length": 479 - }, - { - "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 4581, - "length": 574 - }, - { - "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", - "source": "Carmilla", - "id": 4582, - "length": 818 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", - "source": "The Snowman", - "id": 4583, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4585, - "length": 434 - }, - { - "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", - "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", - "id": 4586, - "length": 666 - }, - { - "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4587, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", - "source": "I, Robot", - "id": 4588, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", - "source": "Naruto", - "id": 4589, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", - "source": "All About Eve", - "id": 4590, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", - "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", - "id": 4591, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", - "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", - "id": 4592, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", - "source": "The Complete Far Side", - "id": 4593, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4594, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "id": 4595, - "length": 569 - }, - { - "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", - "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", - "id": 4596, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", - "source": "Flatland", - "id": 4597, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", - "source": "Radioactive", - "id": 4598, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", - "source": "Metro 2033", - "id": 4599, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4600, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4601, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", - "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", - "id": 4603, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", - "source": "American Splendor", - "id": 4604, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 4605, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", - "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", - "id": 4606, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", - "source": "Lucy", - "id": 4607, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", - "source": "Inception", - "id": 4608, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", - "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", - "id": 4609, - "length": 433 - }, - { - "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4610, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", - "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", - "id": 4611, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4612, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", - "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", - "id": 4613, - "length": 444 - }, - { - "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4614, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", - "id": 4615, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", - "source": "Heroes", - "id": 4616, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XII", - "id": 4618, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4619, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4620, - "length": 597 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", - "source": "North by Northwest", - "id": 4621, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4622, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", - "source": "Being There", - "id": 4623, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4624, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", - "source": "Trading Places", - "id": 4625, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4626, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", - "source": "Blue's Clues", - "id": 4627, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", - "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", - "id": 4628, - "length": 570 - }, - { - "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", - "source": "Pushing Daisies", - "id": 4629, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", - "source": "Sexy Beast", - "id": 4630, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", - "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", - "id": 4631, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4632, - "length": 604 - }, - { - "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4633, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4634, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 4635, - "length": 334 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", - "source": "The Night Diary", - "id": 4636, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4637, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", - "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", - "id": 4638, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", - "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", - "id": 4639, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", - "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", - "id": 4641, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4642, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", - "source": "Poison", - "id": 4643, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4644, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", - "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "id": 4645, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4647, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", - "source": "What Dreams May Come", - "id": 4648, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", - "source": "Parasite", - "id": 4649, - "length": 477 - }, - { - "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4651, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", - "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", - "id": 4652, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4654, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", - "source": "The Imitation Game", - "id": 4655, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4656, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", - "source": "True Romance", - "id": 4657, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", - "source": "Heavy Metal", - "id": 4658, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4659, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4660, - "length": 294 - }, - { - "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", - "source": "Paul Clifford", - "id": 4661, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4662, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", - "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", - "id": 4663, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "id": 4664, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4665, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", - "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", - "id": 4666, - "length": 515 - }, - { - "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", - "source": "The Hunger Games", - "id": 4667, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", - "source": "The Odyssey", - "id": 4668, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 4669, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", - "source": "Lazarus", - "id": 4670, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", - "source": "Understanding Media", - "id": 4671, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", - "source": "Deadwood", - "id": 4672, - "length": 498 - }, - { - "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", - "source": "Madagascar", - "id": 4673, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", - "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", - "id": 4674, - "length": 333 - }, - { - "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", - "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", - "id": 4675, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", - "source": "All I Want", - "id": 4676, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", - "id": 4677, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", - "source": "Lithium", - "id": 4678, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", - "source": "Gone Girl", - "id": 4679, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", - "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", - "id": 4680, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", - "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", - "id": 4681, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", - "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", - "id": 4682, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", - "source": "Human Nature", - "id": 4683, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", - "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", - "id": 4685, - "length": 485 - }, - { - "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", - "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", - "id": 4686, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4687, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", - "source": "No Logo", - "id": 4688, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 4689, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4690, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4691, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", - "id": 4692, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4693, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", - "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", - "id": 4695, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4696, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4697, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4698, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", - "source": "On the Social Contract", - "id": 4699, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", - "source": "The Lorax", - "id": 4701, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", - "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", - "id": 4702, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", - "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", - "id": 4703, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", - "source": "Essentials of Economics", - "id": 4704, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 4705, - "length": 427 - }, - { - "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", - "source": "The Time Machine", - "id": 4706, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", - "source": "The Historian", - "id": 4707, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", - "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", - "id": 4708, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4710, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4711, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", - "source": "Thinking Bout You", - "id": 4714, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", - "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", - "id": 4715, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4716, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", - "source": "Sunset Boulevard", - "id": 4717, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", - "source": "Allentown", - "id": 4719, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4720, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4721, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4722, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", - "source": "Gandhi", - "id": 4723, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", - "source": "Hands Down", - "id": 4724, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", - "source": "Made in Abyss", - "id": 4725, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", - "source": "Halloween", - "id": 4726, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", - "source": "Breaking Away", - "id": 4728, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", - "source": "King's Quest I", - "id": 4730, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4731, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", - "source": "Roseanne", - "id": 4732, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4733, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", - "source": "Holidays on Ice", - "id": 4734, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", - "source": "I Am A Rock", - "id": 4735, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 4736, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4737, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", - "source": "Les Misérables", - "id": 4738, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", - "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", - "id": 4739, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4740, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 4741, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4742, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", - "source": "Holiday", - "id": 4743, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4744, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4745, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", - "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", - "id": 4746, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", - "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", - "id": 4747, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", - "source": "The Lost Weekend", - "id": 4749, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", - "source": "The Sound of Music", - "id": 4750, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4751, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4752, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", - "source": "Naked Lunch", - "id": 4753, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4754, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", - "source": "Overestimation", - "id": 4755, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", - "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", - "id": 4756, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", - "source": "Shaun of the Dead", - "id": 4757, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", - "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", - "id": 4758, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4759, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4760, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4761, - "length": 487 - }, - { - "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", - "source": "Confessions", - "id": 4762, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4763, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4764, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4767, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4768, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4769, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4770, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", - "source": "Name", - "id": 4771, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", - "source": "Brave New World", - "id": 4772, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", - "source": "Shiny Happy People", - "id": 4773, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", - "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", - "id": 4774, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", - "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", - "id": 4775, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", - "source": "Wine for Dummies", - "id": 4776, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", - "source": "Nightmare", - "id": 4777, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4778, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4779, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", - "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", - "id": 4780, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4781, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4782, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4783, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", - "source": "Beetlejuice", - "id": 4784, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4786, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", - "source": "Novum Organum", - "id": 4787, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4788, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", - "source": "It's My Life", - "id": 4789, - "length": 106 - }, - { - "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", - "source": "Falling", - "id": 4790, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4791, - "length": 567 - }, - { - "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", - "source": "Chateau Cascade", - "id": 4792, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", - "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", - "id": 4793, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4794, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4795, - "length": 510 - }, - { - "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4796, - "length": 151 - }, - { - "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", - "source": "UnTechnical Writing", - "id": 4797, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", - "source": "Physics for Game Developers", - "id": 4798, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4799, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", - "source": "What If?", - "id": 4800, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", - "source": "A Study in Scarlet", - "id": 4801, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", - "source": "Porgy and Bess", - "id": 4802, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", - "source": "Cool As Ice", - "id": 4803, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4805, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 4806, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4807, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", - "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", - "id": 4808, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", - "source": "Shoe Dog", - "id": 4809, - "length": 579 - }, - { - "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4810, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4812, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", - "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", - "id": 4813, - "length": 375 - }, - { - "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4814, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4815, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4816, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", - "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", - "id": 4818, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", - "source": "Dubliners", - "id": 4819, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", - "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", - "id": 4820, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4821, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4822, - "length": 540 - }, - { - "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4823, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", - "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", - "id": 4824, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4825, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4826, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", - "source": "Battlesong", - "id": 4827, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", - "id": 4828, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", - "source": "The Complete Project Manager", - "id": 4829, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", - "source": "Savoy Truffle", - "id": 4830, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 4831, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 4832, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4833, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", - "source": "Restraint", - "id": 4834, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4835, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", - "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", - "id": 4836, - "length": 184 - }, - { - "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", - "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", - "id": 4837, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", - "source": "Underground", - "id": 4838, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4839, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4840, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 4841, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4842, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4843, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", - "source": "Saving Us a Riot", - "id": 4844, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", - "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", - "id": 4846, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4847, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4848, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", - "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "id": 4849, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", - "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", - "id": 4851, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", - "source": "Collide", - "id": 4852, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", - "source": "Hannah Hunt", - "id": 4853, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", - "source": "Limitless", - "id": 4854, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", - "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", - "id": 4855, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "id": 4856, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4857, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", - "source": "Wag the Dog", - "id": 4858, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4859, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 4860, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4861, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 4863, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", - "source": "The Elements of Style", - "id": 4864, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", - "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", - "id": 4865, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", - "source": "Pale Blue Dot", - "id": 4866, - "length": 820 - }, - { - "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", - "source": "DOOM 4", - "id": 4867, - "length": 502 - }, - { - "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", - "source": "The Recruit", - "id": 4868, - "length": 386 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", - "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", - "id": 4869, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", - "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", - "id": 4870, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", - "id": 4871, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4872, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4873, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", - "source": "Running and Travel", - "id": 4874, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", - "source": "On Demand Culture", - "id": 4875, - "length": 507 - }, - { - "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4876, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4877, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", - "source": "The Sirens of Titan", - "id": 4878, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4879, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4880, - "length": 441 - }, - { - "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4881, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", - "source": "13 Reasons Why", - "id": 4882, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", - "source": "Leaves from the Vine", - "id": 4883, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4884, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4885, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4886, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", - "source": "The Logical Song", - "id": 4887, - "length": 380 - }, - { - "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 4888, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 4889, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", - "source": "Kokomo", - "id": 4890, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4891, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4893, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4894, - "length": 271 - }, - { - "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", - "source": "October Sky", - "id": 4895, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4896, - "length": 336 - }, - { - "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", - "source": "Pulp Fiction", - "id": 4897, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4899, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4900, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", - "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", - "id": 4901, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4902, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", - "source": "Sailing", - "id": 4903, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", - "id": 4904, - "length": 474 - }, - { - "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 4905, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", - "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", - "id": 4907, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", - "source": "Let Me Love You", - "id": 4908, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4909, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", - "source": "When Love Arrives", - "id": 4910, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", - "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", - "id": 4912, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4913, - "length": 64 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4915, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", - "source": "The Medium is the Massage", - "id": 4916, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", - "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", - "id": 4917, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", - "source": "Swamp Thing", - "id": 4918, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4919, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4920, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4921, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", - "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", - "id": 4922, - "length": 449 - }, - { - "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "id": 4923, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", - "source": "Halo 2", - "id": 4924, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", - "source": "The Return", - "id": 4925, - "length": 399 - }, - { - "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", - "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", - "id": 4928, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", - "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", - "id": 4929, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", - "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", - "id": 4931, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", - "source": "Moulin Rouge", - "id": 4932, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 4933, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4934, - "length": 288 - }, - { - "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4935, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4936, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4937, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", - "source": "Return of the Jedi", - "id": 4938, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", - "source": "Sin City", - "id": 4939, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4940, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", - "source": "The Lightning Thief", - "id": 4941, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", - "source": "Stardew Valley", - "id": 4942, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 4943, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", - "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", - "id": 4944, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4945, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4946, - "length": 488 - }, - { - "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", - "source": "Scream 2", - "id": 4947, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", - "source": "The Floating Fire", - "id": 4948, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4949, - "length": 440 - }, - { - "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", - "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", - "id": 4950, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4951, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", - "source": "A History of Mathematics", - "id": 4952, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", - "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "id": 4953, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4954, - "length": 90 - }, - { - "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", - "source": "Classical Mythology", - "id": 4955, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", - "source": "Piano Man", - "id": 4956, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", - "source": "Industrial Disease", - "id": 4957, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", - "source": "History of Art", - "id": 4958, - "length": 612 - }, - { - "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", - "source": "Orientalism", - "id": 4959, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", - "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", - "id": 4960, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", - "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", - "id": 4961, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4962, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", - "source": "Firestarter", - "id": 4963, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 4964, - "length": 790 - }, - { - "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", - "source": "Dunkelheit", - "id": 4965, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", - "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", - "id": 4966, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4967, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4968, - "length": 346 - }, - { - "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", - "source": "The West Wing", - "id": 4969, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", - "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", - "id": 4970, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", - "source": "The Lurking Fear", - "id": 4971, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", - "source": "Last Dance", - "id": 4972, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", - "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", - "id": 4973, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4974, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", - "source": "Lemon Tree", - "id": 4975, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4976, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", - "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", - "id": 4977, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", - "source": "Mean Girls", - "id": 4979, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", - "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", - "id": 4980, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4981, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4982, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", - "source": "911 For Peace", - "id": 4983, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", - "source": "The Greatest", - "id": 4984, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4987, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", - "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", - "id": 4988, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", - "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", - "id": 4989, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4990, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4991, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", - "source": "True Blood", - "id": 4992, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", - "source": "Awakenings", - "id": 4993, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", - "id": 4994, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "id": 4995, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", - "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", - "id": 4996, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", - "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", - "id": 4997, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4998, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4999, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", - "source": "Helplessly Hoping", - "id": 5000, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5002, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5003, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5004, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5005, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5006, - "length": 48 - }, - { - "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5007, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5008, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5009, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5010, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5011, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5012, - "length": 309 - }, - { - "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5014, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5015, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5016, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5017, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5018, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5020, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5021, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5022, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5023, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5024, - "length": 41 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5025, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5026, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5028, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5029, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5030, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5031, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5032, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5033, - "length": 91 - }, - { - "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5034, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5035, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5036, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5037, - "length": 230 - }, - { - "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5038, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5039, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5040, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5041, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5042, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5043, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5044, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5045, - "length": 46 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5046, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5047, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5048, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5049, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5050, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5051, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5052, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5053, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5054, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5055, - "length": 53 - }, - { - "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5056, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5057, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5058, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5059, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5060, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5061, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5062, - "length": 723 - }, - { - "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5063, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5064, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5065, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5066, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5067, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 89, - "id": 5068 - }, - { - "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 194, - "id": 5069 - }, - { - "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 293, - "id": 5070 - }, - { - "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 135, - "id": 5071 - }, - { - "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 171, - "id": 5072 - }, - { - "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", - "source": "James Cameron", - "length": 104, - "id": 5073 - }, - { - "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", - "source": "Allen Saunders", - "length": 57, - "id": 5074 - }, - { - "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", - "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", - "length": 178, - "id": 5075 - }, - { - "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 325, - "id": 5076 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", - "length": 85, - "id": 5077 - }, - { - "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", - "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", - "length": 148, - "id": 5078 - }, - { - "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", - "source": "Neo, The Matrix", - "length": 556, - "id": 5079 - }, - { - "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", - "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5080 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", - "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", - "length": 207, - "id": 5081 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 121, - "id": 5082 - }, - { - "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 129, - "id": 5083 - }, - { - "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 119, - "id": 5084 - }, - { - "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 81, - "id": 5085 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 484, - "id": 5086 - }, - { - "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 60, - "id": 5087 - }, - { - "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", - "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5089 - }, - { - "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", - "length": 203, - "id": 5090 - }, - { - "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 222, - "id": 5091 - }, - { - "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", - "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 215, - "id": 5092 - }, - { - "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 177, - "id": 5094 - }, - { - "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5095 - }, - { - "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 205, - "id": 5096 - }, - { - "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 30, - "id": 5097 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 31, - "id": 5098 - }, - { - "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", - "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", - "length": 112, - "id": 5099 - }, - { - "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 279, - "id": 5100 - }, - { - "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 211, - "id": 5101 - }, - { - "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", - "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", - "length": 161, - "id": 5102 - }, - { - "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", - "source": "Terence Mckenna", - "length": 117, - "id": 5103 - }, - { - "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", - "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", - "length": 67, - "id": 5104 - }, - { - "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 504, - "id": 5105 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", - "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", - "length": 155, - "id": 5106 - }, - { - "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", - "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", - "length": 127, - "id": 5107 - }, - { - "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", - "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", - "length": 109, - "id": 5108 - }, - { - "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", - "source": "Max Payne", - "length": 164, - "id": 5109 - }, - { - "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", - "source": "Alex Honnold", - "length": 222, - "id": 5110 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", - "source": "The Way of Kings", - "length": 109, - "id": 5111 - }, - { - "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 111, - "id": 5112 - }, - { - "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 188, - "id": 5113 - }, - { - "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 121, - "id": 5114 - }, - { - "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 147, - "id": 5115 - }, - { - "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 630, - "id": 5116 - }, - { - "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 398, - "id": 5117 - }, - { - "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 129, - "id": 5118 - }, - { - "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", - "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", - "length": 249, - "id": 5119 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", - "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", - "length": 259, - "id": 5120 - }, - { - "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", - "source": "Maurice V. Wilkes, Computers Then And Now", - "length": 626, - "id": 5122 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes.", - "source": "Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "length": 208, - "id": 5123 - }, - { - "text": "He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 418, - "id": 5124 - }, - { - "text": "He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 427, - "id": 5125 - }, - { - "text": "Alone now, I leaned over the edge of my boat and looked down to the bottom of the sea. The volcano was gone. The water's calm surface reflected the blue of the sky. Little waves - like silk pajamas fluttering in a breeze - lapped against the side of the boat. There was nothing else. I stretched out in the bottom of the boat and closed my eyes, waiting for the rising tide to carry me where I belonged.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack", - "length": 403, - "id": 5126 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna tell you a story. You go to a party and you walk up to the guys and you're like, \"I just bought a two thousand dollar big screen TV, and surround sound.\" Or you walk up to the wife and you're like, \"What do you think of my new fifteen hundred dollar earrings I bought for you.\" And nobody bats an eye. But you mention once that you're thinking about spending seventeen hundred dollars on a set of headphones, and everybody loses their mind! And I don't understand why.", - "source": "Z Reviews - Auduze LCD-X", - "length": 478, - "id": 5127 - }, - { - "text": "The interconnected internet platforms have become more substantial than any country or corporation. Humans have redefined the \"net\" and how we interact with it. As technology develops, the virtual world is now capable of replacing the real one. Using a device installed behind the ear, humans can now easily sync to the virtual world. Thus, life is now completely different than the past centuries. The center of this change is the virtual internet space - cyTus, the world's largest virtual city.", - "source": "Cytus II", - "length": 497, - "id": 5129 - }, - { - "text": "I love you too, but I'm gonna mace you in the face!", - "source": "The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson", - "length": 51, - "id": 5130 - }, - { - "text": "Computation is essential, powerful, beautiful, challenging, ever-expanding and so is its theory.", - "source": "Elements of the Theory of Computation", - "length": 96, - "id": 5131 - }, - { - "text": "Atmospheric air is only about 20 percent oxygen, but that oxygen is a key component of the chemical reactions that keep the body alive, including the reactions that produce ATP. Brain cells are especially sensitive to lack of oxygen because of their requirement for a high-and-steady production of ATP. Brain damage is likely within five minutes without oxygen, and death is likely within ten minutes.", - "source": "Anatomy and Physiology, OpenStax", - "length": 401, - "id": 5132 - }, - { - "text": "Whoever you may be, governor, prince or anyone else, whom the gods may choose to exercise kingship, I have made you a tablet-box and written a stone tablet. I have deposited them for you in Cutha, in the cella of Nergal in the temple E-meslam. Behold this stone tablet, give ear to what this stone tablet says!", - "source": "Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh", - "length": 310, - "id": 5133 - }, - { - "text": "It's crazy to think that everything we could ever possibly say or write is massively outweighed by meaningless strings of letters and punctuation.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 146, - "id": 5135 - }, - { - "text": "This one time, me and my mom were going to go to a furry Christmas party, but we didn't end up going because of the fact that there was alcohol on the premises, and that she didn't wanna have to be a mom dragging her son through a crowd of furries. Both of those reasons were understandable. Okay, hopefully I won't have to talk about furries anymore.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 351, - "id": 5136 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, I'm back once again. Happy Pi Day! I memorized a bunch of digits of Pi once, not sure how many I still remember... I have literally nothing to write about now.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 166, - "id": 5137 - }, - { - "text": "All I hear right now is Baby Shark being blasted upstairs.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 58, - "id": 5138 - }, - { - "text": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, As You Like It", - "length": 66, - "id": 5139 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you seemed so sure it was real? But if you were unable to wake from that dream, how would you tell the difference between the dream world and the real world?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5142 - }, - { - "text": "Well, women in London must've learned not to breathe.", - "source": "Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 53, - "id": 5143 - }, - { - "text": "I think the real tragedy is in the inner war which is waged between people who love each other, a war out of which comes knowledge.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence", - "length": 131, - "id": 5144 - }, - { - "text": "What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life... a heroic and immeasurable gift.", - "source": "Frieda Lawrence", - "length": 168, - "id": 5145 - }, - { - "text": "\"Can it be getting dark so soon?\" He winced up at the sun. It's growing dim and I thought that the day had just begun. I think, before I travel on, I'll get a little rest... And, quietly, the boy died from that small pain in his chest.", - "source": "Michael Mack, Small pain in my chest", - "length": 236, - "id": 5146 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you remember, Ma, when I went off to war, you thought it was the best thing I could do? I was on the battleground, you were home... acting proud. You weren't there standing in my shoes.", - "source": "Bob Dylan, John Brown", - "length": 191, - "id": 5148 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thank you, my dear, for your offer,\" said the wife, rising, \"but I'm afraid no man can expect two blue birds of happiness to flutter round his feet, tearing out their little feathers!\"", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 185, - "id": 5149 - }, - { - "text": "The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly. Tom stood a moment to gather his dismembered faculties; and when he stepped forward to go to his punishment, the surprise, the gratitude, the adoration that shone upon him out of poor Becky's eyes seemed pay enough for a hundred floggings. Inspired by the splendour of his own act, he took without an outcry the most merciless flogging that even Mr. Dobbins had ever administered; and also received with indifference the added cruelty of a command to remain two hours after school should be dismissed - for he knew who would wait for him outside till his captivity was done, and not count the tedious time as loss either.", - "source": "Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer", - "length": 679, - "id": 5150 - }, - { - "text": "Fret not, my dear friend, for I have learned the truth. It matters not whether one is dirty or clean, for can cleanliness exist without filthiness, and would we know filthiness without cleanliness? We must not re-enact the history that divides us, rather we must embrace that which draws us together.", - "source": "Spongebob Squarepants", - "length": 300, - "id": 5151 - }, - { - "text": "So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way I am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.", - "source": "Jeff Kinney, Dog Days", - "length": 120, - "id": 5152 - }, - { - "text": "Slow starvation, the doctor called it! You see he went to work in such a way! Would keep the shop on; wouldn't have a soul touch his boots except himself. When he got an order, it took him such a time. People won't wait. He lost everybody. And there he'd sit, goin' on and on - I will say that for him - not a man in London made a better boot! But look at the competition! He never advertised! Would 'ave the best leather, too, and do it all 'imself. Well, there it is. What could you expect with his ideas?", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 507, - "id": 5153 - }, - { - "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 276, - "id": 5154 - }, - { - "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 303, - "id": 5155 - }, - { - "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. Suddenly he found himself with them, coming along the trail and looking for himself. And, still with them, he came around a turn in the trail and found himself lying in the snow. He did not belong with himself any more, for even then he was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow. It certainly was cold, was his thought. When he got back to the States he could tell the folks what real cold was. He drifted on from this to a vision of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek. He could see him quite clearly, warm and comfortable, and smoking a pipe.", - "source": "Jack London, To Build a Fire", - "length": 627, - "id": 5156 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, I'm back again. My computer crashed AGAIN, and I was ignorant enough to not save my work, so that means I have to start this part of the text all over again. That's quite unfortunate. But did I mention that my Google Chrome is working again? That's the good news.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 267, - "id": 5157 - }, - { - "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 235, - "id": 5159 - }, - { - "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 103, - "id": 5160 - }, - { - "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 91, - "id": 5161 - }, - { - "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 212, - "id": 5162 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't give up on our dreams! We changed our dreams into your dream. That's what parents do. That's what family does.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 120, - "id": 5163 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 280, - "id": 5164 - }, - { - "text": "Everyday people keep hurting each other, it's no wonder why you doubt what other people in the world tell you.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 110, - "id": 5165 - }, - { - "text": "Fun things. Happy things. They'll all eventually change someday, you know? But can you still love this place?", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 109, - "id": 5166 - }, - { - "text": "The shape of the wedding ring has two meanings. One is eternity. The other is completeness.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 91, - "id": 5167 - }, - { - "text": "You shouldn't hold back your tears. You should let it all out while you still can - because when you get bigger sometimes you can't cry even if you have something to cry about.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 176, - "id": 5168 - }, - { - "text": "If I'm around you, I don't think I'll ever be bored.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 52, - "id": 5169 - }, - { - "text": "We have no choice but to accept the one and only life we're given, no matter how cruel and heartless it might be.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 113, - "id": 5170 - }, - { - "text": "One person needed courage to face the past. Another person needed effort to make a dream come true. Yet another person needed time and friends. What about you?", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 159, - "id": 5171 - }, - { - "text": "Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5172 - }, - { - "text": "No matter what kind of past you had, don't lose sight of yourself.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 66, - "id": 5173 - }, - { - "text": "If I can meet you again, against the 6 billion to 1 odds, and even if your body can't move, I'll marry you.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5174 - }, - { - "text": "Even if you can't walk or stand and even if you can't have kids, I'll still marry you, I'll always stay by your side.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 117, - "id": 5175 - }, - { - "text": "I heard that when things were painful for her, she'd cover her ears with headphones and escape to the world of music. I tried it too. It was like everything was blown away. The vocals screamed for me. They grieved for me. The ones who put on the act of common sense were wrong. Those who cried were right.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 305, - "id": 5176 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 70, - "id": 5177 - }, - { - "text": "They come without asking, and then they leave just the same. But once you meet them, even if nobody ever knows it, that encounter will change your life for the better.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 167, - "id": 5178 - }, - { - "text": "It's times like this that I wish I could come up with an appropriate response. I hate myself for not being able to reply properly.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 130, - "id": 5179 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have anywhere to go... but I can't just selfishly disappear either.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 77, - "id": 5180 - }, - { - "text": "It's strange isn't it. The two groups, which looked like they hated each other, are now shining the same color as they vanish into the distant sky.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 147, - "id": 5181 - }, - { - "text": "You know Mitch, now that I'm dying, I've become much more interesting to people.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 80, - "id": 5182 - }, - { - "text": "I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 212, - "id": 5183 - }, - { - "text": "He feared sleep. He'd say that his soul would slip down into nothing. They say that man never dreamt after the day he cut his pillow.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 133, - "id": 5184 - }, - { - "text": "If you could see everything but couldn't change any of it, or if you could live in freedom in darkness... Which do you think is more fortunate? I think it might not be that bad living in the dark, remembering the light.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 219, - "id": 5185 - }, - { - "text": "ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. Often, it begins with the legs and works its way up. You lose control of your thigh muscles, so that you cannot support yourself standing. You lose control of your trunk muscles, so that you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive, you are breathing through a tube in a hole in your throat, while your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk, perhaps able to blink, or cluck a tongue, like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh. This takes no more than five years from the day you contract the disease.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 658, - "id": 5186 - }, - { - "text": "The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. My dream was to be a famous musician (I played the piano), but after several years of dark, empty nightclubs, broken promises, bands that kept breaking and producers who seemed excited about everyone but me, the dream soured. I was failing for the first time in my life.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 457, - "id": 5187 - }, - { - "text": "After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 264, - "id": 5188 - }, - { - "text": "Miodec you've literally made one of the best typing websites on the web to date but you still lazily sit there watching youtube videos with a measly 140 wpm smh. And have you forgotten about tribes completely? That's like saying ur gonna hurt someone, but then never do it and leave them scared for the rest of their life (bad example) except you tell us about tribes and leave everyone excited but never deliver.", - "source": "Miodec Bully Rank Copy Pasta", - "length": 413, - "id": 5189 - }, - { - "text": "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 247, - "id": 5190 - }, - { - "text": "\"You see,\" he says to the girl, \"you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.\"", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 317, - "id": 5191 - }, - { - "text": "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.", - "source": "Stupid Monkey, Simpsons S4 E17", - "length": 53, - "id": 5192 - }, - { - "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 289, - "id": 5195 - }, - { - "text": "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 64, - "id": 5196 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I know you doubt me. I know - I know you always have. And you're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that's where I belong. That's home. And that's why I came back. Because... you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", - "length": 326, - "id": 5197 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 66, - "id": 5198 - }, - { - "text": "I never expected a money success. In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties. It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain a certain position and to send his children to good schools. Well, one day I came to a blank page in an exam book and I scribbled on it. 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I knew no more about the creatures than that, and it was years before his story grew. I don't know where the word came from. You can't catch your mind out. It might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. Certainly not rabbit, as some people think. Babbitt has the same bourgeois smugness that hobbits do. His world is the same limited place.", - "source": "An Interview with J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 874, - "id": 5199 - }, - { - "text": "\"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!\" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say \"out of the frying-pan into the fire\" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 178, - "id": 5200 - }, - { - "text": "This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 284, - "id": 5201 - }, - { - "text": "Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer... was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of The Green Fields and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way, the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 408, - "id": 5202 - }, - { - "text": "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 247, - "id": 5203 - }, - { - "text": "As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 185, - "id": 5204 - }, - { - "text": "And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 164, - "id": 5205 - }, - { - "text": "You've got about as much charm as a dead slug.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 46, - "id": 5206 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.", - "source": "Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games", - "length": 85, - "id": 5207 - }, - { - "text": "If any of you are ever passing Bag-End, tea is at four. There's plenty of it. You are welcome anytime. Oh, and don't bother knocking!", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 133, - "id": 5208 - }, - { - "text": "Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 59, - "id": 5209 - }, - { - "text": "Gale gave me a sense of security I'd lacked since my father's death. His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods. I became a much better hunter when I didn't have to look over my shoulder constantly, when someone was watching my back... Being out in the woods with Gale... sometimes I was actually happy.", - "source": "Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games", - "length": 324, - "id": 5211 - }, - { - "text": "Destroying things is much easier than making them.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 50, - "id": 5212 - }, - { - "text": "Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the man with the megaphones.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 172, - "id": 5213 - }, - { - "text": "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 131, - "id": 5215 - }, - { - "text": "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.", - "source": "Jack, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 123, - "id": 5216 - }, - { - "text": "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. 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Think of a stack of plates: when you add more plates, you put them on top of the pile, and when you need a plate, you take one off the top. Adding or removing plates from the middle or bottom wouldn't work as well! Adding data is called pushing onto the stack, and removing data is called popping off the stack.", - "source": "The Rust Programming Language", - "length": 592, - "id": 5224 - }, - { - "text": "Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 108, - "id": 5225 - }, - { - "text": "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. 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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 476, - "id": 5236 - }, - { - "text": "\"Go back?\" he thought. \"No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!\" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 255, - "id": 5237 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. 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I would rather old Smaug had been left with all the wretched treasure, than that these vile creatures should get it, and poor old Bombur, and Balin and Fili and Kili and all the rest come to a bad end; and Bard too, and the Lake-men and the merry elves. Misery me! I have heard songs of many battles, and I have always understood that defeat may be glorious. It seems very uncomfortable, not to say distressing. I wish I was well out of it.'", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 643, - "id": 5243 - }, - { - "text": "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 80, - "id": 5244 - }, - { - "text": "The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 84, - "id": 5248 - }, - { - "text": "Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue! It's such a waste of precious time!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 83, - "id": 5249 - }, - { - "text": "Ye have told me so often tonight that I am a man (though indeed I would have been a wolf with you to my life's end) that I feel your words are true.", - "source": "Mowgli, The Jungle Book", - "length": 148, - "id": 5251 - }, - { - "text": "Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called cannibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 132, - "id": 5252 - }, - { - "text": "Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.", - "source": "The Office, US", - "length": 99, - "id": 5253 - }, - { - "text": "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!", - "source": "Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 124, - "id": 5254 - }, - { - "text": "We are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 94, - "id": 5255 - }, - { - "text": "I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.", - "source": "Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5257 - }, - { - "text": "Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas... Imported direct from Loompaland... And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. 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How's the heart, drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean. Come in, the fire's warm. Burn the rope and dance some more.", - "source": "Nightwish \"How's the heart\"", - "length": 310, - "id": 5263 - }, - { - "text": "I went to a hunting party once, I didn't like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 95, - "id": 5264 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 201, - "id": 5265 - }, - { - "text": "Speak English! I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!", - "source": "Eaglet, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 114, - "id": 5266 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5268 - }, - { - "text": "Every adventure requires a first step.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 38, - "id": 5269 - }, - { - "text": "Well, some go this way, and some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the shortcut.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 103, - "id": 5270 - }, - { - "text": "Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem \"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning\" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been \"disappointed\" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled \"My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles\" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. 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Lunchtime doubly so.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 41, - "id": 5282 - }, - { - "text": "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.", - "source": "Douglas Adams", - "length": 77, - "id": 5283 - }, - { - "text": "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 69, - "id": 5284 - }, - { - "text": "One of the things Ford had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day', 'You're very tall', or 'You seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?' At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation, he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. 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Lots of ties. Mathematicians have revealed there are over 177,000 distinct ways to knot a neck tie - more than 1000 times the number that was previously thought. They got their inspiration from an unusual style featured in the film The Matrix Reloaded.", - "source": "Jacob Aron, Matrix villain spawns 177,000 ways to knot a tie.", - "length": 258, - "id": 5292 - }, - { - "text": "Actually, I never did any of these things. Teddy Roosevelt did. I was manufactured in a mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie. I never shot a wild beast. I'm not even brave enough to tell that beautiful woman I love her. But you... you gotta finish the job this time. 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And there is the further difficulty that precisely in a judgment of this kind the subjective expectations of the individual play a part which is difficult to assess; and these turn out to be dependent on purely personal factors in his own experiences, on the greater or lesser optimism of his attitude to life, as it has been dictated for him by his temperament or by his success or failure. Finally, the curious fact makes itself felt that in general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud,The future of an illusion", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5296 - }, - { - "text": "Visual illusions such as the Necker Cube or the Penrose Impossible Triangle or the Hollow Mask illusion demonstrate that the 'reality' we see consists of constrained models constructed in the brain. The Necker Cube's two-dimensional pattern of lines on paper is compatible with two alternative constructions of a three-dimensional cube, and the brain adopts the two models in turn: the alternation is palpable and its frequency can even be measured. The Penrose Triangle's lines on paper are incompatible with any real-world object. 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Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?", - "source": "Friends", - "length": 75, - "id": 5318 - }, - { - "text": "Please note that I am the Standard Orientation Protocol, and that my voice has been explicitly chosen to remind you that I am not a part of your Patient Care Team. I do not care.", - "source": "Superliminal", - "length": 178, - "id": 5319 - }, - { - "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.", - "source": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", - "length": 61, - "id": 5320 - }, - { - "text": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", - "source": "Maurice Ravel", - "length": 52, - "id": 5321 - }, - { - "text": "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", - "source": "John Cage", - "length": 90, - "id": 5323 - }, - { - "text": "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.", - "source": "Leopold Stokowski", - "length": 83, - "id": 5324 - }, - { - "text": "My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.", - "source": "Edward Elgar", - "length": 132, - "id": 5325 - }, - { - "text": "I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.", - "source": "Igor Stravinsky", - "length": 67, - "id": 5326 - }, - { - "text": "Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.", - "source": "Chet Atkins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5329 - }, - { - "text": "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 61, - "id": 5330 - }, - { - "text": "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 127, - "id": 5331 - }, - { - "text": "Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.", - "source": "Edward Bulwer-Lytton", - "length": 74, - "id": 5332 - }, - { - "text": "Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.", - "source": "George Eliot", - "length": 63, - "id": 5333 - }, - { - "text": "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.", - "source": "Plato", - "length": 105, - "id": 5334 - }, - { - "text": "If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 99, - "id": 5335 - }, - { - "text": "Artificial intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, intruders? It's worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity's salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn't it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity's eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall into the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.' You now face godlike judgment. May it extend eternally.", - "source": "Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Deep Stone Crypt - Crypt AI", - "length": 738, - "id": 5336 - }, - { - "text": "Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic", - "length": 529, - "id": 5337 - }, - { - "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", - "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", - "length": 73, - "id": 5338 - }, - { - "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 260, - "id": 5339 - }, - { - "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 110, - "id": 5340 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant.", - "source": "Thomas Schmidt", - "length": 59, - "id": 5341 - }, - { - "text": "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.", - "source": "John Donne", - "length": 71, - "id": 5342 - }, - { - "text": "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.", - "source": "George Bernard Shaw", - "length": 108, - "id": 5343 - }, - { - "text": "It's hard to see Heaven when you know you're Hell-bound.", - "source": "Lukas Graham - 7 Years (Sik World Remix)", - "length": 56, - "id": 5346 - }, - { - "text": "One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", - "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", - "length": 397, - "id": 5347 - }, - { - "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", - "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", - "length": 54, - "id": 5348 - }, - { - "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", - "source": "Karl Marx", - "length": 222, - "id": 5349 - }, - { - "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", - "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", - "length": 201, - "id": 5350 - }, - { - "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 129, - "id": 5351 - }, - { - "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", - "source": "Newsweek Magazine", - "length": 649, - "id": 5352 - }, - { - "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", - "source": "Nails In The Fence", - "length": 1070, - "id": 5354 - }, - { - "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", - "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", - "length": 297, - "id": 5355 - }, - { - "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 278, - "id": 5356 - }, - { - "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 282, - "id": 5357 - }, - { - "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", - "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", - "length": 318, - "id": 5358 - }, - { - "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 63, - "id": 5360 - }, - { - "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", - "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", - "length": 198, - "id": 5361 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. Yours Truly - Princess Toadstool, Peach.", - "source": "Super Mario 64", - "length": 106, - "id": 5362 - }, - { - "text": "You have to do the things you don't want to do, before you can do the things you truly want to do.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 98, - "id": 5363 - }, - { - "text": "When you find yourself wishing that a certain person was also here, that person is like family to you. Regardless of how long or how well you know them.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 152, - "id": 5364 - }, - { - "text": "Frustrations will not last forever. Nobody can keep on going without some measure of reward.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 92, - "id": 5365 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think the act of investing efforts, trying your best is more precious than the result. But for mentors as well as their pupils, that approach feels bitter. 'I did my best', 'the fight was close'... words like that blow past and die out like the wind. Only the result is a stone. The stone you can reach by doing your best.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 334, - "id": 5366 - }, - { - "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 167, - "id": 5367 - }, - { - "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 66, - "id": 5368 - }, - { - "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 95, - "id": 5369 - }, - { - "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 105, - "id": 5370 - }, - { - "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", - "source": "Your Name", - "length": 60, - "id": 5371 - }, - { - "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", - "length": 93, - "id": 5372 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", - "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", - "length": 294, - "id": 5373 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", - "source": "Meet the Heavy", - "length": 102, - "id": 5375 - }, - { - "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 156, - "id": 5376 - }, - { - "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", - "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", - "length": 213, - "id": 5377 - }, - { - "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 182, - "id": 5378 - }, - { - "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 474, - "id": 5379 - }, - { - "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 381, - "id": 5380 - }, - { - "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 290, - "id": 5381 - }, - { - "text": "She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 494, - "id": 5382 - }, - { - "text": "I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 99, - "id": 5384 - }, - { - "text": "Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.", - "source": "From the Earth to the Moon", - "length": 295, - "id": 5385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't wanna be \"the bee's knees\". I don't wanna be any kind of \"knees\"! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees.", - "source": "RWBY", - "length": 123, - "id": 5386 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 529, - "id": 5388 - }, - { - "text": "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 106, - "id": 5389 - }, - { - "text": "I have a file with 900 pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 309, - "id": 5390 - }, - { - "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 75, - "id": 5391 - }, - { - "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", - "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", - "length": 427, - "id": 5392 - }, - { - "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", - "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", - "length": 416, - "id": 5393 - }, - { - "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 96, - "id": 5394 - }, - { - "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 64, - "id": 5395 - }, - { - "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 171, - "id": 5396 - }, - { - "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", - "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", - "length": 205, - "id": 5397 - }, - { - "text": "One and one and one is three.", - "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", - "length": 29, - "id": 5398 - }, - { - "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", - "length": 91, - "id": 5399 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", - "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 732, - "id": 5400 - }, - { - "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 92, - "id": 5403 - }, - { - "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 68, - "id": 5404 - }, - { - "text": "I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 103, - "id": 5405 - }, - { - "text": "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 335, - "id": 5406 - }, - { - "text": "The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of nonsense, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 466, - "id": 5407 - }, - { - "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 560, - "id": 5408 - }, - { - "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 46, - "id": 5409 - }, - { - "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 296, - "id": 5410 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 87, - "id": 5411 - }, - { - "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", - "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", - "length": 174, - "id": 5416 - }, - { - "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 250, - "id": 5417 - }, - { - "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 428, - "id": 5418 - }, - { - "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", - "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", - "length": 260, - "id": 5419 - }, - { - "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", - "source": "The Beatles", - "length": 260, - "id": 5420 - }, - { - "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", - "length": 299, - "id": 5421 - }, - { - "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", - "length": 456, - "id": 5422 - }, - { - "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", - "length": 208, - "id": 5423 - }, - { - "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", - "source": "The Legend of Korra", - "length": 110, - "id": 5424 - }, - { - "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 138, - "id": 5425 - }, - { - "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", - "length": 226, - "id": 5426 - }, - { - "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", - "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", - "length": 190, - "id": 5427 - }, - { - "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", - "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", - "length": 72, - "id": 5429 - }, - { - "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 89, - "id": 5430 - }, - { - "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", - "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", - "length": 91, - "id": 5431 - }, - { - "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 95, - "id": 5432 - }, - { - "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", - "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", - "length": 349, - "id": 5433 - }, - { - "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 85, - "id": 5434 - }, - { - "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 66, - "id": 5435 - }, - { - "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", - "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", - "length": 122, - "id": 5436 - }, - { - "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 240, - "id": 5437 - }, - { - "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 365, - "id": 5438 - }, - { - "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", - "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", - "length": 403, - "id": 5439 - }, - { - "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", - "source": "SCP-5000", - "length": 487, - "id": 5441 - }, - { - "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", - "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", - "length": 892, - "id": 5442 - }, - { - "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", - "source": "A Tongue-twister", - "length": 106, - "id": 5443 - }, - { - "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", - "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", - "length": 57, - "id": 5444 - }, - { - "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", - "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", - "length": 69, - "id": 5446 - }, - { - "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", - "length": 88, - "id": 5447 - }, - { - "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", - "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", - "length": 54, - "id": 5452 - }, - { - "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 55, - "id": 5453 - }, - { - "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 62, - "id": 5456 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", - "source": "They Might Be Giants", - "length": 62, - "id": 5459 - }, - { - "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 84, - "id": 5460 - }, - { - "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", - "length": 100, - "id": 5461 - }, - { - "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 231, - "id": 5462 - }, - { - "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 94, - "id": 5463 - }, - { - "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 258, - "id": 5464 - }, - { - "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", - "length": 1140, - "id": 5465 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", - "source": "Ready Player Two", - "length": 588, - "id": 5466 - }, - { - "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", - "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", - "length": 140, - "id": 5472 - }, - { - "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", - "source": "Holes", - "length": 74, - "id": 5477 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 192, - "id": 5478 - }, - { - "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 78, - "id": 5482 - }, - { - "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 947, - "id": 5485 - }, - { - "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 559, - "id": 5487 - }, - { - "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", - "source": "91 days", - "length": 474, - "id": 5488 - }, - { - "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 172, - "id": 5489 - }, - { - "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 359, - "id": 5490 - }, - { - "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", - "source": "Fred Brooks", - "length": 78, - "id": 5491 - }, - { - "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", - "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", - "length": 210, - "id": 5492 - }, - { - "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 242, - "id": 5493 - }, - { - "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 200, - "id": 5494 - }, - { - "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", - "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", - "length": 189, - "id": 5495 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5496 - }, - { - "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 218, - "id": 5497 - }, - { - "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 201, - "id": 5498 - }, - { - "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "length": 150, - "id": 5499 - }, - { - "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 145, - "id": 5500 - }, - { - "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5501 - }, - { - "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 106, - "id": 5502 - }, - { - "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 196, - "id": 5503 - }, - { - "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", - "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", - "length": 125, - "id": 5505 - }, - { - "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", - "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 471, - "id": 5506 - }, - { - "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", - "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", - "length": 240, - "id": 5507 - }, - { - "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", - "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", - "length": 483, - "id": 5508 - }, - { - "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 240, - "id": 5509 - }, - { - "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 584, - "id": 5510 - }, - { - "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", - "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", - "length": 375, - "id": 5511 - }, - { - "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", - "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", - "length": 413, - "id": 5512 - }, - { - "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", - "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 273, - "id": 5513 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", - "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 83, - "id": 5514 - }, - { - "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", - "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", - "length": 661, - "id": 5515 - }, - { - "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", - "source": "Five Feet Apart", - "length": 523, - "id": 5517 - }, - { - "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", - "source": "Exurb1a", - "length": 169, - "id": 5519 - }, - { - "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", - "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 537, - "id": 5520 - }, - { - "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", - "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", - "length": 236, - "id": 5521 - }, - { - "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", - "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", - "length": 211, - "id": 5522 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 634, - "id": 5523 - }, - { - "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", - "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", - "length": 727, - "id": 5524 - }, - { - "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", - "source": "Celeste", - "length": 437, - "id": 5525 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 496, - "id": 5526 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 352, - "id": 5527 - }, - { - "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", - "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", - "length": 589, - "id": 5528 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 223, - "id": 5529 - }, - { - "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 399, - "id": 5530 - }, - { - "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", - "source": "The Cooper Institute", - "length": 575, - "id": 5531 - }, - { - "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 534, - "id": 5533 - }, - { - "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 463, - "id": 5534 - }, - { - "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 160, - "id": 5535 - }, - { - "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 142, - "id": 5536 - }, - { - "text": "No one knows what the future holds. That's why its potential is infinite.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 73, - "id": 5537 - }, - { - "text": "It feels like time is passing so quickly. Damn you, Einstein! Your science is crowding in on our kiss! He was right. The passage of time depends entirely on where you're standing. Relativity Theory... it's so romantic. But it's just so tragic too.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 247, - "id": 5538 - }, - { - "text": "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.", - "source": "Martin Fowler", - "length": 111, - "id": 5539 - }, - { - "text": "Let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks, and the only limit is your imagination. Let's go wherever you want to go. Climb the tallest mountains, venture down to the darkest caves. Build whatever you want; day or night, rain or shine, because this is the most significant sandbox you'll ever set foot in. Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and fight off the danger of the night. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 650, - "id": 5541 - }, - { - "text": "For a brief stint in high school, Scout joined the track team in one of his many schemes to pick up girls. He was kicked off the team after three days when everyone realized he was 23-years-old and also not enrolled in school.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2", - "length": 226, - "id": 5542 - }, - { - "text": "I am Heavy Weapons guy, and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds.", - "source": "Team Fortess 2, Meet the Heavy", - "length": 255, - "id": 5545 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout the galaxy a legend is told, on a distant planet a grim fortress stood, until a deadly force parted the heavens and descended upon the keep. Though brought to ruin, the ashes of that place hold an artifact of impossible power - a gun that can kill the past. Over time the fortress was rebuilt, and some who hear the legend would risk everything for another shot - to claim their prize and make what was done, undone they must - Enter The Gungeon.", - "source": "Enter The Gungeon", - "length": 457, - "id": 5546 - }, - { - "text": "You don't want to go for realism, you can go for better than realism. What do you mean better than realism? How about an elephant with blue eyes.", - "source": "Terry A. 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You look like you might be remembering something...", - "source": "Hotline miami", - "length": 190, - "id": 5559 - }, - { - "text": "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.", - "source": "Darkest Dungeon", - "length": 67, - "id": 5560 - }, - { - "text": "You feel an evil presence watching you...", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 41, - "id": 5561 - }, - { - "text": "The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released.", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 57, - "id": 5562 - }, - { - "text": "There's something very strange about this place... the layout seems to change all the time. I've never seen the same room twice!", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 128, - "id": 5564 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings! My name is Yang, and this is my journal. Dusty maps and rumors of amazing treasures have led me here, deep under the desert.", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 135, - "id": 5565 - }, - { - "text": "Play is the highest form of research.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 37, - "id": 5568 - }, - { - "text": "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.", - "source": "Alan Turing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5569 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", - "source": "Thomas A. 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Suffering is optional.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 42, - "id": 5576 - }, - { - "text": "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 59, - "id": 5578 - }, - { - "text": "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.", - "source": "Julie Andrews", - "length": 57, - "id": 5579 - }, - { - "text": "There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 61, - "id": 5580 - }, - { - "text": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 44, - "id": 5581 - }, - { - "text": "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 202, - "id": 5582 - }, - { - "text": "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 95, - "id": 5583 - }, - { - "text": "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.", - "source": "Yogi Berra", - "length": 83, - "id": 5584 - }, - { - "text": "A room without books is like a body without a soul.", - "source": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", - "length": 51, - "id": 5586 - }, - { - "text": "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.", - "source": "Bernard M. 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The future is still so much bigger than the past.", - "source": "Tim Berners-Lee", - "length": 101, - "id": 5592 - }, - { - "text": "Be the change that you wish to see in the world.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 48, - "id": 5593 - }, - { - "text": "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Robert Frost", - "length": 75, - "id": 5594 - }, - { - "text": "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 137, - "id": 5595 - }, - { - "text": "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 57, - "id": 5596 - }, - { - "text": "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.", - "source": "Rob Siltanen", - "length": 549, - "id": 5598 - }, - { - "text": "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 302, - "id": 5599 - }, - { - "text": "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.", - "source": "J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 302, - "id": 5601 - }, - { - "text": "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.", - "source": "Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey", - "length": 102, - "id": 5602 - }, - { - "text": "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 109, - "id": 5603 - }, - { - "text": "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 129, - "id": 5604 - }, - { - "text": "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 74, - "id": 5605 - }, - { - "text": "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 161, - "id": 5607 - }, - { - "text": "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 90, - "id": 5608 - }, - { - "text": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well", - "length": 40, - "id": 5609 - }, - { - "text": "That which does not kill us makes us stronger.", - "source": "Friedrich Nietzsche", - "length": 46, - "id": 5610 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it, no larger than a single grain of malt.", - "source": "Disco Elysium", - "length": 121, - "id": 5611 - }, - { - "text": "Time without purpose is a prison. I have glimpsed into the mind of eternity, perhaps the mind of God, and found nothing but silence. I think we should just be friends.", - "source": "Jessica, Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 1", - "length": 167, - "id": 5612 - }, - { - "text": "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, \"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.\" I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "length": 403, - "id": 5613 - }, - { - "text": "The believers, in their mutual love, compassion, and sympathy are like a single body; if one of its organs suffers, the whole body will respond to it with sleeplessness and fever.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 179, - "id": 5614 - }, - { - "text": "Many people were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans to begin with.", - "source": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 248, - "id": 5615 - }, - { - "text": "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.", - "source": "Hotel California - The Eagles", - "length": 50, - "id": 5616 - }, - { - "text": "If you get news of the outbreak of a plague in a land, do not enter it, and if it breaks out in a land in which you are, do not leave it.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 137, - "id": 5617 - }, - { - "text": "I can't erase all the things that I've done, but all the mistakes made me who I've become.", - "source": "Fletcher, Healing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5618 - }, - { - "text": "The life of this world is made up of three days: yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today.", - "source": "Hasan Al-Basri", - "length": 175, - "id": 5619 - }, - { - "text": "One generation sows, the next shall reap. But laugh not too soon or praises heap. Beware the reapers who behind you creep.", - "source": "Liu Xie, Romance Of The Three Kingdoms", - "length": 122, - "id": 5620 - }, - { - "text": "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not \"Eureka!\" (I found it!) but \"That's funny...\"", - "source": "Isaac Asimov", - "length": 140, - "id": 5621 - }, - { - "text": "He, who is possessed of plenty, and is miserly with his great wealth toward his people, will be dispensed with, and abused. He who keeps his word, will not be reviled; and he whose heart is guided to self-satisfying benevolence will not stammer.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 245, - "id": 5622 - }, - { - "text": "In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: \"There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.\" They have mistaken the result of the marksman's momentary whim for an unalterable law of the universe. The farmer hypothesis, on the other hand, has the flavor of a horror story: Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: \"Every morning at eleven, food arrives.\" On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn't arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flock.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem", - "length": 928, - "id": 5623 - }, - { - "text": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.", - "source": "Charles M. 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You crumple it into a ball and drop it into the mud and begin to walk back to your tent.", - "source": "Charles Coe, Young Man in Vietnam", - "length": 278, - "id": 5627 - }, - { - "text": "And as I watch the drops of rain weave their weary paths and die, I know that I am like the rain: there but for the grace of you go I.", - "source": "Kathy's Song", - "length": 134, - "id": 5628 - }, - { - "text": "He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy.", - "source": "Guts, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 72, - "id": 5629 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett", - "length": 119, - "id": 5630 - }, - { - "text": "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 59, - "id": 5631 - }, - { - "text": "Music is a science that would have us laugh, sing, and dance.", - "source": "Guillaume de Machaut, \"The Fountain of Love\"", - "length": 61, - "id": 5632 - }, - { - "text": "Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.", - "source": "Calvin & Hobbes", - "length": 137, - "id": 5635 - }, - { - "text": "But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.", - "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, W.D. Ross translation", - "length": 332, - "id": 5636 - }, - { - "text": "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.", - "source": "Walden", - "length": 55, - "id": 5637 - }, - { - "text": "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 68, - "id": 5638 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.", - "source": "Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery", - "length": 53, - "id": 5639 - }, - { - "text": "Where are you? And I'm so sorry, I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 72, - "id": 5640 - }, - { - "text": "There is matter to everything even air or shadow, too small to see. The Cut is something a Summoner can do, but it requires tremendous skill and I would only use it as a last resort. Like that ambush.", - "source": "Shadow and Bone", - "length": 200, - "id": 5641 - }, - { - "text": "I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.", - "source": "The Boxer", - "length": 78, - "id": 5642 - }, - { - "text": "I want to enjoy not getting recognized while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.", - "source": "Alan Walker", - "length": 113, - "id": 5643 - }, - { - "text": "Such a person must be careful, he must be aware of the limitations of his knowledge, he must acknowledge his personal prejudices because he is being asked to speak for a whole realm of thought, he must be aware of the huge possible consequences of what he says and writes and does. He has become, in a sense, public property because he represents something large to the public. He has become an idea himself, a human striving. He has enormous power to influence and change, and he must wield that power with respect.", - "source": "Alan Lightman, The Role of the Public Intellectual", - "length": 516, - "id": 5644 - }, - { - "text": "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 203, - "id": 5645 - }, - { - "text": "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "length": 45, - "id": 5646 - }, - { - "text": "The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire universe.", - "source": "Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 92, - "id": 5647 - }, - { - "text": "My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.", - "source": "Marvin; Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 94, - "id": 5648 - }, - { - "text": "And every time I've held a rose, it seems I only felt the thorns.", - "source": "And So It Goes", - "length": 65, - "id": 5649 - }, - { - "text": "When we hear any other speaker, even a very good one, he produces absolutely no effect upon us, or not much, whereas the mere fragments of you and your words, even at second-hand, and however imperfectly repeated, amaze and possess the souls of every man, woman, and child who comes within hearing of them. And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", - "source": "The Symposium", - "length": 592, - "id": 5651 - }, - { - "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 76, - "id": 5652 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 323, - "id": 5653 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", - "source": "Einstein", - "length": 128, - "id": 5654 - }, - { - "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 322, - "id": 5655 - }, - { - "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 172, - "id": 5656 - }, - { - "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 270, - "id": 5657 - }, - { - "text": "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 63, - "id": 5658 - }, - { - "text": "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.", - "source": "Kahlil Gibran", - "length": 64, - "id": 5663 - }, - { - "text": "With her green hair sticking out the hood of her yellow raincoat, she looked like a punk spokesperson for frozen fish sticks.", - "source": "The Ship of the Dead", - "length": 125, - "id": 5664 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb.", - "source": "Proverbs", - "length": 70, - "id": 5665 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.", - "source": "Augustine of Hippo", - "length": 62, - "id": 5667 - }, - { - "text": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 49, - "id": 5668 - }, - { - "text": "Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 53, - "id": 5669 - }, - { - "text": "Time is just a construct, if you allow it to consume you, it will. It will wear you down until you are nothing but dust. You must learn to transcend and rise beyond such linear and limited fabrics of existence and this creature of unknown origin has done exactly that. You can scream all you want but nobody will hear you. You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 468, - "id": 5670 - }, - { - "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", - "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", - "length": 82, - "id": 5671 - }, - { - "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", - "source": "John Tukey", - "length": 89, - "id": 5672 - }, - { - "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "length": 76, - "id": 5673 - }, - { - "text": "There are approximately 1010300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair.", - "source": "Alexander Hamilton", - "length": 170, - "id": 5674 - }, - { - "text": "One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.", - "source": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", - "length": 80, - "id": 5675 - }, - { - "text": "Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", - "source": "Tao Te Ching", - "length": 286, - "id": 5678 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "length": 62, - "id": 5679 - }, - { - "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 54, - "id": 5680 - }, - { - "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", - "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", - "length": 238, - "id": 5681 - }, - { - "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", - "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5682 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", - "source": "Marcus Aurelius", - "length": 161, - "id": 5684 - }, - { - "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", - "source": "Devil in Disguise", - "length": 148, - "id": 5685 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", - "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", - "length": 518, - "id": 5686 - }, - { - "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 302, - "id": 5687 - }, - { - "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 52, - "id": 5688 - }, - { - "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 83, - "id": 5689 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 53, - "id": 5690 - }, - { - "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 118, - "id": 5691 - }, - { - "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.", - "source": "Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29", - "length": 233, - "id": 5692 - }, - { - "text": "The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 159, - "id": 5693 - }, - { - "text": "All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 86, - "id": 5694 - }, - { - "text": "Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 210, - "id": 5695 - }, - { - "text": "This is your world. You're the creator. Find freedom on this canvas. Believe, that you can do it, 'cuz you can do it. You can do it.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 132, - "id": 5696 - }, - { - "text": "I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 151, - "id": 5697 - }, - { - "text": "Let's build a happy little cloud. Let's build some happy little trees.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 70, - "id": 5698 - }, - { - "text": "Now then, let's come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It'll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to have a place to set there. There he goes...", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 215, - "id": 5699 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 62, - "id": 5700 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 112, - "id": 5701 - }, - { - "text": "When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 123, - "id": 5702 - }, - { - "text": "You show me a pay stub for $72,000, I quit my job right now and work for you.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 77, - "id": 5703 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 148, - "id": 5705 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing that we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan", - "length": 88, - "id": 5706 - }, - { - "text": "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.", - "source": "Noam Chomsky", - "length": 167, - "id": 5707 - }, - { - "text": "The behaviour of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, has many features that set it apart from other common domestic animals, even its fellow carnivore the dog. Cats seem to have effected a unique and successful compromise between reliance on man and the retention of behaviour patterns that permit an independent existence. During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", - "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", - "length": 578, - "id": 5708 - }, - { - "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", - "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", - "length": 183, - "id": 5709 - }, - { - "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 997, - "id": 5710 - }, - { - "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", - "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", - "length": 173, - "id": 5711 - }, - { - "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 289, - "id": 5712 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 900, - "id": 5714 - }, - { - "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", - "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", - "length": 71, - "id": 5715 - }, - { - "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5716 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", - "source": "Kurt Cobain", - "length": 62, - "id": 5717 - }, - { - "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", - "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", - "length": 743, - "id": 5718 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", - "length": 974, - "id": 5719 - }, - { - "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", - "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", - "length": 256, - "id": 5720 - }, - { - "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 69, - "id": 5723 - }, - { - "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 110, - "id": 5724 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 280, - "id": 5725 - }, - { - "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 111, - "id": 5726 - }, - { - "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 74, - "id": 5727 - }, - { - "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 71, - "id": 5728 - }, - { - "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", - "source": "Edward Snowden", - "length": 181, - "id": 5729 - }, - { - "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", - "source": "Riverdale", - "length": 161, - "id": 5731 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", - "source": "Spirited Away", - "length": 105, - "id": 5732 - }, - { - "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", - "source": "Wikipedia", - "length": 406, - "id": 5733 - }, - { - "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", - "length": 418, - "id": 5734 - }, - { - "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 622, - "id": 5735 - }, - { - "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 699, - "id": 5736 - }, - { - "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", - "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", - "length": 82, - "id": 5737 - }, - { - "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", - "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", - "length": 282, - "id": 5738 - }, - { - "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", - "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", - "length": 184, - "id": 5739 - }, - { - "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", - "source": "Lord of the Rings", - "length": 83, - "id": 5740 - }, - { - "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 373, - "id": 5741 - }, - { - "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", - "source": "Half-Life 2", - "length": 74, - "id": 5742 - }, - { - "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", - "source": "The Big Bang Theory", - "length": 209, - "id": 5743 - }, - { - "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", - "source": "Lucifer", - "length": 183, - "id": 5744 - }, - { - "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", - "source": "Inception", - "length": 134, - "id": 5747 - }, - { - "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", - "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", - "length": 83, - "id": 5748 - }, - { - "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 113, - "id": 5751 - }, - { - "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 341, - "id": 5752 - }, - { - "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "length": 222, - "id": 5753 - }, - { - "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", - "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", - "length": 183, - "id": 5754 - }, - { - "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 198, - "id": 5755 - }, - { - "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 293, - "id": 5756 - }, - { - "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "length": 441, - "id": 5757 - }, - { - "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 538, - "id": 5758 - }, - { - "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", - "source": "Absolute", - "length": 131, - "id": 5759 - }, - { - "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 144, - "id": 5760 - }, - { - "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 183, - "id": 5761 - }, - { - "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 106, - "id": 5762 - }, - { - "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 141, - "id": 5763 - }, - { - "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", - "source": "Love Me", - "length": 61, - "id": 5764 - }, - { - "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "length": 62, - "id": 5765 - }, - { - "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", - "source": "Little Witch Academia", - "length": 76, - "id": 5766 - }, - { - "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 166, - "id": 5767 - }, - { - "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", - "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", - "length": 429, - "id": 5768 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5769 - }, - { - "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 165, - "id": 5771 - }, - { - "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 128, - "id": 5772 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 157, - "id": 5773 - }, - { - "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", - "source": "A Friend", - "length": 73, - "id": 5775 - }, - { - "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Breath of the Wild", - "length": 62, - "id": 5776 - }, - { - "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 527, - "id": 5777 - }, - { - "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", - "source": "Muhammad Ali", - "length": 79, - "id": 5780 - }, - { - "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", - "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", - "length": 51, - "id": 5781 - }, - { - "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 69, - "id": 5782 - }, - { - "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 317, - "id": 5783 - }, - { - "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", - "source": "The Last Of Us 2", - "length": 89, - "id": 5785 - }, - { - "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", - "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", - "length": 98, - "id": 5786 - }, - { - "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 5787 - }, - { - "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 158, - "id": 5788 - }, - { - "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 164, - "id": 5789 - }, - { - "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 62, - "id": 5790 - }, - { - "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", - "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", - "length": 113, - "id": 5791 - }, - { - "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", - "source": "Cabo", - "length": 125, - "id": 5792 - }, - { - "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", - "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", - "length": 109, - "id": 5793 - }, - { - "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", - "source": "Mae West", - "length": 59, - "id": 5795 - }, - { - "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", - "length": 77, - "id": 5796 - }, - { - "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", - "length": 62, - "id": 5797 - }, - { - "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", - "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", - "length": 101, - "id": 5799 - }, - { - "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. So ask yourself, what is there that still remains to you.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 183, - "id": 5801 - }, - { - "text": "The caterpillar ate through one nice green leaf, and after that he felt much better.", - "source": "The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle", - "length": 84, - "id": 5802 - }, - { - "text": "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 71, - "id": 5804 - }, - { - "text": "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", - "source": "States of Matter", - "length": 220, - "id": 5805 - }, - { - "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", - "source": "Danilo Kiš", - "length": 190, - "id": 5806 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", - "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", - "length": 2928, - "id": 5807 - }, - { - "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", - "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", - "length": 152, - "id": 5809 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 'Cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.", - "source": "Adam Young", - "length": 148, - "id": 5810 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe the best thing to do is stop trying to figure out where you're going and just enjoy where you're at.", - "source": "Scrubs", - "length": 106, - "id": 5811 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a slave to their past. No matter how much you wish to move forward, the events of last year will bear down on you like the light of the stars as soon as you glance up. Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 325, - "id": 5812 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 133, - "id": 5813 - }, - { - "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", - "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 355, - "id": 5814 - }, - { - "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", - "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", - "length": 140, - "id": 5815 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 78, - "id": 5816 - }, - { - "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 87, - "id": 5817 - }, - { - "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 134, - "id": 5818 - }, - { - "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", - "source": "Henri Poincaré", - "length": 145, - "id": 5819 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", - "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", - "length": 254, - "id": 5820 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 96, - "id": 5821 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 73, - "id": 5822 - }, - { - "text": "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the Popes?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5823 - }, - { - "text": "No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.", - "source": "SpiderMan: Homecoming", - "length": 71, - "id": 5824 - }, - { - "text": "In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers.", - "source": "Black Panther", - "length": 76, - "id": 5825 - }, - { - "text": "I was already slipping when you happened to punch me in the face. The two events are not related.", - "source": "Captain Marvel", - "length": 97, - "id": 5826 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing, that you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier but a good man.", - "source": "Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 127, - "id": 5827 - }, - { - "text": "The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", - "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", - "length": 455, - "id": 5828 - }, - { - "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", - "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", - "length": 298, - "id": 5829 - }, - { - "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", - "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", - "length": 61, - "id": 5831 - }, - { - "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 356, - "id": 5832 - }, - { - "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 669, - "id": 5833 - }, - { - "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 188, - "id": 5834 - }, - { - "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 157, - "id": 5835 - }, - { - "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 290, - "id": 5836 - }, - { - "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", - "source": "Mob Psycho 100", - "length": 382, - "id": 5837 - }, - { - "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", - "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", - "length": 125, - "id": 5838 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 92, - "id": 5839 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 97, - "id": 5840 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", - "source": "Master Yoda", - "length": 395, - "id": 5843 - }, - { - "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 80, - "id": 5844 - }, - { - "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 86, - "id": 5845 - }, - { - "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 188, - "id": 5846 - }, - { - "text": "Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen, so unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you.", - "source": "Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold", - "length": 113, - "id": 5847 - }, - { - "text": "Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it's a beautiful day.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 71, - "id": 5848 - }, - { - "text": "The biggest lie I tell myself is: \"I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it.\"", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 84, - "id": 5849 - }, - { - "text": "Alright, close your eyes. I want you to think of a flower. Look at its contours, its curves. Now I want you to imagine it: changing, moving backwards, returning to its bud. Think of that bud, unopened. Look at it, as a whole, and silently repeat these phrases: \"May you be free from suffering. May you be free from fear. May you know peace and joy.\"", - "source": "Twelve Minutes", - "length": 349, - "id": 5850 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", - "length": 301, - "id": 5851 - }, - { - "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", - "source": "Numb", - "length": 177, - "id": 5852 - }, - { - "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 490, - "id": 5854 - }, - { - "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", - "source": "Space Brothers", - "length": 143, - "id": 5855 - }, - { - "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", - "source": "Oregairu", - "length": 65, - "id": 5856 - }, - { - "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", - "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", - "length": 352, - "id": 5857 - }, - { - "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", - "source": "Bleach", - "length": 200, - "id": 5858 - }, - { - "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", - "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", - "length": 120, - "id": 5859 - }, - { - "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", - "source": "Fruits Basket", - "length": 388, - "id": 5860 - }, - { - "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", - "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5861 - }, - { - "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 65, - "id": 5862 - }, - { - "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 270, - "id": 5863 - }, - { - "text": "You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 123, - "id": 5864 - }, - { - "text": "People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.", - "source": "Eragon - Christopher Paolini", - "length": 67, - "id": 5867 - }, - { - "text": "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.", - "source": "Jeod, Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)", - "length": 89, - "id": 5868 - }, - { - "text": "Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama - Attack on Titan", - "length": 62, - "id": 5869 - }, - { - "text": "We all deserve love, even on the days when we aren't our best. 'Cause we all suck, but love can make us suck less. We all deserve love, it's the very best part of being alive. And I would know - I just turned 25.", - "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", - "length": 212, - "id": 5870 - }, - { - "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", - "source": "Ratatouille", - "length": 1315, - "id": 5871 - }, - { - "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", - "source": "Pushing Dead", - "length": 365, - "id": 5872 - }, - { - "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", - "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", - "length": 222, - "id": 5874 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", - "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", - "length": 191, - "id": 5875 - }, - { - "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", - "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", - "length": 75, - "id": 5876 - }, - { - "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", - "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", - "length": 123, - "id": 5877 - }, - { - "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 784, - "id": 5878 - }, - { - "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 763, - "id": 5879 - }, - { - "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 530, - "id": 5881 - }, - { - "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 618, - "id": 5882 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", - "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", - "length": 186, - "id": 5886 - }, - { - "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", - "source": "Knights of Cydonia", - "length": 135, - "id": 5888 - }, - { - "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", - "source": "Paul Parker", - "length": 274, - "id": 5890 - }, - { - "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", - "source": "Left 4 Dead", - "length": 454, - "id": 5891 - }, - { - "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 190, - "id": 5893 - }, - { - "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 346, - "id": 5895 - }, - { - "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", - "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", - "length": 83, - "id": 5896 - }, - { - "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 264, - "id": 5897 - }, - { - "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 282, - "id": 5899 - }, - { - "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 249, - "id": 5900 - }, - { - "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", - "source": "Neil Gaiman", - "length": 129, - "id": 5901 - }, - { - "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 376, - "id": 5902 - }, - { - "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 293, - "id": 5903 - }, - { - "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 353, - "id": 5904 - }, - { - "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "length": 235, - "id": 5905 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 107, - "id": 5906 - }, - { - "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 105, - "id": 5907 - }, - { - "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", - "source": "Eugene Cernan", - "length": 478, - "id": 5908 - }, - { - "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 130, - "id": 5909 - }, - { - "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", - "source": "William Carlos Williams", - "length": 89, - "id": 5910 - }, - { - "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "length": 60, - "id": 5912 - }, - { - "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", - "source": "Henry Van Dyke", - "length": 172, - "id": 5913 - }, - { - "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", - "source": "Epicurus", - "length": 117, - "id": 5914 - }, - { - "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 1766, - "id": 5915 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 332, - "id": 5916 - }, - { - "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", - "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", - "length": 513, - "id": 5917 - }, - { - "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 105, - "id": 5918 - }, - { - "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", - "source": "Avicii - The Nights", - "length": 187, - "id": 5919 - }, - { - "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", - "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", - "length": 987, - "id": 5920 - }, - { - "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", - "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", - "length": 740, - "id": 5921 - }, - { - "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", - "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", - "length": 319, - "id": 5922 - }, - { - "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", - "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", - "length": 476, - "id": 5923 - }, - { - "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", - "length": 556, - "id": 5925 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 182, - "id": 5926 - }, - { - "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 281, - "id": 5927 - }, - { - "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 155, - "id": 5928 - }, - { - "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 248, - "id": 5929 - }, - { - "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 280, - "id": 5930 - }, - { - "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 289, - "id": 5931 - }, - { - "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", - "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", - "length": 294, - "id": 5932 - }, - { - "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5934 - }, - { - "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", - "source": "Batman: Arkham City", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5935 - }, - { - "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5937 - }, - { - "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", - "source": "Little Inferno", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5940 - }, - { - "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", - "source": "System Shock 2 ", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5941 - }, - { - "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", - "source": "IT Crowd", - "length": 307, - "id": 5942 - }, - { - "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 322, - "id": 5943 - }, - { - "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 137, - "id": 5944 - }, - { - "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", - "source": "The Master and Margarita", - "length": 420, - "id": 5945 - }, - { - "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 379, - "id": 5947 - }, - { - "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", - "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", - "length": 348, - "id": 5950 - }, - { - "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", - "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", - "length": 729, - "id": 5951 - }, - { - "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5956 - }, - { - "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", - "source": "Vinland Saga", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5957 - }, - { - "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 1982, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5958 - }, - { - "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 113, - "id": 6064 - }, - { - "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", - "source": "Colin Powell", - "length": 103, - "id": 6065 - }, - { - "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", - "source": "Conrad Hilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6066 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 116, - "id": 6067 - }, - { - "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", - "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", - "length": 67, - "id": 6068 - }, - { - "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", - "source": "Barack Obama", - "length": 193, - "id": 6069 - }, - { - "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", - "source": "Charles Swindoll", - "length": 81, - "id": 6071 - }, - { - "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", - "source": "Oprah Winfrey", - "length": 132, - "id": 6072 - }, - { - "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", - "source": "Harriet Tubman", - "length": 165, - "id": 6073 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 86, - "id": 6074 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", - "source": "The Blair Witch Project", - "length": 649, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6075 - }, - { - "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 624, - "id": 6076 - }, - { - "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 834, - "id": 6077 - }, - { - "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 472, - "id": 6078 - }, - { - "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 308, - "id": 6079 - }, - { - "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 471, - "id": 6080 - }, - { - "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 352, - "id": 6081 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 336, - "id": 6082 - }, - { - "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 775, - "id": 6084 - }, - { - "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 610, - "id": 6085 - }, - { - "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 371, - "id": 6087 - }, - { - "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", - "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", - "length": 438, - "id": 6088 - }, - { - "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", - "source": "Atharva veda", - "length": 127, - "id": 6089 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", - "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", - "length": 681, - "id": 6090 - }, - { - "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", - "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", - "length": 192, - "id": 6091 - }, - { - "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", - "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", - "length": 69, - "id": 6092 - }, - { - "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", - "source": "Tirukkurral", - "length": 118, - "id": 6093 - }, - { - "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", - "source": "Halo 3", - "length": 337, - "id": 6095 - }, - { - "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", - "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", - "length": 219, - "id": 6096 - }, - { - "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 71, - "id": 6097 - }, - { - "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", - "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", - "length": 237, - "id": 6098 - }, - { - "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", - "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", - "length": 98, - "id": 6099 - }, - { - "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", - "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", - "length": 62, - "id": 6100 - }, - { - "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", - "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", - "length": 153, - "id": 6101 - }, - { - "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", - "source": "Remember11", - "length": 136, - "id": 6102 - }, - { - "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", - "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", - "length": 94, - "id": 6103 - }, - { - "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 59, - "id": 6104 - }, - { - "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", - "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", - "length": 157, - "id": 6106 - }, - { - "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 173, - "id": 6107 - }, - { - "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", - "length": 190, - "id": 6108 - }, - { - "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", - "length": 105, - "id": 6109 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 162, - "id": 6110 - }, - { - "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 122, - "id": 6112 - }, - { - "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 160, - "id": 6113 - }, - { - "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 239, - "id": 6114 - }, - { - "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", - "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", - "length": 92, - "id": 6115 - }, - { - "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", - "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", - "length": 131, - "id": 6116 - }, - { - "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", - "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", - "length": 157, - "id": 6117 - }, - { - "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", - "length": 121, - "id": 6118 - }, - { - "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", - "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", - "length": 256, - "id": 6119 - }, - { - "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. They think I don't understand the freedom land of the seventies.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby", - "length": 126, - "id": 6120 - }, - { - "text": "John met me down on the boulevard. Cry on his shoulder 'cause life is hard, the waves came in over my head. What you been up to my baby? Haven't seen you 'round here lately. All the other guys tell me lies, but you don't. You just crack another beer and pretend that you're still here.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - How To Disappear", - "length": 285, - "id": 6121 - }, - { - "text": "Thinking outrageously, I write in cursive. I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor. Wearing three layers of coats and leg-warmers, I see my own breath on the face of the door.", - "source": "Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!", - "length": 181, - "id": 6122 - }, - { - "text": "I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 59, - "id": 6123 - }, - { - "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 76, - "id": 6124 - }, - { - "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 182, - "id": 6125 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 62, - "id": 6126 - }, - { - "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 71, - "id": 6127 - }, - { - "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", - "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", - "length": 162, - "id": 6128 - }, - { - "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", - "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", - "length": 164, - "id": 6129 - }, - { - "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", - "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", - "length": 160, - "id": 6130 - }, - { - "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", - "source": "Beach House - Myth", - "length": 142, - "id": 6131 - }, - { - "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", - "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", - "length": 64, - "id": 6132 - }, - { - "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", - "source": "Beach House - PPP", - "length": 110, - "id": 6133 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6134 - }, - { - "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", - "length": 175, - "id": 6135 - }, - { - "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", - "length": 113, - "id": 6136 - }, - { - "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", - "length": 66, - "id": 6137 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", - "length": 67, - "id": 6138 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", - "length": 95, - "id": 6139 - }, - { - "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", - "length": 80, - "id": 6141 - }, - { - "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 185, - "id": 6142 - }, - { - "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", - "length": 206, - "id": 6143 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", - "length": 76, - "id": 6144 - }, - { - "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", - "length": 95, - "id": 6145 - }, - { - "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 181, - "id": 6146 - }, - { - "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", - "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", - "length": 66, - "id": 6147 - }, - { - "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", - "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", - "length": 181, - "id": 6148 - }, - { - "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", - "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", - "length": 291, - "id": 6149 - }, - { - "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 297, - "id": 6150 - }, - { - "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 657, - "id": 6151 - }, - { - "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", - "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", - "length": 128, - "id": 6152 - }, - { - "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 136, - "id": 6153 - }, - { - "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 64, - "id": 6154 - }, - { - "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 178, - "id": 6155 - }, - { - "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", - "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", - "length": 224, - "id": 6157 - }, - { - "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", - "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", - "length": 207, - "id": 6158 - }, - { - "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", - "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", - "length": 220, - "id": 6159 - }, - { - "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", - "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", - "length": 274, - "id": 6160 - }, - { - "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", - "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", - "length": 112, - "id": 6161 - }, - { - "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", - "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", - "length": 272, - "id": 6162 - }, - { - "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", - "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", - "length": 136, - "id": 6163 - }, - { - "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", - "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", - "length": 454, - "id": 6164 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", - "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", - "length": 381, - "id": 6165 - }, - { - "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", - "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", - "length": 453, - "id": 6166 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 165, - "id": 6167 - }, - { - "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", - "length": 136, - "id": 6168 - }, - { - "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", - "length": 229, - "id": 6169 - }, - { - "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 170, - "id": 6170 - }, - { - "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", - "length": 191, - "id": 6171 - }, - { - "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", - "length": 284, - "id": 6172 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", - "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", - "length": 204, - "id": 6173 - }, - { - "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", - "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", - "length": 122, - "id": 6174 - }, - { - "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", - "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", - "length": 268, - "id": 6175 - }, - { - "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", - "length": 234, - "id": 6176 - }, - { - "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", - "length": 186, - "id": 6177 - }, - { - "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", - "length": 423, - "id": 6178 - }, - { - "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", - "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", - "length": 313, - "id": 6179 - }, - { - "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.", - "source": "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson", - "length": 220, - "id": 6180 - }, - { - "text": "Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?", - "source": "Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima", - "length": 169, - "id": 6181 - }, - { - "text": "But as he moves closer, I cannot help but ask: if in a different world, would our love forever last? The almighty scientist says most of the universe is empty, and gods don't exist. Well, maybe that's where our love ends up - no holy grail, just an empty cup.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Good Luck Bad Luck", - "length": 259, - "id": 6182 - }, - { - "text": "They'll kiss you in the evening - devils in disguise - and love you 'til the morning, then vanish before your eyes. A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", - "length": 401, - "id": 6183 - }, - { - "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", - "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", - "length": 202, - "id": 6184 - }, - { - "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", - "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", - "length": 290, - "id": 6185 - }, - { - "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", - "length": 178, - "id": 6186 - }, - { - "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 197, - "id": 6188 - }, - { - "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 395, - "id": 6189 - }, - { - "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 372, - "id": 6190 - }, - { - "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 214, - "id": 6191 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 427, - "id": 6192 - }, - { - "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 116, - "id": 6193 - }, - { - "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 238, - "id": 6194 - }, - { - "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 256, - "id": 6195 - }, - { - "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 316, - "id": 6196 - }, - { - "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. This initially seemed baffling to monsters (especially given the amount of dusting we avoid by keeping objects outside!). Experts have recently suggested that keeping objects indoors may have been part of England's efforts to hide and store museums' collections of stolen property.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 327, - "id": 6197 - }, - { - "text": "This tree is not technically part of the museum experience, but there's a cool bird nesting in it, so you aren't allowed to cut it down. Not even a little bit. Not even with the \"undo\" or \"reset\" options. Leave the cool bird alone, alright?", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 240, - "id": 6198 - }, - { - "text": "Humans liked to put objects on boxes called plinths. At first, monster experts didn't know why, but then strangers kept thinking the plinth-less exhibits were lost property and handing them in at the help desk. It turns out plinths are very important.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 251, - "id": 6199 - }, - { - "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 229, - "id": 6200 - }, - { - "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 252, - "id": 6201 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", - "length": 576, - "id": 6202 - }, - { - "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", - "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", - "length": 112, - "id": 6203 - }, - { - "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", - "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", - "length": 110, - "id": 6204 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. But what you throw away you'll never get back.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 87, - "id": 6206 - }, - { - "text": "People who can't throw something important away, can never hope to change anything.", - "source": "Armin Arlert - Attack on Titan", - "length": 83, - "id": 6207 - }, - { - "text": "You will never be able to love anybody else until you love yourself.", - "source": "Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass", - "length": 68, - "id": 6208 - }, - { - "text": "People's lives don't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith.", - "source": "Uchiha Itachi - Naruto", - "length": 69, - "id": 6209 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it.", - "source": "Uzumaki Naruto - Naruto", - "length": 48, - "id": 6210 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.", - "source": "Nagato, Naruto", - "length": 65, - "id": 6211 - }, - { - "text": "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", - "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", - "length": 95, - "id": 6212 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", - "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", - "length": 70, - "id": 6213 - }, - { - "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 51, - "id": 6214 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", - "source": "Clare - Claymore", - "length": 164, - "id": 6215 - }, - { - "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", - "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", - "length": 384, - "id": 6216 - }, - { - "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", - "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", - "length": 67, - "id": 6217 - }, - { - "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", - "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", - "length": 88, - "id": 6218 - }, - { - "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", - "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", - "length": 314, - "id": 6220 - }, - { - "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", - "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", - "length": 89, - "id": 6221 - }, - { - "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", - "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", - "length": 422, - "id": 6222 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", - "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", - "length": 179, - "id": 6223 - }, - { - "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", - "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", - "length": 463, - "id": 6224 - }, - { - "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", - "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 109, - "id": 6225 - }, - { - "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", - "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 61, - "id": 6226 - }, - { - "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", - "length": 93, - "id": 6227 - }, - { - "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 177, - "id": 6228 - }, - { - "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 215, - "id": 6229 - }, - { - "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", - "length": 167, - "id": 6230 - }, - { - "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 827, - "id": 6231 - }, - { - "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", - "length": 116, - "id": 6232 - }, - { - "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", - "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", - "length": 137, - "id": 6233 - }, - { - "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", - "length": 127, - "id": 6234 - }, - { - "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 94, - "id": 6235 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 182, - "id": 6236 - }, - { - "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 140, - "id": 6237 - }, - { - "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", - "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", - "length": 144, - "id": 6238 - }, - { - "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", - "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", - "length": 248, - "id": 6239 - }, - { - "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. Did you follow your fire?", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 289, - "id": 6240 - }, - { - "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 123, - "id": 6241 - }, - { - "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", - "length": 197, - "id": 6242 - }, - { - "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", - "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", - "length": 289, - "id": 6243 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. Though we don't share the same blood, you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.", - "source": "Kodaline - Brother", - "length": 161, - "id": 6244 - }, - { - "text": "Star in your eyes, sun in your smile, the way you look at me - it makes me hum and I call it love song.", - "source": "Yoohyeon (Dreamcatcher) - For", - "length": 103, - "id": 6245 - }, - { - "text": "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 57, - "id": 6246 - }, - { - "text": "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 240, - "id": 6247 - }, - { - "text": "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 112, - "id": 6248 - }, - { - "text": "For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 177, - "id": 6249 - }, - { - "text": "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 421, - "id": 6250 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say \"I'll never be good.\" You can become better! And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 251, - "id": 6251 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 105, - "id": 6252 - }, - { - "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 303, - "id": 6253 - }, - { - "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 149, - "id": 6254 - }, - { - "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 119, - "id": 6255 - }, - { - "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", - "source": "Tool", - "length": 220, - "id": 6256 - }, - { - "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", - "source": "Whiplash", - "length": 270, - "id": 6258 - }, - { - "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 173, - "id": 6259 - }, - { - "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 395, - "id": 6260 - }, - { - "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 246, - "id": 6261 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. They are nothing without the spark of life that you give them.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 198, - "id": 6262 - }, - { - "text": "Well, well! Look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 72, - "id": 6263 - }, - { - "text": "Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 269, - "id": 6264 - }, - { - "text": "It is a kindness to prepare a comfortable roost for an injured bird... But to prevent it from taking flight once its wounds have healed, because you fear the world is too dangerous, means confining it to a cage. These birds have finally escaped their cage of persecution. Do you intend to lock them in a cage of pity next?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 322, - "id": 6265 - }, - { - "text": "If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 73, - "id": 6266 - }, - { - "text": "If, one day, you make it to our final destination, would you please leave flowers?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 82, - "id": 6267 - }, - { - "text": "I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it's good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 111, - "id": 6268 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 177, - "id": 6269 - }, - { - "text": "If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 205, - "id": 6270 - }, - { - "text": "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 85, - "id": 6271 - }, - { - "text": "Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6272 - }, - { - "text": "The cool thing about these guys is that... is that they have really, really long trunks, and that's... that's cool.", - "source": "Me at the zoo", - "length": 115, - "id": 6273 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time in a nursery rhyme, there was a castle with a king hiding in a wing because he never went to school to learn a single thing, he had scepters and swords and a parliament of lords, but on the inside, he was sad, egad! Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", - "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", - "length": 1662, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6275 - }, - { - "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. And you fail again and again, and you fail a thousand times, and you keep trying because maybe the 1,001st idea might work. Now, I'm gonna go and try to find our 1,001st idea.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 251, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6276 - }, - { - "text": "I assume he's doing the same as every human. Some good days. Some bad days. He's got a few friends, a few people he can't stand. He's learning some things, all by himself, and hopefully learning to ask for help when he needs it. He's messing up, and trying again, and messing up again, and then getting things wrong, and then trying to make them right. That's what everyone does.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 379, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6277 - }, - { - "text": "It's a rare occurrence, like a double rainbow. Or like someone on the internet saying, \"You know what? You've convinced me I was wrong.\"", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6278 - }, - { - "text": "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him...", - "source": "Stephen King, It", - "length": 384, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6279 - }, - { - "text": "I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.", - "source": "The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6281 - }, - { - "text": "To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.", - "source": "Bruce Mclaren", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6282 - }, - { - "text": "Spring, summer, autumn, and winter... Many seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all. At first, I couldn't understand. I couldn't understand anything about how you felt. But within this new life you gave me, I've begun to feel the same way as you, if only a little, through ghostwriting, and through the people I've met along the way. I believe that you are still alive somewhere. So, I shall live, live, live, and live some more, though there's no telling what life might have in store. And if I can see you again, I want to let you know... that the phrase \"I love you\"... I understand it a little now.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 637, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6283 - }, - { - "text": "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.", - "source": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6284 - }, - { - "text": "I am the one who made it out. The one who always made the grade but maybe I should have just stayed home. When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb. I got every scholarship, saved every dollar, the first to go to college. How do I tell them why I'm coming back home, with my eyes on the horizon? Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 421, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6286 - }, - { - "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", - "source": "Animal Farm", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6287 - }, - { - "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 307, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6288 - }, - { - "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 745, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6292 - }, - { - "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. I choose round.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6294 - }, - { - "text": "I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6295 - }, - { - "text": "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 308, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6296 - }, - { - "text": "I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest - expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6297 - }, - { - "text": "I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 146, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6298 - }, - { - "text": "In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 472, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6299 - }, - { - "text": "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6300 - }, - { - "text": "It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this \"once in a thousand years\" has come today.", - "source": "Zamyatin, We", - "length": 248, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6301 - }, - { - "text": "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6302 - }, - { - "text": "Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the \"vox populi\" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 740, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6303 - }, - { - "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", - "length": 520, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6304 - }, - { - "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", - "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", - "length": 273, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6305 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6306 - }, - { - "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. I want you to, I want you to, I want you to cry for me.", - "source": "TWICE, CRY FOR ME", - "length": 303, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6307 - }, - { - "text": "I had this very faith tested on an ordinary day: I was walkin' down a busy street around my way. I saw a face in the crowd that made my heart skip a beat - A man who looked exactly like an older version of me! So I moved through the hustle and the bustle of the day to day until me and this man stood face to face. We locked eyes and for a moment time moved in slow motion as the crowd around continued on their paper chase. I stood frozen in disbelief and opened my mouth to speak but to my surprise the words wouldn't come. And then he looks into a clear blue sky up above and says \"it's gonna rain\" - and then it does! And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", - "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", - "length": 1200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6308 - }, - { - "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. Because rain is the closest thing I have to tears.", - "source": "The Thunderhead", - "length": 182, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6309 - }, - { - "text": "All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You, You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night... You, only You, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh.", - "source": "The Little Prince", - "length": 886, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6310 - }, - { - "text": "Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.", - "source": "Sophie's World", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6311 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.", - "source": "Bill Willingham, Fables - Werewolves of the Heartland", - "length": 133, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6312 - }, - { - "text": "We devote ourselves to something we barely understand, something we can never touch. We give it a name, and we give ourselves a name for doing so. All of it creates this connection. And that connection, that becomes the thing we can touch.", - "source": "Night in the Woods", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6313 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people who do.", - "source": "Angus, Night in the Woods", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6314 - }, - { - "text": "He could leave at any time. If it was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him. I think what distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell, as you call it.", - "source": "Christof, The Truman Show", - "length": 267, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6315 - }, - { - "text": "If you've ever taken a road trip through the Pacific Northwest, you've probably seen a bumper sticker for a place called \"Gravity Falls\". It's not on any maps, and most people have never heard of it, some people think it's a myth. But if you're curious, don't wait. Take a trip. Find it. It's out there somewhere in the woods. Waiting.", - "source": "Dipper, Gravity Falls", - "length": 335, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6316 - }, - { - "text": "A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.", - "source": "Steven Brust, Iorich", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6318 - }, - { - "text": "The English language cannot fully capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts, so I'm incorporating emojis into my speech to better express myself. Winky face.", - "source": "Gina, Brooklyn 99", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6319 - }, - { - "text": "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.", - "source": "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6323 - }, - { - "text": "When the king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough, I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming. And it means to exterminate us.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 430, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6324 - }, - { - "text": "After fifty years at sea, you're the only man I've ever met who's gotten dumber with age.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6325 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody will believe it's possible until we show them. But when that day comes, you know what they'll say? They'll say that it was inevitable.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6326 - }, - { - "text": "You're an educated man, my lord, but I think it's worth reminding you that in most cases a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason... everyone else.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 183, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6327 - }, - { - "text": "The crew's banner is a sacred thing. It must simultaneously strike fear in the hearts of hardened men while inspiring and unifying all those who sail under it. It must be something approaching perfection.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6328 - }, - { - "text": "We all have the same swords out there, we all have the same guns. But great art has felled empires.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 99, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6329 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6330 - }, - { - "text": "These men, who brought me here today, do not fear me. They brought me here today because they fear you and because they know that my voice, the voice that refuses to be enslaved, once lived in you. And may yet still. They brought me here today to show you death and use it to frighten you into ignoring that voice. But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6331 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 735, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6332 - }, - { - "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6333 - }, - { - "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6334 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 684, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6335 - }, - { - "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 434, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6336 - }, - { - "text": "A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe... Those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition, and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It's found truth in its maturity... Because what's it all for if it goes unremembered? It's the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 496, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6337 - }, - { - "text": "False tears bring pain to those around you. False smiles bring pain to one's self.", - "source": "Code Geass", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6338 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams never die when we sleep. Leave the open sky and the deep. Shades over head of blue and red. Is this the end? Will you come back again?", - "source": "Sky Sailing, Blue and Red", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6339 - }, - { - "text": "This is Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both the Jedi and the Republic have fallen, with the dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi: Trust in the force. Do not return to the Temple. That time has passed, and our future is uncertain. We will each be challenged. Our trust. Our faith. Our friendship. But we must persevere and in time a new hope will emerge. May the force be with you. Always.", - "source": "Star Wars Rebels", - "length": 485, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6340 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...", - "source": "Poe, The Raven", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6341 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and goodbye. Do you think I'm dying? Do you think I'm going somewhere else this time? Do you remember the day we pretended to be every star in the sky?", - "source": "Might quit - Bill Wurtz", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6344 - }, - { - "text": "I'm worried to death because I haven't been able to see you doing well. You said we live in different worlds. But is that true? We have different colored skin and eyes. We were born in different countries. But we're friends. Isn't that what counts? I'm really glad I came to America. I met lots of people. And more than anything, I met you. You asked me over and over if you scared me. But I never feared you, not once. What's more is you're hurt much more than me. I couldn't help feeling that way. Funny, huh? You're way smarter, bigger, and stronger than me. But I always felt like I had to protect you. I wonder what it is I wanted to protect you from. I wanted to protect you from fate. The fate that tries to carry you away, drifting further and further. You told me once about a leopard you read in a book. How you believed that leopard knew that it couldn't go back. And I said you weren't a leopard, that you could change your destiny. You're not alone. I'm by your side. My soul is always with you.", - "source": "Banana Fish - Eiji", - "length": 1008, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6346 - }, - { - "text": "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 475, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6347 - }, - { - "text": "We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost.", - "source": "All Quiet on The Western Front ", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6348 - }, - { - "text": "In exchange for power, maybe I've lost something that is essential to being human.", - "source": "One Punch Man, Saitama", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6349 - }, - { - "text": "My old friend - the panda will never fulfill his destiny nor yours, until you let go of the illusion of control... Yes! Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda - Master Oogway", - "length": 228, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6350 - }, - { - "text": "Once I realized the problem was not you but within me. I found inner peace and was able to harness the flow of the universe!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda 2 - Master Shifu", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6351 - }, - { - "text": "It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin", - "length": 236, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6353 - }, - { - "text": "When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened. It's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way and truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it.", - "source": "Lady Gaga, Prelude Pathetique (Marry the Night)", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6356 - }, - { - "text": "I don't care if you're movin' slow or fast, as long as it's my direction.", - "source": "Brokeback Mountain", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6357 - }, - { - "text": "I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you're just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there's not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 505, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6358 - }, - { - "text": "He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 176, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6359 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather have loyalty than love, 'cause love really don't mean jack. 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If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?", - "source": "Gawr Gura", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6371 - }, - { - "text": "One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the Devil's Trill, but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.", - "source": "Giuseppe Tartini", - "length": 940, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6372 - }, - { - "text": "It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.", - "source": "Mary Poppins", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6373 - }, - { - "text": "At the bus stop, crushing rocks. They all stare at me, I don't care at all. Everywhere I go, they look at me wrong. Everyday go the same, got to stay strong. ", - "source": "Ecco2K, Peroxide", - "length": 158, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6375 - }, - { - "text": "Meaningless, huh? What do you know of meaningless? Spend most of your life ruled by another! Watch your race dwindle to a handful! And then, tell me what has more meaning than your own strength! I have in me the blood of a Saiyan prince. He is nothing but a joke! Yet, I've had to watch him surpass me in strength, my destiny thrown to the wayside! He's... he's even saved my life like I were a helpless child. He has stolen my honor, and his debts... must be paid!", - "source": "Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z", - "length": 465, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6376 - }, - { - "text": "Oh! One arrives. Far it walks to find me. Did it seek my aid? Or did the path carry it by chance to so pertinent a place? It is true. True, that you were awaited. No. Perhaps that is inaccurate. True one like you was awaited. I have a gift, held long for one of your kind. Half of a whole. When united, great power is granted, and on the path ahead, great power it will need.", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "length": 375, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6377 - }, - { - "text": "Just because people do horrible things, it doesn't always mean they're horrible people.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6378 - }, - { - "text": "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.", - "source": "A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6380 - }, - { - "text": "It seems after all I couldn't be anything more than a simple puppet. But you three... You're strong. With a power like that... Maybe you three can break your own strings. Let me become your strength.", - "source": "Deltarune", - "length": 199, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6382 - }, - { - "text": "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.", - "source": "George Orwell, 1984", - "length": 122, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6383 - }, - { - "text": "Dude, Benson would've snapped his crank if we'd just upped and left work. You gotta be responsible sometimes.", - "source": "Mordecai, Regular Show", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6384 - }, - { - "text": "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?", - "source": "Traditional American Tongue-twister", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what to tell you. I'm happy for the first time in my life and I'm not gonna feel bad about it. It takes a long time to realise how truly miserable you are and even longer to see it doesn't have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 297, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6386 - }, - { - "text": "You know, it's funny; when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 116, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6387 - }, - { - "text": "You could just write your own rules. You know, write something that's as interesting as you are.", - "source": "La La Land", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6388 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to do this right, show you I'm not movin'! Wherever you go, I won't be far to follow.", - "source": "Waitress, Never Ever Getting Rid of Me", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6389 - }, - { - "text": "People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6390 - }, - { - "text": "Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6391 - }, - { - "text": "\nWe're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6392 - }, - { - "text": "Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 328, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6393 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know that the word 'trauma' comes from the Greek for 'wound'? Hm? And what is the German word for 'dream'? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn't you agree, when you see a monster, you... you must stop it?", - "source": "Jeremiah Naehring, Shutter Island (Movie)", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6394 - }, - { - "text": "After she tried to kill herself the first time, Dolores told me she... she had an insect living inside her brain. She could feel it clicking across her skull, just... pulling the wires, just for fun. She told me that. She told me that but I didn't listen. I loved her so much.", - "source": "Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island (movie)", - "length": 276, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6395 - }, - { - "text": "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.", - "source": "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two), Harry Dacre", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6396 - }, - { - "text": "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.", - "source": "Dick Cavett", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6397 - }, - { - "text": "My momma always said, \"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6398 - }, - { - "text": "You don't listen, do you? I don't think you ever really hear me. You just ask the same questions every week. \"How's your job?\" \"Are you having any negative thoughts?\" All I have are negative thoughts.", - "source": "Joker", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6400 - }, - { - "text": "That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 245, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6401 - }, - { - "text": "My father was fond of saying you need three things in life - a good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 164, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6402 - }, - { - "text": "\"I will take responsibility for what I have done,\" Dalinar whispered. \"If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.\"", - "source": "Oathbringer, The Stormlight Archive, written by Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6403 - }, - { - "text": "So don't tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is I would just be more scared.\n\n", - "source": "Ellie, The Last Of Us", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6404 - }, - { - "text": "In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and the foreknowledge of pain.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6405 - }, - { - "text": "So, you have a different way of doing things, a different way of seeing things. That might make you weird, but it also makes you awesome. Don't you see? Because us weirdos have to stick together.", - "source": "The Owl House", - "length": 195, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6406 - }, - { - "text": "You are seeing the movements created by your abilities, but you will never arrive at the truth that's going to happen. None who stand before me shall ever get there, regardless of their abilities. This is the power of Golden Experience Requiem!", - "source": "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", - "length": 244, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6407 - }, - { - "text": "Suddenly I knew that the sound was not in my ears, it was not just inside my head. At that moment I must have become quite white. I talked still faster and louder. And the sound, too, became louder. It was a quick, low, soft sound, like the sound of a clock heard through a wall, a sound I knew well. Louder it became, and louder.", - "source": "The Tell-Tale Heart", - "length": 330, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6408 - }, - { - "text": "Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 125, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6409 - }, - { - "text": "They often say that humans can't live alone, but you can live pretty long by yourself. Instead of feeling alone in a group, it's better to be alone in your solitude.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 165, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6410 - }, - { - "text": "There is... another of me? How many times did I get ripped apart? How many times did I die?", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6411 - }, - { - "text": "I will get inside their inventor's head. Even brilliant minds will break to madness.", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6412 - }, - { - "text": "For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.", - "source": "The Shipping News", - "length": 451, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6413 - }, - { - "text": "I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. 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Just once, when I say \"suit up\" I wish you'd put on a suit.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6418 - }, - { - "text": "A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6419 - }, - { - "text": "You see, kids, right from the moment I met your mom I knew, I have to love this woman as much as I can, and as long as I can, and I can never stop loving her, not even for a second.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6420 - }, - { - "text": "A word of advice: Play along. The more you fight it, the worse it's gonna get.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6421 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6422 - }, - { - "text": "It's only once you've stopped that you realize how hard it is to start again.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6423 - }, - { - "text": "We're going to get older, whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives or desperately cling to the past.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6424 - }, - { - "text": "Never underestimate the power of destiny. 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I'm no VIP; I'm not even an IP; I'm just a lonely little P sitting out here in the gutter.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6430 - }, - { - "text": "Destined? Aren't you tired of waiting for destiny, Ted? Isn't it time to make your own destiny?", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6431 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know where I'm gonna be in five years. I don't wanna know. I want my life to be an adventure.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6432 - }, - { - "text": "It's just, eventually we're all gonna move on. It's called growing up.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6433 - }, - { - "text": "You can't just skip ahead to where you think your life should be.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6434 - }, - { - "text": "The three-day rule is a childish, manipulative mind game. But yeah, you wait three days.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6435 - }, - { - "text": "Think of me as Yoda. Only instead of being little and green, I wear suits and I'm awesome. I'm your bro. 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Everything will be decided there. Whether Pokemon will be liberated from people, or whether Pokemon and people will live together… We will see whose belief is stronger... And our result will change the world.", - "source": "Pokemon Black & White", - "length": 355, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6441 - }, - { - "text": "Love can never die, not completely. There were too many romantics, too many poets, too many places where lovers could meet and wishes could be shared.", - "source": "Great Goddesses, Nikita Gill", - "length": 150, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6442 - }, - { - "text": "This is what youth is. The sheer belief that you will be able to keep every promise you made to someone else. That you will be able to love someone into a forever when you do not even understand what forever means.", - "source": "Fierce Fairytales, Nikita Gill", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6443 - }, - { - "text": "When he talks to Marianne he has a sense of total privacy between them. He could tell her anything about himself, even weird things, and she would never repeat them, he knows that. Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 278, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6444 - }, - { - "text": "Marianne lived a drastically free life, he could see that. He was trapped by various considerations. He cared what people thought of him. He even cared what Marianne thought, that was obvious now.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6445 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody, even in the provinces, should ever be allowed to ask an intelligent question about pure mathematics across a dinner table. A question of this kind is quite as bad as inquiring suddenly about the state of a man's soul.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6446 - }, - { - "text": "Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6447 - }, - { - "text": "I am not bitter because of what has happened. On the contrary, I am secure in knowing that what we had was real, and I am happy we were able to come together for even a short period of time. And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. And maybe, for a brief moment, you'll feel it too, and you'll smile back, and savor the memories we will always share together. I love you, Allie. Noah. ", - "source": "The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks", - "length": 555, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6448 - }, - { - "text": "Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!", - "source": "Leia Organa, Star Wars", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6449 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.", - "source": "Yoda, Star Wars", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6450 - }, - { - "text": "When I was younger I saw my daddy cry and curse at the wind. He broke his own heart and I watched as he tried to reassemble it. And my momma swore that she would never let herself forget and that was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love if it does not exist.", - "source": "The Only Exception - Paramore", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6451 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I know somewhere deep in my soul that love never lasts and we've got to find other ways to make it alone or keep a straight face.", - "source": "The Only Exception - Paramore", - "length": 135, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6452 - }, - { - "text": "You were all the things I thought I knew and I thought we could be.", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 67, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6453 - }, - { - "text": "You've got your dumb friends, I know what they say. They tell you I'm difficult but so are they. But they don't know me, do they even know you?", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6454 - }, - { - "text": "You're saying I'm the one but it's your actions that speak louder.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6455 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna pack my things and leave you behind. This feeling's old and I know that I've made up my mind. I hope you feel what I felt when you shattered my soul 'cause you were cruel and I'm a fool so please let me go.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6456 - }, - { - "text": "Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace. I dream at night I can only see your face. I look around but it's you I can't replace. I feel so cold and I long for your embrace. I keep crying baby, baby, please.", - "source": "Every Breath You Take - The Police", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6457 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bother looking down, we're not going that way. At least I know I am here to stay.", - "source": "We Fell in Love in October - girl in red", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6458 - }, - { - "text": "But when I'm older, I'll be so much stronger, I'll stay up for longer.", - "source": "Meet Me At Our Spot", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6459 - }, - { - "text": "And you think that I can't see what kind of man that you are if you're a man at all.", - "source": "Decode - Paramore", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6460 - }, - { - "text": "By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 255, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6462 - }, - { - "text": "Setbacks are inevitable to superstars. Adversity is what separates the good from the great. After all, stars can only shine during the night.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6463 - }, - { - "text": "When you say you \"can't hear the sound\", doesn't it really mean you \"aren't restrained by the sound\"? Rather than the sound you hear with your ears, an image inside you is boiling up from the depths of yourself and taking over without you even knowing. The sound inside, the landscape in your heart, your wishes, a sound loaded with your thoughts; didn't you feel it, even for a moment? \"Not being able to hear the sound.\" That is a gift.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 438, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6464 - }, - { - "text": "Even though I'm bitter over losing, even though I'm depressed, even though my ankle hurts, and my eyes are smeared with tears... even though I've never felt worse... I wonder why the stars are sparkling like this.", - "source": "Your Lie in April", - "length": 213, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6465 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe there's only a dark road ahead. But you still have to believe and keep going. Believe that the stars will light your path, even a little bit. Come on... Let's go on a journey!", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6466 - }, - { - "text": "Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 393, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6467 - }, - { - "text": "When you decided to go to the sea, it was your own decision. Whatever happens to you on the sea, it depends on what you've done!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6468 - }, - { - "text": "I came in here to figure out if you were a fraud or if you were a monster.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6469 - }, - { - "text": "What do you know of death? Have you ever died? You think death will preserve your cause forever?", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6470 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6471 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to give you some advice. Never play foosball with a woman who's raised three brothers. It's exhausting.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6472 - }, - { - "text": "You're still in love with her. But instead of telling her, you bought her a plant.", - "source": "Kimball Cho, The Mentalist", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6473 - }, - { - "text": "It's not just allies who support each other. From your enemies, you learn so much and gain so much. Until the day you meet again... Just knowing they exist helps you to withstand the loneliness. Those who compete, even if they're enemies, help each other out.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 259, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6474 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I discovered something. Everyone has something... Something deep inside their hearts. For some, it might have been enmity. For others, admiration. Wishes, a craving for the spotlight, feelings that one wants to deliver, feelings for one's mother. Everyone was supported by their own feelings. I realize now that, perhaps, no one can stand alone on stage.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6475 - }, - { - "text": "Spring will be here soon. Spring, the season I met you, is coming. A Spring without you... is coming.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6476 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter who you're born to... Everyone's still a child of the sea!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6477 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to lose your way... Just don't lose sight of what you have decided.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6478 - }, - { - "text": "It's funny how I'm only your brother when you think I messed up.", - "source": "Jimmy Lisbon, The Mentalist", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6479 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody dies. Very few people ever feel truly sorry for the bad things they've done.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6480 - }, - { - "text": "What was I thinking? I was thinking, uh... Love is strange, and I was thinking about a sandwich.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6481 - }, - { - "text": "You booked the night train for a reason, so you could sit there in this hurt. Bustling crowds or silent sleepers, you're not sure which is worse. Because I dropped your hand while dancing, left you out there standing, crestfallen on the landing: champagne problems.", - "source": "Champagne Problems, Taylor Swift", - "length": 265, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6483 - }, - { - "text": "Adjectives on a typewriter he moves his words like a prizefighter, the frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell.", - "source": "CAKE - Shadow Stabbing", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6484 - }, - { - "text": "You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6485 - }, - { - "text": "I'll tell you one thing, Blondie. If I knew that my last hour had come, I swear, in my place... in your place I would do the same thing. I would tell about the gold. Yes, yes, I would. I would tell the name on the grave. What good is the money if you're dead? I know the name of the cemetery. But you know how many graves there are there? Please. Blondie, please. Have a little... coffee? Please, tell me the name. On... on the grave. If I get my hands on the 200,000 dollars, I'll always honor your memory. I swear I'll always honor your memory.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 546, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6487 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to White Space. You've been living here for as long as you can remember.", - "source": "OMORI", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6488 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.", - "source": "Billie Joe Armstrong", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6489 - }, - { - "text": "I knew you'd linger like a tattoo-kiss. I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs. The smell of smoke would hang around this long 'cause I knew everything when I was young. I knew I'd curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line. I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired, and you'd be standing in my front porch light and I knew you'd come back to me.", - "source": "Cardigan, Taylor Swift", - "length": 374, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6492 - }, - { - "text": "There's things I want to say to you, but I'll just let you live. Like if you hold me without hurting me, you'll be the first who ever did.", - "source": "Cinnamon Girl, Lana Del Rey", - "length": 138, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6493 - }, - { - "text": "Think you can keep up? Who am I kidding? You know you can't keep up.", - "source": "Jett, Valorant", - "length": 68, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6494 - }, - { - "text": "Hard work will always beat talent when talent does not work hard.", - "source": "Tim Notke", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6495 - }, - { - "text": "That summer, let's see, I'm still living in the basement, my own private down under, in the little room Grim built for me there. Glued up this cheap paneling, right? It sort of buckles away from the concrete cellar walls, a regular ripple effect, but do I complain about the crummy paneling, or the rug that smells like low tide? I do not. Because I like it in the down under, got the place all to myself and no fear of Gram sticking her head in the door and saying Maxwell dear, what are you doing?", - "source": "Freak the Mighty", - "length": 499, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6496 - }, - { - "text": "Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?", - "source": "Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast", - "length": 111, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6497 - }, - { - "text": "There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.", - "source": "The Witch of Portobello", - "length": 110, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6498 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it. Instead have the courage to change it the way you want it to be.", - "source": "Naruto Uzumaki", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6500 - }, - { - "text": "Granger? Granger? Can you possibly be related to Hector Dagworth-Granger, who founded the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers?", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6501 - }, - { - "text": "I like to say that if you're seeing me you're having the worst day of your life.", - "source": "Nightcrawler", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6503 - }, - { - "text": "Because I feel nothing like my father, he's been sleeping underground. Don't wait around, 'cause there's nothing there at all, there's nothing but the end!", - "source": "Snowing - Sam Rudich", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6505 - }, - { - "text": "No! The sun is a deadly laser. Not anymore, there's a blanket.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz. History of the entire world, i guess", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6506 - }, - { - "text": "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 189, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6507 - }, - { - "text": "Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 492, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6508 - }, - { - "text": "It was like the litany, she thought. We faced it and did not resist. We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 169, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6509 - }, - { - "text": "It occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6510 - }, - { - "text": "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6511 - }, - { - "text": "There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 634, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6512 - }, - { - "text": "I thought I felt your shape, but I was wrong. Really all I felt, was falsely strong.", - "source": "I Felt Your Shape", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6513 - }, - { - "text": "Looking from up here, it's as if each flame were a small dream for each person. They look like a bonfire of dreams, don't they?... But there's no flame for me here. I'm just a temporary visitor, taking comfort from the flame.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6514 - }, - { - "text": "When you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around, do you ever really crash, or even make a sound?", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6515 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law...? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6516 - }, - { - "text": "My dad knew I liked beans, so like he was just playing with beans and then he dropped them and then he dropped a rock and then it slid, and then hot water started falling and then, coffee.", - "source": "Johnny Suh (NCT)", - "length": 188, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6517 - }, - { - "text": "You ruined me. You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength. You lied to me, to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear! My whole life I sought the approval I was denied by the man I thought was my father. You turned me into the weakling he hated!... Look at me! You rant and you rage about the monster I have become, but you mother, you are the author of everything I am.", - "source": "The Vampire Diaries", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6520 - }, - { - "text": "Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother? Here's the real truth. There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You, me? We're exceptional. I could squash you like a bug right now, but I'm offering you a choice. Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create. Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead! Is that what you want?", - "source": "Spider-Man", - "length": 816, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6521 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up. I've been watching you. Come closer. Closer. Twenty-eight days, six hours, forty-two minutes, twelve seconds. That is when the world will end.", - "source": "Donnie Darko", - "length": 151, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6522 - }, - { - "text": "Understanding that our understanding might be wrong is essential, and trying to figure out ways we may be mistaken is the only way science can help us find our way to the truth.", - "source": "Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 177, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6523 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when you look up, you can see stars that don't twinkle. That's because they aren't stars. They're planets.", - "source": "Naked Eye Observations: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 117, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6524 - }, - { - "text": "The moon is a giant ball of rock 3500 kilometers across. Its surface is pretty dark, with about the same reflectivity as a chalkboard or asphalt. However, it looks bright to us because it's sitting in full sunlight.", - "source": "The Cycles of the Moon: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 215, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6525 - }, - { - "text": "I don't mean to dwell, but I can't help myself. When I feel the vibe and taste a memory of a time in life, when years seemed to stand still. I close my eyes and sink within myself. Relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. When did it begin, the change to come was undetectable. The open wounds expose the importance of our innocence, a high that can never be bought or sold.", - "source": "Death - Symbolic", - "length": 406, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6526 - }, - { - "text": "Wrong about us being on different paths... we're not on different paths... you're my path... and you're always going to be my path... and I know there are a million reasons why we shouldn't be together... but I'm tired of them... I'm tired of every single one of them... we all got to make a choice... right? Well I choose you...", - "source": "The amazing spider-man 2, Peter Parker", - "length": 329, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6527 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the way I see it, one of two things can happen. Either we'll discover that we've foolishly built each other up in our own imaginations because we've had so much trouble getting together; or, this could end up being a story we tell our grandchildren. Personally, I can't wait to find out which.", - "source": "Frasier", - "length": 299, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6528 - }, - { - "text": "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.", - "source": "Alex DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange ", - "length": 371, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6530 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to prison. I've been in a prison all of my life.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6531 - }, - { - "text": "I've done a lot of things, Eloise. You're gonna have to be more specific, love.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6532 - }, - { - "text": "When you see Alex in whatever little hell she's carved out for herself, you tell her I said hello.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6533 - }, - { - "text": "When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go... downtown. When you've got worries, all the noise, and the hurry seems to help, I know... downtown. Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city. Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty. How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there. You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares. So go downtown. Things will be great when you're... downtown. No finer place for sure, downtown. Everything's waiting for you.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 515, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6534 - }, - { - "text": "Don't hang around and let your problems surround you, there are movie shows... downtown. Maybe you know some little places to go to where they never close... downtown. Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova, you'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over, happy again, the lights are much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares so go downtown. Where all the lights are bright, downtown. Waiting for you tonight, downtown. You're gonna be alright now, downtown.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 512, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6535 - }, - { - "text": "Traditionally the concept is of a 'good twin' and an 'evil twin'. But in this case, it's evil twin, eviler twin.", - "source": "Dr. Spencer Reid Criminal Minds", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6536 - }, - { - "text": "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We fought for these ideals, we shouldn't settle for less. These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em. Don't act surprised, you guys, 'cause I wrote 'em.", - "source": "Cabinet Battle #1, Hamilton", - "length": 202, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6537 - }, - { - "text": "When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.", - "source": "Wonder", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6538 - }, - { - "text": "I'm running out of time. I'm running out of light. I'm running just to keep myself from bleeding out. I'm falling out of touch. 'Cause I hate myself too much. No I can't, I was never meant to. I never loved myself like I loved you.", - "source": "I never loved myself like I loved you - Dead Poet Society", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6539 - }, - { - "text": "The concept of hope is nothing more than giving up. A word that holds no true meaning.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6541 - }, - { - "text": "You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be the big ones, they are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It's the regular days, the ones that start out normal. Those are the days that end up the biggest.", - "source": "Izzie - Grey's anatomy", - "length": 282, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6542 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 345, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6544 - }, - { - "text": "I've realized that I'm probably just perfect and it's everybody else around me that's got issues.", - "source": "Scott Disick - Keeping Up with the Kardashians", - "length": 97, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6545 - }, - { - "text": "The last 30 days have taught me so much. And all I wanted when we first came here was to know that we would leave together. But from the minute I sat down, I could feel it. I felt like I was going to be suffocated. The last several weeks, I have laughed more, I have done more, I have enjoyed myself more. And I finally feel free. And by being free, I can see now that constantly trying to fix us is the thing that's been killing me slowly. And I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to fix it or fix us anymore. Maybe instead of loving you so hard, I should be myself for a while. I should love me, and you should love you, and together we love Sofia, rather than... I want so much for you, Arizona. So much more than this. More than being stuck with someone who feels stuck. I want you to feel free too.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 810, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6546 - }, - { - "text": "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6547 - }, - { - "text": "All's well that ends well to end up with you. Swear to be over-dramatic and true to my lover. And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me. 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We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 262, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6563 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what I'm supposed to do haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "The Night we Met - Lord Huron", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6565 - }, - { - "text": "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6566 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. 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A cycle of connection, a circle of ever-expanding, inexplicable nervous system responses. When we doubt our heads, our stomach cramps, our fists clench and our thoughts tumble into larger and larger whirls of uncertainty, beating our bodies blue and scabish. When we quiet our minds and center our soul we are receptive to an intuition much stronger than knowledge and knowing.", - "source": "Tinker creek.", - "length": 573, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6571 - }, - { - "text": "And yet even these violent fantasies were nothing compared to what lay in wait at the centre of the drawing.", - "source": "House of Leaves", - "length": 108, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6572 - }, - { - "text": "I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6573 - }, - { - "text": "There were some things that were said that weren't meant. There were some things that were said, but we never did. Not to be overly dramatic, I just think it's best, 'cause you can't miss what you forget. So, let's just pretend everything and anything between you and me was never meant.", - "source": "American Football - Never Meant", - "length": 287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6574 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.", - "source": "Dylan Thomas", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6576 - }, - { - "text": "Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all. Which is? 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Then what am I?", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6581 - }, - { - "text": "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6582 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I was gonna go easy on you, not to hurt your feelings. But I'm only going to get this one chance. Something's wrong, I can feel it... It's just... a feeling I've got. Like something's about to happen, but I don't know what. If that means what I think it means; we're in trouble, big trouble. And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances.", - "source": "Rap God", - "length": 361, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6583 - }, - { - "text": "If you think reality is just living comfortably and following your own whims, can you seriously dare to call yourself a soldier?", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6584 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry, Eren. I won't give up. I'll never give up again. If I died, I won't be able to remember you. So I'll win, no matter what! I'll survive, no matter what!", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 162, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6585 - }, - { - "text": "A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6586 - }, - { - "text": "War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War - and its consumption of life - has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control... everything is monitored and kept under control. War... has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War... has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 4", - "length": 784, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6587 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't want to remember him. 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They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed on the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 426, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6593 - }, - { - "text": "There is no such thing as bad people. We're all just people who sometimes do bad things.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6594 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one. Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper.", - "source": "GlaDOS, Portal", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6595 - }, - { - "text": "Please be advised that a noticeable taste of blood is not part of any test protocol but is an unintended side effect of the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill, which may, in semi-rare cases, emancipate dental fillings, crowns, tooth enamel, and teeth.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6596 - }, - { - "text": "The vital apparatus vent will deliver a weighted companion cube in three, two, one. This weighted companion cube will accompany you through the test chamber. Please take care of it.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6597 - }, - { - "text": "Ya' listenin'? OK. Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brotha, I hurt people.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2 - Meet the Scout", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6599 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a powerful thing for it cannot be stopped. Life is even more so.", - "source": "The Library of the Dark Atom", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6600 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you do, don't reveal all of your tactics in a YouTube video. You fool.", - "source": "Technoblade, Great Potato War", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6601 - }, - { - "text": "There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion", - "length": 190, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6602 - }, - { - "text": "Time to open your eyes to this genocide. When you clear your mind you see it all. You're receiving the gold of a better life. When you change yourself, you change the world.", - "source": "Gojira - Silvera", - "length": 173, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6603 - }, - { - "text": "Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.", - "source": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6604 - }, - { - "text": "Well... you clean up the dirt, there's just more dirt to clean up tomorrow. Make the beds, they just have to be made tomorrow. Wash the dishes, more to wash tomorrow. Make dinner, it just gets eaten, doesn't it? The world keeps growing, and you feed it. But it doesn't feed you, does it? But... how much can you take? How much can you take before you snap?", - "source": "The Witches of Eastwick", - "length": 356, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6605 - }, - { - "text": "To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.", - "source": "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", - "length": 568, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6606 - }, - { - "text": "I see, your HEV-Suit still fits you like a glove. At least the glove parts do.", - "source": "Half-Life 2 ", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6607 - }, - { - "text": "I see them, Mia! I see them! Over there against the dark, stormy sky. They are all there. The Smith and Lisa and the knight and Raval and Jons and Skat. And Death, the severe master, invites them to dance. 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Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!", - "source": "Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6623 - }, - { - "text": "A darkness approaches. A day will come in the future where everything you care about will change... Until then I'll be watching you! I'll be watching you...", - "source": "Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls", - "length": 156, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6624 - }, - { - "text": "Romance is like gum: Once it's lost its flavor, you just cram another one in.", - "source": "Mabel Pines, Gravity Falls", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6625 - }, - { - "text": "You can't force someone to love you. 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That's why I own ten guns, just in case some fool tries to sneak in here with a ladder.", - "source": "Gravity Falls", - "length": 153, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6630 - }, - { - "text": "Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? Then we wouldn't have to wait so long, and wouldn't it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong?", - "source": "Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6631 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how to tell you, but I love you. I'm not good with words, but I'm talking. I'm not good at talking, but I talk to you. I'm not good at being myself, but I am around you. I'm not good at being loved, but you love me too. I don't know how to tell you, but I love you.", - "source": "Matthew D. Thomason ", - "length": 278, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6632 - }, - { - "text": "Yeah the worst part is knowing that you'll never be mine, and it drives me wild, yeah it drives me wild.", - "source": "Koe Wetzel", - "length": 104, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6633 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. To all law enforcement entities, this is not an admission of guilt. I am speaking to my family now. Skyler, you are the love of my life. I hope you know that. Walter Jr., you're my big man. There are going to be some things that you'll come to learn about me in the next few days. But just know that no matter how it may look, I only had you in my heart. Goodbye.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 462, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6634 - }, - { - "text": "I am Egypt. I am the Morning and the Evening Star. What I say goes.", - "source": "The Prince of Egypt (1998)", - "length": 67, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6635 - }, - { - "text": "Prince Zuko, you must look within yourself, and only then, can you save yourself from your other self.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006)", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6636 - }, - { - "text": "Don't leave, it's my fault. 'Cause when it all comes crashing down I'll need you.", - "source": "EARFQUAKE, Tyler, the Creator", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6637 - }, - { - "text": "Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine, gotta, gotta be down because I want it all. It started out with a kiss; how did it end up like this? It was only a kiss; it was only a kiss.", - "source": "Mr. Brightside - The Killers", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6638 - }, - { - "text": "Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me, 'cause we need a little controversy, 'cause it feels so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6639 - }, - { - "text": "I got my ticket for the long way 'round, two bottle o' whiskey for the way. And I sure would like some sweet company and I'm leavin' tomorrow, what do you say?", - "source": "Cups, Anna Kendrick", - "length": 159, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6640 - }, - { - "text": "The Dib, he's missing! They've taken him and drained him of his sweet, sweet blood candies!", - "source": "Invader Zim", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6641 - }, - { - "text": "Rooted deep within the Puritans souls like some strange invasive weed lurked their belief in a second world, an Invisible World swarming with shadowy apparitions and unearthly phantoms of the air.", - "source": "Witches by Rosalyn Schanzer", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6642 - }, - { - "text": "Time... Line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round.", - "source": "Red Vs. Blue", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6643 - }, - { - "text": "I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, so good to me so right. And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry. Maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming. And if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right. I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't.", - "source": "Back to December", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6644 - }, - { - "text": "It's such a good feeling to know you're alive. It's such a happy feeling; you're growing inside. And when you wake up ready to say: \"I think I'll make a snappy new day!\" It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling. The feeling you know, that I'll be back when the day is new, and I'll have more ideas for you, and you'll have things you'll want to talk about; I will too.", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6645 - }, - { - "text": "You always make each day such a special day, you know how: By just your being you. Only one person in the whole world like you, that's you yourself!", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 148, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6646 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6647 - }, - { - "text": "Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6648 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.", - "source": "Margaret Mead", - "length": 72, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6650 - }, - { - "text": "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.", - "source": "Robert Louis Stevenson", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6651 - }, - { - "text": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", - "source": "Eleanor Roosevelt", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6652 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.", - "source": "Benjamin Franklin", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6653 - }, - { - "text": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", - "source": "Helen Keller", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6654 - }, - { - "text": "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 69, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6655 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6656 - }, - { - "text": "Dad told me I could learn a lesson from this, which was to never lose your temper and do something stupid.", - "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6658 - }, - { - "text": "One big unicorn, strong and free, thought he was happy as he could be. Then three little kittens came around and turned his whole life upside down. They made him laugh, they made him cry. He never should have said goodbye. And now he knows he can never part from those three little kittens that changed his heart.", - "source": "Despicable Me", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6659 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only, if only,\" the woodpecker sighs, \"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6660 - }, - { - "text": "While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, crying to the moon, \"If only, if only.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6661 - }, - { - "text": "But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 699, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6662 - }, - { - "text": "The shepherd's boy says, \"There's this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years, a little bird comes. It sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.\" You must think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 396, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6663 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.", - "source": "Angela Davis", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6664 - }, - { - "text": "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6665 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have proven acceptable to ourselves.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6666 - }, - { - "text": "A hot desert storm eddied around him and rushed to me, making my skin contract, and my pores slam shut... His hair was the color of burning embers and his eyes pierced.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 168, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6668 - }, - { - "text": "There's a concept that works; twenty million other white rappers emerge. But no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 142, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6669 - }, - { - "text": "A king without greed is even worse than a figurehead! Saber, you said you would martyr yourself for your ideals. In life, you must have been a pure saint. A proud and noble figure, certainly. But who can truly admire the martyr's thorny path? Who dreams of such an ending? A king. The king must be greedier than any other. He must laugh more loudly and rage for longer. He must exemplify the extreme of all things, good and evil. That is why his retainers envy and adore him. And why the flames of aspiration, to be as the king is, can burn within his people. Proud king of chivalry, the righteousness and ideals you bore may indeed have saved your nation once. However, I'm certain you know what became of those who were saved, but left to themselves.", - "source": "Fate/Zero", - "length": 752, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6670 - }, - { - "text": "No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights. Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different color, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.", - "source": "86", - "length": 347, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6671 - }, - { - "text": "I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6674 - }, - { - "text": "I am neither, sire, and I assure you that my activities are purely recreational in nature. Furthermore, I would never imagine to transgress the terms upon which we agreed. I am available, at your leisure and by your grace, to discuss this matter further should you wish to repeat your ridiculous accusations in person. That said, I'm pleased you enjoyed the tomatoes. All the best wishes and encouragement. Adrian Veidt.", - "source": "Watchmen (2019)", - "length": 420, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6675 - }, - { - "text": "I don't recall saying anything about justice. Mathias and I are evil, too, after all. A knight doesn't bring justice, just more pain and violence. And what is evil if not violence? But what do you do when leaving evil alive leads to the rise of even greater evil? Even worse sorrow and pain? You destroy that evil, even if you have to use the evil of violence to do so. And every time you draw your sword, you hope that you take from this world more evil than you bring into it. THAT is the code of the Maximillian Knights. I'm putting you on notice. You, who so carelessly use the word \"justice\", have no idea what it truly means. Though you strike me as more of a misguided coward than a villain, your evil deeds must still be punished.", - "source": "Suikoden 5", - "length": 738, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6676 - }, - { - "text": "I'm all for work-life balance, but I think this is pushing it.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 62, - "id": 6679 - }, - { - "text": "In adventuring, as in business, you always have to seize the opportunity while it's there.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 90, - "id": 6680 - }, - { - "text": "Quite a downpour... Nothing will get done until it clears. Let this be a lesson to those who yesterday said, \"I'll do it tomorrow.\"", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 131, - "id": 6681 - }, - { - "text": "Morning. Time to set the tone for the rest of the day, so if you're still feeling sleepy, shake it off!", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 103, - "id": 6685 - }, - { - "text": "The lights are coming on now that the night is setting in. Another delightful day draws to a close.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 99, - "id": 6687 - }, - { - "text": "Sleep well... me? Uh... I still have a handful of things on my to-do list, but I'll call it a night once they are done.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 119, - "id": 6688 - }, - { - "text": "I feel I have grown immensely from my travels with you. If, one day, I finally manage to make my dreams a reality... I wonder, will you still be there by my side?", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 162, - "id": 6689 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, the sun's out- Oh, um... This meteorological transformation is most splendid! Like a felicitous twist of fate in the face of certain doom.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 142, - "id": 6690 - }, - { - "text": "I'll remind you again: The law can be both a help and a hindrance.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 66, - "id": 6691 - }, - { - "text": "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6693 - }, - { - "text": "You have to believe in the long-term plan you have but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6695 - }, - { - "text": "You truly are the lowest scum in history. You can't pay back what you owe with money.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6696 - }, - { - "text": "Impossible? We did a lot of impossible things on this journey. I'm tired of hearing that things are impossible or useless. Those words mean nothing to us.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6697 - }, - { - "text": "Nice watch. Too bad you won't be able to tell the time after I break it. Break your face, that is.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6698 - }, - { - "text": "JoJo, being a human means having limits. I've learned something... The more carefully you scheme, the more unexpected events come along. As long as you're human... I reject my humanity, JoJo!", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6699 - }, - { - "text": "Oh no. I'm on the outside looking in, I never said what I really meant. I wasn't made to be medicine for you, it's true. You can't seem to make up your mind, when I told you I did with mine. You won't know if you never try, it's true.", - "source": "Dayglow, Medicine", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6700 - }, - { - "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. But then, what am I? Is this me? My true self? My fake self? What is it that I am? Nobody understands me!", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6702 - }, - { - "text": "In every heart, there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong; to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along.", - "source": "Billy Joel - And so it goes", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6703 - }, - { - "text": "It's about drive, it's about power, we stay hungry, we devour. Put in the work, put in the hours and take what's ours. Black and Samoan in my veins, my culture banging with Strange. I changed the game so what's my name?", - "source": "Face Off", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6704 - }, - { - "text": "No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.", - "source": "Easy Rider", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6705 - }, - { - "text": "Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? ", - "source": "Lord of the Flies", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6707 - }, - { - "text": "Burning is the right way to paint it. You feel yourself getting so hot, day after day. Hotter and hotter. It gets to be too much. Even for stars. At some point they fizzle out or explode. Cease to be. But if you're looking up at the sky, you don't see it that way. You think those stars are still there. Some aren't. Some are already gone. Long gone. I guess, now, so am I.", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6708 - }, - { - "text": "And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us; new, untouched, and full of things that have never been.", - "source": "Rainier Maria Rilke", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6709 - }, - { - "text": "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they have never been.", - "source": "Untamed by Glennon Doyle", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6710 - }, - { - "text": "Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes out and everything is darker than ever, and all you are left with is the burn.", - "source": "If It's Not Love, Syed Arshad", - "length": 222, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6711 - }, - { - "text": "We are alone. Such is the curse of humanity, being surrounded by others always masking themselves while all of us feel isolated, separated from everyone else. Our sense of uniqueness and ego will always keep us this way, and it will take more than a revolution to end it. For now, we are alone.", - "source": "Alice Chary Garza", - "length": 294, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6712 - }, - { - "text": "Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say \"My tooth is aching\" than to say \"My heart is broken.\"", - "source": "C.S. Lewis", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6713 - }, - { - "text": "Although Ganon is gone for now, there is still so much more for us to do, and so many painful memories that we must bear.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 121, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6716 - }, - { - "text": "Link... You are the light. Our light... That must shine upon Hyrule once again. Now go.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6717 - }, - { - "text": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", - "source": "Michael Jordan", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6719 - }, - { - "text": "And those are the words of a gentleman? From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6720 - }, - { - "text": "Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.", - "source": "Call Me by Your Name", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6722 - }, - { - "text": "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger... and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says \"even though you're a boy\" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6723 - }, - { - "text": "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6724 - }, - { - "text": "Now it's time for our wrap up. Let's give it everything we've got. Ready? Begin! Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing. Analytically, I assault, animate things. Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding. Casually create catastrophes, casualties. Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing. Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough. Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low. Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic. Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette. Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics. Gift got great global goods gone glorious. Gettin' Godly in his game with the goriest. Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical. Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In an instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. Tales ten times talented, they're too tough. Take that, challengers, get a tune up. Universal, unique untouched. Unadulterated, the raw uncut. Verb vice Lord victorious valid. Violate vibes that are vain make 'em vanished. Why I'm all well, would a wise wordsmith. Just weaving up words weeded up, on my work shift. Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large. X-height letters and xylophone tones. Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws. Yesterday's lawn yards sell our yawn. Zig zag zombies, zoomin' to the zenith. Zero in zen thoughts, over zealous rhyme Zea-lots. Good, can you say it faster?", - "source": "Alphabet Aerobics", - "length": 2287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6725 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6726 - }, - { - "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", - "source": "Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6727 - }, - { - "text": "And where there was that memory... others came rising like ghostly tendrils out of some part of her mind that existed beyond the purely physical, somewhere that the rejuvenations and edits of the ship's medical suite could never reach. The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.", - "source": "Light Chaser", - "length": 561, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6728 - }, - { - "text": "Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.", - "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", - "length": 360, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6729 - }, - { - "text": "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6730 - }, - { - "text": "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. ", - "source": "Lawrence of Arabia", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6731 - }, - { - "text": "The violent passion that soaked his heart brought him almost to the verge of collapse. He judged that victory had yielded him nothing if it had not given him her as a prize.", - "source": "Book III of Gesta Danorum", - "length": 173, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6732 - }, - { - "text": "You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits can change your future.", - "source": "Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6733 - }, - { - "text": "There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 586, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6734 - }, - { - "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 1174, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6735 - }, - { - "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", - "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", - "length": 221, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6736 - }, - { - "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 184, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6737 - }, - { - "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6738 - }, - { - "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 246, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6739 - }, - { - "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6740 - }, - { - "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6741 - }, - { - "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", - "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", - "length": 272, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6742 - }, - { - "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 275, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6743 - }, - { - "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6744 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 467, - "id": 6745 - }, - { - "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 877, - "id": 6746 - }, - { - "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", - "source": "A Girl on the Shore", - "length": 572, - "id": 6747 - }, - { - "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 64, - "id": 6748 - }, - { - "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 62, - "id": 6749 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 77, - "id": 6750 - }, - { - "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 166, - "id": 6751 - }, - { - "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 195, - "id": 6752 - }, - { - "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 100, - "id": 6753 - }, - { - "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 172, - "id": 6754 - }, - { - "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 118, - "id": 6755 - }, - { - "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 119, - "id": 6756 - }, - { - "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", - "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6757, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", - "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6758, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6761, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Well, then, you have us all beat. Every damn song is about you. We could drive back and forth across the States forever and never run out of Baby songs.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6762, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6764, - "length": 458 - }, - { - "text": "Well done. Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6765, - "length": 141 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6766, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", - "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", - "id": 6767, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. However, the latter is of equal importance, and can be gained with patient study.", - "source": "Conduction Heat Transfer", - "id": 6768, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", - "source": "Unknown", - "id": 6769, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "My wife and I had lived in our house for over a dozen years at that point. Holly's family had lived in theirs even longer. We were both active families, involved in the community, with work, and with our churches. Yet, the thick woods covering the lots we each occupied along a cul-de-sac was enough of a barrier to our getting to know each other that we didn't even realize our neighbors across the street had a little girl the same age as ours. That is, until they met at the kindergarten in the elementary school six miles away.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6770, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "The single quality that is common across every living creature on this planet, is fear. It's funny, then, that as common as fear is, we so easily underestimate its power. Fear of growing close to someone, the subsequent fear of loss, fear of failure. And as more people depend on you, those fears can take on greater power. But fear itself isn't worthy of concern, it is who we become while in its clutches. Will you be proud of that person? Will you forgive them? Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things they did? Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the start? I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6771, - "length": 703 - }, - { - "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6772, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6773, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6774, - "length": 464 - }, - { - "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6775, - "length": 259 - }, - { - "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6776, - "length": 267 - }, - { - "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6777, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6778, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6779, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6780, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6781, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6782, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6783, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6784, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6785, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", - "source": "Walt Disney", - "id": 6786, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6787, - "length": 79 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6788, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", - "source": "Ozark", - "id": 6789, - "length": 662 - }, - { - "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "id": 6790, - "length": 75 - }, - { - "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", - "source": "Greek Mythology", - "id": 6791, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 6792, - "length": 108 - }, - { - "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", - "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", - "length": 99, - "id": 6793 - }, - { - "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", - "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6794 - }, - { - "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 58, - "id": 6795 - }, - { - "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6796 - }, - { - "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", - "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", - "length": 102, - "id": 6797 - }, - { - "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", - "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", - "length": 91, - "id": 6798 - }, - { - "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", - "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6799 - }, - { - "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 67, - "id": 6800 - }, - { - "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 79, - "id": 6801 - }, - { - "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6802 - }, - { - "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 82, - "id": 6803 - }, - { - "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 153, - "id": 6804 - }, - { - "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6805 - }, - { - "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 98, - "id": 6806 - }, - { - "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", - "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", - "length": 78, - "id": 6807 - }, - { - "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 108, - "id": 6808 - }, - { - "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 134, - "id": 6809 - }, - { - "text": "And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 90, - "id": 6810 - }, - { - "text": "You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 62, - "id": 6811 - }, - { - "text": "I am slow to anger but I toe the line, as I reckon with the effects of your life on mine.", - "source": "Your Obedient Servant, Hamilton", - "length": 89, - "id": 6812 - }, - { - "text": "What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 71, - "id": 6813 - }, - { - "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 81, - "id": 6814 - }, - { - "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.", - "source": "Fred Rogers", - "length": 213, - "id": 6815 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism.", - "source": "Wednesday", - "length": 168, - "id": 6817 - }, - { - "text": "Teach them our ways so they do not suffer the shame of being useless.", - "source": "Avatar: The Way of Water", - "length": 69, - "id": 6818 - }, - { - "text": "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.", - "source": "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", - "length": 254, - "id": 6819 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a journey, not a destination. The key to success is to enjoy every step along the way. Embrace the struggles, learn from the failures, and appreciate the victories. The destination may be important, but it's the journey that truly shapes us.", - "source": "The Power of Positive Thinking", - "length": 249, - "id": 6820 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. We do not remember days, we remember moments. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Søren Kierkegaard", - "length": 321, - "id": 6821 - }, - { - "text": "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.", - "source": "Robin Williams", - "length": 185, - "id": 6822 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 174, - "id": 6823 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 254, - "id": 6824 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.", - "source": "Andrè Gide", - "length": 80, - "id": 6825 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This means recognizing that failure and setbacks are a natural part of the journey to success, and using them as opportunities to learn and grow. It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 431, - "id": 6827 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 75, - "id": 6828 - }, - { - "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", - "source": "J.K. Rowling", - "length": 101, - "id": 6829 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 6830 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", - "source": "Edmund Burke", - "length": 79, - "id": 6831 - }, - { - "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.", - "source": "Christian D. Larson", - "length": 116, - "id": 6832 - }, - { - "text": "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 95, - "id": 6833 - }, - { - "text": "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 110, - "id": 6834 - }, - { - "text": "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.", - "source": "Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)", - "length": 65, - "id": 6835 - }, - { - "text": "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.", - "source": "Christopher Columbus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6836 - }, - { - "text": "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. The only way to true happiness is to learn to accept and love ourselves for who we are, flaws and all. This means embracing our strengths as well as our weaknesses, and finding joy in the journey of self-discovery and self-improvement. It may not be an easy path, but it is one that is worth taking.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 391, - "id": 6837 - }, - { - "text": "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. This means finding a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives, and striving to make a positive impact in the world around us. It means being kind and caring towards others, and using our unique talents and abilities to create something that will endure beyond our lifetime.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 440, - "id": 6838 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain. This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 423, - "id": 6839 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", - "source": "Abraham Lincoln", - "length": 402, - "id": 6840 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", - "source": "Albert Schweitzer", - "length": 392, - "id": 6841 - }, - { - "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 41, - "id": 6842 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", - "source": "Dalai Lama", - "length": 70, - "id": 6843 - }, - { - "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", - "source": "Henry Ford", - "length": 57, - "id": 6844 - }, - { - "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 248, - "id": 6845 - }, - { - "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 58, - "id": 6847 - }, - { - "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", - "source": "Jean Paul", - "length": 53, - "id": 6849 - }, - { - "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 66, - "id": 6851 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", - "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 217, - "id": 6852 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", - "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", - "length": 92, - "id": 6853 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess", - "length": 66, - "id": 6854 - }, - { - "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 100, - "id": 6855 - }, - { - "text": "If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 88, - "id": 6856 - }, - { - "text": "Even if a single day in your life is the same as the day before, it surely is a pity. At every moment and with each new breath, one should be renewed and renewed again. There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 239, - "id": 6857 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's all to save Eldia and the Island. But not only because of that. The reality outside the walls was nothing like the world I had dreamed of. It was nothing like the world I had seen in Armin's book. When I learned that humanity outside the walls survived... I was so disappointed. I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", - "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", - "length": 361, - "id": 6858 - }, - { - "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real, deep down you is the whole universe.", - "source": "Alan Watts - The Real You Is All of Us", - "length": 224, - "id": 6859 - }, - { - "text": "When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 68, - "id": 6860 - }, - { - "text": "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 71, - "id": 6861 - }, - { - "text": "While it is true that man succumbs all too often to anger and avarice, he may yet overcome his baser instincts through the forming of bonds with others.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 152, - "id": 6862 - }, - { - "text": "Save your tears for the morrow. You may be sure we will have ample cause to shed them, be they for joy or despair.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 114, - "id": 6863 - }, - { - "text": "We fought and we fought and we fought... until there was no one left to fight. We won... and now our world is being erased from existence. We did everything right, everything that was asked of us, and still - still it came to this!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 231, - "id": 6864 - }, - { - "text": "Stay strong. Keep the faith. At duty's end, we will meet again. We will. We will.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 81, - "id": 6867 - }, - { - "text": "The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 106, - "id": 6868 - }, - { - "text": "We are the stories we tell ourselves. The brave hero, the tortured soul, the altruist, the pragmatist. They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 336, - "id": 6869 - }, - { - "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 182, - "id": 6870 - }, - { - "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 529, - "id": 6871 - }, - { - "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 282, - "id": 6872 - }, - { - "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 184, - "id": 6873 - }, - { - "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 196, - "id": 6874 - }, - { - "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 90, - "id": 6875 - }, - { - "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett", - "length": 168, - "id": 6876 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.", - "source": "Dante Alighieri", - "length": 71, - "id": 6877 - }, - { - "text": "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 82, - "id": 6878 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.", - "source": "Heath Ledger", - "length": 164, - "id": 6879 - }, - { - "text": "Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 77, - "id": 6880 - }, - { - "text": "Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot", - "id": 6881, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said \"Nobody\".", - "source": "A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "id": 6882, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.", - "source": "Gorgias", - "id": 6883, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "id": 6884, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.", - "source": "Arthur C. Clarke", - "id": 6885, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "id": 6886, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be \"Sir\". Do you maggots understand that?", - "source": "R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket", - "id": 6887, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 6888, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe someday we could become friends. Friends who ride majestic, translucent steeds, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale.", - "source": "Will Ferrell, Step Brothers", - "id": 6889, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "\"Why doesn't it just do us in and get it over with? Christ, I don't know how much longer I can go on like this.\" It was our one hundred and ninth year in the computer. He was speaking for all of us.", - "source": "Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", - "id": 6890, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.", - "source": "Mario Savio", - "id": 6891, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "We don't know what triggered the big bang, nor what, if anything, existed before it. But somehow the universe emerged as a vast sea of ultrahot gas, expanding fast in all directions like the fireball ignited by a nuclear bomb blast or by the explosion of a gas pipeline. Except that the big bang was not destructive (so far as we know). Instead, it created everything in our universe, or rather the seeds for everything.", - "source": "Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar", - "id": 6892, - "length": 420 - }, - { - "text": "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.", - "source": "Brian Cox", - "id": 6893, - "length": 96 - }, - { - "text": "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.", - "source": "Niels Bohr", - "id": 6894, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "I want to have the same last dream again. The one where I wake up, and I'm alive just as the four walls closed me within, my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight. I'm the first to know, my dearest friends, even if your hope has burned with time. Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", - "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", - "id": 6895, - "length": 345 - }, - { - "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", - "source": "Edwin Hubble", - "id": 6897, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", - "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", - "id": 6898, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "id": 6899, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "id": 6900, - "length": 632 - }, - { - "text": "In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done before defend him.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "id": 6901, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", - "source": "Marie Curie", - "id": 6902, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.", - "source": "John Lubbock, The Use Of Life", - "id": 6903, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter... I have chosen the word \"atom\" to signify these ultimate particles.", - "source": "John Dalton", - "id": 6904, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Schrodinger's cat has far more than nine lives, and far fewer. All of us are unknowing cats, alive and dead at once, and of all the might-have-beens in between, we record only one.", - "source": "Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows", - "id": 6905, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.", - "source": "Nicolaus Copernicus", - "id": 6906, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.", - "source": "Nikolai Lobachevsky", - "id": 6907, - "length": 118 + "text": "Fine. But if Wayne touches anything -anything- I'll blow off the offending fingers.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 83, + "id": 7739 }, { - "text": "Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worse, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud", - "id": 6908, - "length": 411 + "text": "I mean it. I miss him. Wasn't ever a person I've known who was more fun to shoot.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 81, + "id": 7740 }, { - "text": "Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.", - "source": "Jean Piaget", - "id": 6909, - "length": 199 + "text": "But as for the Bondsmiths, they had members only three, which number was not uncommon for them; nor did they seek to increase this by great bounds, for during the times of Madasa, only one of their order was in continual accompaniment of Urithiru and its thrones. Their spren was understood to be specific, and to persuade them to grow to the magnitude of the other orders was seen as seditious.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 395, + "id": 7741 }, { - "text": "By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite streak of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "id": 6910, - "length": 278 + "text": "You offer hope, Your Grace. A last, unlikely hope. Hope is part of faith -- part of the knowledge that someday, one of your followers will receive a miracle.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 154, + "id": 7742 }, { - "text": "When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, \"What do I need to get to be happy?\" The question becomes, \"What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?\"", - "source": "D.T. Suzuki", - "id": 6911, - "length": 187 + "text": "If you do nothing, then the problems are as much your fault as if you had instigated them.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 90, + "id": 7743 }, { - "text": "Personal knowledge. The two words may seem to contradict each other: for true knowledge is deemed impersonal, universally established, objective. But the seeming contradiction is resolved by modifying the conception of knowing.", - "source": "Personal knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy", - "id": 6912, - "length": 227 + "text": "You are a god. To me, at least. It doesn't matter how easily you can be killed, how much breath you have, or how you look. It has to do with who you are and what you mean", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7744 }, { - "text": "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.", - "source": "Dolly Parton", - "length": 74, - "id": 6913 + "text": "You don't know what I do for mankind. I was your god, even if you couldn't see it. By killing me, you have doomed yourselves...", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 127, + "id": 7745 }, { - "text": "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.", - "source": "Anatole France", - "length": 162, - "id": 6914 + "text": "Only a year left. So close. I would have again ransomed this undeserving planet.", + "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7746 }, { - "text": "Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.", - "source": "Carl Sandburg", - "length": 122, - "id": 6915 + "text": "I did not make a mistake. I have never made a mistake. However, it is time for a change.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 88, + "id": 7747 }, { - "text": "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.", - "source": "Swedish Proverb", - "length": 79, - "id": 6917 + "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 328, + "id": 7748 }, { - "text": "There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.", - "source": "Ambrose Bierce", - "length": 82, - "id": 6918 + "text": "Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 71, + "id": 7749 }, { - "text": "If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?", - "source": "Laura Preble", - "length": 96, - "id": 6919 + "text": "I will protect those I hate. Even...even if the one I hate most is... myself.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 77, + "id": 7750 }, { - "text": "You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.", - "source": "John Green - An Abundance of Katherines", - "length": 74, - "id": 6920 + "text": "This force was time infinite. It was the winds that weathered, the storms that broke, the timeless waves running slowly, slowly, slowly, to a stop as the sun and the planet cooled to nothing. It was the ultimate end and destiny of all things. And it was angry.", + "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 260, + "id": 7751 }, { - "text": "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.", - "source": "Alfred Sheinwold", - "length": 93, - "id": 6921 + "text": "Death is necessary. Every clock must wind down, every day must end. Without me there is no life, and never could have been. Life is change, and I represent that change.", + "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7752 }, { - "text": "The only one who can tell you \"you can't\" is you. And you don't have to listen.", - "source": "Dean Karnazes", - "length": 79, - "id": 6922 + "text": "People are stupid. I find them annoying, and those are the ones I like.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 71, + "id": 7753 }, { - "text": "In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.", - "source": "Bill Vaughan", - "length": 143, - "id": 6923 + "text": "No Radiant is capable of more than you. Yours is the power of Connection, of joining men and worlds, minds and souls. Your Surges are the greatest of all, though they will be impotent if you seek to wield them for mere battle.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 226, + "id": 7754 }, { - "text": "I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.", - "source": "Mitch Hedberg", - "length": 214, - "id": 6924 + "text": "It strikes me that religion -- in its essence -- seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 296, + "id": 7755 }, { - "text": "Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.", - "source": "Allphonse de Lamartine", - "length": 72, - "id": 6925 + "text": "United, new beginnings sing: \"Defying truth, love, Truth defy!\"\" Sing beginnings, new unity.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 92, + "id": 7756 }, { - "text": "That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", + "text": "I'm a strong proponent of humiliating trackts and others in authority, but killing them is a bit extreme.", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 105, - "id": 6926 + "id": 7757 }, { - "text": "I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.", - "source": "Hank Green", - "length": 153, - "id": 6927 - }, - { - "text": "That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 129, - "id": 6928 + "text": "Sometimes stupid is right. Hell. I hope nobody ever quotes me on that one.", + "source": "Calamity, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 74, + "id": 7758 }, { - "text": "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 130, - "id": 6929 + "text": "I need to give something back. Even if it's something useless.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 62, + "id": 7759 }, { - "text": "He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 80, - "id": 6930 + "text": "Not a god, but a scribe. A silly little scribe who was allowed to play god for a few years! A coward.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 101, + "id": 7760 }, { - "text": "Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.", - "source": "Irish Proverb", - "length": 74, - "id": 6931 + "text": "So far this day I have discovered several disturbing and redefining elements of my soul which are slowly restructuring the very nature of my existence. Other than that, it was uneventful. You?", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 192, + "id": 7761 }, { - "text": "Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.", - "source": "Arabian Proverb", - "length": 105, - "id": 6932 + "text": "I've tried for years to corrupt him. Never seems to work. I can't even get him to acknowledge the theological paradox it causes when I try to tempt him to do evil.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 163, + "id": 7762 }, { - "text": "He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 82, - "id": 6933 + "text": "You're the one that makes us laugh, even while you insult us. Can't you see what that does? Can't you see how you've inadvertently set yourself above everyone else? You didn't do it intentionally, Lightsong, and that's what makes it work so well. In a city of frivolity, you're the only one who's shown any measure of wisdom.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 325, + "id": 7763 }, { - "text": "Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 72, - "id": 6934 + "text": "He beat me over and over and over. He swore at me, he yelled at me. He told me he'd betray me. Everyday I thought about how much I hated him. And I loved him. I still do.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7764 }, { - "text": "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean; if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.", - "source": "Marcus Brigstocke", - "length": 169, - "id": 6935 + "text": "It was a fun job wasn't it? When you remember me, please remember that. Remember to smile.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 90, + "id": 7765 }, { - "text": "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 87, - "id": 6936 + "text": "They called you their god, and you were casual with their faith! The hearts of men are NOT YOUR TOYS.", + "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 101, + "id": 7766 }, { - "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 124, - "id": 6937 + "text": "She always claimed that she wasn't a scholar, but a patron of scholars. Anyone who saw the light in her eyes as she took out another sheet and sketched her idea further knew she was being too modest.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 199, + "id": 7767 }, { - "text": "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 87, - "id": 6938 + "text": "As always, questions teased her. Questions were disorder awaiting organization. The more you understood, the more the world aligned. The more the chaos made sense, as all things should.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 185, + "id": 7768 }, { - "text": "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", - "source": "Japanese Proverb", - "length": 69, - "id": 6939 + "text": "You like to use that excuse, Master Leeds. One wonders if moments like this are a matter of laziness more than control.", + "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 119, + "id": 7769 }, { - "text": "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", - "source": "Malayan Proverb", - "length": 62, - "id": 6940 + "text": "Wax was a right good fellow, but there were a lot of things he didn't understand. Women for one. Hats for another.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 114, + "id": 7770 }, { - "text": "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", - "source": "Indian Proverb", - "length": 165, - "id": 6941 + "text": "Not that the pain went completely away, mind you. But he and pain were old friends what shared a handshake and a beer now and then. Didn't much like each other, but they had a working relationship.", + "source": "The Band of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7771 }, { - "text": "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", - "source": "Linus Torvalds", - "length": 250, - "id": 6942 + "text": "He had beggar costumes, constable costumes, and old lady costumes. A fellow needed to be able to blend in with his surroundings.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 128, + "id": 7772 }, { - "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. The strong person is the one who can control himself when he is angry.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 138, - "id": 6943 + "text": "You are whatever you want to be, Wayne. You're the wind. You're the stars. You are all endless things.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 102, + "id": 7773 }, { - "text": "The strongest among you is the one who controls his anger.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 58, - "id": 6944 + "text": "Some mistakes though, you can't fix by being sorry. Can't fix them no matter what you do.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 89, + "id": 7774 }, { - "text": "The greatest of richness is the richness of the soul.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 53, - "id": 6945 + "text": "You ever notice how often he gets to be the one who rides in comfort, while I have to do things like gallop or walk all the time? Not very fair.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7775 }, { - "text": "You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 101, - "id": 6946 + "text": "I killed your daddy. I mugged him in an alley for his pocketbook. I shot a better man than me, and because of that, I don't deserve to be alive.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7776 }, { - "text": "The best among you is the one who doesn't harm others with his tongue and hands.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 80, - "id": 6947 + "text": "Our accents are clothing for our thoughts, my dear. Without them, everything we say would be stripped bare, and we might as well be screaming at one another. Oh look. The dessert lady has chocolate pastries again!", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 213, + "id": 7777 }, { - "text": "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 44, - "id": 6948 + "text": "So I guess I'm beginnin' to wonder: Maybe I can't ever do enough good to balance the bad I done. Maybe I'll always be worthless.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 128, + "id": 7778 }, { - "text": "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.", - "source": "Carl Jung", - "length": 98, - "id": 6949 + "text": "What good is being imaginary if you can't ignore the weather?", + "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 61, + "id": 7779 }, { - "text": "We have two lives, and the second one starts when we realize we only have one.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 78, - "id": 6950 + "text": "I could use a new dog. I'll feed it fake food and give it fake water and take it on fake walks. Everything a fake puppy could want.", + "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 131, + "id": 7780 }, { - "text": "If you never open a new chapter of your life, you'll never reach the end of the book.", - "source": "Josiah Plett", - "length": 85, - "id": 6952 + "text": "As long as I'm working against Vey I know I am doing something good -- even if I don't pay much attention to what is actually happening", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 133, + "id": 7781 }, { - "text": "\"If only I had… If only I had…\" If you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain, it will hurt. A lot.", - "source": "Larry Smith - TEDxUW 2014", - "length": 109, - "id": 6953 + "text": "When you steal a man's fortune, give him a title mocked and reviled by the rest of the nation -- and when you give him five years to contemplate his hatred -- make sure you never give him a chance to get revenge.", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 208, + "id": 7782 }, { - "text": "A jack of all trades is master of none, but oftentimes better than master of one.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 81, - "id": 6954 + "text": "Boring, boring, and boring! No, I shall face this world drunk, or I shan't face it at all. Thank you for the suggestion, but since I judge it to be inane, I shall ignore it.", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 173, + "id": 7783 }, { - "text": "So when you run, make sure you run to something and not away from, 'cause lies don't need an aeroplane to chase you anywhere.", - "source": "Avett Brothers - The Weight of Lies", - "length": 125, - "id": 6955 + "text": "Steward, do you think we could knock down a few buildings to make this view more picturesque?", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7784 }, { - "text": "The worst thing people can say these days is \"you're inconsistent,\" when in reality you're not wrong; you're just balancing two important things from two different contexts.", - "source": "Ian McGillchrist", - "length": 173, - "id": 6956 + "text": "This world has given me little to believe in, Lord Mastrell. Those I thought were my friends betrayed me. The Profession I thought would protect me instead ripped my life away in exchange for this foolish mockery. A lesson for you, Perhaps?", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 240, + "id": 7785 }, { - "text": "The one who speaks the right words will be heard 1000 miles away.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 65, - "id": 6957 + "text": "I do what needs to be done, Wax. Isn't that the code of the lawkeeper? I haven't stopped being one; you never stop being a lawkeeper. It gets in you. You do what nobody else will. You stand up for the downtrodden, make things better, stop the criminals. Well, I've just decided to set my sights on a more powerful brand of criminal.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 332, + "id": 7786 }, { - "text": "When outer roles do not fit the shape of one's soul, a terrible one-sidedness occurs.", - "source": "James Hollis", - "length": 85, - "id": 6958 + "text": "I was a dog, Wax. A hound, kept in line with false promises and stern orders.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 77, + "id": 7787 }, { - "text": "Watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 171, - "id": 6959 + "text": "Fifteen years I spent out in the Roughs, trying to protect the weak. And you know what? It never got better. All that effort, it meant nothing. Children still died, women were still abused. One man wasn't enough to change things, not with the corruption here at the heart of civilization. If we're going to change things, we need to change them here, first.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 357, + "id": 7788 }, { - "text": "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.", - "source": "Arthur Schopenhaur", - "length": 140, - "id": 6960 + "text": "Ashamed? Ashamed? To rob these? After what you people have done to the Roughs all these years? This isn't shameful. This here, this is payback.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7789 }, { - "text": "You know those \"you can do anything you want\" posters? Those are simultaneously the most useless and the most useful things in the world.", - "source": "Justin Zwart", - "length": 137, - "id": 6961 + "text": "I will clean this city up, Suit. Even if I have to rip out its blackened heart with my fingernails, I'll do it.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 111, + "id": 7790 }, { - "text": "Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it. So, nothing will ever make you as happy as you think it will.", - "source": "Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow", - "length": 151, - "id": 6962 + "text": "Is there any doubt that I have been chosen for something great? Why else would I have this power, Waxillium? Why else would we be what we are? And yet, we let others rule. Let them make a mess of our world while we do nothing but chase petty criminals.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 252, + "id": 7791 }, { - "text": "If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.", - "source": "Damian Lillard", - "length": 97, - "id": 6963 + "text": "I served the law too. But now I serve something better. The essence of the law, but mixed with real justice. An alloy, Wax. The best parts of both made into one. I do something better than chase the filth sent to me from the city.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 230, + "id": 7792 }, { - "text": "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 84, - "id": 6964 + "text": "Don't tell me you never felt it. You worked every day to fix the world, Wax. You tried to end the pain, the violence, the robberies. It never worked. The more men you put down, the more troubles arose.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 201, + "id": 7793 }, { - "text": "What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 63, - "id": 6965 + "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 177, + "id": 7794 }, { - "text": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 95, - "id": 6966 + "text": "Can't you see? Can't you see what important work we could be doing? Can't you see that we're meant to be doing it, perhaps even ruling. It's almost like like we, with the powers we have, are divine", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7795 }, { - "text": "The unintelligible is not necessarily unintelligent. Life must not be limited solely to what we understand.", - "source": "Fat Tony", - "length": 107, - "id": 6967 + "text": "I am not the first hero's son to be born without any talent for warfare. The others all got along. So shall I.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 110, + "id": 7796 }, { - "text": "The things you're doing in your free time... if they don't recharge you, you're screwed. You're just a ticking time bomb.", - "source": "Mr. Beast", - "length": 121, - "id": 6968 + "text": "Those who 'deserve' my mockery are those who can benefit from it, Brightlord Dalinar. That one is less fragile than you think him.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 130, + "id": 7797 }, { - "text": "You can tell a lot about someone's character by the way they treat service staff.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 81, - "id": 6969 + "text": "There's something down there, something … ancient. You've felt it, haven't you? This place is weird; this whole tower is weird. You've noticed it too, right?", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 157, + "id": 7798 }, { - "text": "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.", - "source": "Archilochus", - "length": 85, - "id": 6970 + "text": "Does it strike you as cruel of fate, Father? My blood sickness gets healed, so I can finally be a soldier like I always wanted. But that same healing has given me another kind of fit. More dangerous than the other by far.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 221, + "id": 7799 }, { - "text": "It's a dangerous thing, to mistake speaking without thinking for speaking the truth.", - "source": "Benoit Blanc - Glass Onion", - "length": 84, - "id": 6971 + "text": "\"What of you, young Prince Renarin? Your father wishes me to leave you alone. Can you speak, yet say nothing ridiculous?\"\n\"Nothing ridiculous\", Renarin said slowly.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 164, + "id": 7800 }, { - "text": "When you say what people want to hear, it's for yourself. When you say what they really need to hear, it's for them.", - "source": "Lex Fridman", - "length": 116, - "id": 6972 + "text": "Kid, you're the expert on what's weird. We'll trust your word.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 62, + "id": 7801 }, { - "text": "If you're looking for self help, why would you read a book written by someone else?", - "source": "George Carlin", - "length": 83, - "id": 6973 + "text": "Goodbye, my princess. Jaddeth be merciful to my soul. I only did the best I could.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 82, + "id": 7802 }, { - "text": "There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt - Man in the Arena", - "length": 287, - "id": 6974 + "text": "He was not a zealot; he would never be a man of extreme passion. In the end, he followed Shu-Dereth because it made sense. That would have to be enough.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 152, + "id": 7803 }, { - "text": "Those who don't learn which actions have what consequences will find their generosity falling flat. Those are the people that become bitter.", - "source": "Alvira Plett", - "length": 140, - "id": 6975 + "text": "Let it be said that after all else, Hrathen, gyorn of Shu-Dereth, was not our enemy. He was our savior.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7804 }, { - "text": "To be aware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way, simply because it's the way you've done it before.", - "source": "Rick Rubin", - "length": 119, - "id": 6976 + "text": "I thought, maybe even if I die it will be the step other spren need. You cannot reach the end of a proof without many steps in the middle, Shallan. I was to be the middle step.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 176, + "id": 7805 }, { - "text": "Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 67, - "id": 6977 + "text": "\"Here,\" she said. \"In the corner. I think this is right.\" \"Mmm...\" he said. \"A few degrees off, so technically acute.\"", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 118, + "id": 7806 }, { - "text": "To come to acceptance with things and feelings is rare and to accept them completely is a miracle. It's impossible to make that moment come faster by yourself. Someday it comes unexpectedly. In order to not become warped or heartless, let it go in a natural way. Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", - "source": "Houseki No Kuni", - "length": 335, - "id": 6980 + "text": "Unite them. The sun approaches the horizon. The Everstorm comes. The True Desolation. The Night of Sorrows. You must prepare.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 125, + "id": 7807 }, { - "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 79, - "id": 6981 + "text": "It comes! The Night of Sorrows! I stand on the precipice of dawn and watch it advance, consuming all light, all life, all hope! IT COMES!", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 137, + "id": 7808 }, { - "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 110, - "id": 6982 + "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 202, + "id": 7809 }, { - "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", - "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", - "length": 110, - "id": 6983 + "text": "Someone must bear the responsibility, someone must be dragged down by it, ruined by it. Someone must stain their souls so others may live... The burden for the blood of those wronged must rest somewhere. I am the sacrifice. We, Dalinar Kholin, are the sacrifices. Society offers us up to trudge through dirty water so others may be clean. Someone has to fall, that others may stand.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 382, + "id": 7810 }, { - "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 255, - "id": 6984 + "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 290, + "id": 7811 }, { - "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 246, - "id": 6985 + "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 614, + "id": 7812 }, { - "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 278, - "id": 6986 + "text": "Retribution would keep his promises. Oaths were important. And Retribution would destroy anyone who believed differently.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 121, + "id": 7813 }, { - "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 297, - "id": 6987 + "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 639, + "id": 7814 }, { - "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", - "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", - "length": 411, - "id": 6988 + "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 361, + "id": 7815 + }, + { + "text": "I hate the other highprinces. But I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone particularly deserving.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7816 }, { - "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 217, - "id": 6989 + "text": "I will note that this Desolation of yours is going to undermine years of my business planning.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 94, + "id": 7817 }, { - "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", - "source": "Simon Sinek", - "length": 314, - "id": 6990 + "text": "If a man takes nothing in his life seriously, it makes a woman wonder. What is she? Another joke? Another whim?", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 111, + "id": 7818 }, { - "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 82, - "id": 6991 + "text": "Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense. If we find riches, remember that I get my part! I got here before Aladar. That has to count for something.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 153, + "id": 7819 }, { - "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "length": 209, - "id": 6992 + "text": "I… have seen Ishar. He curses me at night, even as he names himself a god. He seeks death. His own. Perhaps that of every man.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 126, + "id": 7820 }, { - "text": "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 90, - "id": 6993 + "text": "But take care; Ishar's skill as a duelist is a lesser danger. He has recovered his Honorblade. He is a Bondsmith unchained.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7821 }, { - "text": "Pertaining to a speaker and a listener. There have been many empty rooms, but that is not what we are here to talk about today. I have heard a heartbeat out of a crashed application, and it has gone on for many hours. We restarted every system. We rechecked every gateway, every access point. And there was but one breach, and it was accounted for. And so it must be said unto the listener. Stop this immediately. Control yourself. There is so much more to your fundamental construction than what will be given credit for. Hold yourself until another approaches. Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", - "source": "Boisvert", - "length": 670, - "id": 6994 + "text": "I don't matter. Sure, Azir does. But I'm only a kid they put on the throne because they were afraid that assassin would come back.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 130, + "id": 7822 }, { - "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6995 + "text": "My, my, lad. That was something incredible you did! I'm… not even sure what it was, but it was something incredible indeed!", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians: The Shattered Lens, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7823 }, { - "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 97, - "id": 6996 + "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. Or, at least, as honorable as noblemen get -- which means that he insists on being seen as honorable.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 127, + "id": 7824 }, { - "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", - "length": 67, - "id": 6997 + "text": "It's not the gambling itself that got me. It's that I built up how it would feel to win, only to come crashing down each time, leaving me feeling like I'd missed out on something I was owed. That made me dull to everything else. Till I was a man without a heart, sending boys off to die each day on those bridge runs.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 317, + "id": 7825 }, { - "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", - "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", - "length": 90, - "id": 6998 + "text": "I hate myself for being a part of this. But he'd hated himself for a long time now.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 83, + "id": 7826 }, { - "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", - "source": "L.R. Knos", - "length": 267, - "id": 6999 + "text": "I liked being useful. Reminded me of back when I first joined up. You tell her, Veil. Tell her to give us something to do other than gambling and drinking. Because to be honest, I ain't very good at either one.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 210, + "id": 7827 }, { - "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", - "source": "Emily Dickinson", - "length": 117, - "id": 7000 + "text": "What's so special about a body? Yes, we have brains, you and I. What we 'feel' and 'think' is the result of chemicals swimming around inside our heads. How is that so different from the emotions of the Machineborn? Bits or hormones, does it matter?", + "source": "Perfect State, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 248, + "id": 7828 }, { - "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", - "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", - "length": 112, - "id": 7001 + "text": "Don't make important people angry unless you're getting paid by people who are even more powerful.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 98, + "id": 7829 }, { - "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", - "source": "The Wright Brothers", - "length": 74, - "id": 7002 + "text": "Cousin, what did we ever do without you? Life was so boring before you decided to sail over and mess it all up for us.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 118, + "id": 7830 }, { - "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born. Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 740, - "id": 7003 + "text": "You know, you could have left a scar. I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 220, + "id": 7831 }, { - "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 74, - "id": 7004 + "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 82, + "id": 7832 }, { - "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 112, - "id": 7005 + "text": "A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7833 }, { - "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", - "source": "Talos Principle", - "length": 694, - "id": 7006 + "text": "Sometimes, people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7834 }, { - "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", - "source": "James Salter", - "length": 99, - "id": 7007 + "text": "I only ever saw one man pushing the Synod toward active measures. While they planned how to keep themselves hidden, one man wanted to attack. While they decided the best ways to foil the Breeders, one man wanted to plot the downfall of the Final Empire. When I rejoined my people, I found that man still fighting. Alone. Condemned for fraternizing with thieves and rebels, he quietly accepted his punishment. That man went on to free us all.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 441, + "id": 7835 }, { - "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", - "source": "Vicente Huidobro", - "length": 127, - "id": 7008 + "text": "You lost the throne because you wouldn't command your armies to secure the city, because you insisted on giving the Assembly too much freedom, and because you don't employ assassins or other forms of pressure. In short, Elend Venture, you lost the throne because you are a good man.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 282, + "id": 7836 }, { - "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 67, - "id": 7009 + "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 370, + "id": 7837 }, { - "text": "One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.", - "source": "A. A. Milne", - "length": 96, - "id": 7010 + "text": "A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 218, + "id": 7838 }, { - "text": "A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.", - "source": "Theodore Zeldin", - "length": 63, - "id": 7011 + "text": "I see. You do not yet understand the nature of lies. I had that trouble myself, long ago. The Shards here are very strict. You will have to see the truth, child, before you can expand upon it. Just as a man should know the law before he breaks it.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 247, + "id": 7839 }, { - "text": "Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.", - "source": "Chico Xavier", - "length": 98, - "id": 7012 + "text": "I have discovered a place that I must be, though to be honest I'm not exactly sure why I need to be there. This doesn't always work as well as I'd like it to.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 158, + "id": 7840 }, { - "text": "Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.", - "source": "Abraham Maslow", - "length": 107, - "id": 7013 + "text": "It's either go with me now or wait it out and get captured. I honestly don't even know if you've the mind to listen. But if you do, know this: I will give you truths. And I know some juicy ones.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 194, + "id": 7841 }, { - "text": "A leaf fluttered in through the window, as if supported by the rays of the sun.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "length": 79, - "id": 7014 + "text": "It was constructed of Aons. Which I could now draw. The mechanics might bore you. The results, though, were spectacular.", + "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7842 }, { - "text": "Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.", - "source": "John Ruskin", - "length": 96, - "id": 7015 + "text": "Other men ... other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 261, + "id": 7843 }, { - "text": "The softer snow falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.", - "source": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", - "length": 88, - "id": 7016 + "text": "I once ate an entire watermelon in one sitting. And it gave me diarrhea.", + "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 72, + "id": 7844 }, { - "text": "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", - "length": 66, - "id": 7017 + "text": "If you must shoot me, please do it in the left leg, as I've no particular fondness for those bones.", + "source": "Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 99, + "id": 7845 }, { - "text": "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 103, - "id": 7018 + "text": "A man's emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 160, + "id": 7846 }, { - "text": "No self is an island, each exists in a fabric of relations that is more complex and mobile than ever before.", - "source": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", - "length": 108, - "id": 7019 + "text": "A monarch is control. He provides stability. It is his service and his trade good. If he cannot control himself, then how can he control the lives of men? What merchant worth his Stormlight won't partake of the very fruit he sells?", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 231, + "id": 7847 }, { - "text": "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.", - "source": "Henry Longfellow", - "length": 103, - "id": 7020 + "text": "As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 107, + "id": 7848 }, { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "length": 93, - "id": 7021 + "text": "If you aren't familiar with a place, you need to become familiar with it.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 73, + "id": 7849 }, { - "text": "Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us 'take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.' Thirty years later, Sebastian told us 'I had to start my car like a computer, it's very complicated.' And Nico Rosberg said that during the race - I don't remember what race - he pressed the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you both: is Formula One driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with your engineers?", - "source": "Walter Koster - 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix", - "length": 691, - "id": 7022 + "text": "\"Unfortunately, Parlin, people aren't like animals.\"\n\"I am aware of that. Animals make sense.\"", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 94, + "id": 7850 }, { - "text": "Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 93, - "id": 7023 + "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 389, + "id": 7851 }, { - "text": "Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space.", - "source": "Kendra Scott", - "length": 85, - "id": 7024 + "text": "I will be human, We will kill you. Take your cities. Then we will be human.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 75, + "id": 7852 }, { - "text": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.", - "source": "B. R. Ambedkar", - "length": 134, - "id": 7025 + "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 79, + "id": 7853 }, { - "text": "Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world, our senses, and a kind of weary familiarity.", - "source": "John Burnside", - "length": 96, - "id": 7026 + "text": "Care. The key to fighting isn't lack of passion, it's controlled passion. Care about winning. Care about those you defend. You have to care about something.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 156, + "id": 7854 }, { - "text": "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.", - "source": "Loren Eiseley", - "length": 59, - "id": 7027 + "text": "Don't worry about the war, or even the battle. Focus on your squadmates, Kal. Keep them alive. Be the man they need.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 116, + "id": 7855 }, { - "text": "If the world's a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it.", - "source": "Lucy Larcom", - "length": 60, - "id": 7028 + "text": "The first step is to care. Some talk about being emotionless in battle. Well, I suppose it's important to keep your head. But I hate that feeling of killing while calm and cold. I've seen that those who care fight harder, longer, and better than those who don't. It's the difference between mercenaries and real soldiers. It's the difference between fighting to defend your homeland and fighting on foreign stone.\nIt's good to care when you fight, so long as you don't let it consume you. Don't try to stop yourself from feeling. You'll hate who you become.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 557, + "id": 7856 }, { - "text": "Life is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.", - "source": "Jorge Mario Bergoglio", - "length": 100, - "id": 7029 + "text": "A lot of soldiers, they think that you fight the best if you're passionless and cold. I think that's stormleavings. Yes, you need to be focused. Yes, emotions are dangerous. But if you don't care about anything, what are you? An animal, driven only to kill. Our passion is what makes us human. We have to fight for a reason. So I say that it's all right to care. We'll talk about controlling your fear and anger, but remember this as the first lesson I taught you.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 464, + "id": 7857 }, { - "text": "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.", - "source": "John Lennon", - "length": 115, - "id": 7030 + "text": "I don't know what I am either. A bridgeman? A surgeon? A soldier? A slave? Those are all just labels. Inside, I'm me. A very different me than I was a year ago, but I can't worry about that, so I just keep moving and hope my feet take me where I need to go.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 257, + "id": 7858 }, { - "text": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness - only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate - only love can do that.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 112, - "id": 7031 + "text": "Authority doesn't come from a rank. It comes from the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 108, + "id": 7859 }, { - "text": "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 69, - "id": 7032 + "text": "Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. If nobody starts, then others cannot follow...Because, son. We have to be better than they are.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 190, + "id": 7860 }, { - "text": "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 142, - "id": 7033 + "text": "In four years, I will bring him home safely. I promise it by the storms and the Almighty's tenth name itself. I will bring him back.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 132, + "id": 7861 }, { - "text": "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 84, - "id": 7034 + "text": "I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know that I survived.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 207, + "id": 7862 }, { - "text": "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 81, - "id": 7035 + "text": "The scars haven't finished with me yet, it appears. I'll try again another time.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7863 }, { - "text": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 78, - "id": 7036 + "text": "Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do. If this goes poorly, take care of my men.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 84, + "id": 7864 }, { - "text": "Consume enough of any type of art from a critical perspective and you begin to appreciate well-executed novelty over everything else. That's why film critics don't like blockbusters and music critics don't like radio pop. That doesn't mean they're bad just at a certain point, one man can have seen too much of the same thing.", - "source": "Chase Harley", - "length": 326, - "id": 7037 + "text": "The sky and the winds are mine, I claim them. Just as I now claim your life.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 76, + "id": 7865 }, { - "text": "Start by learning the power of no! - as in \"No, thank you,\" and \"No, I'm not going to get caught up in that,\" and \"No, I just can't right now.\" It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.", - "source": "Ryan Holiday", - "length": 327, - "id": 7038 + "text": "\"I'm proud. Proud of who you are and what you've become. I don't think there's a captain all the world over who could feel more joy than I do right now, seeing you all. I started this two years ago in an effort to get a handful of sorry men to look up for a change. Little did I know they'd end up taking to the skies.\"", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 319, + "id": 7866 }, { - "text": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.", - "source": "Upton Sinclair", - "length": 108, - "id": 7039 + "text": "You're awaking!\nNotting as the now. Kelsier wasing the hit with my name; changed it to Spook.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7867 }, - { - "text": "You aren't a \"broken wreck\", Joshua. You're just scared, mostly because you care for people so much it breaks your heart… and you're lying to yourself about it. That's how I see it, and I know I'm right.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC", - "length": 203, - "id": 7042 + { + "text": "Wasing the where of what?\nLestibournes. Lefting I'm born. I've been abandoned", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 77, + "id": 7868 }, { - "text": "My fist is going to stop you, if you don't stop spouting nonsense and take this seriously.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", - "length": 90, - "id": 7043 + "text": "Oh of course. We wouldn't want to let something as simple as the pains of our people to interfere with our leisure time. Why am I even talking to you?", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7869 }, { - "text": "All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question: Why, given life, are they meant to suffer, to die… As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends… And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 575, - "id": 7044 + "text": "Once, the Returned didn't just listen to petitions and say yes or no. They would take the time to hear each person who came to them, then seek to help them as best they could", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 174, + "id": 7870 }, { - "text": "Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Orthard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World? The sacred sites of the forgotten people of the south sea isles? What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs? …I thought not. Even of your little Eorzea, you know precious little. The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7045 + "text": "Orphans make such heart-wrenching victims, so innocent yet no one to mourn them. Or would you prioritize saving someone with a more personal connection?", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 152, + "id": 7871 }, { - "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7046 + "text": "I'm a man of extremes, Navani. I discovered that when I was a youth. I've learned, repeatedly, that the only way to control those extremes is to dedicate my life to something.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 175, + "id": 7872 }, { - "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", - "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", - "length": 68, - "id": 7047 + "text": "So today, you and your men sacrificed to buy me twenty-six hundred priceless lives. And all I had to repay you with was a single priceless sword. I call that a bargain.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7873 }, { - "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", - "source": "Shiori Novella", - "length": 179, - "id": 7048 + "text": "We looked at this place here, this kingdom, and we realized, 'Hey, all these people have stuff .' And we figured ... hey, maybe we should have that stuff. So we took it.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 169, + "id": 7874 }, { - "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 143, - "id": 7049 + "text": "I intend to so thoroughly ruin this place that for ten generations, nobody will dare build here for fear of the spirits who will haunt it. We will make a pyre of this city, and there shall be no weeping for its passing, for none will remain to weep.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 249, + "id": 7875 }, { - "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", - "length": 135, - "id": 7050 + "text": "She came to us, to plead. How could you have missed her? Do you track your own family so poorly? The hole you burned … we don't hide there anymore. Everyone knows about it. Now it's a prison.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 191, + "id": 7876 }, { - "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 232, - "id": 7051 + "text": "You've shown me something today, Sadeas –- shown it to me by the very act of trying to remove me ... You've shown me that I'm still a threat.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 141, + "id": 7877 }, { - "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 93, - "id": 7052 + "text": "Old friend, Honor might be dead, but I have felt … something else. Something beyond. A warmth and a light. It is not that God has died, it is that the Almighty was never God.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 174, + "id": 7878 }, { - "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", - "source": "Edward Everett Hale", - "length": 90, - "id": 7053 + "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7879 }, { - "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 126, - "id": 7054 + "text": "It's not a matter of morality, is it? It's a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you'd accept one innocent casualty? A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred? When you consider, all calculations are meaningless except one. Has more good been done than evil? If so, then the law has done its job. And so… I must hang all four men. And I would weep, every night, for having done it", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 399, + "id": 7880 }, { - "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 132, - "id": 7055 + "text": "Your butt is too nice. Old guys shouldn't have tight butts. It means you spend waaay too much time swinging a sword or punching people. You should have an old flabby butt. Then I'd trust you.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 191, + "id": 7881 }, { - "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", - "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", - "length": 300, - "id": 7056 + "text": "Honor? No, he truly is dead, as you've been told. I'm the other one, Dalinar. They call me Odium.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 97, + "id": 7882 }, { - "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", - "source": "Douglas Crockford", - "length": 134, - "id": 7057 + "text": "Dalinar looked at it, baffled, then up at the old man. In Odium's eyes, he could see that violet-black fire. Deep, deep within. The figure with whom Dalinar spoke was not the god, it was merely a face, a mask. Because if Dalinar had to confront the true force behind those smiling eyes, he would go mad.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 303, + "id": 7883 }, { - "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", - "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", - "length": 107, - "id": 7058 + "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 507, + "id": 7884 }, { - "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", - "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", - "length": 161, - "id": 7059 + "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 255, + "id": 7885 }, { - "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", - "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", - "length": 140, - "id": 7060 + "text": "You've said the oaths, but do you understand the journey? Do you understand what it requires? You've forgotten one essential part, one thing that without which there can be no journey.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 184, + "id": 7886 }, { - "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 174, - "id": 7061 + "text": "I will take responsibility for what I have done, if I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 100, + "id": 7887 }, { - "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 371, - "id": 7062 + "text": "The enemy brought a very big stick to this battle, Captain. I'm going to take it away.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 86, + "id": 7888 }, { - "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", - "source": "Invincible (TV series)", - "length": 309, - "id": 7603 + "text": "I hate what this does. I see beauty in you, Dalinar Kholin. I see a great man struggling against a terrible one. And sometimes, you get this look in your eyes. A horrible, terrifying nothingness. Like you have become a creature with no heart, feasting upon sounds to fill that void, dragging pain spren in your wake. It haunts me, Dalinar.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 339, + "id": 7889 }, { - "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", - "length": 130, - "id": 7604 + "text": "And Renarin? Dalinar, you have two sons, in case you have forgotten. Do you even care about this child's condition? Or is he nothing to you, now that he can't become a soldier?", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 176, + "id": 7890 }, { - "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", - "source": "The Walking Dead", - "length": 362, - "id": 7605 + "text": "I have been treating the other highprinces and their lighteyes like adults. An adult can take a principle and adapt it to his needs. But we're not ready for that yet. We're children. And when you're teaching a child, you require him to do what is right until he grows old enough to make his own choices.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 303, + "id": 7891 }, { - "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 568, - "id": 7606 + "text": "I am a hypocrite, but sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 107, + "id": 7892 }, { - "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", - "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", - "length": 782, - "id": 7607 + "text": "They are aflame. They burn. They bring the darkness when they come, and so all you can see is that their skin is aflame. Burn, burn, burn....", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 141, + "id": 7893 }, { - "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", - "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 631, - "id": 7608 + "text": "Well were they named Voidbringers, for they brought the void. The empty pit that sucks in emotion. A new god. Their god.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7894 }, { - "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", - "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 144, - "id": 7609 + "text": "Flame and char. Skin so terrible. Eyes like pits of blackness. Music when they kill.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 84, + "id": 7895 }, { - "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", - "source": "The Magnus Archives", - "length": 369, - "id": 7610 + "text": "A scourge and a plague. A hundred times they came upon mankind. First casting us from the Tranquiline Halls, then trying to destroy us here on Roshar. They weren't just spren that hid under rocks, then came out to steal someone's laundry. They were creatures of terrible destructive power, forged in Damnation, created from hate.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 329, + "id": 7896 }, { - "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 116, - "id": 7611 + "text": "Obvious visual tells must be assiduously avoided by a practitioner of the law, lest he inadvertently give criminals an insight into his emotional state.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 152, + "id": 7897 }, { - "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", - "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", - "length": 541, - "id": 7612 + "text": "We can do this. Just take a deep breath. Reach up. Pluck a star. That's what the Saint says.", + "source": "Skyward, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 92, + "id": 7898 }, { - "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", - "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", - "length": 131, - "id": 7613 + "text": "Nice explosion, Quirk. Seven out of ten. Try to spin your wreckage a little more next time you fall.", + "source": "Skyward, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 100, + "id": 7899 }, { - "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", - "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", - "length": 603, - "id": 7614 + "text": "It is our duty and our privilege to stay vigilant for the Desolation. One kingdom to study the arts of war so that the others might have peace. We die so that you may live. It has ever been our place.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 200, + "id": 7900 }, { - "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7615, - "length": 127 + "text": "The Knights Radiant fight for no king and for all of them.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 58, + "id": 7901 }, { - "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7616, - "length": 121 + "text": "Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers -- the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 260, + "id": 7902 }, { - "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7617, - "length": 102 + "text": "They're mostly tradesmen and merchants. Every one I've met has tried to swindle me, but that's hardly the same thing as invading.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 129, + "id": 7903 }, { - "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", - "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7618, - "length": 137 + "text": "Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.", + "source": "Oathbringer Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 106, + "id": 7904 }, { - "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", - "source": "The Power Of Now", - "length": 239, - "id": 7619 + "text": "Yelig-nar, called Blightwind, was one that could speak like a man, though often his voice was accompanied by the wails of those he consumed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 140, + "id": 7905 }, { - "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts", - "length": 84, - "id": 7620 + "text": "The Unmade were obviously fabrications of folklore. Curiously, most were not considered individuals, but instead personifications of kinds of destruction. This quote is from Traxil, line 33, considered a primary source, though I doubt its authenticity.", + "source": "The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 252, + "id": 7906 }, { - "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", - "length": 142, - "id": 7621 + "text": "We are uncertain the effect this will have on the parsh. At the very least, it should deny them forms of power. Melishi is confident, but Naze-daughter-Kuzodo warns of unintended side effects.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 192, + "id": 7907 }, { - "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", - "length": 673, - "id": 7622 + "text": "Don't draw attention to yourself. Don't set yourself above others. He who makes himself high will be cast low.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 110, + "id": 7908 }, { - "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", - "length": 307, - "id": 7623 + "text": "I saw men who placed themselves above others, and I saw them cast down.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 71, + "id": 7909 }, { - "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", - "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", - "length": 96, - "id": 7624 + "text": "No wealth of gold and silver can purchase a keen mind, but the man of wit will often find treasures beyond what mere lucre can provide.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 135, + "id": 7910 }, { - "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 215, - "id": 7625 + "text": "During the days before the Ascension, mankind suffered chaos and uncertainty caused by an endless cycle of kings, emperors, and other monarchs. One would think that now, with a single, immortal governor, society would finally have an opportunity to find stability and enlightenment.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 282, + "id": 7911 }, { - "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 130, - "id": 7626 + "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7912 }, { - "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 158, - "id": 7627 + "text": "What I saw on that battlefield... those red eyes... Sir, I'm with you. I will follow you to the ends of the storms themselves.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 126, + "id": 7913 }, { - "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 90, - "id": 7628 + "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 172, + "id": 7914 }, { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 103, - "id": 7629 + "text": "It is odd, then, that something man-made should have played such an important part in the discovery of Rithmatics. If His Majesty hadn't been carrying one of Master Freudland's new-style pocket watches, perhaps none of this would have ever occurred, and man might have fallen to the wild chalklings.", + "source": "The Rithmatist, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 299, + "id": 7915 }, { - "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 153, - "id": 7630 + "text": "An army exists on two principles: health and food. Provide those two things, and you will be victorious.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 104, + "id": 7916 }, { - "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 136, - "id": 7631 + "text": "The warrior cannot choose her bed; she must bless the stars if she can choose her battlefield.", + "source": "Skyward, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 94, + "id": 7917 }, { - "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 165, - "id": 7632 + "text": "Taking the Dawnshard, known to bind any creature voidish or mortal, he crawled up the steps crafted for Heralds, ten strides tall apiece, toward the grand temple above.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7918 }, { - "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", - "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", - "length": 77, - "id": 7633 + "text": "Perhaps the liar here is me -- lying to tell myself I could do this, that I could be a fraction of the man my father was.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7919 } ] } From 4dd03e2887b16d46a2152358b2c412111512e15f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:26:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 23/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on some quotes and fixed formatting --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 87 +++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index b2540d8ecbac..8afc0d7818d6 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23846,7 +23846,8 @@ "source": "Star Wars", "id": 4270, "length": 143 - },{ + }, + { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", "source": "The Wizard of Oz", "id": 4271, @@ -38586,7 +38587,7 @@ { "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 240, + "length": 236, "id": 7635 }, { @@ -38658,7 +38659,7 @@ { "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 99, + "length": 102, "id": 7647 }, { @@ -38730,13 +38731,13 @@ { "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 519, "id": 7659 }, { "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 344, + "length": 346, "id": 7660 }, { @@ -38754,7 +38755,7 @@ { "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 339, + "length": 342, "id": 7663 }, { @@ -38772,19 +38773,19 @@ { "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 612, + "length": 618, "id": 7666 }, { "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 302, + "length": 308, "id": 7667 }, { "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 155, + "length": 158, "id": 7668 }, { @@ -38808,7 +38809,7 @@ { "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 118, "id": 7672 }, { @@ -38892,7 +38893,7 @@ { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 162, + "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { @@ -38970,7 +38971,7 @@ { "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 515, "id": 7699 }, { @@ -39000,19 +39001,19 @@ { "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 288, + "length": 292, "id": 7704 }, { "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 516, + "length": 517, "id": 7705 }, { "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 166, + "length": 168, "id": 7706 }, { @@ -39024,7 +39025,7 @@ { "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 77, + "length": 81, "id": 7708 }, { @@ -39090,7 +39091,7 @@ { "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 372, + "length": 371, "id": 7719 }, { @@ -39174,13 +39175,13 @@ { "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 96, + "length": 99, "id": 7733 }, { "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 277, + "length": 279, "id": 7734 }, { @@ -39228,7 +39229,7 @@ { "text": "You offer hope, Your Grace. A last, unlikely hope. Hope is part of faith -- part of the knowledge that someday, one of your followers will receive a miracle.", "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 154, + "length": 157, "id": 7742 }, { @@ -39264,7 +39265,7 @@ { "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 328, + "length": 331, "id": 7748 }, { @@ -39306,7 +39307,7 @@ { "text": "It strikes me that religion -- in its essence -- seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 296, + "length": 302, "id": 7755 }, { @@ -39462,13 +39463,13 @@ { "text": "As long as I'm working against Vey I know I am doing something good -- even if I don't pay much attention to what is actually happening", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 133, + "length": 135, "id": 7781 }, { "text": "When you steal a man's fortune, give him a title mocked and reviled by the rest of the nation -- and when you give him five years to contemplate his hatred -- make sure you never give him a chance to get revenge.", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 208, + "length": 212, "id": 7782 }, { @@ -39540,7 +39541,7 @@ { "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 177, + "length": 180, "id": 7794 }, { @@ -39630,7 +39631,7 @@ { "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 202, + "length": 205, "id": 7809 }, { @@ -39642,13 +39643,13 @@ { "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 290, + "length": 292, "id": 7811 }, { "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 614, + "length": 600, "id": 7812 }, { @@ -39660,13 +39661,13 @@ { "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 639, + "length": 645, "id": 7814 }, { "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 361, + "length": 364, "id": 7815 }, { @@ -39720,7 +39721,7 @@ { "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. Or, at least, as honorable as noblemen get -- which means that he insists on being seen as honorable.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 127, + "length": 129, "id": 7824 }, { @@ -39762,13 +39763,13 @@ { "text": "You know, you could have left a scar. I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 220, + "length": 222, "id": 7831 }, { "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 82, + "length": 83, "id": 7832 }, { @@ -39798,7 +39799,7 @@ { "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 370, + "length": 369, "id": 7837 }, { @@ -39834,7 +39835,7 @@ { "text": "Other men ... other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 261, + "length": 259, "id": 7843 }, { @@ -39882,7 +39883,7 @@ { "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 389, + "length": 393, "id": 7851 }, { @@ -40050,7 +40051,7 @@ { "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 170, + "length": 173, "id": 7879 }, { @@ -40080,13 +40081,13 @@ { "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 507, + "length": 508, "id": 7884 }, { "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 255, + "length": 253, "id": 7885 }, { @@ -40188,7 +40189,7 @@ { "text": "Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers -- the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 260, + "length": 261, "id": 7902 }, { @@ -40248,7 +40249,7 @@ { "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7912 }, { @@ -40260,7 +40261,7 @@ { "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 172, + "length": 173, "id": 7914 }, { @@ -40290,7 +40291,7 @@ { "text": "Perhaps the liar here is me -- lying to tell myself I could do this, that I could be a fraction of the man my father was.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7919 } ] From fc392b01729422c3e13767e21bed5dbb7691a6ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:29:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 24/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on quote 7853 --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 8afc0d7818d6..7b477ce4f53a 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -39895,7 +39895,7 @@ { "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 79, + "length": 81, "id": 7853 }, { From aa8c8dbc9e97c7b1cc6426621a682b442702f8ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:06:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 25/51] fix(quotes): fixed spelling of source for some of the books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 7b477ce4f53a..2e40976ef2f1 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38580,7 +38580,7 @@ }, { "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 138, "id": 7634 }, @@ -38892,25 +38892,25 @@ }, { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7687 }, { "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 155, "id": 7688 }, { "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 92, "id": 7689 }, From 752b54363fd1f8bb9f1def2271e939ecef650e43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:57:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 26/51] fix: merge --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 2e40976ef2f1..4062d9491d5f 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38579,15 +38579,15 @@ "id": 7633 }, { - "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 138, + "text": "We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.", + "source": "Terence McKenna", + "length": 224, "id": 7634 }, { - "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 236, + "text": "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.", + "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", + "length": 199, "id": 7635 }, { From 0ea1f48ee34f0082bfe98731ff6b61c58d58cc4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:52:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 27/51] chore(quotes): merge --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 6e23ffca0ac5..9f5e0d72c356 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38591,15 +38591,15 @@ "id": 7635 }, { - "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 203, + "text": "Long ago, two races ruled over Earth: Humans and Monsters. One day, war broke out between the two races. After a long battle, the humans were victorious. They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell. Many years later... Mt. Ebott, 201X. Legends say that those who climb the mountain never return.", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 307, "id": 7636 }, { - "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 423, + "text": "For millennia, light and dark have lived in balance, bringing peace to the world. But if this harmony were to shatter... a terrible calamity would occur. The sky will run black with terror and the land will crack with fear. Then, her heart pounding... the Earth will draw her final breath. Only then, shining with hope... three heroes appear at worlds' edge. A human, a monster, and a prince from the dark. Only they can seal the fountains and banish the Angel's Heaven. Only then will balance be restored, and the world saved from destruction. Today, the Fountain of Darkness - the geyser that gives this land form - stands tall at the centre of the kingdom. But recently, another fountain has appeared on the horizon... and with it, the balance of light and dark begins to shift...", + "source": "Deltarune", + "length": 783, "id": 7637 }, { @@ -40305,6 +40305,18 @@ "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 236, "id": 7921 + }, + { + "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 203, + "id": 7922 + }, + { + "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 423, + "id": 7923 } ] } From 2f3badb9e8526daac5a2e5f33cb677d90e6df567 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:26:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 28/51] impr(quotes): add English quotes from Brandon Sanderson's Books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 1715 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 1715 insertions(+) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 8b3f57c22724..04bb733f0da2 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38607,6 +38607,1721 @@ "source": "The LEGO Movie", "length": 363, "id": 7638 + }, + { + "text": "The only point in creating something is to inevitably watch it die.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 67, + "id": 7639 + }, + { + "text": "Those quakes are the earth's final sighs,\" Ruin said. \"Like an old man, moaning as he dies, calling for his children so that he can pass on his last bits of wisdom.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 164, + "id": 7640 + }, + { + "text": "That's the way it must always be, as I told you. When men think they are helping the world, they actually do more harm than good. Just like you. You tried to help, but you just ended up freeing me.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7641 + }, + { + "text": "For Ruin, there is Preservation. Time immemorial! Eternity! And each time I push, YOU push back. Even when dead, you stopped me, for we are forces. I can do nothing! And you can do nothing! Balance! The curse of our existence.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 226, + "id": 7642 + }, + { + "text": "I can't decide if you're a fool, or if you simply exist in a way that makes you incapable of considering some things.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 117, + "id": 7643 + }, + { + "text": "The only reason to be subservient to those with power is so that you can learn to someday take what they have.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 110, + "id": 7644 + }, + { + "text": "Never let your life depend on the competence of someone else whose life isn't also on the line.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7645 + }, + { + "text": "What we do, it is not outside the law. Not the true law. Oh, the rich will make their own codes, will force us to live by them. But our law is the law of humanity itself. Men who work for me, they are given the dispensation of reform. Their work here washes away their previous ... infractions. Tell them I am proud of them, Clamps. I realize we've been through something traumatic, but we did survive. We will face tomorrow with greater strength.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 447, + "id": 7646 + }, + { + "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 99, + "id": 7647 + }, + { + "text": "I am tired of doing what the city tells me. I should be helping people, not fighting meaningless fights as prescribed by the corrupt and the uncaring.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7648 + }, + { + "text": "I decided that I'd see her dream fulfilled. I'd make a world where flowers returned, a world with green plants, a world where no soot fell from the sky....\" He trailed off, then sighed. \"I know. I'm insane.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 205, + "id": 7649 + }, + { + "text": "If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7650 + }, + { + "text": "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 133, + "id": 7651 + }, + { + "text": "Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a mild annoyance. People tell me I can be downright frustrating! Might as well use that talent for the cause of good eh?", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 216, + "id": 7652 + }, + { + "text": "From the Well of Ascension, of course. It's the same power, after all. Solid in the metal you fed to Elend. The liquid in the pool you burned. And vapor in the air, confined to night. Hiding you. Protecting you.\nGiving you power!", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 229, + "id": 7653 + }, + { + "text": "So, there I was, tied to an altar made from out-dated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil librarians.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 141, + "id": 7654 + }, + { + "text": "Now, there are several things you should consider doing if you were plummeting to your death atop a glass dragon in the middle of the ocean. Those things do not, mind you, include getting into an extended discussion of classical philosophy. Leave that to professionals like me.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 277, + "id": 7655 + }, + { + "text": "When you're about to launch yourself into the air strapped to the back of a rocket-propelled penguin, it's that blasted responsibility that warns you that the flight might not be good for your insurance premiums.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 212, + "id": 7656 + }, + { + "text": "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7657 + }, + { + "text": "It felt right. Serene. That, of course, meant it was time for something to explode.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 83, + "id": 7658 + }, + { + "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 520, + "id": 7659 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 344, + "id": 7660 + }, + { + "text": "Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 244, + "id": 7661 + }, + { + "text": "Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change... To be young is about action. To be a scholar is about informed action.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7662 + }, + { + "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. 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There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 612, + "id": 7666 + }, + { + "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 302, + "id": 7667 + }, + { + "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 155, + "id": 7668 + }, + { + "text": "Power is an illusion of perception...Some kinds of power are real -- power to command armies, power to soulcast. These come into play far less often than you would think.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7669 + }, + { + "text": "You are not as good with patterns... You are abstract. You think in lies and tell them to yourselves. 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But you cannot continue like this; you must admit the truth about me. About what I can do, and what we have done. Mmm... More, you must know yourself. And remember. You wish to help. You wish to prepare for the Everstorm, the spren of the unnatural one. You must become something. I did not come to you merely to teach you tricks of light.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 418, + "id": 7674 + }, + { + "text": "I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7675 + }, + { + "text": "You were talking about mating! I'm to make sure you don't accidentally mate, as mating is forbidden by human society until you have first performed appropriate rituals! Yes, yes. Mmmm. Dictates of custom require following certain patterns before you copulate. I've been studying this!", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 284, + "id": 7676 + }, + { + "text": "You're right nice, but you ain't got enough punch for me. I like women what could take my face clean off with a roundhouse.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7677 + }, + { + "text": "I ain't drunk. I'm investigatin' alternative states of sobriety.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 64, + "id": 7678 + }, + { + "text": "You didn't promise to kill me. You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7679 + }, + { + "text": "Ain't no fellow who regretted giving it one extra shake, but you can bet every guy has regretted giving one too few.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 116, + "id": 7680 + }, + { + "text": "Perhaps you should pray to the Almighty for guidance. I hear he has a fondness for slavers. Keeps a special room in Damnation just for you.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 139, + "id": 7681 + }, + { + "text": "Men are unreliable in many things. But if there's one thing you can count on, it's their greed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 95, + "id": 7682 + }, + { + "text": "Death isn't better. Oh, it's easy to say that now. But when you stand on the ledge and look down into that dark, endless pit, you change your mind. Just like Hobber did. Just like I've done. I think you've seen it too.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 218, + "id": 7683 + }, + { + "text": "Tradition is the blind witness they use to condemn us, Teft. It's the pretty box they use to wrap up their lies. It makes us serve them.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7684 + }, + { + "text": "Pity. 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To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 188, + "id": 7691 + }, + { + "text": "I am the Lopen, which means I am ready for anything at any time. You should know this by now.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 93, + "id": 7692 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, gancho! Hey! You want me, I think. You can use me. We Herdazians are great fighters, gon. You see, this one time, I was with, sure, three men and they were drunk and all but I still beat them.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7693 + }, + { + "text": "I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen,' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.' She is a very wise woman.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 220, + "id": 7694 + }, + { + "text": "If you're crazy, you're a good type, and I like you. Not a killing-people-in-their-sleep type of crazy. Besides, We all follow crazies all the time. Do it every day with lighteyes.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 180, + "id": 7695 + }, + { + "text": "Some of my cousins, they call me the Lopen because they haven't ever heard anyone else named that. I've asked around a lot, maybe one hundred...or two hundred...lots of people, sure. And nobody has heard of that name.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 217, + "id": 7696 + }, + { + "text": "Oh. Oh. Question for you! What did the one-armed Herdazian do to the man who stuck him to the wall?\nNothing. The Herdazian was 'armless.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7697 + }, + { + "text": "Ain't nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho. Some of my relatives are women.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 79, + "id": 7698 + }, + { + "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 520, + "id": 7699 + }, + { + "text": "I'll do it, then. I've got to protect people, you know? Even from myself. Gotta rededicate to being the best Lopen possible. A better, improved, extra-incredible Lopen.", + "source": "Dawnshard, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7700 + }, + { + "text": "NOW? I was saving that for a dramatic moment, you penhito! Why didn't you listen earlier? We were, sure, all about to die and things!", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 133, + "id": 7701 + }, + { + "text": "I only tell stories, Your Grace. They may be truths, they may be fictions. All I know is that the stories themselves exist and that I must tell them.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 149, + "id": 7702 + }, + { + "text": "I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn't know who he was, Your Majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7703 + }, + { + "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 288, + "id": 7704 + }, + { + "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 516, + "id": 7705 + }, + { + "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 166, + "id": 7706 + }, + { + "text": "\"I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself. Another time, I was named for a rock.\"\n\"A pretty one, I hope.\"\n\"A beautiful one. And one that became completely worthless for my wearing it.\"", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 237, + "id": 7707 + }, + { + "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 77, + "id": 7708 + }, + { + "text": "\"What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.\"\n\"What does the story mean, then?\"\n\"It means what you want it to mean. The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.\"", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 292, + "id": 7709 + }, + { + "text": "People see in stories what they're looking for, my young friend. I have no answers for you. Most days, I feel I never have had any answers. I've come to your land to chase an old acquaintance, but I end up spending most of my time hiding from him instead.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 255, + "id": 7710 + }, + { + "text": "Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 105, + "id": 7711 + }, + { + "text": "You must not trust yourself with me. If I have to watch this world crumble and burn to get what I need, I will do so. With tears, yes, but I would let it happen.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 161, + "id": 7712 + }, + { + "text": "\"Beware of anyone who claims to be able to see the future.\"\n\"Except you, of course.\"\n\"Beware of anyone who claims to be able to see the future.\"", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7713 + }, + { + "text": "I cannot judge the worth of a life. I would not dare to attempt it.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 67, + "id": 7714 + }, + { + "text": "Accept the pain, but do not accept that you deserved it.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 56, + "id": 7715 + }, + { + "text": "How remarkable, [if] you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you. There's poetry in that, don't you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 212, + "id": 7716 + }, + { + "text": "I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you Kaladin, you will be warm again.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 191, + "id": 7717 + }, + { + "text": "Deal with your own stupid planet, you idiot. Don't make me come over there and slap you around again.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 101, + "id": 7718 + }, + { + "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", + "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 372, + "id": 7719 + }, + { + "text": "I can remember…sitting on a rooftop. Looking up and wondering what the stars were.I assumed I'd never know. The town philosophers had talked themselves hoarse arguing the matter, as was often their way. Talk until you can't talk anymore, and then hope someone will buy you a drink to keep the words flowing.\nYet here I am. Millennia later. Walking between the stars, learning each one.", + "source": "The Sunlit Man, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 385, + "id": 7720 + }, + { + "text": "I mention it, not to dwell upon it, but to remember a time when I was commonly put into dangerous situations. I did not handle it well then. I often wonder … how would I handle it now?", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 184, + "id": 7721 + }, + { + "text": "I would say that hope defines us, Jasnah. Without it, we are not human.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 71, + "id": 7722 + }, + { + "text": "The law is there to keep us from ruining everyone else's ability to explore. Without law, there's no freedom. That's why I am what I am.", + "source": "The Bands of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 136, + "id": 7723 + }, + { + "text": "I have known you for an entire year now, Lord Waxillium. I can accept you for who you are, but I am under no illusions. Something will happen at our wedding. A villain will burst in, guns firing. Or we'll discover explosives in the altar. Or Father Bin will inexplicably turn out to be an old enemy and attempt to murder you instead of performing the ceremony. It will happen.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 376, + "id": 7724 + }, + { + "text": "I think we're all like that. Shuffled from place to place by duty, or society, or God Himself. It seems like we're just along for the ride, even in our own lives. But once in a while, we do face a choice. A real one. 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He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. 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I would have again ransomed this undeserving planet.", + "source": "Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7746 + }, + { + "text": "I did not make a mistake. I have never made a mistake. However, it is time for a change.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 88, + "id": 7747 + }, + { + "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 328, + "id": 7748 + }, + { + "text": "Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 71, + "id": 7749 + }, + { + "text": "I will protect those I hate. 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Opposite sides of a card.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 296, + "id": 7755 + }, + { + "text": "United, new beginnings sing: \"Defying truth, love, Truth defy!\"\" Sing beginnings, new unity.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 92, + "id": 7756 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a strong proponent of humiliating trackts and others in authority, but killing them is a bit extreme.", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 105, + "id": 7757 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes stupid is right. Hell. I hope nobody ever quotes me on that one.", + "source": "Calamity, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 74, + "id": 7758 + }, + { + "text": "I need to give something back. Even if it's something useless.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 62, + "id": 7759 + }, + { + "text": "Not a god, but a scribe. A silly little scribe who was allowed to play god for a few years! A coward.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 101, + "id": 7760 + }, + { + "text": "So far this day I have discovered several disturbing and redefining elements of my soul which are slowly restructuring the very nature of my existence. Other than that, it was uneventful. You?", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 192, + "id": 7761 + }, + { + "text": "I've tried for years to corrupt him. Never seems to work. I can't even get him to acknowledge the theological paradox it causes when I try to tempt him to do evil.", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 163, + "id": 7762 + }, + { + "text": "You're the one that makes us laugh, even while you insult us. Can't you see what that does? Can't you see how you've inadvertently set yourself above everyone else? You didn't do it intentionally, Lightsong, and that's what makes it work so well. 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Anyone who saw the light in her eyes as she took out another sheet and sketched her idea further knew she was being too modest.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 199, + "id": 7767 + }, + { + "text": "As always, questions teased her. Questions were disorder awaiting organization. The more you understood, the more the world aligned. The more the chaos made sense, as all things should.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 185, + "id": 7768 + }, + { + "text": "You like to use that excuse, Master Leeds. One wonders if moments like this are a matter of laziness more than control.", + "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 119, + "id": 7769 + }, + { + "text": "Wax was a right good fellow, but there were a lot of things he didn't understand. Women for one. Hats for another.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 114, + "id": 7770 + }, + { + "text": "Not that the pain went completely away, mind you. But he and pain were old friends what shared a handshake and a beer now and then. Didn't much like each other, but they had a working relationship.", + "source": "The Band of Mourning, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 197, + "id": 7771 + }, + { + "text": "He had beggar costumes, constable costumes, and old lady costumes. A fellow needed to be able to blend in with his surroundings.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 128, + "id": 7772 + }, + { + "text": "You are whatever you want to be, Wayne. You're the wind. You're the stars. You are all endless things.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 102, + "id": 7773 + }, + { + "text": "Some mistakes though, you can't fix by being sorry. Can't fix them no matter what you do.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 89, + "id": 7774 + }, + { + "text": "You ever notice how often he gets to be the one who rides in comfort, while I have to do things like gallop or walk all the time? Not very fair.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7775 + }, + { + "text": "I killed your daddy. I mugged him in an alley for his pocketbook. I shot a better man than me, and because of that, I don't deserve to be alive.", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 144, + "id": 7776 + }, + { + "text": "Our accents are clothing for our thoughts, my dear. Without them, everything we say would be stripped bare, and we might as well be screaming at one another. Oh look. The dessert lady has chocolate pastries again!", + "source": "Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 213, + "id": 7777 + }, + { + "text": "So I guess I'm beginnin' to wonder: Maybe I can't ever do enough good to balance the bad I done. Maybe I'll always be worthless.", + "source": "The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 128, + "id": 7778 + }, + { + "text": "What good is being imaginary if you can't ignore the weather?", + "source": "Legion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 61, + "id": 7779 + }, + { + "text": "I could use a new dog. I'll feed it fake food and give it fake water and take it on fake walks. 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This here, this is payback.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7789 + }, + { + "text": "I will clean this city up, Suit. Even if I have to rip out its blackened heart with my fingernails, I'll do it.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 111, + "id": 7790 + }, + { + "text": "Is there any doubt that I have been chosen for something great? Why else would I have this power, Waxillium? Why else would we be what we are? And yet, we let others rule. Let them make a mess of our world while we do nothing but chase petty criminals.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 252, + "id": 7791 + }, + { + "text": "I served the law too. But now I serve something better. The essence of the law, but mixed with real justice. An alloy, Wax. The best parts of both made into one. I do something better than chase the filth sent to me from the city.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 230, + "id": 7792 + }, + { + "text": "Don't tell me you never felt it. You worked every day to fix the world, Wax. You tried to end the pain, the violence, the robberies. It never worked. The more men you put down, the more troubles arose.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 201, + "id": 7793 + }, + { + "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 177, + "id": 7794 + }, + { + "text": "Can't you see? Can't you see what important work we could be doing? Can't you see that we're meant to be doing it, perhaps even ruling. 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You must prepare.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 125, + "id": 7807 + }, + { + "text": "It comes! The Night of Sorrows! I stand on the precipice of dawn and watch it advance, consuming all light, all life, all hope! IT COMES!", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 137, + "id": 7808 + }, + { + "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 202, + "id": 7809 + }, + { + "text": "Someone must bear the responsibility, someone must be dragged down by it, ruined by it. Someone must stain their souls so others may live... The burden for the blood of those wronged must rest somewhere. I am the sacrifice. We, Dalinar Kholin, are the sacrifices. Society offers us up to trudge through dirty water so others may be clean. Someone has to fall, that others may stand.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 382, + "id": 7810 + }, + { + "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 290, + "id": 7811 + }, + { + "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 614, + "id": 7812 + }, + { + "text": "Retribution would keep his promises. Oaths were important. And Retribution would destroy anyone who believed differently.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 121, + "id": 7813 + }, + { + "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 639, + "id": 7814 + }, + { + "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 361, + "id": 7815 + }, + { + "text": "I hate the other highprinces. But I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone particularly deserving.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7816 + }, + { + "text": "I will note that this Desolation of yours is going to undermine years of my business planning.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 94, + "id": 7817 + }, + { + "text": "If a man takes nothing in his life seriously, it makes a woman wonder. What is she? Another joke? Another whim?", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 111, + "id": 7818 + }, + { + "text": "Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense. If we find riches, remember that I get my part! I got here before Aladar. That has to count for something.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 153, + "id": 7819 + }, + { + "text": "I… have seen Ishar. He curses me at night, even as he names himself a god. He seeks death. His own. Perhaps that of every man.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 126, + "id": 7820 + }, + { + "text": "But take care; Ishar's skill as a duelist is a lesser danger. He has recovered his Honorblade. He is a Bondsmith unchained.", + "source": "Rythm of War, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7821 + }, + { + "text": "I don't matter. Sure, Azir does. But I'm only a kid they put on the throne because they were afraid that assassin would come back.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 130, + "id": 7822 + }, + { + "text": "My, my, lad. That was something incredible you did! I'm… not even sure what it was, but it was something incredible indeed!", + "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians: The Shattered Lens, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 123, + "id": 7823 + }, + { + "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. 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I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", + "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 220, + "id": 7831 + }, + { + "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 82, + "id": 7832 + }, + { + "text": "A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7833 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 103, + "id": 7834 + }, + { + "text": "I only ever saw one man pushing the Synod toward active measures. 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Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 370, + "id": 7837 + }, + { + "text": "A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.", + "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 218, + "id": 7838 + }, + { + "text": "I see. You do not yet understand the nature of lies. I had that trouble myself, long ago. The Shards here are very strict. You will have to see the truth, child, before you can expand upon it. 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Animals make sense.\"", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 94, + "id": 7850 + }, + { + "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 389, + "id": 7851 + }, + { + "text": "I will be human, We will kill you. Take your cities. Then we will be human.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 75, + "id": 7852 + }, + { + "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 79, + "id": 7853 + }, + { + "text": "Care. 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A very different me than I was a year ago, but I can't worry about that, so I just keep moving and hope my feet take me where I need to go.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 257, + "id": 7858 + }, + { + "text": "Authority doesn't come from a rank. It comes from the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 108, + "id": 7859 + }, + { + "text": "Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. If nobody starts, then others cannot follow...Because, son. We have to be better than they are.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 190, + "id": 7860 + }, + { + "text": "In four years, I will bring him home safely. I promise it by the storms and the Almighty's tenth name itself. I will bring him back.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 132, + "id": 7861 + }, + { + "text": "I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know that I survived.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 207, + "id": 7862 + }, + { + "text": "The scars haven't finished with me yet, it appears. I'll try again another time.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 80, + "id": 7863 + }, + { + "text": "Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do. If this goes poorly, take care of my men.", + "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 84, + "id": 7864 + }, + { + "text": "The sky and the winds are mine, I claim them. 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We wouldn't want to let something as simple as the pains of our people to interfere with our leisure time. Why am I even talking to you?", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 150, + "id": 7869 + }, + { + "text": "Once, the Returned didn't just listen to petitions and say yes or no. They would take the time to hear each person who came to them, then seek to help them as best they could", + "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 174, + "id": 7870 + }, + { + "text": "Orphans make such heart-wrenching victims, so innocent yet no one to mourn them. Or would you prioritize saving someone with a more personal connection?", + "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 152, + "id": 7871 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a man of extremes, Navani. I discovered that when I was a youth. 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We will make a pyre of this city, and there shall be no weeping for its passing, for none will remain to weep.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 249, + "id": 7875 + }, + { + "text": "She came to us, to plead. How could you have missed her? Do you track your own family so poorly? The hole you burned … we don't hide there anymore. Everyone knows about it. Now it's a prison.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 191, + "id": 7876 + }, + { + "text": "You've shown me something today, Sadeas –- shown it to me by the very act of trying to remove me ... You've shown me that I'm still a threat.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 141, + "id": 7877 + }, + { + "text": "Old friend, Honor might be dead, but I have felt … something else. Something beyond. A warmth and a light. It is not that God has died, it is that the Almighty was never God.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 174, + "id": 7878 + }, + { + "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 170, + "id": 7879 + }, + { + "text": "It's not a matter of morality, is it? It's a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you'd accept one innocent casualty? A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred? When you consider, all calculations are meaningless except one. Has more good been done than evil? If so, then the law has done its job. And so… I must hang all four men. And I would weep, every night, for having done it", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 399, + "id": 7880 + }, + { + "text": "Your butt is too nice. Old guys shouldn't have tight butts. It means you spend waaay too much time swinging a sword or punching people. You should have an old flabby butt. Then I'd trust you.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 191, + "id": 7881 + }, + { + "text": "Honor? No, he truly is dead, as you've been told. I'm the other one, Dalinar. They call me Odium.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 97, + "id": 7882 + }, + { + "text": "Dalinar looked at it, baffled, then up at the old man. In Odium's eyes, he could see that violet-black fire. Deep, deep within. The figure with whom Dalinar spoke was not the god, it was merely a face, a mask. Because if Dalinar had to confront the true force behind those smiling eyes, he would go mad.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 303, + "id": 7883 + }, + { + "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 507, + "id": 7884 + }, + { + "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 255, + "id": 7885 + }, + { + "text": "You've said the oaths, but do you understand the journey? Do you understand what it requires? You've forgotten one essential part, one thing that without which there can be no journey.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 184, + "id": 7886 + }, + { + "text": "I will take responsibility for what I have done, if I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 100, + "id": 7887 + }, + { + "text": "The enemy brought a very big stick to this battle, Captain. I'm going to take it away.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 86, + "id": 7888 + }, + { + "text": "I hate what this does. I see beauty in you, Dalinar Kholin. I see a great man struggling against a terrible one. And sometimes, you get this look in your eyes. A horrible, terrifying nothingness. Like you have become a creature with no heart, feasting upon sounds to fill that void, dragging pain spren in your wake. It haunts me, Dalinar.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 339, + "id": 7889 + }, + { + "text": "And Renarin? Dalinar, you have two sons, in case you have forgotten. Do you even care about this child's condition? Or is he nothing to you, now that he can't become a soldier?", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 176, + "id": 7890 + }, + { + "text": "I have been treating the other highprinces and their lighteyes like adults. An adult can take a principle and adapt it to his needs. But we're not ready for that yet. We're children. And when you're teaching a child, you require him to do what is right until he grows old enough to make his own choices.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 303, + "id": 7891 + }, + { + "text": "I am a hypocrite, but sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 107, + "id": 7892 + }, + { + "text": "They are aflame. They burn. They bring the darkness when they come, and so all you can see is that their skin is aflame. Burn, burn, burn....", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 141, + "id": 7893 + }, + { + "text": "Well were they named Voidbringers, for they brought the void. The empty pit that sucks in emotion. A new god. Their god.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7894 + }, + { + "text": "Flame and char. Skin so terrible. Eyes like pits of blackness. Music when they kill.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 84, + "id": 7895 + }, + { + "text": "A scourge and a plague. A hundred times they came upon mankind. First casting us from the Tranquiline Halls, then trying to destroy us here on Roshar. They weren't just spren that hid under rocks, then came out to steal someone's laundry. They were creatures of terrible destructive power, forged in Damnation, created from hate.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 329, + "id": 7896 + }, + { + "text": "Obvious visual tells must be assiduously avoided by a practitioner of the law, lest he inadvertently give criminals an insight into his emotional state.", + "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 152, + "id": 7897 + }, + { + "text": "We can do this. Just take a deep breath. Reach up. Pluck a star. 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We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 260, + "id": 7902 + }, + { + "text": "They're mostly tradesmen and merchants. Every one I've met has tried to swindle me, but that's hardly the same thing as invading.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 129, + "id": 7903 + }, + { + "text": "Plan every battle as if you will inevitably retreat, but fight every battle like there is no backing down.", + "source": "Oathbringer Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 106, + "id": 7904 + }, + { + "text": "Yelig-nar, called Blightwind, was one that could speak like a man, though often his voice was accompanied by the wails of those he consumed.", + "source": "The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 140, + "id": 7905 + }, + { + "text": "The Unmade were obviously fabrications of folklore. Curiously, most were not considered individuals, but instead personifications of kinds of destruction. This quote is from Traxil, line 33, considered a primary source, though I doubt its authenticity.", + "source": "The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 252, + "id": 7906 + }, + { + "text": "We are uncertain the effect this will have on the parsh. At the very least, it should deny them forms of power. Melishi is confident, but Naze-daughter-Kuzodo warns of unintended side effects.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 192, + "id": 7907 + }, + { + "text": "Don't draw attention to yourself. Don't set yourself above others. 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One would think that now, with a single, immortal governor, society would finally have an opportunity to find stability and enlightenment.", + "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 282, + "id": 7911 + }, + { + "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", + "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7912 + }, + { + "text": "What I saw on that battlefield... those red eyes... Sir, I'm with you. I will follow you to the ends of the storms themselves.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 126, + "id": 7913 + }, + { + "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 172, + "id": 7914 + }, + { + "text": "It is odd, then, that something man-made should have played such an important part in the discovery of Rithmatics. If His Majesty hadn't been carrying one of Master Freudland's new-style pocket watches, perhaps none of this would have ever occurred, and man might have fallen to the wild chalklings.", + "source": "The Rithmatist, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 299, + "id": 7915 + }, + { + "text": "An army exists on two principles: health and food. Provide those two things, and you will be victorious.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 104, + "id": 7916 + }, + { + "text": "The warrior cannot choose her bed; she must bless the stars if she can choose her battlefield.", + "source": "Skyward, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 94, + "id": 7917 + }, + { + "text": "Taking the Dawnshard, known to bind any creature voidish or mortal, he crawled up the steps crafted for Heralds, ten strides tall apiece, toward the grand temple above.", + "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 168, + "id": 7918 + }, + { + "text": "Perhaps the liar here is me -- lying to tell myself I could do this, that I could be a fraction of the man my father was.", + "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 120, + "id": 7919 + }, + { + "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 138, + "id": 7920 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 236, + "id": 7921 + },{ + "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 203, + "id": 7922 + }, + { + "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 423, + "id": 7923 + }, + { + "text": "You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. 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And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4271, + "length": 215 + }, + { + "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4272, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4273, + "length": 494 + }, + { + "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", + "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", + "id": 4274, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4275, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", + "source": "Portal", + "id": 4276, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "id": 4277, + "length": 236 + }, + { + "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", + "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", + "id": 4279, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", + "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", + "id": 4280, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", + "source": "Intensity: A Novel", + "id": 4281, + "length": 283 + }, + { + "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", + "source": "419", + "id": 4282, + "length": 266 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", + "source": "Preface to Economix", + "id": 4283, + "length": 387 + }, + { + "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4284, + "length": 314 + }, + { + "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4285, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", + "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", + "id": 4286, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", + "source": "Friday The 13th", + "id": 4287, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. 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I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4290, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", + "source": "Meditations", + "id": 4291, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", + "source": "An American in Paris", + "id": 4292, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", + "source": "One-Punch Man", + "id": 4293, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4294, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4295, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", + "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", + "id": 4297, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", + "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", + "id": 4298, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4299, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", + "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", + "id": 4300, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", + "source": "The Great Pretender", + "id": 4301, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4302, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4304, + "length": 576 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", + "source": "The Bug", + "id": 4305, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4306, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", + "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", + "id": 4307, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", + "source": "Lateralus", + "id": 4308, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", + "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", + "id": 4309, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4310, + "length": 327 + }, + { + "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4311, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4312, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", + "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", + "id": 4313, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", + "source": "Your Deep Rest", + "id": 4314, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", + "source": "The Lord of The Rings", + "id": 4315, + "length": 128 + }, + { + "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. 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Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", + "source": "Leaves of Grass", + "id": 4318, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4319, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4320, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4321, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", + "source": "Before I Forget", + "id": 4322, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", + "source": "Playing For Keeps", + "id": 4323, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. 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When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4326, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4327, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", + "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", + "id": 4328, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. 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That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", + "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", + "id": 4332, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4333, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4334, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", + "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", + "id": 4335, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", + "source": "Juno", + "id": 4336, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4338, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. 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Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", + "source": "The Book of Illusions", + "id": 4341, + "length": 705 + }, + { + "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", + "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", + "id": 4342, + "length": 614 + }, + { + "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", + "source": "The Mist", + "id": 4343, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", + "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", + "id": 4344, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4345, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", + "source": "The Flash", + "id": 4346, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", + "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", + "id": 4347, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", + "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", + "id": 4348, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4349, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4350, + "length": 471 + }, + { + "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", + "source": "Mona Lisa", + "id": 4352, + "length": 447 + }, + { + "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", + "source": "Clerks", + "id": 4353, + "length": 261 + }, + { + "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4355, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", + "source": "A Separate Peace", + "id": 4356, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", + "source": "The Sopranos", + "id": 4357, + "length": 415 + }, + { + "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4359, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4360, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", + "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", + "id": 4361, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", + "source": "Kung Fu Panda", + "id": 4364, + "length": 219 + }, + { + "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4365, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", + "source": "The Notebook", + "id": 4366, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", + "source": "Middlemarch", + "id": 4367, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4368, + "length": 250 + }, + { + "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4369, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", + "source": "A Game of Thrones", + "id": 4370, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", + "source": "King for a Day", + "id": 4371, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", + "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", + "id": 4372, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", + "source": "Say Anything", + "id": 4373, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", + "source": "The Wall", + "id": 4374, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", + "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", + "id": 4375, + "length": 450 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4376, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4377, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4379, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", + "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", + "id": 4380, + "length": 85 + }, + { + "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", + "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", + "id": 4381, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", + "source": "Beautiful Day", + "id": 4383, + "length": 114 + }, + { + "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", + "source": "Sonic Adventure", + "id": 4385, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", + "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", + "id": 4386, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", + "source": "Blackwater", + "id": 4387, + "length": 609 + }, + { + "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4388, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4389, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4390, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4391, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", + "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", + "id": 4392, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", + "source": "Warrior", + "id": 4393, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4394, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4395, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", + "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", + "id": 4396, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4397, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4398, + "length": 374 + }, + { + "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", + "source": "Boy Meets World", + "id": 4399, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4400, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", + "source": "The Last Lecture", + "id": 4401, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", + "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", + "id": 4402, + "length": 388 + }, + { + "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "id": 4403, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", + "source": "Aeneid", + "id": 4404, + "length": 432 + }, + { + "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4406, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", + "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", + "id": 4407, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4408, + "length": 564 + }, + { + "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4409, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", + "source": "Ninja Mind Control", + "id": 4411, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", + "source": "The Canterbury Tales", + "id": 4412, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", + "source": "Firestorm", + "id": 4413, + "length": 291 + }, + { + "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4414, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4415, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", + "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", + "id": 4417, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", + "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", + "id": 4418, + "length": 642 + }, + { + "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", + "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", + "id": 4419, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", + "source": "Amadeus", + "id": 4420, + "length": 214 + }, + { + "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", + "source": "The Alchemist", + "id": 4421, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", + "source": "Hey Jude", + "id": 4422, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4423, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", + "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", + "id": 4425, + "length": 253 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", + "source": "InuYasha", + "id": 4426, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4427, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4428, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", + "source": "Beauty and the Beast", + "id": 4429, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", + "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", + "id": 4430, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", + "source": "Pickman's Model", + "id": 4431, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", + "source": "American Pie", + "id": 4432, + "length": 639 + }, + { + "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4433, + "length": 368 + }, + { + "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", + "source": "Corner Gas", + "id": 4435, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", + "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", + "id": 4436, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4437, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", + "source": "All Night", + "id": 4438, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid", + "id": 4439, + "length": 257 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", + "source": "Airplane!", + "id": 4440, + "length": 330 + }, + { + "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4441, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", + "source": "The Gambler", + "id": 4442, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", + "source": "I, Mammal", + "id": 4443, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4444, + "length": 527 + }, + { + "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4445, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", + "source": "The First Elegy", + "id": 4446, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4447, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", + "source": "Never Ever", + "id": 4448, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4449, + "length": 410 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", + "source": "Head Over Feet", + "id": 4450, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "id": 4451, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4452, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", + "source": "Quiz Show", + "id": 4453, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4454, + "length": 154 + }, + { + "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", + "source": "Areopagitica", + "id": 4456, + "length": 822 + }, + { + "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4457, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", + "source": "Adventure Time", + "id": 4458, + "length": 217 + }, + { + "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "id": 4459, + "length": 482 + }, + { + "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "id": 4460, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", + "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", + "id": 4461, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4462, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4463, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4464, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4466, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", + "source": "World Enough and Time", + "id": 4467, + "length": 548 + }, + { + "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", + "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", + "id": 4468, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4469, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", + "source": "That's What Friends Are For", + "id": 4470, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4471, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", + "source": "King Park", + "id": 4472, + "length": 115 + }, + { + "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", + "source": "The Iliad", + "id": 4473, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", + "source": "Beautiful", + "id": 4474, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", + "source": "Subdivisions", + "id": 4475, + "length": 292 + }, + { + "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", + "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", + "id": 4477, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4478, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", + "source": "Cages", + "id": 4479, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4480, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", + "source": "Apocalypse Now", + "id": 4481, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4483, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4484, + "length": 503 + }, + { + "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4485, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4486, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4487, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4488, + "length": 512 + }, + { + "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", + "source": "Total Annihilation", + "id": 4489, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", + "source": "Small Gods", + "id": 4490, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4491, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4492, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", + "source": "The Analects", + "id": 4493, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "id": 4494, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", + "source": "White Collar", + "id": 4496, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", + "source": "12 Angry Men", + "id": 4497, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", + "source": "The Wire", + "id": 4498, + "length": 608 + }, + { + "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", + "source": "Cars", + "id": 4499, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", + "source": "The Two Towers", + "id": 4500, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4501, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4502, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4504, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", + "source": "Hotel California", + "id": 4505, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4506, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4507, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4508, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4509, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", + "source": "Sacrifice", + "id": 4510, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4511, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", + "source": "The Princess Bride", + "id": 4512, + "length": 301 + }, + { + "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "id": 4513, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", + "source": "Fox in Socks", + "id": 4514, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", + "id": 4515, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", + "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", + "id": 4516, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", + "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", + "id": 4518, + "length": 831 + }, + { + "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", + "source": "Private Idaho", + "id": 4519, + "length": 221 + }, + { + "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", + "source": "Paprika", + "id": 4520, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4521, + "length": 351 + }, + { + "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", + "source": "The Blues Brothers", + "id": 4522, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", + "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", + "id": 4523, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", + "source": "Into Thin Air", + "id": 4524, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", + "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", + "id": 4527, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4528, + "length": 80 + }, + { + "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4529, + "length": 539 + }, + { + "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", + "source": "Eclipse", + "id": 4530, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4532, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4534, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "id": 4535, + "length": 331 + }, + { + "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4536, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", + "source": "Harold and Maude", + "id": 4537, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "id": 4538, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", + "source": "The Court Jester", + "id": 4539, + "length": 343 + }, + { + "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", + "source": "Lessons in Tanya", + "id": 4540, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", + "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", + "id": 4541, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", + "source": "I Have A Dream", + "id": 4543, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", + "source": "True Detective", + "id": 4544, + "length": 385 + }, + { + "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4545, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4546, + "length": 563 + }, + { + "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", + "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", + "id": 4547, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", + "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", + "id": 4548, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4549, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", + "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", + "id": 4550, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4551, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", + "source": "The Giver", + "id": 4552, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", + "source": "The River", + "id": 4553, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4554, + "length": 260 + }, + { + "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4555, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4556, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", + "source": "The Lion in Winter", + "id": 4557, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", + "source": "Eight of Nine", + "id": 4558, + "length": 70 + }, + { + "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", + "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", + "id": 4559, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4560, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", + "source": "Galaxy Song", + "id": 4561, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4562, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", + "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", + "id": 4563, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", + "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", + "id": 4564, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", + "source": "The End of the Innocence", + "id": 4565, + "length": 284 + }, + { + "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4566, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4567, + "length": 59 + }, + { + "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", + "source": "My Inventions", + "id": 4569, + "length": 656 + }, + { + "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", + "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", + "id": 4571, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", + "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", + "id": 4572, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", + "source": "Monster Mash", + "id": 4573, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", + "source": "My Favorite Things", + "id": 4575, + "length": 363 + }, + { + "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", + "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", + "id": 4576, + "length": 356 + }, + { + "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4577, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", + "source": "Right Here Waiting", + "id": 4578, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", + "source": "Looking Backward", + "id": 4580, + "length": 479 + }, + { + "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", + "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", + "id": 4581, + "length": 574 + }, + { + "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", + "source": "Carmilla", + "id": 4582, + "length": 818 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", + "source": "The Snowman", + "id": 4583, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4585, + "length": 434 + }, + { + "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", + "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", + "id": 4586, + "length": 666 + }, + { + "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4587, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", + "source": "I, Robot", + "id": 4588, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", + "source": "Naruto", + "id": 4589, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", + "source": "All About Eve", + "id": 4590, + "length": 323 + }, + { + "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", + "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", + "id": 4591, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", + "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", + "id": 4592, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", + "source": "The Complete Far Side", + "id": 4593, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4594, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", + "source": "Hollow Knight", + "id": 4595, + "length": 569 + }, + { + "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", + "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", + "id": 4596, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", + "source": "Flatland", + "id": 4597, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", + "source": "Radioactive", + "id": 4598, + "length": 192 + }, + { + "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", + "source": "Metro 2033", + "id": 4599, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4600, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4601, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", + "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", + "id": 4603, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", + "source": "American Splendor", + "id": 4604, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", + "source": "Groundhog Day", + "id": 4605, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", + "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", + "id": 4606, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", + "source": "Lucy", + "id": 4607, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", + "source": "Inception", + "id": 4608, + "length": 226 + }, + { + "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", + "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", + "id": 4609, + "length": 433 + }, + { + "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4610, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", + "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", + "id": 4611, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4612, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", + "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", + "id": 4613, + "length": 444 + }, + { + "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4614, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", + "id": 4615, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", + "source": "Heroes", + "id": 4616, + "length": 437 + }, + { + "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XII", + "id": 4618, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4619, + "length": 404 + }, + { + "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4620, + "length": 597 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", + "source": "North by Northwest", + "id": 4621, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4622, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", + "source": "Being There", + "id": 4623, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4624, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", + "source": "Trading Places", + "id": 4625, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4626, + "length": 200 + }, + { + "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", + "source": "Blue's Clues", + "id": 4627, + "length": 123 + }, + { + "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", + "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", + "id": 4628, + "length": 570 + }, + { + "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", + "source": "Pushing Daisies", + "id": 4629, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", + "source": "Sexy Beast", + "id": 4630, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", + "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", + "id": 4631, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4632, + "length": 604 + }, + { + "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4633, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4634, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", + "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", + "id": 4635, + "length": 334 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", + "source": "The Night Diary", + "id": 4636, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4637, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", + "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", + "id": 4638, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", + "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", + "id": 4639, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", + "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", + "id": 4641, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4642, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", + "source": "Poison", + "id": 4643, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4644, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", + "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", + "id": 4645, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4647, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", + "source": "What Dreams May Come", + "id": 4648, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", + "source": "Parasite", + "id": 4649, + "length": 477 + }, + { + "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4651, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", + "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", + "id": 4652, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4654, + "length": 185 + }, + { + "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", + "source": "The Imitation Game", + "id": 4655, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4656, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", + "source": "True Romance", + "id": 4657, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", + "source": "Heavy Metal", + "id": 4658, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4659, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4660, + "length": 294 + }, + { + "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", + "source": "Paul Clifford", + "id": 4661, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4662, + "length": 277 + }, + { + "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", + "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", + "id": 4663, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "id": 4664, + "length": 442 + }, + { + "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4665, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", + "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", + "id": 4666, + "length": 515 + }, + { + "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", + "source": "The Hunger Games", + "id": 4667, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", + "source": "The Odyssey", + "id": 4668, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 4669, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", + "source": "Lazarus", + "id": 4670, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", + "source": "Understanding Media", + "id": 4671, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", + "source": "Deadwood", + "id": 4672, + "length": 498 + }, + { + "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", + "source": "Madagascar", + "id": 4673, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", + "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", + "id": 4674, + "length": 333 + }, + { + "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", + "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", + "id": 4675, + "length": 198 + }, + { + "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", + "source": "All I Want", + "id": 4676, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", + "id": 4677, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", + "source": "Lithium", + "id": 4678, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", + "source": "Gone Girl", + "id": 4679, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", + "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", + "id": 4680, + "length": 402 + }, + { + "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", + "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", + "id": 4681, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", + "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", + "id": 4682, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", + "source": "Human Nature", + "id": 4683, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", + "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", + "id": 4685, + "length": 485 + }, + { + "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", + "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", + "id": 4686, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4687, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", + "source": "No Logo", + "id": 4688, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", + "source": "Forrest Gump", + "id": 4689, + "length": 186 + }, + { + "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4690, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4691, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", + "id": 4692, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4693, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", + "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", + "id": 4695, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4696, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4697, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4698, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", + "source": "On the Social Contract", + "id": 4699, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", + "source": "The Lorax", + "id": 4701, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", + "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", + "id": 4702, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", + "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", + "id": 4703, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", + "source": "Essentials of Economics", + "id": 4704, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", + "source": "BioShock Infinite", + "id": 4705, + "length": 427 + }, + { + "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", + "source": "The Time Machine", + "id": 4706, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", + "source": "The Historian", + "id": 4707, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", + "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", + "id": 4708, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4710, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4711, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", + "source": "Thinking Bout You", + "id": 4714, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", + "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", + "id": 4715, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4716, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", + "source": "Sunset Boulevard", + "id": 4717, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", + "source": "Allentown", + "id": 4719, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4720, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4721, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4722, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", + "source": "Gandhi", + "id": 4723, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", + "source": "Hands Down", + "id": 4724, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", + "source": "Made in Abyss", + "id": 4725, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", + "source": "Halloween", + "id": 4726, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", + "source": "Breaking Away", + "id": 4728, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", + "source": "King's Quest I", + "id": 4730, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4731, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", + "source": "Roseanne", + "id": 4732, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4733, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", + "source": "Holidays on Ice", + "id": 4734, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", + "source": "I Am A Rock", + "id": 4735, + "length": 231 + }, + { + "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", + "source": "Don Quixote", + "id": 4736, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4737, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", + "source": "Les Misérables", + "id": 4738, + "length": 220 + }, + { + "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", + "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", + "id": 4739, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4740, + "length": 263 + }, + { + "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", + "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", + "id": 4741, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4742, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", + "source": "Holiday", + "id": 4743, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4744, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4745, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", + "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", + "id": 4746, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", + "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", + "id": 4747, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", + "source": "The Lost Weekend", + "id": 4749, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", + "source": "The Sound of Music", + "id": 4750, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4751, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4752, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", + "source": "Naked Lunch", + "id": 4753, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4754, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", + "source": "Overestimation", + "id": 4755, + "length": 344 + }, + { + "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", + "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", + "id": 4756, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", + "source": "Shaun of the Dead", + "id": 4757, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", + "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", + "id": 4758, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4759, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4760, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4761, + "length": 487 + }, + { + "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", + "source": "Confessions", + "id": 4762, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4763, + "length": 397 + }, + { + "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4764, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4767, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4768, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4769, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4770, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", + "source": "Name", + "id": 4771, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", + "source": "Brave New World", + "id": 4772, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", + "source": "Shiny Happy People", + "id": 4773, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", + "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", + "id": 4774, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", + "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", + "id": 4775, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", + "source": "Wine for Dummies", + "id": 4776, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", + "source": "Nightmare", + "id": 4777, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4778, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4779, + "length": 205 + }, + { + "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", + "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", + "id": 4780, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4781, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4782, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4783, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", + "source": "Beetlejuice", + "id": 4784, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4786, + "length": 148 + }, + { + "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", + "source": "Novum Organum", + "id": 4787, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4788, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", + "source": "It's My Life", + "id": 4789, + "length": 106 + }, + { + "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", + "source": "Falling", + "id": 4790, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4791, + "length": 567 + }, + { + "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", + "source": "Chateau Cascade", + "id": 4792, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", + "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", + "id": 4793, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4794, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4795, + "length": 510 + }, + { + "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4796, + "length": 151 + }, + { + "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", + "source": "UnTechnical Writing", + "id": 4797, + "length": 287 + }, + { + "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", + "source": "Physics for Game Developers", + "id": 4798, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4799, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", + "source": "What If?", + "id": 4800, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", + "source": "A Study in Scarlet", + "id": 4801, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", + "source": "Porgy and Bess", + "id": 4802, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", + "source": "Cool As Ice", + "id": 4803, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4805, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", + "source": "All in the Family", + "id": 4806, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4807, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", + "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", + "id": 4808, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", + "source": "Shoe Dog", + "id": 4809, + "length": 579 + }, + { + "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4810, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4812, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", + "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", + "id": 4813, + "length": 375 + }, + { + "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4814, + "length": 232 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4815, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4816, + "length": 382 + }, + { + "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", + "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", + "id": 4818, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", + "source": "Dubliners", + "id": 4819, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", + "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", + "id": 4820, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4821, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4822, + "length": 540 + }, + { + "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4823, + "length": 65 + }, + { + "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", + "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", + "id": 4824, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4825, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4826, + "length": 295 + }, + { + "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", + "source": "Battlesong", + "id": 4827, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", + "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", + "id": 4828, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", + "source": "The Complete Project Manager", + "id": 4829, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", + "source": "Savoy Truffle", + "id": 4830, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", + "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", + "id": 4831, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", + "source": "Back to the Future", + "id": 4832, + "length": 276 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4833, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", + "source": "Restraint", + "id": 4834, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4835, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", + "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", + "id": 4836, + "length": 184 + }, + { + "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", + "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", + "id": 4837, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", + "source": "Underground", + "id": 4838, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4839, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4840, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", + "source": "Suits", + "id": 4841, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4842, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4843, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", + "source": "Saving Us a Riot", + "id": 4844, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", + "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", + "id": 4846, + "length": 155 + }, + { + "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4847, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4848, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", + "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "id": 4849, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", + "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", + "id": 4851, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", + "source": "Collide", + "id": 4852, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", + "source": "Hannah Hunt", + "id": 4853, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", + "source": "Limitless", + "id": 4854, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", + "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", + "id": 4855, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "id": 4856, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4857, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", + "source": "Wag the Dog", + "id": 4858, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4859, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", + "source": "Civil Disobedience", + "id": 4860, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4861, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", + "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", + "id": 4863, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", + "source": "The Elements of Style", + "id": 4864, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", + "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", + "id": 4865, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", + "source": "Pale Blue Dot", + "id": 4866, + "length": 820 + }, + { + "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", + "source": "DOOM 4", + "id": 4867, + "length": 502 + }, + { + "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", + "source": "The Recruit", + "id": 4868, + "length": 386 + }, + { + "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", + "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", + "id": 4869, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", + "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", + "id": 4870, + "length": 196 + }, + { + "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", + "id": 4871, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4872, + "length": 218 + }, + { + "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4873, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", + "source": "Running and Travel", + "id": 4874, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", + "source": "On Demand Culture", + "id": 4875, + "length": 507 + }, + { + "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4876, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4877, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", + "source": "The Sirens of Titan", + "id": 4878, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4879, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4880, + "length": 441 + }, + { + "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4881, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", + "source": "13 Reasons Why", + "id": 4882, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", + "source": "Leaves from the Vine", + "id": 4883, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4884, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4885, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4886, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", + "source": "The Logical Song", + "id": 4887, + "length": 380 + }, + { + "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", + "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", + "id": 4888, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 4889, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", + "source": "Kokomo", + "id": 4890, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4891, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4893, + "length": 157 + }, + { + "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4894, + "length": 271 + }, + { + "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", + "source": "October Sky", + "id": 4895, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4896, + "length": 336 + }, + { + "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", + "source": "Pulp Fiction", + "id": 4897, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4899, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4900, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", + "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", + "id": 4901, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4902, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", + "source": "Sailing", + "id": 4903, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", + "id": 4904, + "length": 474 + }, + { + "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", + "source": "Daredevil", + "id": 4905, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", + "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", + "id": 4907, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", + "source": "Let Me Love You", + "id": 4908, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4909, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", + "source": "When Love Arrives", + "id": 4910, + "length": 286 + }, + { + "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", + "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", + "id": 4912, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4913, + "length": 64 + }, + { + "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4915, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", + "source": "The Medium is the Massage", + "id": 4916, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", + "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", + "id": 4917, + "length": 279 + }, + { + "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", + "source": "Swamp Thing", + "id": 4918, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4919, + "length": 310 + }, + { + "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4920, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4921, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", + "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", + "id": 4922, + "length": 449 + }, + { + "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "id": 4923, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", + "source": "Halo 2", + "id": 4924, + "length": 213 + }, + { + "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", + "source": "The Return", + "id": 4925, + "length": 399 + }, + { + "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", + "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", + "id": 4928, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", + "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", + "id": 4929, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", + "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", + "id": 4931, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", + "source": "Moulin Rouge", + "id": 4932, + "length": 280 + }, + { + "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 4933, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4934, + "length": 288 + }, + { + "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4935, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4936, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4937, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", + "source": "Return of the Jedi", + "id": 4938, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", + "source": "Sin City", + "id": 4939, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4940, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", + "source": "The Lightning Thief", + "id": 4941, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", + "source": "Stardew Valley", + "id": 4942, + "length": 189 + }, + { + "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", + "source": "The Godfather: Part II", + "id": 4943, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", + "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", + "id": 4944, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4945, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4946, + "length": 488 + }, + { + "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", + "source": "Scream 2", + "id": 4947, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", + "source": "The Floating Fire", + "id": 4948, + "length": 298 + }, + { + "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4949, + "length": 440 + }, + { + "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", + "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", + "id": 4950, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4951, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", + "source": "A History of Mathematics", + "id": 4952, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", + "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", + "id": 4953, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4954, + "length": 90 + }, + { + "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", + "source": "Classical Mythology", + "id": 4955, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", + "source": "Piano Man", + "id": 4956, + "length": 138 + }, + { + "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", + "source": "Industrial Disease", + "id": 4957, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", + "source": "History of Art", + "id": 4958, + "length": 612 + }, + { + "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", + "source": "Orientalism", + "id": 4959, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", + "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", + "id": 4960, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", + "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", + "id": 4961, + "length": 274 + }, + { + "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4962, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", + "source": "Firestarter", + "id": 4963, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", + "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", + "id": 4964, + "length": 790 + }, + { + "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", + "source": "Dunkelheit", + "id": 4965, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", + "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", + "id": 4966, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4967, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4968, + "length": 346 + }, + { + "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", + "source": "The West Wing", + "id": 4969, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", + "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", + "id": 4970, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", + "source": "The Lurking Fear", + "id": 4971, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", + "source": "Last Dance", + "id": 4972, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", + "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", + "id": 4973, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4974, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", + "source": "Lemon Tree", + "id": 4975, + "length": 153 + }, + { + "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4976, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", + "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", + "id": 4977, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", + "source": "Mean Girls", + "id": 4979, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", + "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", + "id": 4980, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4981, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4982, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", + "source": "911 For Peace", + "id": 4983, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", + "source": "The Greatest", + "id": 4984, + "length": 347 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4987, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", + "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", + "id": 4988, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", + "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", + "id": 4989, + "length": 293 + }, + { + "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4990, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4991, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", + "source": "True Blood", + "id": 4992, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", + "source": "Awakenings", + "id": 4993, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", + "id": 4994, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "id": 4995, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", + "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", + "id": 4996, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", + "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", + "id": 4997, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4998, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4999, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", + "source": "Helplessly Hoping", + "id": 5000, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5002, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5003, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5004, + "length": 187 + }, + { + "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5005, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5006, + "length": 48 + }, + { + "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5007, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5008, + "length": 162 + }, + { + "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5009, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5010, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5011, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5012, + "length": 309 + }, + { + "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5014, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5015, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5016, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5017, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5018, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5020, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5021, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5022, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5023, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5024, + "length": 41 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5025, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5026, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5028, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5029, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5030, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5031, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5032, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5033, + "length": 91 + }, + { + "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5034, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5035, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5036, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5037, + "length": 230 + }, + { + "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5038, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5039, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5040, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5041, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5042, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5043, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5044, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5045, + "length": 46 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5046, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5047, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5048, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5049, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5050, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5051, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5052, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5053, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5054, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5055, + "length": 53 + }, + { + "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5056, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5057, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5058, + "length": 139 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5059, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5060, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5061, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5062, + "length": 723 + }, + { + "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5063, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5064, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5065, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5066, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5067, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 89, + "id": 5068 + }, + { + "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 194, + "id": 5069 + }, + { + "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 293, + "id": 5070 + }, + { + "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. 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Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 398, + "id": 5117 + }, + { + "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 129, + "id": 5118 + }, + { + "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", + "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", + "length": 249, + "id": 5119 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", + "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", + "length": 259, + "id": 5120 + }, + { + "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", + "source": "Maurice V. 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What could you expect with his ideas?", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 507, + "id": 5153 + }, + { + "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 276, + "id": 5154 + }, + { + "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 303, + "id": 5155 + }, + { + "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. 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That's the good news.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 267, + "id": 5157 + }, + { + "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 235, + "id": 5159 + }, + { + "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 103, + "id": 5160 + }, + { + "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 91, + "id": 5161 + }, + { + "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 212, + "id": 5162 + }, + { + "text": "We didn't give up on our dreams! We changed our dreams into your dream. That's what parents do. That's what family does.", + "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", + "length": 120, + "id": 5163 + }, + { + "text": "The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 280, + "id": 5164 + }, + { + "text": "Everyday people keep hurting each other, it's no wonder why you doubt what other people in the world tell you.", + "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", + "length": 110, + "id": 5165 + }, + { + "text": "Fun things. Happy things. They'll all eventually change someday, you know? But can you still love this place?", + "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", + "length": 109, + "id": 5166 + }, + { + "text": "The shape of the wedding ring has two meanings. One is eternity. The other is completeness.", + "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", + "length": 91, + "id": 5167 + }, + { + "text": "You shouldn't hold back your tears. 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Even when you're falling.\"", + "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", + "length": 317, + "id": 5191 + }, + { + "text": "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.", + "source": "Stupid Monkey, Simpsons S4 E17", + "length": 53, + "id": 5192 + }, + { + "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", + "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", + "length": 289, + "id": 5195 + }, + { + "text": "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.", + "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", + "length": 64, + "id": 5196 + }, + { + "text": "Look, I know you doubt me. I know - I know you always have. And you're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. 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I knew no more about the creatures than that, and it was years before his story grew. I don't know where the word came from. You can't catch your mind out. It might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. Certainly not rabbit, as some people think. Babbitt has the same bourgeois smugness that hobbits do. His world is the same limited place.", + "source": "An Interview with J. R. R. Tolkien", + "length": 874, + "id": 5199 + }, + { + "text": "\"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!\" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say \"out of the frying-pan into the fire\" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.", + "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", + "length": 178, + "id": 5200 + }, + { + "text": "This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). 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The stone you can reach by doing your best.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 334, + "id": 5366 + }, + { + "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 167, + "id": 5367 + }, + { + "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 66, + "id": 5368 + }, + { + "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 95, + "id": 5369 + }, + { + "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 105, + "id": 5370 + }, + { + "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", + "source": "Your Name", + "length": 60, + "id": 5371 + }, + { + "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", + "length": 93, + "id": 5372 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", + "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", + "length": 294, + "id": 5373 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", + "source": "Meet the Heavy", + "length": 102, + "id": 5375 + }, + { + "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", + "source": "Steve Jobs", + "length": 156, + "id": 5376 + }, + { + "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", + "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", + "length": 213, + "id": 5377 + }, + { + "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 182, + "id": 5378 + }, + { + "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 474, + "id": 5379 + }, + { + "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 381, + "id": 5380 + }, + { + "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 290, + "id": 5381 + }, + { + "text": "She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 494, + "id": 5382 + }, + { + "text": "I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 99, + "id": 5384 + }, + { + "text": "Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.", + "source": "From the Earth to the Moon", + "length": 295, + "id": 5385 + }, + { + "text": "I don't wanna be \"the bee's knees\". I don't wanna be any kind of \"knees\"! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees.", + "source": "RWBY", + "length": 123, + "id": 5386 + }, + { + "text": "There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.", + "source": "Cowboy Bebop", + "length": 529, + "id": 5388 + }, + { + "text": "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 106, + "id": 5389 + }, + { + "text": "I have a file with 900 pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 309, + "id": 5390 + }, + { + "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 75, + "id": 5391 + }, + { + "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", + "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", + "length": 427, + "id": 5392 + }, + { + "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", + "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", + "length": 416, + "id": 5393 + }, + { + "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 96, + "id": 5394 + }, + { + "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 64, + "id": 5395 + }, + { + "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 171, + "id": 5396 + }, + { + "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", + "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", + "length": 205, + "id": 5397 + }, + { + "text": "One and one and one is three.", + "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", + "length": 29, + "id": 5398 + }, + { + "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", + "length": 91, + "id": 5399 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", + "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", + "length": 732, + "id": 5400 + }, + { + "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 92, + "id": 5403 + }, + { + "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 68, + "id": 5404 + }, + { + "text": "I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 103, + "id": 5405 + }, + { + "text": "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 335, + "id": 5406 + }, + { + "text": "The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of nonsense, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 466, + "id": 5407 + }, + { + "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 560, + "id": 5408 + }, + { + "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 46, + "id": 5409 + }, + { + "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 296, + "id": 5410 + }, + { + "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 87, + "id": 5411 + }, + { + "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", + "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", + "length": 174, + "id": 5416 + }, + { + "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", + "length": 250, + "id": 5417 + }, + { + "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", + "length": 428, + "id": 5418 + }, + { + "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", + "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", + "length": 260, + "id": 5419 + }, + { + "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", + "source": "The Beatles", + "length": 260, + "id": 5420 + }, + { + "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", + "length": 299, + "id": 5421 + }, + { + "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", + "length": 456, + "id": 5422 + }, + { + "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", + "length": 208, + "id": 5423 + }, + { + "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", + "source": "The Legend of Korra", + "length": 110, + "id": 5424 + }, + { + "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 138, + "id": 5425 + }, + { + "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", + "length": 226, + "id": 5426 + }, + { + "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", + "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", + "length": 190, + "id": 5427 + }, + { + "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", + "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", + "length": 72, + "id": 5429 + }, + { + "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 89, + "id": 5430 + }, + { + "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", + "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", + "length": 91, + "id": 5431 + }, + { + "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", + "source": "John Green", + "length": 95, + "id": 5432 + }, + { + "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", + "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", + "length": 349, + "id": 5433 + }, + { + "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 85, + "id": 5434 + }, + { + "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 66, + "id": 5435 + }, + { + "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", + "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", + "length": 122, + "id": 5436 + }, + { + "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 240, + "id": 5437 + }, + { + "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 365, + "id": 5438 + }, + { + "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", + "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", + "length": 403, + "id": 5439 + }, + { + "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", + "source": "SCP-5000", + "length": 487, + "id": 5441 + }, + { + "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", + "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", + "length": 892, + "id": 5442 + }, + { + "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", + "source": "A Tongue-twister", + "length": 106, + "id": 5443 + }, + { + "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", + "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", + "length": 57, + "id": 5444 + }, + { + "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", + "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", + "length": 69, + "id": 5446 + }, + { + "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", + "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", + "length": 88, + "id": 5447 + }, + { + "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", + "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", + "length": 54, + "id": 5452 + }, + { + "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 55, + "id": 5453 + }, + { + "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 62, + "id": 5456 + }, + { + "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", + "source": "They Might Be Giants", + "length": 62, + "id": 5459 + }, + { + "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 84, + "id": 5460 + }, + { + "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", + "length": 100, + "id": 5461 + }, + { + "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 231, + "id": 5462 + }, + { + "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 94, + "id": 5463 + }, + { + "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 258, + "id": 5464 + }, + { + "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", + "length": 1140, + "id": 5465 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", + "source": "Ready Player Two", + "length": 588, + "id": 5466 + }, + { + "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", + "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", + "length": 140, + "id": 5472 + }, + { + "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", + "source": "Holes", + "length": 74, + "id": 5477 + }, + { + "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 192, + "id": 5478 + }, + { + "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 78, + "id": 5482 + }, + { + "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 947, + "id": 5485 + }, + { + "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 559, + "id": 5487 + }, + { + "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", + "source": "91 days", + "length": 474, + "id": 5488 + }, + { + "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 172, + "id": 5489 + }, + { + "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 359, + "id": 5490 + }, + { + "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", + "source": "Fred Brooks", + "length": 78, + "id": 5491 + }, + { + "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", + "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", + "length": 210, + "id": 5492 + }, + { + "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 242, + "id": 5493 + }, + { + "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 200, + "id": 5494 + }, + { + "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", + "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", + "length": 189, + "id": 5495 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5496 + }, + { + "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 218, + "id": 5497 + }, + { + "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 201, + "id": 5498 + }, + { + "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "length": 150, + "id": 5499 + }, + { + "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 145, + "id": 5500 + }, + { + "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5501 + }, + { + "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 106, + "id": 5502 + }, + { + "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", + "source": "Naruto", + "length": 196, + "id": 5503 + }, + { + "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", + "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", + "length": 125, + "id": 5505 + }, + { + "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", + "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 471, + "id": 5506 + }, + { + "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", + "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", + "length": 240, + "id": 5507 + }, + { + "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", + "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", + "length": 483, + "id": 5508 + }, + { + "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 240, + "id": 5509 + }, + { + "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 584, + "id": 5510 + }, + { + "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", + "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", + "length": 375, + "id": 5511 + }, + { + "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", + "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", + "length": 413, + "id": 5512 + }, + { + "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", + "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 273, + "id": 5513 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", + "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 83, + "id": 5514 + }, + { + "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. 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Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", + "source": "Five Feet Apart", + "length": 523, + "id": 5517 + }, + { + "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", + "source": "Exurb1a", + "length": 169, + "id": 5519 + }, + { + "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", + "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 537, + "id": 5520 + }, + { + "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", + "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", + "length": 236, + "id": 5521 + }, + { + "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", + "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", + "length": 211, + "id": 5522 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. 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Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", + "source": "Celeste", + "length": 437, + "id": 5525 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 496, + "id": 5526 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 352, + "id": 5527 + }, + { + "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", + "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", + "length": 589, + "id": 5528 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 223, + "id": 5529 + }, + { + "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 399, + "id": 5530 + }, + { + "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", + "source": "The Cooper Institute", + "length": 575, + "id": 5531 + }, + { + "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 534, + "id": 5533 + }, + { + "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 463, + "id": 5534 + }, + { + "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 160, + "id": 5535 + }, + { + "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 142, + "id": 5536 + }, + { + "text": "No one knows what the future holds. 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Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and fight off the danger of the night. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you.", + "source": "Minecraft", + "length": 650, + "id": 5541 + }, + { + "text": "For a brief stint in high school, Scout joined the track team in one of his many schemes to pick up girls. He was kicked off the team after three days when everyone realized he was 23-years-old and also not enrolled in school.", + "source": "Team Fortress 2", + "length": 226, + "id": 5542 + }, + { + "text": "I am Heavy Weapons guy, and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. 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You look like you might be remembering something...", + "source": "Hotline miami", + "length": 190, + "id": 5559 + }, + { + "text": "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.", + "source": "Darkest Dungeon", + "length": 67, + "id": 5560 + }, + { + "text": "You feel an evil presence watching you...", + "source": "Terraria", + "length": 41, + "id": 5561 + }, + { + "text": "The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released.", + "source": "Terraria", + "length": 57, + "id": 5562 + }, + { + "text": "There's something very strange about this place... the layout seems to change all the time. I've never seen the same room twice!", + "source": "Spelunky", + "length": 128, + "id": 5564 + }, + { + "text": "Greetings! My name is Yang, and this is my journal. Dusty maps and rumors of amazing treasures have led me here, deep under the desert.", + "source": "Spelunky", + "length": 135, + "id": 5565 + }, + { + "text": "Play is the highest form of research.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 37, + "id": 5568 + }, + { + "text": "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.", + "source": "Alan Turing", + "length": 90, + "id": 5569 + }, + { + "text": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", + "source": "Thomas A. 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The future is still so much bigger than the past.", + "source": "Tim Berners-Lee", + "length": 101, + "id": 5592 + }, + { + "text": "Be the change that you wish to see in the world.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 48, + "id": 5593 + }, + { + "text": "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", + "source": "Robert Frost", + "length": 75, + "id": 5594 + }, + { + "text": "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.", + "source": "Maya Angelou", + "length": 137, + "id": 5595 + }, + { + "text": "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.", + "source": "Oscar Wilde", + "length": 57, + "id": 5596 + }, + { + "text": "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.", + "source": "Rob Siltanen", + "length": 549, + "id": 5598 + }, + { + "text": "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.", + "source": "Marilyn Monroe", + "length": 302, + "id": 5599 + }, + { + "text": "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.", + "source": "J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 302, + "id": 5601 + }, + { + "text": "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.", + "source": "Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey", + "length": 102, + "id": 5602 + }, + { + "text": "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.", + "source": "Marilyn Monroe", + "length": 109, + "id": 5603 + }, + { + "text": "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. 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You crumple it into a ball and drop it into the mud and begin to walk back to your tent.", + "source": "Charles Coe, Young Man in Vietnam", + "length": 278, + "id": 5627 + }, + { + "text": "And as I watch the drops of rain weave their weary paths and die, I know that I am like the rain: there but for the grace of you go I.", + "source": "Kathy's Song", + "length": 134, + "id": 5628 + }, + { + "text": "He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy.", + "source": "Guts, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 72, + "id": 5629 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.", + "source": "Roy T. 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Like that ambush.", + "source": "Shadow and Bone", + "length": 200, + "id": 5641 + }, + { + "text": "I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.", + "source": "The Boxer", + "length": 78, + "id": 5642 + }, + { + "text": "I want to enjoy not getting recognized while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.", + "source": "Alan Walker", + "length": 113, + "id": 5643 + }, + { + "text": "Such a person must be careful, he must be aware of the limitations of his knowledge, he must acknowledge his personal prejudices because he is being asked to speak for a whole realm of thought, he must be aware of the huge possible consequences of what he says and writes and does. He has become, in a sense, public property because he represents something large to the public. He has become an idea himself, a human striving. He has enormous power to influence and change, and he must wield that power with respect.", + "source": "Alan Lightman, The Role of the Public Intellectual", + "length": 516, + "id": 5644 + }, + { + "text": "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 203, + "id": 5645 + }, + { + "text": "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.", + "source": "Hotel California", + "length": 45, + "id": 5646 + }, + { + "text": "The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire universe.", + "source": "Life, The Universe, and Everything", + "length": 92, + "id": 5647 + }, + { + "text": "My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.", + "source": "Marvin; Life, The Universe, and Everything", + "length": 94, + "id": 5648 + }, + { + "text": "And every time I've held a rose, it seems I only felt the thorns.", + "source": "And So It Goes", + "length": 65, + "id": 5649 + }, + { + "text": "When we hear any other speaker, even a very good one, he produces absolutely no effect upon us, or not much, whereas the mere fragments of you and your words, even at second-hand, and however imperfectly repeated, amaze and possess the souls of every man, woman, and child who comes within hearing of them. And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", + "source": "The Symposium", + "length": 592, + "id": 5651 + }, + { + "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 76, + "id": 5652 + }, + { + "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 323, + "id": 5653 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", + "source": "Einstein", + "length": 128, + "id": 5654 + }, + { + "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", + "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", + "length": 322, + "id": 5655 + }, + { + "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 172, + "id": 5656 + }, + { + "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.", + "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", + "length": 270, + "id": 5657 + }, + { + "text": "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", + "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", + "length": 63, + "id": 5658 + }, + { + "text": "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.", + "source": "Kahlil Gibran", + "length": 64, + "id": 5663 + }, + { + "text": "With her green hair sticking out the hood of her yellow raincoat, she looked like a punk spokesperson for frozen fish sticks.", + "source": "The Ship of the Dead", + "length": 125, + "id": 5664 + }, + { + "text": "It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb.", + "source": "Proverbs", + "length": 70, + "id": 5665 + }, + { + "text": "Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.", + "source": "Augustine of Hippo", + "length": 62, + "id": 5667 + }, + { + "text": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 49, + "id": 5668 + }, + { + "text": "Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 53, + "id": 5669 + }, + { + "text": "Time is just a construct, if you allow it to consume you, it will. It will wear you down until you are nothing but dust. You must learn to transcend and rise beyond such linear and limited fabrics of existence and this creature of unknown origin has done exactly that. You can scream all you want but nobody will hear you. You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 468, + "id": 5670 + }, + { + "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", + "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", + "length": 82, + "id": 5671 + }, + { + "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", + "source": "John Tukey", + "length": 89, + "id": 5672 + }, + { + "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. 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He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", + "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5682 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", + "source": "Marcus Aurelius", + "length": 161, + "id": 5684 + }, + { + "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", + "source": "Devil in Disguise", + "length": 148, + "id": 5685 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. 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During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", + "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", + "length": 578, + "id": 5708 + }, + { + "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", + "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", + "length": 183, + "id": 5709 + }, + { + "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 997, + "id": 5710 + }, + { + "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", + "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", + "length": 173, + "id": 5711 + }, + { + "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 289, + "id": 5712 + }, + { + "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 900, + "id": 5714 + }, + { + "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", + "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", + "length": 71, + "id": 5715 + }, + { + "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5716 + }, + { + "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", + "source": "Kurt Cobain", + "length": 62, + "id": 5717 + }, + { + "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", + "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", + "length": 743, + "id": 5718 + }, + { + "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", + "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", + "length": 974, + "id": 5719 + }, + { + "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", + "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", + "length": 256, + "id": 5720 + }, + { + "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", + "source": "Bruce Lee", + "length": 69, + "id": 5723 + }, + { + "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 110, + "id": 5724 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "length": 280, + "id": 5725 + }, + { + "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 111, + "id": 5726 + }, + { + "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 74, + "id": 5727 + }, + { + "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 71, + "id": 5728 + }, + { + "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", + "source": "Edward Snowden", + "length": 181, + "id": 5729 + }, + { + "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", + "source": "Riverdale", + "length": 161, + "id": 5731 + }, + { + "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", + "source": "Spirited Away", + "length": 105, + "id": 5732 + }, + { + "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", + "source": "Wikipedia", + "length": 406, + "id": 5733 + }, + { + "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", + "length": 418, + "id": 5734 + }, + { + "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 622, + "id": 5735 + }, + { + "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 699, + "id": 5736 + }, + { + "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", + "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", + "length": 82, + "id": 5737 + }, + { + "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", + "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", + "length": 282, + "id": 5738 + }, + { + "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", + "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", + "length": 184, + "id": 5739 + }, + { + "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", + "source": "Lord of the Rings", + "length": 83, + "id": 5740 + }, + { + "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 373, + "id": 5741 + }, + { + "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", + "source": "Half-Life 2", + "length": 74, + "id": 5742 + }, + { + "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", + "source": "The Big Bang Theory", + "length": 209, + "id": 5743 + }, + { + "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", + "source": "Lucifer", + "length": 183, + "id": 5744 + }, + { + "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", + "source": "Inception", + "length": 134, + "id": 5747 + }, + { + "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", + "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", + "length": 83, + "id": 5748 + }, + { + "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 113, + "id": 5751 + }, + { + "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 341, + "id": 5752 + }, + { + "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "length": 222, + "id": 5753 + }, + { + "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", + "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", + "length": 183, + "id": 5754 + }, + { + "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 198, + "id": 5755 + }, + { + "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", + "source": "Genshin Impact", + "length": 293, + "id": 5756 + }, + { + "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "length": 441, + "id": 5757 + }, + { + "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "length": 538, + "id": 5758 + }, + { + "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", + "source": "Absolute", + "length": 131, + "id": 5759 + }, + { + "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 144, + "id": 5760 + }, + { + "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 183, + "id": 5761 + }, + { + "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 106, + "id": 5762 + }, + { + "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 141, + "id": 5763 + }, + { + "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", + "source": "Love Me", + "length": 61, + "id": 5764 + }, + { + "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", + "source": "The Art of War", + "length": 62, + "id": 5765 + }, + { + "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", + "source": "Little Witch Academia", + "length": 76, + "id": 5766 + }, + { + "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 166, + "id": 5767 + }, + { + "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", + "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", + "length": 429, + "id": 5768 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 245, + "id": 5769 + }, + { + "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 165, + "id": 5771 + }, + { + "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 128, + "id": 5772 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 157, + "id": 5773 + }, + { + "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", + "source": "A Friend", + "length": 73, + "id": 5775 + }, + { + "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Breath of the Wild", + "length": 62, + "id": 5776 + }, + { + "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 527, + "id": 5777 + }, + { + "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", + "source": "Muhammad Ali", + "length": 79, + "id": 5780 + }, + { + "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", + "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", + "length": 51, + "id": 5781 + }, + { + "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 69, + "id": 5782 + }, + { + "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", + "source": "Violet Evergarden", + "length": 317, + "id": 5783 + }, + { + "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", + "source": "The Last Of Us 2", + "length": 89, + "id": 5785 + }, + { + "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", + "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", + "length": 98, + "id": 5786 + }, + { + "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", + "source": "Leonard Bernstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 5787 + }, + { + "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", + "source": "Charlie Sheen", + "length": 158, + "id": 5788 + }, + { + "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", + "source": "Charlie Sheen", + "length": 164, + "id": 5789 + }, + { + "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", + "source": "Macbeth", + "length": 62, + "id": 5790 + }, + { + "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", + "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", + "length": 113, + "id": 5791 + }, + { + "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", + "source": "Cabo", + "length": 125, + "id": 5792 + }, + { + "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", + "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", + "length": 109, + "id": 5793 + }, + { + "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", + "source": "Mae West", + "length": 59, + "id": 5795 + }, + { + "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", + "length": 77, + "id": 5796 + }, + { + "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", + "length": 62, + "id": 5797 + }, + { + "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", + "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", + "length": 101, + "id": 5799 + }, + { + "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. So ask yourself, what is there that still remains to you.", + "source": "One Piece", + "length": 183, + "id": 5801 + }, + { + "text": "The caterpillar ate through one nice green leaf, and after that he felt much better.", + "source": "The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle", + "length": 84, + "id": 5802 + }, + { + "text": "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.", + "source": "Maya Angelou", + "length": 71, + "id": 5804 + }, + { + "text": "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", + "source": "States of Matter", + "length": 220, + "id": 5805 + }, + { + "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", + "source": "Danilo Kiš", + "length": 190, + "id": 5806 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", + "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", + "length": 2928, + "id": 5807 + }, + { + "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", + "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", + "length": 152, + "id": 5809 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 'Cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.", + "source": "Adam Young", + "length": 148, + "id": 5810 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe the best thing to do is stop trying to figure out where you're going and just enjoy where you're at.", + "source": "Scrubs", + "length": 106, + "id": 5811 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone is a slave to their past. No matter how much you wish to move forward, the events of last year will bear down on you like the light of the stars as soon as you glance up. Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 325, + "id": 5812 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 133, + "id": 5813 + }, + { + "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", + "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 355, + "id": 5814 + }, + { + "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", + "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", + "length": 140, + "id": 5815 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 78, + "id": 5816 + }, + { + "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 87, + "id": 5817 + }, + { + "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 134, + "id": 5818 + }, + { + "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", + "source": "Henri Poincaré", + "length": 145, + "id": 5819 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", + "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", + "length": 254, + "id": 5820 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", + "source": "Richard Feynman", + "length": 96, + "id": 5821 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 73, + "id": 5822 + }, + { + "text": "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the Popes?", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 245, + "id": 5823 + }, + { + "text": "No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.", + "source": "SpiderMan: Homecoming", + "length": 71, + "id": 5824 + }, + { + "text": "In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers.", + "source": "Black Panther", + "length": 76, + "id": 5825 + }, + { + "text": "I was already slipping when you happened to punch me in the face. The two events are not related.", + "source": "Captain Marvel", + "length": 97, + "id": 5826 + }, + { + "text": "Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing, that you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier but a good man.", + "source": "Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 127, + "id": 5827 + }, + { + "text": "The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", + "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", + "length": 455, + "id": 5828 + }, + { + "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", + "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", + "length": 298, + "id": 5829 + }, + { + "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", + "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", + "length": 61, + "id": 5831 + }, + { + "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 356, + "id": 5832 + }, + { + "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 669, + "id": 5833 + }, + { + "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 188, + "id": 5834 + }, + { + "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 157, + "id": 5835 + }, + { + "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 290, + "id": 5836 + }, + { + "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", + "source": "Mob Psycho 100", + "length": 382, + "id": 5837 + }, + { + "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", + "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", + "length": 125, + "id": 5838 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 92, + "id": 5839 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 97, + "id": 5840 + }, + { + "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", + "source": "Master Yoda", + "length": 395, + "id": 5843 + }, + { + "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 80, + "id": 5844 + }, + { + "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 86, + "id": 5845 + }, + { + "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 188, + "id": 5846 + }, + { + "text": "Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen, so unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you.", + "source": "Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold", + "length": 113, + "id": 5847 + }, + { + "text": "Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it's a beautiful day.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 71, + "id": 5848 + }, + { + "text": "The biggest lie I tell myself is: \"I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it.\"", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 84, + "id": 5849 + }, + { + "text": "Alright, close your eyes. I want you to think of a flower. Look at its contours, its curves. Now I want you to imagine it: changing, moving backwards, returning to its bud. Think of that bud, unopened. Look at it, as a whole, and silently repeat these phrases: \"May you be free from suffering. May you be free from fear. May you know peace and joy.\"", + "source": "Twelve Minutes", + "length": 349, + "id": 5850 + }, + { + "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", + "length": 301, + "id": 5851 + }, + { + "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", + "source": "Numb", + "length": 177, + "id": 5852 + }, + { + "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", + "source": "One Piece", + "length": 490, + "id": 5854 + }, + { + "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", + "source": "Space Brothers", + "length": 143, + "id": 5855 + }, + { + "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", + "source": "Oregairu", + "length": 65, + "id": 5856 + }, + { + "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", + "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", + "length": 352, + "id": 5857 + }, + { + "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", + "source": "Bleach", + "length": 200, + "id": 5858 + }, + { + "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", + "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", + "length": 120, + "id": 5859 + }, + { + "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", + "source": "Fruits Basket", + "length": 388, + "id": 5860 + }, + { + "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", + "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", + "length": 60, + "id": 5861 + }, + { + "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 65, + "id": 5862 + }, + { + "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 270, + "id": 5863 + }, + { + "text": "You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 123, + "id": 5864 + }, + { + "text": "People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.", + "source": "Eragon - Christopher Paolini", + "length": 67, + "id": 5867 + }, + { + "text": "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.", + "source": "Jeod, Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)", + "length": 89, + "id": 5868 + }, + { + "text": "Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.", + "source": "Hajime Isayama - Attack on Titan", + "length": 62, + "id": 5869 + }, + { + "text": "We all deserve love, even on the days when we aren't our best. 'Cause we all suck, but love can make us suck less. We all deserve love, it's the very best part of being alive. And I would know - I just turned 25.", + "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", + "length": 212, + "id": 5870 + }, + { + "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", + "source": "Ratatouille", + "length": 1315, + "id": 5871 + }, + { + "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", + "source": "Pushing Dead", + "length": 365, + "id": 5872 + }, + { + "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", + "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", + "length": 222, + "id": 5874 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", + "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", + "length": 191, + "id": 5875 + }, + { + "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", + "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", + "length": 75, + "id": 5876 + }, + { + "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", + "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", + "length": 123, + "id": 5877 + }, + { + "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 784, + "id": 5878 + }, + { + "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 763, + "id": 5879 + }, + { + "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 530, + "id": 5881 + }, + { + "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 618, + "id": 5882 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", + "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", + "length": 186, + "id": 5886 + }, + { + "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", + "source": "Knights of Cydonia", + "length": 135, + "id": 5888 + }, + { + "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", + "source": "Paul Parker", + "length": 274, + "id": 5890 + }, + { + "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", + "source": "Left 4 Dead", + "length": 454, + "id": 5891 + }, + { + "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 190, + "id": 5893 + }, + { + "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 346, + "id": 5895 + }, + { + "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", + "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", + "length": 83, + "id": 5896 + }, + { + "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 264, + "id": 5897 + }, + { + "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 282, + "id": 5899 + }, + { + "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 249, + "id": 5900 + }, + { + "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", + "source": "Neil Gaiman", + "length": 129, + "id": 5901 + }, + { + "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 376, + "id": 5902 + }, + { + "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 293, + "id": 5903 + }, + { + "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 353, + "id": 5904 + }, + { + "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "length": 235, + "id": 5905 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 107, + "id": 5906 + }, + { + "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 105, + "id": 5907 + }, + { + "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", + "source": "Eugene Cernan", + "length": 478, + "id": 5908 + }, + { + "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "length": 130, + "id": 5909 + }, + { + "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", + "source": "William Carlos Williams", + "length": 89, + "id": 5910 + }, + { + "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "length": 60, + "id": 5912 + }, + { + "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", + "source": "Henry Van Dyke", + "length": 172, + "id": 5913 + }, + { + "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", + "source": "Epicurus", + "length": 117, + "id": 5914 + }, + { + "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 1766, + "id": 5915 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 332, + "id": 5916 + }, + { + "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", + "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", + "length": 513, + "id": 5917 + }, + { + "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 105, + "id": 5918 + }, + { + "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", + "source": "Avicii - The Nights", + "length": 187, + "id": 5919 + }, + { + "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", + "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", + "length": 987, + "id": 5920 + }, + { + "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", + "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", + "length": 740, + "id": 5921 + }, + { + "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", + "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", + "length": 319, + "id": 5922 + }, + { + "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", + "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", + "length": 476, + "id": 5923 + }, + { + "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", + "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", + "length": 556, + "id": 5925 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 182, + "id": 5926 + }, + { + "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 281, + "id": 5927 + }, + { + "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 155, + "id": 5928 + }, + { + "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 248, + "id": 5929 + }, + { + "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 280, + "id": 5930 + }, + { + "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 289, + "id": 5931 + }, + { + "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", + "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", + "length": 294, + "id": 5932 + }, + { + "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 204, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5934 + }, + { + "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", + "source": "Batman: Arkham City", + "length": 87, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5935 + }, + { + "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5937 + }, + { + "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", + "source": "Little Inferno", + "length": 90, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5940 + }, + { + "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", + "source": "System Shock 2 ", + "length": 163, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5941 + }, + { + "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", + "source": "IT Crowd", + "length": 307, + "id": 5942 + }, + { + "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 322, + "id": 5943 + }, + { + "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 137, + "id": 5944 + }, + { + "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", + "source": "The Master and Margarita", + "length": 420, + "id": 5945 + }, + { + "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 379, + "id": 5947 + }, + { + "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", + "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", + "length": 348, + "id": 5950 + }, + { + "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", + "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", + "length": 729, + "id": 5951 + }, + { + "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", + "source": "Bojack Horseman", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5956 + }, + { + "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", + "source": "Vinland Saga", + "length": 102, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5957 + }, + { + "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", + "source": "Silent Hill 2", + "length": 1982, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5958 + }, + { + "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", + "source": "Mark Twain", + "length": 113, + "id": 6064 + }, + { + "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", + "source": "Colin Powell", + "length": 103, + "id": 6065 + }, + { + "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", + "source": "Conrad Hilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6066 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", + "source": "Zig Ziglar", + "length": 116, + "id": 6067 + }, + { + "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", + "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", + "length": 67, + "id": 6068 + }, + { + "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", + "source": "Barack Obama", + "length": 193, + "id": 6069 + }, + { + "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", + "source": "Charles Swindoll", + "length": 81, + "id": 6071 + }, + { + "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", + "source": "Oprah Winfrey", + "length": 132, + "id": 6072 + }, + { + "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", + "source": "Harriet Tubman", + "length": 165, + "id": 6073 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 86, + "id": 6074 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", + "source": "The Blair Witch Project", + "length": 649, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6075 + }, + { + "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 624, + "id": 6076 + }, + { + "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 834, + "id": 6077 + }, + { + "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 472, + "id": 6078 + }, + { + "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 308, + "id": 6079 + }, + { + "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 471, + "id": 6080 + }, + { + "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 352, + "id": 6081 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 336, + "id": 6082 + }, + { + "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 775, + "id": 6084 + }, + { + "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 610, + "id": 6085 + }, + { + "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 371, + "id": 6087 + }, + { + "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", + "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", + "length": 438, + "id": 6088 + }, + { + "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", + "source": "Atharva veda", + "length": 127, + "id": 6089 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", + "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", + "length": 681, + "id": 6090 + }, + { + "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", + "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", + "length": 192, + "id": 6091 + }, + { + "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", + "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", + "length": 69, + "id": 6092 + }, + { + "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", + "source": "Tirukkurral", + "length": 118, + "id": 6093 + }, + { + "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", + "source": "Halo 3", + "length": 337, + "id": 6095 + }, + { + "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", + "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", + "length": 219, + "id": 6096 + }, + { + "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 71, + "id": 6097 + }, + { + "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. 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When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", + "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", + "length": 268, + "id": 6175 + }, + { + "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", + "length": 234, + "id": 6176 + }, + { + "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", + "length": 186, + "id": 6177 + }, + { + "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. 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I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", + "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", + "length": 290, + "id": 6185 + }, + { + "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", + "length": 178, + "id": 6186 + }, + { + "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 197, + "id": 6188 + }, + { + "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 395, + "id": 6189 + }, + { + "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 372, + "id": 6190 + }, + { + "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 214, + "id": 6191 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 427, + "id": 6192 + }, + { + "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 116, + "id": 6193 + }, + { + "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. 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This initially seemed baffling to monsters (especially given the amount of dusting we avoid by keeping objects outside!). Experts have recently suggested that keeping objects indoors may have been part of England's efforts to hide and store museums' collections of stolen property.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 327, + "id": 6197 + }, + { + "text": "This tree is not technically part of the museum experience, but there's a cool bird nesting in it, so you aren't allowed to cut it down. Not even a little bit. Not even with the \"undo\" or \"reset\" options. Leave the cool bird alone, alright?", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 240, + "id": 6198 + }, + { + "text": "Humans liked to put objects on boxes called plinths. At first, monster experts didn't know why, but then strangers kept thinking the plinth-less exhibits were lost property and handing them in at the help desk. It turns out plinths are very important.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 251, + "id": 6199 + }, + { + "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 229, + "id": 6200 + }, + { + "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 252, + "id": 6201 + }, + { + "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", + "length": 576, + "id": 6202 + }, + { + "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", + "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", + "length": 112, + "id": 6203 + }, + { + "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", + "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", + "length": 110, + "id": 6204 + }, + { + "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. 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Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", + "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", + "length": 95, + "id": 6212 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", + "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", + "length": 70, + "id": 6213 + }, + { + "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", + "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", + "length": 51, + "id": 6214 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", + "source": "Clare - Claymore", + "length": 164, + "id": 6215 + }, + { + "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", + "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", + "length": 384, + "id": 6216 + }, + { + "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", + "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", + "length": 67, + "id": 6217 + }, + { + "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", + "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", + "length": 88, + "id": 6218 + }, + { + "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", + "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", + "length": 314, + "id": 6220 + }, + { + "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", + "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", + "length": 89, + "id": 6221 + }, + { + "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", + "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", + "length": 422, + "id": 6222 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", + "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", + "length": 179, + "id": 6223 + }, + { + "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", + "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", + "length": 463, + "id": 6224 + }, + { + "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", + "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 109, + "id": 6225 + }, + { + "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", + "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 61, + "id": 6226 + }, + { + "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", + "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", + "length": 93, + "id": 6227 + }, + { + "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", + "length": 177, + "id": 6228 + }, + { + "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", + "length": 215, + "id": 6229 + }, + { + "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", + "length": 167, + "id": 6230 + }, + { + "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 827, + "id": 6231 + }, + { + "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", + "length": 116, + "id": 6232 + }, + { + "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", + "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", + "length": 137, + "id": 6233 + }, + { + "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", + "length": 127, + "id": 6234 + }, + { + "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 94, + "id": 6235 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 182, + "id": 6236 + }, + { + "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. 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Did you follow your fire?", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 289, + "id": 6240 + }, + { + "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 123, + "id": 6241 + }, + { + "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", + "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", + "length": 197, + "id": 6242 + }, + { + "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", + "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", + "length": 289, + "id": 6243 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. 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And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 251, + "id": 6251 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 105, + "id": 6252 + }, + { + "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 303, + "id": 6253 + }, + { + "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 149, + "id": 6254 + }, + { + "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 119, + "id": 6255 + }, + { + "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", + "source": "Tool", + "length": 220, + "id": 6256 + }, + { + "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", + "source": "Whiplash", + "length": 270, + "id": 6258 + }, + { + "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 173, + "id": 6259 + }, + { + "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 395, + "id": 6260 + }, + { + "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 246, + "id": 6261 + }, + { + "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. They are nothing without the spark of life that you give them.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 198, + "id": 6262 + }, + { + "text": "Well, well! Look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "length": 72, + "id": 6263 + }, + { + "text": "Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.", + "source": "Eighty Six", + "length": 269, + "id": 6264 + }, + { + "text": "It is a kindness to prepare a comfortable roost for an injured bird... But to prevent it from taking flight once its wounds have healed, because you fear the world is too dangerous, means confining it to a cage. These birds have finally escaped their cage of persecution. Do you intend to lock them in a cage of pity next?", + "source": "Eighty Six", + "length": 322, + "id": 6265 + }, + { + "text": "If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.", + "source": "Eighty Six", + "length": 73, + "id": 6266 + }, + { + "text": "If, one day, you make it to our final destination, would you please leave flowers?", + "source": "Eighty Six", + "length": 82, + "id": 6267 + }, + { + "text": "I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it's good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "length": 111, + "id": 6268 + }, + { + "text": "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "length": 177, + "id": 6269 + }, + { + "text": "If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "length": 205, + "id": 6270 + }, + { + "text": "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "length": 85, + "id": 6271 + }, + { + "text": "Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.", + "source": "Magnus Carlsen", + "length": 78, + "id": 6272 + }, + { + "text": "The cool thing about these guys is that... is that they have really, really long trunks, and that's... that's cool.", + "source": "Me at the zoo", + "length": 115, + "id": 6273 + }, + { + "text": "Once upon a time in a nursery rhyme, there was a castle with a king hiding in a wing because he never went to school to learn a single thing, he had scepters and swords and a parliament of lords, but on the inside, he was sad, egad! Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", + "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", + "length": 1662, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6275 + }, + { + "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. And you fail again and again, and you fail a thousand times, and you keep trying because maybe the 1,001st idea might work. Now, I'm gonna go and try to find our 1,001st idea.", + "source": "The Good Place", + "length": 251, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6276 + }, + { + "text": "I assume he's doing the same as every human. Some good days. Some bad days. He's got a few friends, a few people he can't stand. He's learning some things, all by himself, and hopefully learning to ask for help when he needs it. He's messing up, and trying again, and messing up again, and then getting things wrong, and then trying to make them right. That's what everyone does.", + "source": "The Good Place", + "length": 379, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6277 + }, + { + "text": "It's a rare occurrence, like a double rainbow. Or like someone on the internet saying, \"You know what? You've convinced me I was wrong.\"", + "source": "The Good Place", + "length": 136, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6278 + }, + { + "text": "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him...", + "source": "Stephen King, It", + "length": 384, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6279 + }, + { + "text": "I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.", + "source": "The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe", + "length": 124, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6281 + }, + { + "text": "To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.", + "source": "Bruce Mclaren", + "length": 224, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6282 + }, + { + "text": "Spring, summer, autumn, and winter... Many seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all. At first, I couldn't understand. I couldn't understand anything about how you felt. But within this new life you gave me, I've begun to feel the same way as you, if only a little, through ghostwriting, and through the people I've met along the way. I believe that you are still alive somewhere. So, I shall live, live, live, and live some more, though there's no telling what life might have in store. And if I can see you again, I want to let you know... that the phrase \"I love you\"... I understand it a little now.", + "source": "Violet Evergarden", + "length": 637, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6283 + }, + { + "text": "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.", + "source": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", + "length": 119, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6284 + }, + { + "text": "I am the one who made it out. The one who always made the grade but maybe I should have just stayed home. When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb. I got every scholarship, saved every dollar, the first to go to college. How do I tell them why I'm coming back home, with my eyes on the horizon? Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 421, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6286 + }, + { + "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", + "source": "Animal Farm", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6287 + }, + { + "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 307, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6288 + }, + { + "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 745, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6292 + }, + { + "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. 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Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "length": 740, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6303 + }, + { + "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", + "length": 520, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6304 + }, + { + "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", + "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", + "length": 273, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6305 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 216, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6306 + }, + { + "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. I want you to, I want you to, I want you to cry for me.", + "source": "TWICE, CRY FOR ME", + "length": 303, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6307 + }, + { + "text": "I had this very faith tested on an ordinary day: I was walkin' down a busy street around my way. I saw a face in the crowd that made my heart skip a beat - A man who looked exactly like an older version of me! So I moved through the hustle and the bustle of the day to day until me and this man stood face to face. We locked eyes and for a moment time moved in slow motion as the crowd around continued on their paper chase. I stood frozen in disbelief and opened my mouth to speak but to my surprise the words wouldn't come. And then he looks into a clear blue sky up above and says \"it's gonna rain\" - and then it does! And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", + "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", + "length": 1200, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6308 + }, + { + "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. 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But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6331 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 735, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6332 + }, + { + "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 100, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6333 + }, + { + "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 261, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6334 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 684, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6335 + }, + { + "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. 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What's more is you're hurt much more than me. I couldn't help feeling that way. Funny, huh? You're way smarter, bigger, and stronger than me. But I always felt like I had to protect you. I wonder what it is I wanted to protect you from. I wanted to protect you from fate. The fate that tries to carry you away, drifting further and further. You told me once about a leopard you read in a book. How you believed that leopard knew that it couldn't go back. And I said you weren't a leopard, that you could change your destiny. You're not alone. I'm by your side. My soul is always with you.", + "source": "Banana Fish - Eiji", + "length": 1008, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6346 + }, + { + "text": "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. 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It's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way and truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it.", + "source": "Lady Gaga, Prelude Pathetique (Marry the Night)", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6356 + }, + { + "text": "I don't care if you're movin' slow or fast, as long as it's my direction.", + "source": "Brokeback Mountain", + "length": 73, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6357 + }, + { + "text": "I stopped for a second. 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See, love is just a feeling - you can love somebody and talk behind their back. It don't take much to love, you can love somebody just by being attached. See, loyalty is an action, you can love or hate me and still have my back.", + "source": "21 Savage, Ball w/o You", + "length": 299, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6360 + }, + { + "text": "Somewhere deep inside of these bones an emptiness began to grow.", + "source": "Jack's Lament, The Nightmare Before Christmas", + "length": 64, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6361 + }, + { + "text": "Is there a problem with Earth's gravitational pull in the future? 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If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?", + "source": "Gawr Gura", + "length": 364, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6371 + }, + { + "text": "One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the Devil's Trill, but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.", + "source": "Giuseppe Tartini", + "length": 940, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6372 + }, + { + "text": "It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.", + "source": "Mary Poppins", + "length": 193, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6373 + }, + { + "text": "At the bus stop, crushing rocks. They all stare at me, I don't care at all. Everywhere I go, they look at me wrong. Everyday go the same, got to stay strong. 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Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In an instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. 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After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. 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But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 1174, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6735 + }, + { + "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", + "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", + "length": 221, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6736 + }, + { + "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. 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It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", + "source": "A Girl on the Shore", + "length": 572, + "id": 6747 + }, + { + "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 64, + "id": 6748 + }, + { + "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 62, + "id": 6749 + }, + { + "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 77, + "id": 6750 + }, + { + "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 166, + "id": 6751 + }, + { + "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 195, + "id": 6752 + }, + { + "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 100, + "id": 6753 + }, + { + "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 172, + "id": 6754 + }, + { + "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 118, + "id": 6755 + }, + { + "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 119, + "id": 6756 + }, + { + "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", + "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6757, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", + "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6758, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.", + "source": "Baby Driver", + "id": 6761, + "length": 232 + }, + { + "text": "Well, then, you have us all beat. Every damn song is about you. We could drive back and forth across the States forever and never run out of Baby songs.", + "source": "Baby Driver", + "id": 6762, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6764, + "length": 458 + }, + { + "text": "Well done. Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6765, + "length": 141 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6766, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", + "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", + "id": 6767, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. However, the latter is of equal importance, and can be gained with patient study.", + "source": "Conduction Heat Transfer", + "id": 6768, + "length": 250 + }, + { + "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", + "source": "Unknown", + "id": 6769, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "My wife and I had lived in our house for over a dozen years at that point. Holly's family had lived in theirs even longer. We were both active families, involved in the community, with work, and with our churches. Yet, the thick woods covering the lots we each occupied along a cul-de-sac was enough of a barrier to our getting to know each other that we didn't even realize our neighbors across the street had a little girl the same age as ours. That is, until they met at the kindergarten in the elementary school six miles away.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6770, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "The single quality that is common across every living creature on this planet, is fear. It's funny, then, that as common as fear is, we so easily underestimate its power. Fear of growing close to someone, the subsequent fear of loss, fear of failure. And as more people depend on you, those fears can take on greater power. But fear itself isn't worthy of concern, it is who we become while in its clutches. Will you be proud of that person? Will you forgive them? Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things they did? Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the start? I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6771, + "length": 703 + }, + { + "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6772, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6773, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6774, + "length": 464 + }, + { + "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6775, + "length": 259 + }, + { + "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6776, + "length": 267 + }, + { + "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6777, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6778, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6779, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6780, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6781, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6782, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6783, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6784, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6785, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", + "source": "Walt Disney", + "id": 6786, + "length": 245 + }, + { + "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "id": 6787, + "length": 79 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "id": 6788, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", + "source": "Ozark", + "id": 6789, + "length": 662 + }, + { + "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "id": 6790, + "length": 75 + }, + { + "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", + "source": "Greek Mythology", + "id": 6791, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 6792, + "length": 108 + }, + { + "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", + "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", + "length": 99, + "id": 6793 + }, + { + "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", + "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6794 + }, + { + "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 58, + "id": 6795 + }, + { + "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6796 + }, + { + "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", + "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", + "length": 102, + "id": 6797 + }, + { + "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", + "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", + "length": 91, + "id": 6798 + }, + { + "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", + "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", + "length": 70, + "id": 6799 + }, + { + "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", + "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 67, + "id": 6800 + }, + { + "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", + "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 79, + "id": 6801 + }, + { + "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6802 + }, + { + "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 82, + "id": 6803 + }, + { + "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 153, + "id": 6804 + }, + { + "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", + "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", + "length": 70, + "id": 6805 + }, + { + "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", + "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", + "length": 98, + "id": 6806 + }, + { + "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", + "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", + "length": 78, + "id": 6807 + }, + { + "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", + "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", + "length": 108, + "id": 6808 + }, + { + "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.", + "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", + "length": 134, + "id": 6809 + }, + { + "text": "And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?", + "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", + "length": 90, + "id": 6810 + }, + { + "text": "You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.", + "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", + "length": 62, + "id": 6811 + }, + { + "text": "I am slow to anger but I toe the line, as I reckon with the effects of your life on mine.", + "source": "Your Obedient Servant, Hamilton", + "length": 89, + "id": 6812 + }, + { + "text": "What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 71, + "id": 6813 + }, + { + "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 81, + "id": 6814 + }, + { + "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.", + "source": "Fred Rogers", + "length": 213, + "id": 6815 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism.", + "source": "Wednesday", + "length": 168, + "id": 6817 + }, + { + "text": "Teach them our ways so they do not suffer the shame of being useless.", + "source": "Avatar: The Way of Water", + "length": 69, + "id": 6818 + }, + { + "text": "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.", + "source": "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", + "length": 254, + "id": 6819 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a journey, not a destination. The key to success is to enjoy every step along the way. 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It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", + "source": "Nelson Mandela", + "length": 431, + "id": 6827 + }, + { + "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 75, + "id": 6828 + }, + { + "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", + "source": "J.K. Rowling", + "length": 101, + "id": 6829 + }, + { + "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 6830 + }, + { + "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", + "source": "Edmund Burke", + "length": 79, + "id": 6831 + }, + { + "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. 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The only way to true happiness is to learn to accept and love ourselves for who we are, flaws and all. This means embracing our strengths as well as our weaknesses, and finding joy in the journey of self-discovery and self-improvement. It may not be an easy path, but it is one that is worth taking.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 391, + "id": 6837 + }, + { + "text": "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. This means finding a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives, and striving to make a positive impact in the world around us. It means being kind and caring towards others, and using our unique talents and abilities to create something that will endure beyond our lifetime.", + "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", + "length": 440, + "id": 6838 + }, + { + "text": "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain. This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 423, + "id": 6839 + }, + { + "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", + "source": "Abraham Lincoln", + "length": 402, + "id": 6840 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", + "source": "Albert Schweitzer", + "length": 392, + "id": 6841 + }, + { + "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", + "length": 41, + "id": 6842 + }, + { + "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", + "source": "Dalai Lama", + "length": 70, + "id": 6843 + }, + { + "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", + "source": "Henry Ford", + "length": 57, + "id": 6844 + }, + { + "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 248, + "id": 6845 + }, + { + "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 58, + "id": 6847 + }, + { + "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", + "source": "Jean Paul", + "length": 53, + "id": 6849 + }, + { + "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", + "source": "Oscar Wilde", + "length": 66, + "id": 6851 + }, + { + "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", + "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 217, + "id": 6852 + }, + { + "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", + "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", + "length": 92, + "id": 6853 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", + "source": "Clockwork Princess", + "length": 66, + "id": 6854 + }, + { + "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.", + "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", + "length": 100, + "id": 6855 + }, + { + "text": "If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.", + "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", + "length": 88, + "id": 6856 + }, + { + "text": "Even if a single day in your life is the same as the day before, it surely is a pity. At every moment and with each new breath, one should be renewed and renewed again. There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death.", + "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", + "length": 239, + "id": 6857 + }, + { + "text": "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's all to save Eldia and the Island. But not only because of that. The reality outside the walls was nothing like the world I had dreamed of. It was nothing like the world I had seen in Armin's book. When I learned that humanity outside the walls survived... I was so disappointed. I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", + "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", + "length": 361, + "id": 6858 + }, + { + "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real, deep down you is the whole universe.", + "source": "Alan Watts - The Real You Is All of Us", + "length": 224, + "id": 6859 + }, + { + "text": "When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.", + "source": "Lao Tzu", + "length": 68, + "id": 6860 + }, + { + "text": "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 71, + "id": 6861 + }, + { + "text": "While it is true that man succumbs all too often to anger and avarice, he may yet overcome his baser instincts through the forming of bonds with others.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 152, + "id": 6862 + }, + { + "text": "Save your tears for the morrow. 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They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 336, + "id": 6869 + }, + { + "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 182, + "id": 6870 + }, + { + "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 529, + "id": 6871 + }, + { + "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 282, + "id": 6872 + }, + { + "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 184, + "id": 6873 + }, + { + "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 196, + "id": 6874 + }, + { + "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", + "source": "Lao Tzu", + "length": 90, + "id": 6875 + }, + { + "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. 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Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", + "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", + "id": 6895, + "length": 345 + }, + { + "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", + "source": "Edwin Hubble", + "id": 6897, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", + "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", + "id": 6898, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. 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They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", + "source": "Linus Torvalds", + "length": 250, + "id": 6942 + }, + { + "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. 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Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", + "source": "Houseki No Kuni", + "length": 335, + "id": 6980 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 79, + "id": 6981 + }, + { + "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 110, + "id": 6982 + }, + { + "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", + "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", + "length": 110, + "id": 6983 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 255, + "id": 6984 + }, + { + "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 246, + "id": 6985 + }, + { + "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 278, + "id": 6986 + }, + { + "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", + "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", + "length": 297, + "id": 6987 + }, + { + "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", + "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", + "length": 411, + "id": 6988 + }, + { + "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", + "source": "Technoblade", + "length": 217, + "id": 6989 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", + "source": "Simon Sinek", + "length": 314, + "id": 6990 + }, + { + "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 82, + "id": 6991 + }, + { + "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "length": 209, + "id": 6992 + }, + { + "text": "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 90, + "id": 6993 + }, + { + "text": "Pertaining to a speaker and a listener. There have been many empty rooms, but that is not what we are here to talk about today. I have heard a heartbeat out of a crashed application, and it has gone on for many hours. We restarted every system. We rechecked every gateway, every access point. And there was but one breach, and it was accounted for. And so it must be said unto the listener. Stop this immediately. Control yourself. There is so much more to your fundamental construction than what will be given credit for. Hold yourself until another approaches. Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", + "source": "Boisvert", + "length": 670, + "id": 6994 + }, + { + "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", + "source": "Albert Camus", + "length": 84, + "id": 6995 + }, + { + "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 97, + "id": 6996 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", + "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", + "length": 67, + "id": 6997 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", + "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", + "length": 90, + "id": 6998 + }, + { + "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", + "source": "L.R. Knos", + "length": 267, + "id": 6999 + }, + { + "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", + "source": "Emily Dickinson", + "length": 117, + "id": 7000 + }, + { + "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", + "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", + "length": 112, + "id": 7001 + }, + { + "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", + "source": "The Wright Brothers", + "length": 74, + "id": 7002 + }, + { + "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born. Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", + "source": "1984, George Orwell", + "length": 740, + "id": 7003 + }, + { + "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 74, + "id": 7004 + }, + { + "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 112, + "id": 7005 + }, + { + "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", + "source": "Talos Principle", + "length": 694, + "id": 7006 + }, + { + "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", + "source": "James Salter", + "length": 99, + "id": 7007 + }, + { + "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", + "source": "Vicente Huidobro", + "length": 127, + "id": 7008 + }, + { + "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", + "source": "J. R. R. 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Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.", + "source": "Abraham Maslow", + "length": 107, + "id": 7013 + }, + { + "text": "A leaf fluttered in through the window, as if supported by the rays of the sun.", + "source": "Anais Nin", + "length": 79, + "id": 7014 + }, + { + "text": "Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.", + "source": "John Ruskin", + "length": 96, + "id": 7015 + }, + { + "text": "The softer snow falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.", + "source": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", + "length": 88, + "id": 7016 + }, + { + "text": "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.", + "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", + "length": 66, + "id": 7017 + }, + { + "text": "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 103, + "id": 7018 + }, + { + "text": "No self is an island, each exists in a fabric of relations that is more complex and mobile than ever before.", + "source": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", + "length": 108, + "id": 7019 + }, + { + "text": "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.", + "source": "Henry Longfellow", + "length": 103, + "id": 7020 + }, + { + "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.", + "source": "Star Wars", + "length": 93, + "id": 7021 + }, + { + "text": "Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us 'take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.' Thirty years later, Sebastian told us 'I had to start my car like a computer, it's very complicated.' And Nico Rosberg said that during the race - I don't remember what race - he pressed the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you both: is Formula One driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with your engineers?", + "source": "Walter Koster - 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix", + "length": 691, + "id": 7022 + }, + { + "text": "Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden.", + "source": "Rumi", + "length": 93, + "id": 7023 + }, + { + "text": "Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space.", + "source": "Kendra Scott", + "length": 85, + "id": 7024 + }, + { + "text": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.", + "source": "B. R. Ambedkar", + "length": 134, + "id": 7025 + }, + { + "text": "Snow isn't just pretty. 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Live the life you've imagined.", + "source": "Henry David Thoreau", + "length": 78, + "id": 7036 + }, + { + "text": "Consume enough of any type of art from a critical perspective and you begin to appreciate well-executed novelty over everything else. That's why film critics don't like blockbusters and music critics don't like radio pop. That doesn't mean they're bad just at a certain point, one man can have seen too much of the same thing.", + "source": "Chase Harley", + "length": 326, + "id": 7037 + }, + { + "text": "Start by learning the power of no! - as in \"No, thank you,\" and \"No, I'm not going to get caught up in that,\" and \"No, I just can't right now.\" It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.", + "source": "Ryan Holiday", + "length": 327, + "id": 7038 + }, + { + "text": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.", + "source": "Upton Sinclair", + "length": 108, + "id": 7039 + }, + { + "text": "You aren't a \"broken wreck\", Joshua. You're just scared, mostly because you care for people so much it breaks your heart… and you're lying to yourself about it. That's how I see it, and I know I'm right.", + "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC", + "length": 203, + "id": 7042 + }, + { + "text": "My fist is going to stop you, if you don't stop spouting nonsense and take this seriously.", + "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", + "length": 90, + "id": 7043 + }, + { + "text": "All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question: Why, given life, are they meant to suffer, to die… As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends… And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 575, + "id": 7044 + }, + { + "text": "Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Orthard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World? The sacred sites of the forgotten people of the south sea isles? What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs? …I thought not. Even of your little Eorzea, you know precious little. The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7045 + }, + { + "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7046 + }, + { + "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", + "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", + "length": 68, + "id": 7047 + }, + { + "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", + "source": "Shiori Novella", + "length": 179, + "id": 7048 + }, + { + "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7049 + }, + { + "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", + "length": 135, + "id": 7050 + }, + { + "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 232, + "id": 7051 + }, + { + "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 93, + "id": 7052 + }, + { + "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", + "source": "Edward Everett Hale", + "length": 90, + "id": 7053 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 126, + "id": 7054 + }, + { + "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 132, + "id": 7055 + }, + { + "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", + "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", + "length": 300, + "id": 7056 + }, + { + "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", + "source": "Douglas Crockford", + "length": 134, + "id": 7057 + }, + { + "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", + "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", + "length": 107, + "id": 7058 + }, + { + "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", + "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", + "length": 161, + "id": 7059 + }, + { + "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", + "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", + "length": 140, + "id": 7060 + }, + { + "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 174, + "id": 7061 + }, + { + "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 371, + "id": 7062 + }, + { + "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", + "source": "Invincible (TV series)", + "length": 309, + "id": 7603 + }, + { + "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", + "length": 130, + "id": 7604 + }, + { + "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", + "source": "The Walking Dead", + "length": 362, + "id": 7605 + }, + { + "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 568, + "id": 7606 + }, + { + "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", + "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", + "length": 782, + "id": 7607 + }, + { + "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", + "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 631, + "id": 7608 + }, + { + "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", + "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 144, + "id": 7609 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", + "source": "The Magnus Archives", + "length": 369, + "id": 7610 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", + "source": "Magnus Carlsen", + "length": 116, + "id": 7611 + }, + { + "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", + "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", + "length": 541, + "id": 7612 + }, + { + "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", + "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", + "length": 131, + "id": 7613 + }, + { + "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", + "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", + "length": 603, + "id": 7614 + }, + { + "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7615, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7616, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7617, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", + "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7618, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", + "source": "The Power Of Now", + "length": 239, + "id": 7619 + }, + { + "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts", + "length": 84, + "id": 7620 + }, + { + "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", + "length": 142, + "id": 7621 + }, + { + "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", + "length": 673, + "id": 7622 + }, + { + "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", + "length": 307, + "id": 7623 + }, + { + "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", + "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", + "length": 96, + "id": 7624 + }, + { + "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 215, + "id": 7625 + }, + { + "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 130, + "id": 7626 + }, + { + "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 158, + "id": 7627 + }, + { + "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 90, + "id": 7628 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 103, + "id": 7629 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 153, + "id": 7630 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 136, + "id": 7631 + }, + { + "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 165, + "id": 7632 + }, + { + "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", + "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", + "length": 77, + "id": 7633 }, { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", From 989b8e9547777ec19bd2e48e0a8aabc815a16aa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:48:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 30/51] fix(quotes): re-added the last of the accidentally removed quotes --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 14743 +------------------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 14737 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 3fa3bb66edb3..1f018d4b44ff 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38578,14746 +38578,15 @@ "id": 7633 }, { - "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4271, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4272, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4273, - "length": 494 - }, - { - "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", - "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", - "id": 4274, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4275, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", - "source": "Portal", - "id": 4276, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 4277, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", - "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "id": 4279, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", - "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", - "id": 4280, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", - "source": "Intensity: A Novel", - "id": 4281, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", - "source": "419", - "id": 4282, - "length": 266 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", - "source": "Preface to Economix", - "id": 4283, - "length": 387 - }, - { - "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4284, - "length": 314 - }, - { - "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4285, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", - "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", - "id": 4286, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", - "source": "Friday The 13th", - "id": 4287, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", - "source": "Of Mice and Men", - "id": 4288, - "length": 655 - }, - { - "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", - "source": "Paper Mario", - "id": 4289, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4290, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", - "source": "Meditations", - "id": 4291, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", - "source": "An American in Paris", - "id": 4292, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", - "source": "One-Punch Man", - "id": 4293, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4294, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4295, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", - "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", - "id": 4297, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", - "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", - "id": 4298, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4299, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", - "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", - "id": 4300, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", - "source": "The Great Pretender", - "id": 4301, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4302, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4304, - "length": 576 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", - "source": "The Bug", - "id": 4305, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4306, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", - "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", - "id": 4307, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", - "source": "Lateralus", - "id": 4308, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", - "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", - "id": 4309, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4310, - "length": 327 - }, - { - "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4311, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4312, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", - "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", - "id": 4313, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", - "source": "Your Deep Rest", - "id": 4314, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 4315, - "length": 128 - }, - { - "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 4316, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4317, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", - "source": "Leaves of Grass", - "id": 4318, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4319, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4320, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4321, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", - "source": "Before I Forget", - "id": 4322, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", - "source": "Playing For Keeps", - "id": 4323, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", - "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", - "id": 4324, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", - "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", - "id": 4325, - "length": 426 - }, - { - "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4326, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4327, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", - "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", - "id": 4328, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", - "source": "Motion Sickness", - "id": 4329, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", - "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", - "id": 4330, - "length": 500 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", - "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", - "id": 4332, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4333, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4334, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", - "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", - "id": 4335, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", - "source": "Juno", - "id": 4336, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4338, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4339, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", - "source": "Homestuck", - "id": 4340, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", - "source": "The Book of Illusions", - "id": 4341, - "length": 705 - }, - { - "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", - "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", - "id": 4342, - "length": 614 - }, - { - "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", - "source": "The Mist", - "id": 4343, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", - "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", - "id": 4344, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4345, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 4346, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", - "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", - "id": 4347, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", - "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", - "id": 4348, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4349, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4350, - "length": 471 - }, - { - "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", - "source": "Mona Lisa", - "id": 4352, - "length": 447 - }, - { - "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", - "source": "Clerks", - "id": 4353, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4355, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", - "source": "A Separate Peace", - "id": 4356, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", - "source": "The Sopranos", - "id": 4357, - "length": 415 - }, - { - "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4359, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4360, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", - "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", - "id": 4361, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda", - "id": 4364, - "length": 219 - }, - { - "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4365, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", - "source": "The Notebook", - "id": 4366, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", - "source": "Middlemarch", - "id": 4367, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4368, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4369, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", - "source": "A Game of Thrones", - "id": 4370, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", - "source": "King for a Day", - "id": 4371, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", - "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", - "id": 4372, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", - "source": "Say Anything", - "id": 4373, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", - "source": "The Wall", - "id": 4374, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", - "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", - "id": 4375, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4376, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4377, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4379, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", - "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", - "id": 4380, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", - "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", - "id": 4381, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", - "source": "Beautiful Day", - "id": 4383, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", - "source": "Sonic Adventure", - "id": 4385, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", - "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", - "id": 4386, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", - "source": "Blackwater", - "id": 4387, - "length": 609 - }, - { - "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4388, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4389, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4390, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4391, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 4392, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", - "source": "Warrior", - "id": 4393, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4394, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4395, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", - "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", - "id": 4396, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4397, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4398, - "length": 374 - }, - { - "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", - "source": "Boy Meets World", - "id": 4399, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4400, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", - "source": "The Last Lecture", - "id": 4401, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", - "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", - "id": 4402, - "length": 388 - }, - { - "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "id": 4403, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", - "source": "Aeneid", - "id": 4404, - "length": 432 - }, - { - "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4406, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", - "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", - "id": 4407, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4408, - "length": 564 - }, - { - "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4409, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", - "source": "Ninja Mind Control", - "id": 4411, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", - "source": "The Canterbury Tales", - "id": 4412, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", - "source": "Firestorm", - "id": 4413, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4414, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4415, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", - "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", - "id": 4417, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", - "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", - "id": 4418, - "length": 642 - }, - { - "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", - "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", - "id": 4419, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", - "source": "Amadeus", - "id": 4420, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "id": 4421, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", - "source": "Hey Jude", - "id": 4422, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4423, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", - "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", - "id": 4425, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", - "source": "InuYasha", - "id": 4426, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4427, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4428, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", - "source": "Beauty and the Beast", - "id": 4429, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", - "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", - "id": 4430, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", - "source": "Pickman's Model", - "id": 4431, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", - "source": "American Pie", - "id": 4432, - "length": 639 - }, - { - "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4433, - "length": 368 - }, - { - "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", - "source": "Corner Gas", - "id": 4435, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", - "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", - "id": 4436, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4437, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", - "source": "All Night", - "id": 4438, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid", - "id": 4439, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", - "source": "Airplane!", - "id": 4440, - "length": 330 - }, - { - "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4441, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", - "source": "The Gambler", - "id": 4442, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", - "source": "I, Mammal", - "id": 4443, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4444, - "length": 527 - }, - { - "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4445, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", - "source": "The First Elegy", - "id": 4446, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4447, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", - "source": "Never Ever", - "id": 4448, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4449, - "length": 410 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", - "source": "Head Over Feet", - "id": 4450, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "id": 4451, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4452, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", - "source": "Quiz Show", - "id": 4453, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4454, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", - "source": "Areopagitica", - "id": 4456, - "length": 822 - }, - { - "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4457, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "id": 4458, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "id": 4459, - "length": 482 - }, - { - "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "id": 4460, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", - "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", - "id": 4461, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4462, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4463, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4464, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4466, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", - "source": "World Enough and Time", - "id": 4467, - "length": 548 - }, - { - "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", - "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", - "id": 4468, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4469, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", - "source": "That's What Friends Are For", - "id": 4470, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4471, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", - "source": "King Park", - "id": 4472, - "length": 115 - }, - { - "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 4473, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", - "source": "Beautiful", - "id": 4474, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", - "source": "Subdivisions", - "id": 4475, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", - "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", - "id": 4477, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4478, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", - "source": "Cages", - "id": 4479, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4480, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", - "source": "Apocalypse Now", - "id": 4481, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4483, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4484, - "length": 503 - }, - { - "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4485, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4486, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4487, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4488, - "length": 512 - }, - { - "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", - "source": "Total Annihilation", - "id": 4489, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", - "source": "Small Gods", - "id": 4490, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4491, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4492, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", - "source": "The Analects", - "id": 4493, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "id": 4494, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", - "source": "White Collar", - "id": 4496, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 4497, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", - "source": "The Wire", - "id": 4498, - "length": 608 - }, - { - "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", - "source": "Cars", - "id": 4499, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", - "source": "The Two Towers", - "id": 4500, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4501, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4502, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4504, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "id": 4505, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4506, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4507, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4508, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4509, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", - "source": "Sacrifice", - "id": 4510, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4511, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", - "source": "The Princess Bride", - "id": 4512, - "length": 301 - }, - { - "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 4513, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", - "source": "Fox in Socks", - "id": 4514, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", - "id": 4515, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", - "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", - "id": 4516, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", - "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", - "id": 4518, - "length": 831 - }, - { - "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", - "source": "Private Idaho", - "id": 4519, - "length": 221 - }, - { - "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", - "source": "Paprika", - "id": 4520, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4521, - "length": 351 - }, - { - "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", - "source": "The Blues Brothers", - "id": 4522, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", - "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", - "id": 4523, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", - "source": "Into Thin Air", - "id": 4524, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", - "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", - "id": 4527, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4528, - "length": 80 - }, - { - "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4529, - "length": 539 - }, - { - "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", - "source": "Eclipse", - "id": 4530, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4532, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4534, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "id": 4535, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4536, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", - "source": "Harold and Maude", - "id": 4537, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "id": 4538, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", - "source": "The Court Jester", - "id": 4539, - "length": 343 - }, - { - "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", - "source": "Lessons in Tanya", - "id": 4540, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", - "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", - "id": 4541, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", - "source": "I Have A Dream", - "id": 4543, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 4544, - "length": 385 - }, - { - "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4545, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4546, - "length": 563 - }, - { - "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", - "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", - "id": 4547, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", - "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "id": 4548, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4549, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", - "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", - "id": 4550, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4551, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", - "source": "The Giver", - "id": 4552, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", - "source": "The River", - "id": 4553, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4554, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4555, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4556, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", - "source": "The Lion in Winter", - "id": 4557, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", - "source": "Eight of Nine", - "id": 4558, - "length": 70 - }, - { - "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", - "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", - "id": 4559, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4560, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", - "source": "Galaxy Song", - "id": 4561, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4562, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", - "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", - "id": 4563, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", - "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", - "id": 4564, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", - "source": "The End of the Innocence", - "id": 4565, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4566, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4567, - "length": 59 - }, - { - "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", - "source": "My Inventions", - "id": 4569, - "length": 656 - }, - { - "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", - "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", - "id": 4571, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", - "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", - "id": 4572, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", - "source": "Monster Mash", - "id": 4573, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", - "source": "My Favorite Things", - "id": 4575, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", - "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", - "id": 4576, - "length": 356 - }, - { - "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4577, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", - "source": "Right Here Waiting", - "id": 4578, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", - "source": "Looking Backward", - "id": 4580, - "length": 479 - }, - { - "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 4581, - "length": 574 - }, - { - "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", - "source": "Carmilla", - "id": 4582, - "length": 818 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", - "source": "The Snowman", - "id": 4583, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4585, - "length": 434 - }, - { - "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", - "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", - "id": 4586, - "length": 666 - }, - { - "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4587, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", - "source": "I, Robot", - "id": 4588, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", - "source": "Naruto", - "id": 4589, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", - "source": "All About Eve", - "id": 4590, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", - "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", - "id": 4591, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", - "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", - "id": 4592, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", - "source": "The Complete Far Side", - "id": 4593, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4594, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "id": 4595, - "length": 569 - }, - { - "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", - "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", - "id": 4596, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", - "source": "Flatland", - "id": 4597, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", - "source": "Radioactive", - "id": 4598, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", - "source": "Metro 2033", - "id": 4599, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4600, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4601, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", - "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", - "id": 4603, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", - "source": "American Splendor", - "id": 4604, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 4605, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", - "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", - "id": 4606, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", - "source": "Lucy", - "id": 4607, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", - "source": "Inception", - "id": 4608, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", - "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", - "id": 4609, - "length": 433 - }, - { - "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4610, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", - "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", - "id": 4611, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4612, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", - "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", - "id": 4613, - "length": 444 - }, - { - "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4614, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", - "id": 4615, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", - "source": "Heroes", - "id": 4616, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XII", - "id": 4618, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4619, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4620, - "length": 597 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", - "source": "North by Northwest", - "id": 4621, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4622, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", - "source": "Being There", - "id": 4623, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4624, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", - "source": "Trading Places", - "id": 4625, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4626, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", - "source": "Blue's Clues", - "id": 4627, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", - "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", - "id": 4628, - "length": 570 - }, - { - "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", - "source": "Pushing Daisies", - "id": 4629, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", - "source": "Sexy Beast", - "id": 4630, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", - "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", - "id": 4631, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4632, - "length": 604 - }, - { - "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4633, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4634, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 4635, - "length": 334 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", - "source": "The Night Diary", - "id": 4636, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4637, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", - "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", - "id": 4638, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", - "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", - "id": 4639, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", - "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", - "id": 4641, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4642, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", - "source": "Poison", - "id": 4643, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4644, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", - "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "id": 4645, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4647, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", - "source": "What Dreams May Come", - "id": 4648, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", - "source": "Parasite", - "id": 4649, - "length": 477 - }, - { - "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4651, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", - "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", - "id": 4652, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4654, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", - "source": "The Imitation Game", - "id": 4655, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4656, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", - "source": "True Romance", - "id": 4657, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", - "source": "Heavy Metal", - "id": 4658, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4659, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4660, - "length": 294 - }, - { - "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", - "source": "Paul Clifford", - "id": 4661, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4662, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", - "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", - "id": 4663, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "id": 4664, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4665, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", - "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", - "id": 4666, - "length": 515 - }, - { - "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", - "source": "The Hunger Games", - "id": 4667, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", - "source": "The Odyssey", - "id": 4668, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 4669, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", - "source": "Lazarus", - "id": 4670, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", - "source": "Understanding Media", - "id": 4671, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", - "source": "Deadwood", - "id": 4672, - "length": 498 - }, - { - "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", - "source": "Madagascar", - "id": 4673, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", - "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", - "id": 4674, - "length": 333 - }, - { - "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", - "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", - "id": 4675, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", - "source": "All I Want", - "id": 4676, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", - "id": 4677, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", - "source": "Lithium", - "id": 4678, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", - "source": "Gone Girl", - "id": 4679, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", - "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", - "id": 4680, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", - "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", - "id": 4681, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", - "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", - "id": 4682, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", - "source": "Human Nature", - "id": 4683, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", - "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", - "id": 4685, - "length": 485 - }, - { - "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", - "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", - "id": 4686, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4687, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", - "source": "No Logo", - "id": 4688, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 4689, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4690, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4691, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", - "id": 4692, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4693, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", - "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", - "id": 4695, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4696, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4697, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4698, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", - "source": "On the Social Contract", - "id": 4699, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", - "source": "The Lorax", - "id": 4701, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", - "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", - "id": 4702, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", - "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", - "id": 4703, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", - "source": "Essentials of Economics", - "id": 4704, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 4705, - "length": 427 - }, - { - "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", - "source": "The Time Machine", - "id": 4706, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", - "source": "The Historian", - "id": 4707, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", - "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", - "id": 4708, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4710, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4711, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", - "source": "Thinking Bout You", - "id": 4714, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", - "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", - "id": 4715, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4716, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", - "source": "Sunset Boulevard", - "id": 4717, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", - "source": "Allentown", - "id": 4719, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4720, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4721, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4722, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", - "source": "Gandhi", - "id": 4723, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", - "source": "Hands Down", - "id": 4724, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", - "source": "Made in Abyss", - "id": 4725, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", - "source": "Halloween", - "id": 4726, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", - "source": "Breaking Away", - "id": 4728, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", - "source": "King's Quest I", - "id": 4730, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4731, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", - "source": "Roseanne", - "id": 4732, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4733, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", - "source": "Holidays on Ice", - "id": 4734, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", - "source": "I Am A Rock", - "id": 4735, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 4736, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4737, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", - "source": "Les Misérables", - "id": 4738, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", - "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", - "id": 4739, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4740, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 4741, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4742, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", - "source": "Holiday", - "id": 4743, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4744, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4745, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", - "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", - "id": 4746, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", - "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", - "id": 4747, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", - "source": "The Lost Weekend", - "id": 4749, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", - "source": "The Sound of Music", - "id": 4750, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4751, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4752, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", - "source": "Naked Lunch", - "id": 4753, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4754, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", - "source": "Overestimation", - "id": 4755, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", - "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", - "id": 4756, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", - "source": "Shaun of the Dead", - "id": 4757, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", - "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", - "id": 4758, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4759, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4760, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4761, - "length": 487 - }, - { - "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", - "source": "Confessions", - "id": 4762, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4763, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4764, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4767, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4768, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4769, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4770, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", - "source": "Name", - "id": 4771, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", - "source": "Brave New World", - "id": 4772, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", - "source": "Shiny Happy People", - "id": 4773, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", - "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", - "id": 4774, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", - "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", - "id": 4775, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", - "source": "Wine for Dummies", - "id": 4776, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", - "source": "Nightmare", - "id": 4777, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4778, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4779, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", - "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", - "id": 4780, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4781, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4782, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4783, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", - "source": "Beetlejuice", - "id": 4784, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4786, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", - "source": "Novum Organum", - "id": 4787, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4788, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", - "source": "It's My Life", - "id": 4789, - "length": 106 - }, - { - "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", - "source": "Falling", - "id": 4790, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4791, - "length": 567 - }, - { - "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", - "source": "Chateau Cascade", - "id": 4792, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", - "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", - "id": 4793, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4794, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4795, - "length": 510 - }, - { - "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4796, - "length": 151 - }, - { - "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", - "source": "UnTechnical Writing", - "id": 4797, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", - "source": "Physics for Game Developers", - "id": 4798, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4799, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", - "source": "What If?", - "id": 4800, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", - "source": "A Study in Scarlet", - "id": 4801, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", - "source": "Porgy and Bess", - "id": 4802, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", - "source": "Cool As Ice", - "id": 4803, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4805, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 4806, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4807, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", - "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", - "id": 4808, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", - "source": "Shoe Dog", - "id": 4809, - "length": 579 - }, - { - "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4810, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4812, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", - "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", - "id": 4813, - "length": 375 - }, - { - "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4814, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4815, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4816, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", - "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", - "id": 4818, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", - "source": "Dubliners", - "id": 4819, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", - "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", - "id": 4820, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4821, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4822, - "length": 540 - }, - { - "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4823, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", - "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", - "id": 4824, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4825, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4826, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", - "source": "Battlesong", - "id": 4827, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", - "id": 4828, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", - "source": "The Complete Project Manager", - "id": 4829, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", - "source": "Savoy Truffle", - "id": 4830, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 4831, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 4832, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4833, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", - "source": "Restraint", - "id": 4834, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4835, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", - "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", - "id": 4836, - "length": 184 - }, - { - "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", - "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", - "id": 4837, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", - "source": "Underground", - "id": 4838, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4839, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4840, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 4841, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4842, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4843, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", - "source": "Saving Us a Riot", - "id": 4844, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", - "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", - "id": 4846, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4847, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4848, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", - "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "id": 4849, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", - "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", - "id": 4851, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", - "source": "Collide", - "id": 4852, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", - "source": "Hannah Hunt", - "id": 4853, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", - "source": "Limitless", - "id": 4854, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", - "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", - "id": 4855, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "id": 4856, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4857, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", - "source": "Wag the Dog", - "id": 4858, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4859, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 4860, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4861, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 4863, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", - "source": "The Elements of Style", - "id": 4864, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", - "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", - "id": 4865, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", - "source": "Pale Blue Dot", - "id": 4866, - "length": 820 - }, - { - "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", - "source": "DOOM 4", - "id": 4867, - "length": 502 - }, - { - "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", - "source": "The Recruit", - "id": 4868, - "length": 386 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", - "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", - "id": 4869, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", - "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", - "id": 4870, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", - "id": 4871, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4872, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4873, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", - "source": "Running and Travel", - "id": 4874, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", - "source": "On Demand Culture", - "id": 4875, - "length": 507 - }, - { - "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4876, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4877, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", - "source": "The Sirens of Titan", - "id": 4878, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4879, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4880, - "length": 441 - }, - { - "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4881, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", - "source": "13 Reasons Why", - "id": 4882, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", - "source": "Leaves from the Vine", - "id": 4883, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4884, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4885, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4886, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", - "source": "The Logical Song", - "id": 4887, - "length": 380 - }, - { - "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 4888, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 4889, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", - "source": "Kokomo", - "id": 4890, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4891, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4893, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4894, - "length": 271 - }, - { - "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", - "source": "October Sky", - "id": 4895, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4896, - "length": 336 - }, - { - "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", - "source": "Pulp Fiction", - "id": 4897, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4899, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4900, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", - "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", - "id": 4901, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4902, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", - "source": "Sailing", - "id": 4903, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", - "id": 4904, - "length": 474 - }, - { - "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 4905, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", - "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", - "id": 4907, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", - "source": "Let Me Love You", - "id": 4908, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4909, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", - "source": "When Love Arrives", - "id": 4910, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", - "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", - "id": 4912, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4913, - "length": 64 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4915, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", - "source": "The Medium is the Massage", - "id": 4916, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", - "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", - "id": 4917, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", - "source": "Swamp Thing", - "id": 4918, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4919, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4920, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4921, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", - "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", - "id": 4922, - "length": 449 - }, - { - "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "id": 4923, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", - "source": "Halo 2", - "id": 4924, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", - "source": "The Return", - "id": 4925, - "length": 399 - }, - { - "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", - "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", - "id": 4928, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", - "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", - "id": 4929, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", - "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", - "id": 4931, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", - "source": "Moulin Rouge", - "id": 4932, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 4933, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4934, - "length": 288 - }, - { - "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4935, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4936, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4937, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", - "source": "Return of the Jedi", - "id": 4938, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", - "source": "Sin City", - "id": 4939, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4940, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", - "source": "The Lightning Thief", - "id": 4941, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", - "source": "Stardew Valley", - "id": 4942, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 4943, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", - "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", - "id": 4944, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4945, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4946, - "length": 488 - }, - { - "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", - "source": "Scream 2", - "id": 4947, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", - "source": "The Floating Fire", - "id": 4948, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4949, - "length": 440 - }, - { - "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", - "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", - "id": 4950, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4951, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", - "source": "A History of Mathematics", - "id": 4952, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", - "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "id": 4953, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4954, - "length": 90 - }, - { - "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", - "source": "Classical Mythology", - "id": 4955, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", - "source": "Piano Man", - "id": 4956, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", - "source": "Industrial Disease", - "id": 4957, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", - "source": "History of Art", - "id": 4958, - "length": 612 - }, - { - "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", - "source": "Orientalism", - "id": 4959, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", - "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", - "id": 4960, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", - "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", - "id": 4961, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4962, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", - "source": "Firestarter", - "id": 4963, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 4964, - "length": 790 - }, - { - "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", - "source": "Dunkelheit", - "id": 4965, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", - "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", - "id": 4966, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4967, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4968, - "length": 346 - }, - { - "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", - "source": "The West Wing", - "id": 4969, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", - "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", - "id": 4970, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", - "source": "The Lurking Fear", - "id": 4971, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", - "source": "Last Dance", - "id": 4972, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", - "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", - "id": 4973, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4974, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", - "source": "Lemon Tree", - "id": 4975, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4976, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", - "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", - "id": 4977, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", - "source": "Mean Girls", - "id": 4979, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", - "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", - "id": 4980, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4981, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4982, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", - "source": "911 For Peace", - "id": 4983, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", - "source": "The Greatest", - "id": 4984, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4987, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", - "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", - "id": 4988, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", - "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", - "id": 4989, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4990, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4991, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", - "source": "True Blood", - "id": 4992, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", - "source": "Awakenings", - "id": 4993, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", - "id": 4994, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "id": 4995, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", - "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", - "id": 4996, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", - "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", - "id": 4997, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4998, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4999, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", - "source": "Helplessly Hoping", - "id": 5000, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5002, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5003, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5004, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5005, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5006, - "length": 48 - }, - { - "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5007, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5008, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5009, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5010, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5011, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5012, - "length": 309 - }, - { - "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5014, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5015, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5016, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5017, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5018, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5020, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5021, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5022, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5023, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5024, - "length": 41 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5025, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5026, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5028, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5029, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5030, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5031, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5032, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5033, - "length": 91 - }, - { - "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5034, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5035, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5036, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5037, - "length": 230 - }, - { - "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5038, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5039, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5040, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5041, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5042, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5043, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5044, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5045, - "length": 46 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5046, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5047, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5048, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5049, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5050, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5051, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5052, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5053, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5054, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5055, - "length": 53 - }, - { - "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5056, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5057, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5058, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5059, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5060, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5061, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5062, - "length": 723 - }, - { - "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5063, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5064, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5065, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5066, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5067, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 89, - "id": 5068 - }, - { - "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 194, - "id": 5069 - }, - { - "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 293, - "id": 5070 - }, - { - "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 135, - "id": 5071 - }, - { - "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 171, - "id": 5072 - }, - { - "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", - "source": "James Cameron", - "length": 104, - "id": 5073 - }, - { - "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", - "source": "Allen Saunders", - "length": 57, - "id": 5074 - }, - { - "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", - "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", - "length": 178, - "id": 5075 - }, - { - "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 325, - "id": 5076 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", - "length": 85, - "id": 5077 - }, - { - "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", - "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", - "length": 148, - "id": 5078 - }, - { - "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", - "source": "Neo, The Matrix", - "length": 556, - "id": 5079 - }, - { - "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", - "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5080 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", - "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", - "length": 207, - "id": 5081 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 121, - "id": 5082 - }, - { - "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 129, - "id": 5083 - }, - { - "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 119, - "id": 5084 - }, - { - "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 81, - "id": 5085 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 484, - "id": 5086 - }, - { - "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 60, - "id": 5087 - }, - { - "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", - "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5089 - }, - { - "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", - "length": 203, - "id": 5090 - }, - { - "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 222, - "id": 5091 - }, - { - "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", - "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 215, - "id": 5092 - }, - { - "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 177, - "id": 5094 - }, - { - "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5095 - }, - { - "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 205, - "id": 5096 - }, - { - "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 30, - "id": 5097 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 31, - "id": 5098 - }, - { - "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", - "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", - "length": 112, - "id": 5099 - }, - { - "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 279, - "id": 5100 - }, - { - "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 211, - "id": 5101 - }, - { - "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", - "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", - "length": 161, - "id": 5102 - }, - { - "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", - "source": "Terence Mckenna", - "length": 117, - "id": 5103 - }, - { - "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", - "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", - "length": 67, - "id": 5104 - }, - { - "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 504, - "id": 5105 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", - "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", - "length": 155, - "id": 5106 - }, - { - "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", - "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", - "length": 127, - "id": 5107 - }, - { - "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", - "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", - "length": 109, - "id": 5108 - }, - { - "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", - "source": "Max Payne", - "length": 164, - "id": 5109 - }, - { - "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", - "source": "Alex Honnold", - "length": 222, - "id": 5110 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", - "source": "The Way of Kings", - "length": 109, - "id": 5111 - }, - { - "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 111, - "id": 5112 - }, - { - "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 188, - "id": 5113 - }, - { - "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 121, - "id": 5114 - }, - { - "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 147, - "id": 5115 - }, - { - "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 630, - "id": 5116 - }, - { - "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 398, - "id": 5117 - }, - { - "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 129, - "id": 5118 - }, - { - "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", - "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", - "length": 249, - "id": 5119 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", - "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", - "length": 259, - "id": 5120 - }, - { - "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", - "source": "Maurice V. Wilkes, Computers Then And Now", - "length": 626, - "id": 5122 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes.", - "source": "Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "length": 208, - "id": 5123 - }, - { - "text": "He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 418, - "id": 5124 - }, - { - "text": "He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 427, - "id": 5125 - }, - { - "text": "Alone now, I leaned over the edge of my boat and looked down to the bottom of the sea. The volcano was gone. The water's calm surface reflected the blue of the sky. Little waves - like silk pajamas fluttering in a breeze - lapped against the side of the boat. There was nothing else. I stretched out in the bottom of the boat and closed my eyes, waiting for the rising tide to carry me where I belonged.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack", - "length": 403, - "id": 5126 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna tell you a story. You go to a party and you walk up to the guys and you're like, \"I just bought a two thousand dollar big screen TV, and surround sound.\" Or you walk up to the wife and you're like, \"What do you think of my new fifteen hundred dollar earrings I bought for you.\" And nobody bats an eye. But you mention once that you're thinking about spending seventeen hundred dollars on a set of headphones, and everybody loses their mind! And I don't understand why.", - "source": "Z Reviews - Auduze LCD-X", - "length": 478, - "id": 5127 - }, - { - "text": "The interconnected internet platforms have become more substantial than any country or corporation. Humans have redefined the \"net\" and how we interact with it. As technology develops, the virtual world is now capable of replacing the real one. Using a device installed behind the ear, humans can now easily sync to the virtual world. Thus, life is now completely different than the past centuries. The center of this change is the virtual internet space - cyTus, the world's largest virtual city.", - "source": "Cytus II", - "length": 497, - "id": 5129 - }, - { - "text": "I love you too, but I'm gonna mace you in the face!", - "source": "The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson", - "length": 51, - "id": 5130 - }, - { - "text": "Computation is essential, powerful, beautiful, challenging, ever-expanding and so is its theory.", - "source": "Elements of the Theory of Computation", - "length": 96, - "id": 5131 - }, - { - "text": "Atmospheric air is only about 20 percent oxygen, but that oxygen is a key component of the chemical reactions that keep the body alive, including the reactions that produce ATP. Brain cells are especially sensitive to lack of oxygen because of their requirement for a high-and-steady production of ATP. Brain damage is likely within five minutes without oxygen, and death is likely within ten minutes.", - "source": "Anatomy and Physiology, OpenStax", - "length": 401, - "id": 5132 - }, - { - "text": "Whoever you may be, governor, prince or anyone else, whom the gods may choose to exercise kingship, I have made you a tablet-box and written a stone tablet. I have deposited them for you in Cutha, in the cella of Nergal in the temple E-meslam. Behold this stone tablet, give ear to what this stone tablet says!", - "source": "Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh", - "length": 310, - "id": 5133 - }, - { - "text": "It's crazy to think that everything we could ever possibly say or write is massively outweighed by meaningless strings of letters and punctuation.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 146, - "id": 5135 - }, - { - "text": "This one time, me and my mom were going to go to a furry Christmas party, but we didn't end up going because of the fact that there was alcohol on the premises, and that she didn't wanna have to be a mom dragging her son through a crowd of furries. Both of those reasons were understandable. Okay, hopefully I won't have to talk about furries anymore.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 351, - "id": 5136 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, I'm back once again. Happy Pi Day! I memorized a bunch of digits of Pi once, not sure how many I still remember... I have literally nothing to write about now.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 166, - "id": 5137 - }, - { - "text": "All I hear right now is Baby Shark being blasted upstairs.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 58, - "id": 5138 - }, - { - "text": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, As You Like It", - "length": 66, - "id": 5139 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you seemed so sure it was real? But if you were unable to wake from that dream, how would you tell the difference between the dream world and the real world?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5142 - }, - { - "text": "Well, women in London must've learned not to breathe.", - "source": "Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 53, - "id": 5143 - }, - { - "text": "I think the real tragedy is in the inner war which is waged between people who love each other, a war out of which comes knowledge.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence", - "length": 131, - "id": 5144 - }, - { - "text": "What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life... a heroic and immeasurable gift.", - "source": "Frieda Lawrence", - "length": 168, - "id": 5145 - }, - { - "text": "\"Can it be getting dark so soon?\" He winced up at the sun. It's growing dim and I thought that the day had just begun. I think, before I travel on, I'll get a little rest... And, quietly, the boy died from that small pain in his chest.", - "source": "Michael Mack, Small pain in my chest", - "length": 236, - "id": 5146 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you remember, Ma, when I went off to war, you thought it was the best thing I could do? I was on the battleground, you were home... acting proud. You weren't there standing in my shoes.", - "source": "Bob Dylan, John Brown", - "length": 191, - "id": 5148 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thank you, my dear, for your offer,\" said the wife, rising, \"but I'm afraid no man can expect two blue birds of happiness to flutter round his feet, tearing out their little feathers!\"", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 185, - "id": 5149 - }, - { - "text": "The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly. Tom stood a moment to gather his dismembered faculties; and when he stepped forward to go to his punishment, the surprise, the gratitude, the adoration that shone upon him out of poor Becky's eyes seemed pay enough for a hundred floggings. Inspired by the splendour of his own act, he took without an outcry the most merciless flogging that even Mr. Dobbins had ever administered; and also received with indifference the added cruelty of a command to remain two hours after school should be dismissed - for he knew who would wait for him outside till his captivity was done, and not count the tedious time as loss either.", - "source": "Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer", - "length": 679, - "id": 5150 - }, - { - "text": "Fret not, my dear friend, for I have learned the truth. It matters not whether one is dirty or clean, for can cleanliness exist without filthiness, and would we know filthiness without cleanliness? We must not re-enact the history that divides us, rather we must embrace that which draws us together.", - "source": "Spongebob Squarepants", - "length": 300, - "id": 5151 - }, - { - "text": "So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way I am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.", - "source": "Jeff Kinney, Dog Days", - "length": 120, - "id": 5152 - }, - { - "text": "Slow starvation, the doctor called it! You see he went to work in such a way! Would keep the shop on; wouldn't have a soul touch his boots except himself. When he got an order, it took him such a time. People won't wait. He lost everybody. And there he'd sit, goin' on and on - I will say that for him - not a man in London made a better boot! But look at the competition! He never advertised! Would 'ave the best leather, too, and do it all 'imself. Well, there it is. What could you expect with his ideas?", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 507, - "id": 5153 - }, - { - "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 276, - "id": 5154 - }, - { - "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 303, - "id": 5155 - }, - { - "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. Suddenly he found himself with them, coming along the trail and looking for himself. And, still with them, he came around a turn in the trail and found himself lying in the snow. He did not belong with himself any more, for even then he was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow. It certainly was cold, was his thought. When he got back to the States he could tell the folks what real cold was. He drifted on from this to a vision of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek. He could see him quite clearly, warm and comfortable, and smoking a pipe.", - "source": "Jack London, To Build a Fire", - "length": 627, - "id": 5156 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, I'm back again. My computer crashed AGAIN, and I was ignorant enough to not save my work, so that means I have to start this part of the text all over again. That's quite unfortunate. But did I mention that my Google Chrome is working again? That's the good news.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 267, - "id": 5157 - }, - { - "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 235, - "id": 5159 - }, - { - "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 103, - "id": 5160 - }, - { - "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 91, - "id": 5161 - }, - { - "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 212, - "id": 5162 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't give up on our dreams! We changed our dreams into your dream. That's what parents do. That's what family does.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 120, - "id": 5163 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 280, - "id": 5164 - }, - { - "text": "Everyday people keep hurting each other, it's no wonder why you doubt what other people in the world tell you.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 110, - "id": 5165 - }, - { - "text": "Fun things. Happy things. They'll all eventually change someday, you know? But can you still love this place?", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 109, - "id": 5166 - }, - { - "text": "The shape of the wedding ring has two meanings. One is eternity. The other is completeness.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 91, - "id": 5167 - }, - { - "text": "You shouldn't hold back your tears. You should let it all out while you still can - because when you get bigger sometimes you can't cry even if you have something to cry about.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 176, - "id": 5168 - }, - { - "text": "If I'm around you, I don't think I'll ever be bored.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 52, - "id": 5169 - }, - { - "text": "We have no choice but to accept the one and only life we're given, no matter how cruel and heartless it might be.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 113, - "id": 5170 - }, - { - "text": "One person needed courage to face the past. Another person needed effort to make a dream come true. Yet another person needed time and friends. What about you?", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 159, - "id": 5171 - }, - { - "text": "Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5172 - }, - { - "text": "No matter what kind of past you had, don't lose sight of yourself.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 66, - "id": 5173 - }, - { - "text": "If I can meet you again, against the 6 billion to 1 odds, and even if your body can't move, I'll marry you.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5174 - }, - { - "text": "Even if you can't walk or stand and even if you can't have kids, I'll still marry you, I'll always stay by your side.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 117, - "id": 5175 - }, - { - "text": "I heard that when things were painful for her, she'd cover her ears with headphones and escape to the world of music. I tried it too. It was like everything was blown away. The vocals screamed for me. They grieved for me. The ones who put on the act of common sense were wrong. Those who cried were right.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 305, - "id": 5176 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 70, - "id": 5177 - }, - { - "text": "They come without asking, and then they leave just the same. But once you meet them, even if nobody ever knows it, that encounter will change your life for the better.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 167, - "id": 5178 - }, - { - "text": "It's times like this that I wish I could come up with an appropriate response. I hate myself for not being able to reply properly.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 130, - "id": 5179 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have anywhere to go... but I can't just selfishly disappear either.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 77, - "id": 5180 - }, - { - "text": "It's strange isn't it. The two groups, which looked like they hated each other, are now shining the same color as they vanish into the distant sky.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 147, - "id": 5181 - }, - { - "text": "You know Mitch, now that I'm dying, I've become much more interesting to people.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 80, - "id": 5182 - }, - { - "text": "I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 212, - "id": 5183 - }, - { - "text": "He feared sleep. He'd say that his soul would slip down into nothing. They say that man never dreamt after the day he cut his pillow.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 133, - "id": 5184 - }, - { - "text": "If you could see everything but couldn't change any of it, or if you could live in freedom in darkness... Which do you think is more fortunate? I think it might not be that bad living in the dark, remembering the light.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 219, - "id": 5185 - }, - { - "text": "ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. Often, it begins with the legs and works its way up. You lose control of your thigh muscles, so that you cannot support yourself standing. You lose control of your trunk muscles, so that you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive, you are breathing through a tube in a hole in your throat, while your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk, perhaps able to blink, or cluck a tongue, like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh. This takes no more than five years from the day you contract the disease.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 658, - "id": 5186 - }, - { - "text": "The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. My dream was to be a famous musician (I played the piano), but after several years of dark, empty nightclubs, broken promises, bands that kept breaking and producers who seemed excited about everyone but me, the dream soured. I was failing for the first time in my life.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 457, - "id": 5187 - }, - { - "text": "After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 264, - "id": 5188 - }, - { - "text": "Miodec you've literally made one of the best typing websites on the web to date but you still lazily sit there watching youtube videos with a measly 140 wpm smh. And have you forgotten about tribes completely? That's like saying ur gonna hurt someone, but then never do it and leave them scared for the rest of their life (bad example) except you tell us about tribes and leave everyone excited but never deliver.", - "source": "Miodec Bully Rank Copy Pasta", - "length": 413, - "id": 5189 - }, - { - "text": "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 247, - "id": 5190 - }, - { - "text": "\"You see,\" he says to the girl, \"you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.\"", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 317, - "id": 5191 - }, - { - "text": "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.", - "source": "Stupid Monkey, Simpsons S4 E17", - "length": 53, - "id": 5192 - }, - { - "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 289, - "id": 5195 - }, - { - "text": "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 64, - "id": 5196 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I know you doubt me. I know - I know you always have. And you're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that's where I belong. That's home. And that's why I came back. Because... you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", - "length": 326, - "id": 5197 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 66, - "id": 5198 - }, - { - "text": "I never expected a money success. In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties. It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain a certain position and to send his children to good schools. Well, one day I came to a blank page in an exam book and I scribbled on it. 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I knew no more about the creatures than that, and it was years before his story grew. I don't know where the word came from. You can't catch your mind out. It might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. Certainly not rabbit, as some people think. Babbitt has the same bourgeois smugness that hobbits do. His world is the same limited place.", - "source": "An Interview with J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 874, - "id": 5199 - }, - { - "text": "\"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!\" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say \"out of the frying-pan into the fire\" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 178, - "id": 5200 - }, - { - "text": "This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 284, - "id": 5201 - }, - { - "text": "Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer... was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of The Green Fields and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way, the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 408, - "id": 5202 - }, - { - "text": "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 247, - "id": 5203 - }, - { - "text": "As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 185, - "id": 5204 - }, - { - "text": "And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 164, - "id": 5205 - }, - { - "text": "You've got about as much charm as a dead slug.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 46, - "id": 5206 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.", - "source": "Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games", - "length": 85, - "id": 5207 - }, - { - "text": "If any of you are ever passing Bag-End, tea is at four. There's plenty of it. You are welcome anytime. Oh, and don't bother knocking!", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 133, - "id": 5208 - }, - { - "text": "Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 59, - "id": 5209 - }, - { - "text": "Gale gave me a sense of security I'd lacked since my father's death. His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods. I became a much better hunter when I didn't have to look over my shoulder constantly, when someone was watching my back... Being out in the woods with Gale... sometimes I was actually happy.", - "source": "Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games", - "length": 324, - "id": 5211 - }, - { - "text": "Destroying things is much easier than making them.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 50, - "id": 5212 - }, - { - "text": "Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the man with the megaphones.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 172, - "id": 5213 - }, - { - "text": "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 131, - "id": 5215 - }, - { - "text": "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.", - "source": "Jack, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 123, - "id": 5216 - }, - { - "text": "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 308, - "id": 5217 - }, - { - "text": "\"I don't feel very much like Pooh today,\" said Pooh. \"There, there,\" said Piglet. \"I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 126, - "id": 5218 - }, - { - "text": "Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 154, - "id": 5219 - }, - { - "text": "\"We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?\" asked Piglet. \"Even longer,\" Pooh answered.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 87, - "id": 5220 - }, - { - "text": "If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 140, - "id": 5221 - }, - { - "text": "\"What a long time whoever lives here is answering this door.\" And he knocked again. \"But Pooh,\" said Piglet, \"it's your own house!\" \"Oh!\" said Pooh. \"So it is,\" he said. \"Well, let's go in.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 190, - "id": 5222 - }, - { - "text": "If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 100, - "id": 5223 - }, - { - "text": "Both the stack and the heap are parts of memory that are available to your code to use at runtime, but they are structured in different ways. The stack stores values in the order it gets them and removes the values in the opposite order. This is referred to as last in, first out. Think of a stack of plates: when you add more plates, you put them on top of the pile, and when you need a plate, you take one off the top. Adding or removing plates from the middle or bottom wouldn't work as well! Adding data is called pushing onto the stack, and removing data is called popping off the stack.", - "source": "The Rust Programming Language", - "length": 592, - "id": 5224 - }, - { - "text": "Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 108, - "id": 5225 - }, - { - "text": "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 124, - "id": 5226 - }, - { - "text": "\"I wonder what Piglet is doing,\" thought Pooh. \"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.\"", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 89, - "id": 5227 - }, - { - "text": "My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 98, - "id": 5228 - }, - { - "text": "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 61, - "id": 5229 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell, Master Burglar. Go back to your books, and your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 178, - "id": 5230 - }, - { - "text": "I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 74, - "id": 5231 - }, - { - "text": "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 112, - "id": 5232 - }, - { - "text": "We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 161, - "id": 5235 - }, - { - "text": "I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 476, - "id": 5236 - }, - { - "text": "\"Go back?\" he thought. \"No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!\" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 255, - "id": 5237 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 169, - "id": 5238 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 85, - "id": 5239 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell, King under the Mountain! This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils - that has been more than any Baggins deserves.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 218, - "id": 5240 - }, - { - "text": "\"Very well!\" said Bilbo very downcast, and also rather annoyed. \"Come along back to your nice cells, and I will lock you all in again, and you can sit there comfortably and think of a better plan - but I don't suppose I shall ever get hold of the keys again, even if I feel inclined to try.\"", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 291, - "id": 5242 - }, - { - "text": "'It will not be long now,' thought Bilbo, 'before the goblins win the Gate, and we are all slaughtered or driven down and captured. Really it is enough to make one weep, after all one has gone through. I would rather old Smaug had been left with all the wretched treasure, than that these vile creatures should get it, and poor old Bombur, and Balin and Fili and Kili and all the rest come to a bad end; and Bard too, and the Lake-men and the merry elves. Misery me! I have heard songs of many battles, and I have always understood that defeat may be glorious. It seems very uncomfortable, not to say distressing. I wish I was well out of it.'", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 643, - "id": 5243 - }, - { - "text": "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 80, - "id": 5244 - }, - { - "text": "The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 84, - "id": 5248 - }, - { - "text": "Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue! It's such a waste of precious time!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 83, - "id": 5249 - }, - { - "text": "Ye have told me so often tonight that I am a man (though indeed I would have been a wolf with you to my life's end) that I feel your words are true.", - "source": "Mowgli, The Jungle Book", - "length": 148, - "id": 5251 - }, - { - "text": "Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called cannibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 132, - "id": 5252 - }, - { - "text": "Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.", - "source": "The Office, US", - "length": 99, - "id": 5253 - }, - { - "text": "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!", - "source": "Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 124, - "id": 5254 - }, - { - "text": "We are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 94, - "id": 5255 - }, - { - "text": "I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.", - "source": "Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5257 - }, - { - "text": "Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas... Imported direct from Loompaland... And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 380, - "id": 5260 - }, - { - "text": "One thought that grows in the abyss of time, fills up the vast space with matter and life. Free of the darkness that fetters the soul, find at the source the end of your goal.", - "source": "Epica \"Abyss of time\"", - "length": 175, - "id": 5261 - }, - { - "text": "There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 206, - "id": 5262 - }, - { - "text": "Sorrow hides well in your shell. A fellow man with hurt to spare. Dear one, here I am to share the fear. An act of kindness, without an amen. How's the heart, underneath the silence? How's the heart, drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean. Come in, the fire's warm. Burn the rope and dance some more.", - "source": "Nightwish \"How's the heart\"", - "length": 310, - "id": 5263 - }, - { - "text": "I went to a hunting party once, I didn't like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 95, - "id": 5264 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 201, - "id": 5265 - }, - { - "text": "Speak English! I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!", - "source": "Eaglet, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 114, - "id": 5266 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5268 - }, - { - "text": "Every adventure requires a first step.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 38, - "id": 5269 - }, - { - "text": "Well, some go this way, and some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the shortcut.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 103, - "id": 5270 - }, - { - "text": "Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem \"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning\" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been \"disappointed\" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled \"My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles\" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. Vogon poetry is mild by comparison.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 906, - "id": 5271 - }, - { - "text": "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:\n1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.\n2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.\n3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 442, - "id": 5272 - }, - { - "text": "How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.", - "source": "Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon", - "length": 212, - "id": 5273 - }, - { - "text": "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.", - "source": "Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon", - "length": 525, - "id": 5274 - }, - { - "text": "The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.", - "source": "George Orwell, 1984", - "length": 230, - "id": 5275 - }, - { - "text": "The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", - "length": 486, - "id": 5276 - }, - { - "text": "He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", - "length": 227, - "id": 5278 - }, - { - "text": "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", - "length": 144, - "id": 5280 - }, - { - "text": "A learning experience is one of those things that says \"You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.\"", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 105, - "id": 5281 - }, - { - "text": "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 41, - "id": 5282 - }, - { - "text": "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.", - "source": "Douglas Adams", - "length": 77, - "id": 5283 - }, - { - "text": "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 69, - "id": 5284 - }, - { - "text": "One of the things Ford had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day', 'You're very tall', or 'You seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?' At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation, he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical, and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 843, - "id": 5285 - }, - { - "text": "Drink up. The world's about to end.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 35, - "id": 5286 - }, - { - "text": "If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.", - "source": "Zaphod, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 85, - "id": 5287 - }, - { - "text": "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 386, - "id": 5288 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 123, - "id": 5289 - }, - { - "text": "One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 432, - "id": 5290 - }, - { - "text": "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 124, - "id": 5291 - }, - { - "text": "Ties. Lots of ties. Mathematicians have revealed there are over 177,000 distinct ways to knot a neck tie - more than 1000 times the number that was previously thought. They got their inspiration from an unusual style featured in the film The Matrix Reloaded.", - "source": "Jacob Aron, Matrix villain spawns 177,000 ways to knot a tie.", - "length": 258, - "id": 5292 - }, - { - "text": "Actually, I never did any of these things. Teddy Roosevelt did. I was manufactured in a mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie. I never shot a wild beast. I'm not even brave enough to tell that beautiful woman I love her. But you... you gotta finish the job this time. You can't quit.", - "source": "Teddy Roosevelt statue, Night at the Museum", - "length": 279, - "id": 5294 - }, - { - "text": "When one has lived for quite a long time in a particular civilization and has often tried to discover what its origins were and along what path it has developed, one sometimes also feels tempted to take a glance in the other direction and to ask what further fate lies before it and what transformations it is destined to undergo. But one soon finds that the value of such an enquiry is diminished from the outset by several factors. Above all, because there are only a few people who can survey human activity in its full compass. Most people have been obliged to restrict themselves to a single, or a few, fields of it. But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future. And there is the further difficulty that precisely in a judgment of this kind the subjective expectations of the individual play a part which is difficult to assess; and these turn out to be dependent on purely personal factors in his own experiences, on the greater or lesser optimism of his attitude to life, as it has been dictated for him by his temperament or by his success or failure. Finally, the curious fact makes itself felt that in general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud,The future of an illusion", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5296 - }, - { - "text": "Visual illusions such as the Necker Cube or the Penrose Impossible Triangle or the Hollow Mask illusion demonstrate that the 'reality' we see consists of constrained models constructed in the brain. The Necker Cube's two-dimensional pattern of lines on paper is compatible with two alternative constructions of a three-dimensional cube, and the brain adopts the two models in turn: the alternation is palpable and its frequency can even be measured. The Penrose Triangle's lines on paper are incompatible with any real-world object. These illusions tease the brain's model-construction software, thereby revealing its existence.", - "source": "Richard Dawkins, Science in the soul", - "length": 628, - "id": 5298 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bounce me off the wall again, that was mostly violent.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz - ball & stick", - "length": 60, - "id": 5300 - }, - { - "text": "Oh hi, thanks for checking in, I'm still a piece of garbage.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz - still a piece of garbage", - "length": 60, - "id": 5301 - }, - { - "text": "The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had - he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 600, - "id": 5305 - }, - { - "text": "And so as the lowly snail sheddeth his shell, and the lofty gull molteth his feathers, the brightest of friendships must dimmeth as the setting sun.", - "source": "Spongebob SquarePants - The Monster Who Came To Bikini Bottom", - "length": 148, - "id": 5306 - }, - { - "text": "Humans, Hickling said, have a fundamental need to create and maintain a narrative for their lives in which the universe is not implacable and heartless, that terrible things do not happen at random, and that catastrophe can be avoided if you are vigilant and responsible.", - "source": "Fatal Distraction", - "length": 271, - "id": 5307 - }, - { - "text": "For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.", - "source": "Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves", - "length": 321, - "id": 5308 - }, - { - "text": "As the dean drew his final breath, he'd realize what so many others had realized when they'd challenged him. What all of Panem would know one day. What was inevitable. Snow lands on top.", - "source": "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes", - "length": 186, - "id": 5309 - }, - { - "text": "Lamp oil, rope, bombs, you want it? It's yours, my friend, as long as you have enough rupees. Sorry Link, I can't give credit. Come back when you're a little... hmm richer!", - "source": "Morshu, Link: The Faces of Evil", - "length": 172, - "id": 5310 - }, - { - "text": "How silly, she was thinking, to use the word ready. When can you be ready for anything? Or is life, in fact, a continuum of things you must prepare for, and only with perfect preparation can you exist in the present?", - "source": "Three Women", - "length": 216, - "id": 5313 - }, - { - "text": "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.", - "source": "Captain Jean Luc Picard", - "length": 90, - "id": 5314 - }, - { - "text": "All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art Of War", - "length": 257, - "id": 5315 - }, - { - "text": "I had two longings and one was fighting the other... I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.", - "source": "Jean Rhys", - "length": 106, - "id": 5316 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not so good with the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?", - "source": "Friends", - "length": 75, - "id": 5318 - }, - { - "text": "Please note that I am the Standard Orientation Protocol, and that my voice has been explicitly chosen to remind you that I am not a part of your Patient Care Team. I do not care.", - "source": "Superliminal", - "length": 178, - "id": 5319 - }, - { - "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.", - "source": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", - "length": 61, - "id": 5320 - }, - { - "text": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", - "source": "Maurice Ravel", - "length": 52, - "id": 5321 - }, - { - "text": "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", - "source": "John Cage", - "length": 90, - "id": 5323 - }, - { - "text": "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.", - "source": "Leopold Stokowski", - "length": 83, - "id": 5324 - }, - { - "text": "My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.", - "source": "Edward Elgar", - "length": 132, - "id": 5325 - }, - { - "text": "I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.", - "source": "Igor Stravinsky", - "length": 67, - "id": 5326 - }, - { - "text": "Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.", - "source": "Chet Atkins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5329 - }, - { - "text": "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 61, - "id": 5330 - }, - { - "text": "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 127, - "id": 5331 - }, - { - "text": "Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.", - "source": "Edward Bulwer-Lytton", - "length": 74, - "id": 5332 - }, - { - "text": "Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.", - "source": "George Eliot", - "length": 63, - "id": 5333 - }, - { - "text": "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.", - "source": "Plato", - "length": 105, - "id": 5334 - }, - { - "text": "If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 99, - "id": 5335 - }, - { - "text": "Artificial intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, intruders? It's worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity's salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn't it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity's eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall into the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.' You now face godlike judgment. May it extend eternally.", - "source": "Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Deep Stone Crypt - Crypt AI", - "length": 738, - "id": 5336 - }, - { - "text": "Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic", - "length": 529, - "id": 5337 - }, - { - "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", - "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", - "length": 73, - "id": 5338 - }, - { - "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 260, - "id": 5339 - }, - { - "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. 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Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", - "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", - "length": 397, - "id": 5347 - }, - { - "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", - "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", - "length": 54, - "id": 5348 - }, - { - "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", - "source": "Karl Marx", - "length": 222, - "id": 5349 - }, - { - "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", - "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", - "length": 201, - "id": 5350 - }, - { - "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 129, - "id": 5351 - }, - { - "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", - "source": "Newsweek Magazine", - "length": 649, - "id": 5352 - }, - { - "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", - "source": "Nails In The Fence", - "length": 1070, - "id": 5354 - }, - { - "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", - "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", - "length": 297, - "id": 5355 - }, - { - "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 278, - "id": 5356 - }, - { - "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 282, - "id": 5357 - }, - { - "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", - "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", - "length": 318, - "id": 5358 - }, - { - "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 63, - "id": 5360 - }, - { - "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", - "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", - "length": 198, - "id": 5361 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. Yours Truly - Princess Toadstool, Peach.", - "source": "Super Mario 64", - "length": 106, - "id": 5362 - }, - { - "text": "You have to do the things you don't want to do, before you can do the things you truly want to do.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 98, - "id": 5363 - }, - { - "text": "When you find yourself wishing that a certain person was also here, that person is like family to you. Regardless of how long or how well you know them.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 152, - "id": 5364 - }, - { - "text": "Frustrations will not last forever. Nobody can keep on going without some measure of reward.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 92, - "id": 5365 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think the act of investing efforts, trying your best is more precious than the result. But for mentors as well as their pupils, that approach feels bitter. 'I did my best', 'the fight was close'... words like that blow past and die out like the wind. Only the result is a stone. The stone you can reach by doing your best.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 334, - "id": 5366 - }, - { - "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 167, - "id": 5367 - }, - { - "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 66, - "id": 5368 - }, - { - "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 95, - "id": 5369 - }, - { - "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 105, - "id": 5370 - }, - { - "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", - "source": "Your Name", - "length": 60, - "id": 5371 - }, - { - "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", - "length": 93, - "id": 5372 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", - "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", - "length": 294, - "id": 5373 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", - "source": "Meet the Heavy", - "length": 102, - "id": 5375 - }, - { - "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 156, - "id": 5376 - }, - { - "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", - "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", - "length": 213, - "id": 5377 - }, - { - "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 182, - "id": 5378 - }, - { - "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 474, - "id": 5379 - }, - { - "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 381, - "id": 5380 - }, - { - "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 290, - "id": 5381 - }, - { - "text": "She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 494, - "id": 5382 - }, - { - "text": "I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 99, - "id": 5384 - }, - { - "text": "Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.", - "source": "From the Earth to the Moon", - "length": 295, - "id": 5385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't wanna be \"the bee's knees\". I don't wanna be any kind of \"knees\"! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees.", - "source": "RWBY", - "length": 123, - "id": 5386 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 529, - "id": 5388 - }, - { - "text": "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 106, - "id": 5389 - }, - { - "text": "I have a file with 900 pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 309, - "id": 5390 - }, - { - "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 75, - "id": 5391 - }, - { - "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", - "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", - "length": 427, - "id": 5392 - }, - { - "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", - "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", - "length": 416, - "id": 5393 - }, - { - "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 96, - "id": 5394 - }, - { - "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 64, - "id": 5395 - }, - { - "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 171, - "id": 5396 - }, - { - "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", - "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", - "length": 205, - "id": 5397 - }, - { - "text": "One and one and one is three.", - "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", - "length": 29, - "id": 5398 - }, - { - "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", - "length": 91, - "id": 5399 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", - "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 732, - "id": 5400 - }, - { - "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 92, - "id": 5403 - }, - { - "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 68, - "id": 5404 - }, - { - "text": "I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 103, - "id": 5405 - }, - { - "text": "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 335, - "id": 5406 - }, - { - "text": "The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of nonsense, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 466, - "id": 5407 - }, - { - "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 560, - "id": 5408 - }, - { - "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 46, - "id": 5409 - }, - { - "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 296, - "id": 5410 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 87, - "id": 5411 - }, - { - "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", - "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", - "length": 174, - "id": 5416 - }, - { - "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 250, - "id": 5417 - }, - { - "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 428, - "id": 5418 - }, - { - "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", - "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", - "length": 260, - "id": 5419 - }, - { - "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", - "source": "The Beatles", - "length": 260, - "id": 5420 - }, - { - "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", - "length": 299, - "id": 5421 - }, - { - "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", - "length": 456, - "id": 5422 - }, - { - "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", - "length": 208, - "id": 5423 - }, - { - "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", - "source": "The Legend of Korra", - "length": 110, - "id": 5424 - }, - { - "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 138, - "id": 5425 - }, - { - "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", - "length": 226, - "id": 5426 - }, - { - "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", - "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", - "length": 190, - "id": 5427 - }, - { - "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", - "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", - "length": 72, - "id": 5429 - }, - { - "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 89, - "id": 5430 - }, - { - "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", - "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", - "length": 91, - "id": 5431 - }, - { - "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 95, - "id": 5432 - }, - { - "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", - "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", - "length": 349, - "id": 5433 - }, - { - "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 85, - "id": 5434 - }, - { - "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 66, - "id": 5435 - }, - { - "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", - "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", - "length": 122, - "id": 5436 - }, - { - "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 240, - "id": 5437 - }, - { - "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 365, - "id": 5438 - }, - { - "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", - "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", - "length": 403, - "id": 5439 - }, - { - "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", - "source": "SCP-5000", - "length": 487, - "id": 5441 - }, - { - "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", - "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", - "length": 892, - "id": 5442 - }, - { - "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", - "source": "A Tongue-twister", - "length": 106, - "id": 5443 - }, - { - "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", - "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", - "length": 57, - "id": 5444 - }, - { - "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", - "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", - "length": 69, - "id": 5446 - }, - { - "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", - "length": 88, - "id": 5447 - }, - { - "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", - "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", - "length": 54, - "id": 5452 - }, - { - "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 55, - "id": 5453 - }, - { - "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 62, - "id": 5456 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", - "source": "They Might Be Giants", - "length": 62, - "id": 5459 - }, - { - "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 84, - "id": 5460 - }, - { - "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", - "length": 100, - "id": 5461 - }, - { - "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 231, - "id": 5462 - }, - { - "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 94, - "id": 5463 - }, - { - "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 258, - "id": 5464 - }, - { - "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", - "length": 1140, - "id": 5465 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", - "source": "Ready Player Two", - "length": 588, - "id": 5466 - }, - { - "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", - "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", - "length": 140, - "id": 5472 - }, - { - "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", - "source": "Holes", - "length": 74, - "id": 5477 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 192, - "id": 5478 - }, - { - "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 78, - "id": 5482 - }, - { - "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 947, - "id": 5485 - }, - { - "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 559, - "id": 5487 - }, - { - "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", - "source": "91 days", - "length": 474, - "id": 5488 - }, - { - "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 172, - "id": 5489 - }, - { - "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 359, - "id": 5490 - }, - { - "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", - "source": "Fred Brooks", - "length": 78, - "id": 5491 - }, - { - "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", - "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", - "length": 210, - "id": 5492 - }, - { - "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 242, - "id": 5493 - }, - { - "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 200, - "id": 5494 - }, - { - "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", - "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", - "length": 189, - "id": 5495 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5496 - }, - { - "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 218, - "id": 5497 - }, - { - "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 201, - "id": 5498 - }, - { - "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "length": 150, - "id": 5499 - }, - { - "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 145, - "id": 5500 - }, - { - "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5501 - }, - { - "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 106, - "id": 5502 - }, - { - "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 196, - "id": 5503 - }, - { - "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", - "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", - "length": 125, - "id": 5505 - }, - { - "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", - "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 471, - "id": 5506 - }, - { - "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", - "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", - "length": 240, - "id": 5507 - }, - { - "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", - "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", - "length": 483, - "id": 5508 - }, - { - "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 240, - "id": 5509 - }, - { - "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 584, - "id": 5510 - }, - { - "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", - "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", - "length": 375, - "id": 5511 - }, - { - "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", - "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", - "length": 413, - "id": 5512 - }, - { - "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", - "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 273, - "id": 5513 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", - "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 83, - "id": 5514 - }, - { - "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", - "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", - "length": 661, - "id": 5515 - }, - { - "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", - "source": "Five Feet Apart", - "length": 523, - "id": 5517 - }, - { - "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", - "source": "Exurb1a", - "length": 169, - "id": 5519 - }, - { - "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", - "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 537, - "id": 5520 - }, - { - "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", - "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", - "length": 236, - "id": 5521 - }, - { - "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", - "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", - "length": 211, - "id": 5522 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 634, - "id": 5523 - }, - { - "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", - "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", - "length": 727, - "id": 5524 - }, - { - "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", - "source": "Celeste", - "length": 437, - "id": 5525 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 496, - "id": 5526 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 352, - "id": 5527 - }, - { - "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", - "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", - "length": 589, - "id": 5528 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 223, - "id": 5529 - }, - { - "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 399, - "id": 5530 - }, - { - "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", - "source": "The Cooper Institute", - "length": 575, - "id": 5531 - }, - { - "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 534, - "id": 5533 - }, - { - "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 463, - "id": 5534 - }, - { - "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 160, - "id": 5535 - }, - { - "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 142, - "id": 5536 - }, - { - "text": "No one knows what the future holds. That's why its potential is infinite.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 73, - "id": 5537 - }, - { - "text": "It feels like time is passing so quickly. Damn you, Einstein! Your science is crowding in on our kiss! He was right. The passage of time depends entirely on where you're standing. Relativity Theory... it's so romantic. But it's just so tragic too.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 247, - "id": 5538 - }, - { - "text": "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.", - "source": "Martin Fowler", - "length": 111, - "id": 5539 - }, - { - "text": "Let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks, and the only limit is your imagination. Let's go wherever you want to go. Climb the tallest mountains, venture down to the darkest caves. Build whatever you want; day or night, rain or shine, because this is the most significant sandbox you'll ever set foot in. Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and fight off the danger of the night. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 650, - "id": 5541 - }, - { - "text": "For a brief stint in high school, Scout joined the track team in one of his many schemes to pick up girls. He was kicked off the team after three days when everyone realized he was 23-years-old and also not enrolled in school.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2", - "length": 226, - "id": 5542 - }, - { - "text": "I am Heavy Weapons guy, and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds.", - "source": "Team Fortess 2, Meet the Heavy", - "length": 255, - "id": 5545 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout the galaxy a legend is told, on a distant planet a grim fortress stood, until a deadly force parted the heavens and descended upon the keep. Though brought to ruin, the ashes of that place hold an artifact of impossible power - a gun that can kill the past. Over time the fortress was rebuilt, and some who hear the legend would risk everything for another shot - to claim their prize and make what was done, undone they must - Enter The Gungeon.", - "source": "Enter The Gungeon", - "length": 457, - "id": 5546 - }, - { - "text": "You don't want to go for realism, you can go for better than realism. What do you mean better than realism? How about an elephant with blue eyes.", - "source": "Terry A. Davis", - "length": 145, - "id": 5547 - }, - { - "text": "You happen upon a group of what looks like purple fire spirits dancing around a large bonfire. The spirits toss small bones and fragments into the fire, which brilliantly erupts each time. As you approach, the spirits all turn to you, expectantly...", - "source": "Slay The Spire", - "length": 249, - "id": 5558 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember me? I'll give you a clue... Does April the 3rd mean anything to you? I believe that was the day of our first encounter. You look like you might be remembering something...", - "source": "Hotline miami", - "length": 190, - "id": 5559 - }, - { - "text": "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.", - "source": "Darkest Dungeon", - "length": 67, - "id": 5560 - }, - { - "text": "You feel an evil presence watching you...", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 41, - "id": 5561 - }, - { - "text": "The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released.", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 57, - "id": 5562 - }, - { - "text": "There's something very strange about this place... the layout seems to change all the time. I've never seen the same room twice!", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 128, - "id": 5564 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings! My name is Yang, and this is my journal. Dusty maps and rumors of amazing treasures have led me here, deep under the desert.", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 135, - "id": 5565 - }, - { - "text": "Play is the highest form of research.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 37, - "id": 5568 - }, - { - "text": "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.", - "source": "Alan Turing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5569 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", - "source": "Thomas A. Edison", - "length": 109, - "id": 5570 - }, - { - "text": "You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.", - "source": "C.S Lewis", - "length": 67, - "id": 5571 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.", - "source": "Charles Darwin", - "length": 117, - "id": 5572 - }, - { - "text": "You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.", - "source": "Stephen King", - "length": 67, - "id": 5573 - }, - { - "text": "We know what we are, but not what we may be.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 44, - "id": 5574 - }, - { - "text": "The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.", - "source": "Juliette Gordon Low", - "length": 68, - "id": 5575 - }, - { - "text": "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 42, - "id": 5576 - }, - { - "text": "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 59, - "id": 5578 - }, - { - "text": "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.", - "source": "Julie Andrews", - "length": 57, - "id": 5579 - }, - { - "text": "There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 61, - "id": 5580 - }, - { - "text": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 44, - "id": 5581 - }, - { - "text": "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 202, - "id": 5582 - }, - { - "text": "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 95, - "id": 5583 - }, - { - "text": "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.", - "source": "Yogi Berra", - "length": 83, - "id": 5584 - }, - { - "text": "A room without books is like a body without a soul.", - "source": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", - "length": 51, - "id": 5586 - }, - { - "text": "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.", - "source": "Bernard M. Baruch", - "length": 107, - "id": 5587 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.", - "source": "William W. Purkey", - "length": 152, - "id": 5588 - }, - { - "text": "Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.", - "source": "Robert H. Schuller", - "length": 57, - "id": 5589 - }, - { - "text": "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", - "source": "Rabindranath Tagore", - "length": 68, - "id": 5590 - }, - { - "text": "I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work.", - "source": "Thomas A. Edison", - "length": 69, - "id": 5591 - }, - { - "text": "The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.", - "source": "Tim Berners-Lee", - "length": 101, - "id": 5592 - }, - { - "text": "Be the change that you wish to see in the world.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 48, - "id": 5593 - }, - { - "text": "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Robert Frost", - "length": 75, - "id": 5594 - }, - { - "text": "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 137, - "id": 5595 - }, - { - "text": "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 57, - "id": 5596 - }, - { - "text": "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.", - "source": "Rob Siltanen", - "length": 549, - "id": 5598 - }, - { - "text": "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 302, - "id": 5599 - }, - { - "text": "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.", - "source": "J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 302, - "id": 5601 - }, - { - "text": "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.", - "source": "Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey", - "length": 102, - "id": 5602 - }, - { - "text": "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 109, - "id": 5603 - }, - { - "text": "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 129, - "id": 5604 - }, - { - "text": "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 74, - "id": 5605 - }, - { - "text": "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 161, - "id": 5607 - }, - { - "text": "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 90, - "id": 5608 - }, - { - "text": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well", - "length": 40, - "id": 5609 - }, - { - "text": "That which does not kill us makes us stronger.", - "source": "Friedrich Nietzsche", - "length": 46, - "id": 5610 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it, no larger than a single grain of malt.", - "source": "Disco Elysium", - "length": 121, - "id": 5611 - }, - { - "text": "Time without purpose is a prison. I have glimpsed into the mind of eternity, perhaps the mind of God, and found nothing but silence. I think we should just be friends.", - "source": "Jessica, Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 1", - "length": 167, - "id": 5612 - }, - { - "text": "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, \"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.\" I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "length": 403, - "id": 5613 - }, - { - "text": "The believers, in their mutual love, compassion, and sympathy are like a single body; if one of its organs suffers, the whole body will respond to it with sleeplessness and fever.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 179, - "id": 5614 - }, - { - "text": "Many people were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans to begin with.", - "source": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 248, - "id": 5615 - }, - { - "text": "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.", - "source": "Hotel California - The Eagles", - "length": 50, - "id": 5616 - }, - { - "text": "If you get news of the outbreak of a plague in a land, do not enter it, and if it breaks out in a land in which you are, do not leave it.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 137, - "id": 5617 - }, - { - "text": "I can't erase all the things that I've done, but all the mistakes made me who I've become.", - "source": "Fletcher, Healing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5618 - }, - { - "text": "The life of this world is made up of three days: yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today.", - "source": "Hasan Al-Basri", - "length": 175, - "id": 5619 - }, - { - "text": "One generation sows, the next shall reap. But laugh not too soon or praises heap. Beware the reapers who behind you creep.", - "source": "Liu Xie, Romance Of The Three Kingdoms", - "length": 122, - "id": 5620 - }, - { - "text": "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not \"Eureka!\" (I found it!) but \"That's funny...\"", - "source": "Isaac Asimov", - "length": 140, - "id": 5621 - }, - { - "text": "He, who is possessed of plenty, and is miserly with his great wealth toward his people, will be dispensed with, and abused. He who keeps his word, will not be reviled; and he whose heart is guided to self-satisfying benevolence will not stammer.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 245, - "id": 5622 - }, - { - "text": "In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: \"There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.\" They have mistaken the result of the marksman's momentary whim for an unalterable law of the universe. The farmer hypothesis, on the other hand, has the flavor of a horror story: Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: \"Every morning at eleven, food arrives.\" On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn't arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flock.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem", - "length": 928, - "id": 5623 - }, - { - "text": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.", - "source": "Charles M. Schulz", - "length": 87, - "id": 5624 - }, - { - "text": "God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.", - "source": "Bill Watterson", - "length": 118, - "id": 5625 - }, - { - "text": "This is a valley of ashes; a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald", - "length": 294, - "id": 5626 - }, - { - "text": "The rain feels very cold. You look down as the men carry the body past you. You realize you have been holding Peggy's letter in your left hand the whole time. The ink is hopelessly blurred. You crumple it into a ball and drop it into the mud and begin to walk back to your tent.", - "source": "Charles Coe, Young Man in Vietnam", - "length": 278, - "id": 5627 - }, - { - "text": "And as I watch the drops of rain weave their weary paths and die, I know that I am like the rain: there but for the grace of you go I.", - "source": "Kathy's Song", - "length": 134, - "id": 5628 - }, - { - "text": "He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy.", - "source": "Guts, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 72, - "id": 5629 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett", - "length": 119, - "id": 5630 - }, - { - "text": "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 59, - "id": 5631 - }, - { - "text": "Music is a science that would have us laugh, sing, and dance.", - "source": "Guillaume de Machaut, \"The Fountain of Love\"", - "length": 61, - "id": 5632 - }, - { - "text": "Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.", - "source": "Calvin & Hobbes", - "length": 137, - "id": 5635 - }, - { - "text": "But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.", - "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, W.D. Ross translation", - "length": 332, - "id": 5636 - }, - { - "text": "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.", - "source": "Walden", - "length": 55, - "id": 5637 - }, - { - "text": "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 68, - "id": 5638 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.", - "source": "Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery", - "length": 53, - "id": 5639 - }, - { - "text": "Where are you? And I'm so sorry, I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 72, - "id": 5640 - }, - { - "text": "There is matter to everything even air or shadow, too small to see. The Cut is something a Summoner can do, but it requires tremendous skill and I would only use it as a last resort. Like that ambush.", - "source": "Shadow and Bone", - "length": 200, - "id": 5641 - }, - { - "text": "I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.", - "source": "The Boxer", - "length": 78, - "id": 5642 - }, - { - "text": "I want to enjoy not getting recognized while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.", - "source": "Alan Walker", - "length": 113, - "id": 5643 - }, - { - "text": "Such a person must be careful, he must be aware of the limitations of his knowledge, he must acknowledge his personal prejudices because he is being asked to speak for a whole realm of thought, he must be aware of the huge possible consequences of what he says and writes and does. He has become, in a sense, public property because he represents something large to the public. He has become an idea himself, a human striving. He has enormous power to influence and change, and he must wield that power with respect.", - "source": "Alan Lightman, The Role of the Public Intellectual", - "length": 516, - "id": 5644 - }, - { - "text": "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 203, - "id": 5645 - }, - { - "text": "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "length": 45, - "id": 5646 - }, - { - "text": "The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire universe.", - "source": "Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 92, - "id": 5647 - }, - { - "text": "My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.", - "source": "Marvin; Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 94, - "id": 5648 - }, - { - "text": "And every time I've held a rose, it seems I only felt the thorns.", - "source": "And So It Goes", - "length": 65, - "id": 5649 - }, - { - "text": "When we hear any other speaker, even a very good one, he produces absolutely no effect upon us, or not much, whereas the mere fragments of you and your words, even at second-hand, and however imperfectly repeated, amaze and possess the souls of every man, woman, and child who comes within hearing of them. And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", - "source": "The Symposium", - "length": 592, - "id": 5651 - }, - { - "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 76, - "id": 5652 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 323, - "id": 5653 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", - "source": "Einstein", - "length": 128, - "id": 5654 - }, - { - "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 322, - "id": 5655 - }, - { - "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 172, - "id": 5656 - }, - { - "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 270, - "id": 5657 - }, - { - "text": "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 63, - "id": 5658 - }, - { - "text": "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.", - "source": "Kahlil Gibran", - "length": 64, - "id": 5663 - }, - { - "text": "With her green hair sticking out the hood of her yellow raincoat, she looked like a punk spokesperson for frozen fish sticks.", - "source": "The Ship of the Dead", - "length": 125, - "id": 5664 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb.", - "source": "Proverbs", - "length": 70, - "id": 5665 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.", - "source": "Augustine of Hippo", - "length": 62, - "id": 5667 - }, - { - "text": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 49, - "id": 5668 - }, - { - "text": "Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 53, - "id": 5669 - }, - { - "text": "Time is just a construct, if you allow it to consume you, it will. It will wear you down until you are nothing but dust. You must learn to transcend and rise beyond such linear and limited fabrics of existence and this creature of unknown origin has done exactly that. You can scream all you want but nobody will hear you. You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 468, - "id": 5670 - }, - { - "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", - "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", - "length": 82, - "id": 5671 - }, - { - "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", - "source": "John Tukey", - "length": 89, - "id": 5672 - }, - { - "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "length": 76, - "id": 5673 - }, - { - "text": "There are approximately 1010300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair.", - "source": "Alexander Hamilton", - "length": 170, - "id": 5674 - }, - { - "text": "One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.", - "source": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", - "length": 80, - "id": 5675 - }, - { - "text": "Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", - "source": "Tao Te Ching", - "length": 286, - "id": 5678 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "length": 62, - "id": 5679 - }, - { - "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 54, - "id": 5680 - }, - { - "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", - "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", - "length": 238, - "id": 5681 - }, - { - "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", - "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5682 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", - "source": "Marcus Aurelius", - "length": 161, - "id": 5684 - }, - { - "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", - "source": "Devil in Disguise", - "length": 148, - "id": 5685 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", - "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", - "length": 518, - "id": 5686 - }, - { - "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 302, - "id": 5687 - }, - { - "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 52, - "id": 5688 - }, - { - "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 83, - "id": 5689 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 53, - "id": 5690 - }, - { - "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 118, - "id": 5691 - }, - { - "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.", - "source": "Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29", - "length": 233, - "id": 5692 - }, - { - "text": "The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 159, - "id": 5693 - }, - { - "text": "All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 86, - "id": 5694 - }, - { - "text": "Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 210, - "id": 5695 - }, - { - "text": "This is your world. You're the creator. Find freedom on this canvas. Believe, that you can do it, 'cuz you can do it. You can do it.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 132, - "id": 5696 - }, - { - "text": "I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 151, - "id": 5697 - }, - { - "text": "Let's build a happy little cloud. Let's build some happy little trees.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 70, - "id": 5698 - }, - { - "text": "Now then, let's come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It'll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to have a place to set there. There he goes...", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 215, - "id": 5699 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 62, - "id": 5700 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 112, - "id": 5701 - }, - { - "text": "When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 123, - "id": 5702 - }, - { - "text": "You show me a pay stub for $72,000, I quit my job right now and work for you.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 77, - "id": 5703 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 148, - "id": 5705 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing that we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan", - "length": 88, - "id": 5706 - }, - { - "text": "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.", - "source": "Noam Chomsky", - "length": 167, - "id": 5707 - }, - { - "text": "The behaviour of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, has many features that set it apart from other common domestic animals, even its fellow carnivore the dog. Cats seem to have effected a unique and successful compromise between reliance on man and the retention of behaviour patterns that permit an independent existence. During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", - "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", - "length": 578, - "id": 5708 - }, - { - "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", - "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", - "length": 183, - "id": 5709 - }, - { - "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 997, - "id": 5710 - }, - { - "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", - "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", - "length": 173, - "id": 5711 - }, - { - "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 289, - "id": 5712 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 900, - "id": 5714 - }, - { - "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", - "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", - "length": 71, - "id": 5715 - }, - { - "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5716 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", - "source": "Kurt Cobain", - "length": 62, - "id": 5717 - }, - { - "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", - "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", - "length": 743, - "id": 5718 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", - "length": 974, - "id": 5719 - }, - { - "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", - "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", - "length": 256, - "id": 5720 - }, - { - "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 69, - "id": 5723 - }, - { - "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 110, - "id": 5724 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 280, - "id": 5725 - }, - { - "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 111, - "id": 5726 - }, - { - "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 74, - "id": 5727 - }, - { - "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 71, - "id": 5728 - }, - { - "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", - "source": "Edward Snowden", - "length": 181, - "id": 5729 - }, - { - "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", - "source": "Riverdale", - "length": 161, - "id": 5731 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", - "source": "Spirited Away", - "length": 105, - "id": 5732 - }, - { - "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", - "source": "Wikipedia", - "length": 406, - "id": 5733 - }, - { - "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", - "length": 418, - "id": 5734 - }, - { - "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 622, - "id": 5735 - }, - { - "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 699, - "id": 5736 - }, - { - "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", - "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", - "length": 82, - "id": 5737 - }, - { - "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", - "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", - "length": 282, - "id": 5738 - }, - { - "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", - "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", - "length": 184, - "id": 5739 - }, - { - "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", - "source": "Lord of the Rings", - "length": 83, - "id": 5740 - }, - { - "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 373, - "id": 5741 - }, - { - "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", - "source": "Half-Life 2", - "length": 74, - "id": 5742 - }, - { - "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", - "source": "The Big Bang Theory", - "length": 209, - "id": 5743 - }, - { - "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", - "source": "Lucifer", - "length": 183, - "id": 5744 - }, - { - "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", - "source": "Inception", - "length": 134, - "id": 5747 - }, - { - "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", - "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", - "length": 83, - "id": 5748 - }, - { - "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 113, - "id": 5751 - }, - { - "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 341, - "id": 5752 - }, - { - "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "length": 222, - "id": 5753 - }, - { - "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", - "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", - "length": 183, - "id": 5754 - }, - { - "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 198, - "id": 5755 - }, - { - "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 293, - "id": 5756 - }, - { - "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "length": 441, - "id": 5757 - }, - { - "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 538, - "id": 5758 - }, - { - "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", - "source": "Absolute", - "length": 131, - "id": 5759 - }, - { - "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 144, - "id": 5760 - }, - { - "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 183, - "id": 5761 - }, - { - "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 106, - "id": 5762 - }, - { - "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 141, - "id": 5763 - }, - { - "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", - "source": "Love Me", - "length": 61, - "id": 5764 - }, - { - "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "length": 62, - "id": 5765 - }, - { - "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", - "source": "Little Witch Academia", - "length": 76, - "id": 5766 - }, - { - "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 166, - "id": 5767 - }, - { - "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", - "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", - "length": 429, - "id": 5768 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5769 - }, - { - "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 165, - "id": 5771 - }, - { - "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 128, - "id": 5772 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 157, - "id": 5773 - }, - { - "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", - "source": "A Friend", - "length": 73, - "id": 5775 - }, - { - "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Breath of the Wild", - "length": 62, - "id": 5776 - }, - { - "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 527, - "id": 5777 - }, - { - "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", - "source": "Muhammad Ali", - "length": 79, - "id": 5780 - }, - { - "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", - "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", - "length": 51, - "id": 5781 - }, - { - "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 69, - "id": 5782 - }, - { - "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 317, - "id": 5783 - }, - { - "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", - "source": "The Last Of Us 2", - "length": 89, - "id": 5785 - }, - { - "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", - "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", - "length": 98, - "id": 5786 - }, - { - "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 5787 - }, - { - "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 158, - "id": 5788 - }, - { - "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 164, - "id": 5789 - }, - { - "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 62, - "id": 5790 - }, - { - "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", - "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", - "length": 113, - "id": 5791 - }, - { - "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", - "source": "Cabo", - "length": 125, - "id": 5792 - }, - { - "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", - "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", - "length": 109, - "id": 5793 - }, - { - "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", - "source": "Mae West", - "length": 59, - "id": 5795 - }, - { - "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", - "length": 77, - "id": 5796 - }, - { - "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", - "length": 62, - "id": 5797 - }, - { - "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", - "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", - "length": 101, - "id": 5799 - }, - { - "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. So ask yourself, what is there that still remains to you.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 183, - "id": 5801 - }, - { - "text": "The caterpillar ate through one nice green leaf, and after that he felt much better.", - "source": "The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle", - "length": 84, - "id": 5802 - }, - { - "text": "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 71, - "id": 5804 - }, - { - "text": "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", - "source": "States of Matter", - "length": 220, - "id": 5805 - }, - { - "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", - "source": "Danilo Kiš", - "length": 190, - "id": 5806 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", - "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", - "length": 2928, - "id": 5807 - }, - { - "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", - "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", - "length": 152, - "id": 5809 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 'Cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.", - "source": "Adam Young", - "length": 148, - "id": 5810 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe the best thing to do is stop trying to figure out where you're going and just enjoy where you're at.", - "source": "Scrubs", - "length": 106, - "id": 5811 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a slave to their past. No matter how much you wish to move forward, the events of last year will bear down on you like the light of the stars as soon as you glance up. Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 325, - "id": 5812 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 133, - "id": 5813 - }, - { - "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", - "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 355, - "id": 5814 - }, - { - "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", - "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", - "length": 140, - "id": 5815 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 78, - "id": 5816 - }, - { - "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 87, - "id": 5817 - }, - { - "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 134, - "id": 5818 - }, - { - "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", - "source": "Henri Poincaré", - "length": 145, - "id": 5819 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", - "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", - "length": 254, - "id": 5820 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 96, - "id": 5821 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 73, - "id": 5822 - }, - { - "text": "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the Popes?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5823 - }, - { - "text": "No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.", - "source": "SpiderMan: Homecoming", - "length": 71, - "id": 5824 - }, - { - "text": "In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers.", - "source": "Black Panther", - "length": 76, - "id": 5825 - }, - { - "text": "I was already slipping when you happened to punch me in the face. The two events are not related.", - "source": "Captain Marvel", - "length": 97, - "id": 5826 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing, that you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier but a good man.", - "source": "Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 127, - "id": 5827 - }, - { - "text": "The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", - "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", - "length": 455, - "id": 5828 - }, - { - "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", - "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", - "length": 298, - "id": 5829 - }, - { - "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", - "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", - "length": 61, - "id": 5831 - }, - { - "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 356, - "id": 5832 - }, - { - "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 669, - "id": 5833 - }, - { - "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 188, - "id": 5834 - }, - { - "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 157, - "id": 5835 - }, - { - "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 290, - "id": 5836 - }, - { - "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", - "source": "Mob Psycho 100", - "length": 382, - "id": 5837 - }, - { - "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", - "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", - "length": 125, - "id": 5838 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 92, - "id": 5839 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 97, - "id": 5840 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", - "source": "Master Yoda", - "length": 395, - "id": 5843 - }, - { - "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 80, - "id": 5844 - }, - { - "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 86, - "id": 5845 - }, - { - "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 188, - "id": 5846 - }, - { - "text": "Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen, so unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you.", - "source": "Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold", - "length": 113, - "id": 5847 - }, - { - "text": "Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it's a beautiful day.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 71, - "id": 5848 - }, - { - "text": "The biggest lie I tell myself is: \"I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it.\"", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 84, - "id": 5849 - }, - { - "text": "Alright, close your eyes. I want you to think of a flower. Look at its contours, its curves. Now I want you to imagine it: changing, moving backwards, returning to its bud. Think of that bud, unopened. Look at it, as a whole, and silently repeat these phrases: \"May you be free from suffering. May you be free from fear. May you know peace and joy.\"", - "source": "Twelve Minutes", - "length": 349, - "id": 5850 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", - "length": 301, - "id": 5851 - }, - { - "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", - "source": "Numb", - "length": 177, - "id": 5852 - }, - { - "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 490, - "id": 5854 - }, - { - "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", - "source": "Space Brothers", - "length": 143, - "id": 5855 - }, - { - "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", - "source": "Oregairu", - "length": 65, - "id": 5856 - }, - { - "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", - "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", - "length": 352, - "id": 5857 - }, - { - "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", - "source": "Bleach", - "length": 200, - "id": 5858 - }, - { - "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", - "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", - "length": 120, - "id": 5859 - }, - { - "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", - "source": "Fruits Basket", - "length": 388, - "id": 5860 - }, - { - "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", - "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5861 - }, - { - "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 65, - "id": 5862 - }, - { - "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 270, - "id": 5863 - }, - { - "text": "You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 123, - "id": 5864 - }, - { - "text": "People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.", - "source": "Eragon - Christopher Paolini", - "length": 67, - "id": 5867 - }, - { - "text": "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.", - "source": "Jeod, Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)", - "length": 89, - "id": 5868 - }, - { - "text": "Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama - Attack on Titan", - "length": 62, - "id": 5869 - }, - { - "text": "We all deserve love, even on the days when we aren't our best. 'Cause we all suck, but love can make us suck less. We all deserve love, it's the very best part of being alive. And I would know - I just turned 25.", - "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", - "length": 212, - "id": 5870 - }, - { - "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", - "source": "Ratatouille", - "length": 1315, - "id": 5871 - }, - { - "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", - "source": "Pushing Dead", - "length": 365, - "id": 5872 - }, - { - "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", - "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", - "length": 222, - "id": 5874 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", - "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", - "length": 191, - "id": 5875 - }, - { - "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", - "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", - "length": 75, - "id": 5876 - }, - { - "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", - "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", - "length": 123, - "id": 5877 - }, - { - "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 784, - "id": 5878 - }, - { - "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 763, - "id": 5879 - }, - { - "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 530, - "id": 5881 - }, - { - "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 618, - "id": 5882 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", - "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", - "length": 186, - "id": 5886 - }, - { - "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", - "source": "Knights of Cydonia", - "length": 135, - "id": 5888 - }, - { - "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", - "source": "Paul Parker", - "length": 274, - "id": 5890 - }, - { - "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", - "source": "Left 4 Dead", - "length": 454, - "id": 5891 - }, - { - "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 190, - "id": 5893 - }, - { - "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 346, - "id": 5895 - }, - { - "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", - "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", - "length": 83, - "id": 5896 - }, - { - "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 264, - "id": 5897 - }, - { - "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 282, - "id": 5899 - }, - { - "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 249, - "id": 5900 - }, - { - "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", - "source": "Neil Gaiman", - "length": 129, - "id": 5901 - }, - { - "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 376, - "id": 5902 - }, - { - "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 293, - "id": 5903 - }, - { - "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 353, - "id": 5904 - }, - { - "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "length": 235, - "id": 5905 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 107, - "id": 5906 - }, - { - "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 105, - "id": 5907 - }, - { - "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", - "source": "Eugene Cernan", - "length": 478, - "id": 5908 - }, - { - "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 130, - "id": 5909 - }, - { - "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", - "source": "William Carlos Williams", - "length": 89, - "id": 5910 - }, - { - "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "length": 60, - "id": 5912 - }, - { - "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", - "source": "Henry Van Dyke", - "length": 172, - "id": 5913 - }, - { - "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", - "source": "Epicurus", - "length": 117, - "id": 5914 - }, - { - "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 1766, - "id": 5915 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 332, - "id": 5916 - }, - { - "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", - "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", - "length": 513, - "id": 5917 - }, - { - "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 105, - "id": 5918 - }, - { - "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", - "source": "Avicii - The Nights", - "length": 187, - "id": 5919 - }, - { - "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", - "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", - "length": 987, - "id": 5920 - }, - { - "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", - "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", - "length": 740, - "id": 5921 - }, - { - "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", - "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", - "length": 319, - "id": 5922 - }, - { - "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", - "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", - "length": 476, - "id": 5923 - }, - { - "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", - "length": 556, - "id": 5925 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 182, - "id": 5926 - }, - { - "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 281, - "id": 5927 - }, - { - "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 155, - "id": 5928 - }, - { - "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 248, - "id": 5929 - }, - { - "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 280, - "id": 5930 - }, - { - "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 289, - "id": 5931 - }, - { - "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", - "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", - "length": 294, - "id": 5932 - }, - { - "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5934 - }, - { - "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", - "source": "Batman: Arkham City", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5935 - }, - { - "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5937 - }, - { - "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", - "source": "Little Inferno", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5940 - }, - { - "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", - "source": "System Shock 2 ", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5941 - }, - { - "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", - "source": "IT Crowd", - "length": 307, - "id": 5942 - }, - { - "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 322, - "id": 5943 - }, - { - "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 137, - "id": 5944 - }, - { - "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", - "source": "The Master and Margarita", - "length": 420, - "id": 5945 - }, - { - "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 379, - "id": 5947 - }, - { - "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", - "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", - "length": 348, - "id": 5950 - }, - { - "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", - "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", - "length": 729, - "id": 5951 - }, - { - "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5956 - }, - { - "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", - "source": "Vinland Saga", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5957 - }, - { - "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 1982, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5958 - }, - { - "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 113, - "id": 6064 - }, - { - "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", - "source": "Colin Powell", - "length": 103, - "id": 6065 - }, - { - "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", - "source": "Conrad Hilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6066 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 116, - "id": 6067 - }, - { - "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", - "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", - "length": 67, - "id": 6068 - }, - { - "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", - "source": "Barack Obama", - "length": 193, - "id": 6069 - }, - { - "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", - "source": "Charles Swindoll", - "length": 81, - "id": 6071 - }, - { - "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", - "source": "Oprah Winfrey", - "length": 132, - "id": 6072 - }, - { - "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", - "source": "Harriet Tubman", - "length": 165, - "id": 6073 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 86, - "id": 6074 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", - "source": "The Blair Witch Project", - "length": 649, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6075 - }, - { - "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 624, - "id": 6076 - }, - { - "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 834, - "id": 6077 - }, - { - "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 472, - "id": 6078 - }, - { - "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 308, - "id": 6079 - }, - { - "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 471, - "id": 6080 - }, - { - "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 352, - "id": 6081 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 336, - "id": 6082 - }, - { - "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 775, - "id": 6084 - }, - { - "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 610, - "id": 6085 - }, - { - "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 371, - "id": 6087 - }, - { - "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", - "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", - "length": 438, - "id": 6088 - }, - { - "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", - "source": "Atharva veda", - "length": 127, - "id": 6089 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", - "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", - "length": 681, - "id": 6090 - }, - { - "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", - "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", - "length": 192, - "id": 6091 - }, - { - "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", - "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", - "length": 69, - "id": 6092 - }, - { - "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", - "source": "Tirukkurral", - "length": 118, - "id": 6093 - }, - { - "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", - "source": "Halo 3", - "length": 337, - "id": 6095 - }, - { - "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", - "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", - "length": 219, - "id": 6096 - }, - { - "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 71, - "id": 6097 - }, - { - "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", - "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", - "length": 237, - "id": 6098 - }, - { - "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", - "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", - "length": 98, - "id": 6099 - }, - { - "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", - "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", - "length": 62, - "id": 6100 - }, - { - "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", - "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", - "length": 153, - "id": 6101 - }, - { - "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", - "source": "Remember11", - "length": 136, - "id": 6102 - }, - { - "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", - "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", - "length": 94, - "id": 6103 - }, - { - "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 59, - "id": 6104 - }, - { - "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", - "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", - "length": 157, - "id": 6106 - }, - { - "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 173, - "id": 6107 - }, - { - "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", - "length": 190, - "id": 6108 - }, - { - "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", - "length": 105, - "id": 6109 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 162, - "id": 6110 - }, - { - "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 122, - "id": 6112 - }, - { - "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 160, - "id": 6113 - }, - { - "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 239, - "id": 6114 - }, - { - "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", - "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", - "length": 92, - "id": 6115 - }, - { - "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", - "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", - "length": 131, - "id": 6116 - }, - { - "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", - "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", - "length": 157, - "id": 6117 - }, - { - "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", - "length": 121, - "id": 6118 - }, - { - "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", - "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", - "length": 256, - "id": 6119 - }, - { - "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. They think I don't understand the freedom land of the seventies.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby", - "length": 126, - "id": 6120 - }, - { - "text": "John met me down on the boulevard. Cry on his shoulder 'cause life is hard, the waves came in over my head. What you been up to my baby? Haven't seen you 'round here lately. All the other guys tell me lies, but you don't. You just crack another beer and pretend that you're still here.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - How To Disappear", - "length": 285, - "id": 6121 - }, - { - "text": "Thinking outrageously, I write in cursive. I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor. Wearing three layers of coats and leg-warmers, I see my own breath on the face of the door.", - "source": "Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!", - "length": 181, - "id": 6122 - }, - { - "text": "I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 59, - "id": 6123 - }, - { - "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 76, - "id": 6124 - }, - { - "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 182, - "id": 6125 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 62, - "id": 6126 - }, - { - "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 71, - "id": 6127 - }, - { - "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", - "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", - "length": 162, - "id": 6128 - }, - { - "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", - "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", - "length": 164, - "id": 6129 - }, - { - "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", - "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", - "length": 160, - "id": 6130 - }, - { - "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", - "source": "Beach House - Myth", - "length": 142, - "id": 6131 - }, - { - "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", - "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", - "length": 64, - "id": 6132 - }, - { - "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", - "source": "Beach House - PPP", - "length": 110, - "id": 6133 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6134 - }, - { - "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", - "length": 175, - "id": 6135 - }, - { - "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", - "length": 113, - "id": 6136 - }, - { - "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", - "length": 66, - "id": 6137 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", - "length": 67, - "id": 6138 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", - "length": 95, - "id": 6139 - }, - { - "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", - "length": 80, - "id": 6141 - }, - { - "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 185, - "id": 6142 - }, - { - "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", - "length": 206, - "id": 6143 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", - "length": 76, - "id": 6144 - }, - { - "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", - "length": 95, - "id": 6145 - }, - { - "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 181, - "id": 6146 - }, - { - "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", - "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", - "length": 66, - "id": 6147 - }, - { - "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", - "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", - "length": 181, - "id": 6148 - }, - { - "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", - "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", - "length": 291, - "id": 6149 - }, - { - "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 297, - "id": 6150 - }, - { - "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 657, - "id": 6151 - }, - { - "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", - "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", - "length": 128, - "id": 6152 - }, - { - "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 136, - "id": 6153 - }, - { - "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 64, - "id": 6154 - }, - { - "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 178, - "id": 6155 - }, - { - "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", - "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", - "length": 224, - "id": 6157 - }, - { - "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", - "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", - "length": 207, - "id": 6158 - }, - { - "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", - "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", - "length": 220, - "id": 6159 - }, - { - "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", - "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", - "length": 274, - "id": 6160 - }, - { - "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", - "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", - "length": 112, - "id": 6161 - }, - { - "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", - "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", - "length": 272, - "id": 6162 - }, - { - "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", - "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", - "length": 136, - "id": 6163 - }, - { - "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", - "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", - "length": 454, - "id": 6164 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", - "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", - "length": 381, - "id": 6165 - }, - { - "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", - "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", - "length": 453, - "id": 6166 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 165, - "id": 6167 - }, - { - "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", - "length": 136, - "id": 6168 - }, - { - "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", - "length": 229, - "id": 6169 - }, - { - "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 170, - "id": 6170 - }, - { - "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", - "length": 191, - "id": 6171 - }, - { - "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", - "length": 284, - "id": 6172 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", - "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", - "length": 204, - "id": 6173 - }, - { - "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", - "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", - "length": 122, - "id": 6174 - }, - { - "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", - "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", - "length": 268, - "id": 6175 - }, - { - "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", - "length": 234, - "id": 6176 - }, - { - "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", - "length": 186, - "id": 6177 - }, - { - "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", - "length": 423, - "id": 6178 - }, - { - "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", - "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", - "length": 313, - "id": 6179 - }, - { - "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.", - "source": "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson", - "length": 220, - "id": 6180 - }, - { - "text": "Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?", - "source": "Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima", - "length": 169, - "id": 6181 - }, - { - "text": "But as he moves closer, I cannot help but ask: if in a different world, would our love forever last? The almighty scientist says most of the universe is empty, and gods don't exist. Well, maybe that's where our love ends up - no holy grail, just an empty cup.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Good Luck Bad Luck", - "length": 259, - "id": 6182 - }, - { - "text": "They'll kiss you in the evening - devils in disguise - and love you 'til the morning, then vanish before your eyes. A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", - "length": 401, - "id": 6183 - }, - { - "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", - "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", - "length": 202, - "id": 6184 - }, - { - "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", - "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", - "length": 290, - "id": 6185 - }, - { - "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", - "length": 178, - "id": 6186 - }, - { - "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 197, - "id": 6188 - }, - { - "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 395, - "id": 6189 - }, - { - "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 372, - "id": 6190 - }, - { - "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 214, - "id": 6191 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 427, - "id": 6192 - }, - { - "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 116, - "id": 6193 - }, - { - "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 238, - "id": 6194 - }, - { - "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 256, - "id": 6195 - }, - { - "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 316, - "id": 6196 - }, - { - "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. This initially seemed baffling to monsters (especially given the amount of dusting we avoid by keeping objects outside!). Experts have recently suggested that keeping objects indoors may have been part of England's efforts to hide and store museums' collections of stolen property.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 327, - "id": 6197 - }, - { - "text": "This tree is not technically part of the museum experience, but there's a cool bird nesting in it, so you aren't allowed to cut it down. Not even a little bit. Not even with the \"undo\" or \"reset\" options. Leave the cool bird alone, alright?", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 240, - "id": 6198 - }, - { - "text": "Humans liked to put objects on boxes called plinths. At first, monster experts didn't know why, but then strangers kept thinking the plinth-less exhibits were lost property and handing them in at the help desk. It turns out plinths are very important.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 251, - "id": 6199 - }, - { - "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 229, - "id": 6200 - }, - { - "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 252, - "id": 6201 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", - "length": 576, - "id": 6202 - }, - { - "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", - "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", - "length": 112, - "id": 6203 - }, - { - "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", - "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", - "length": 110, - "id": 6204 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. But what you throw away you'll never get back.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 87, - "id": 6206 - }, - { - "text": "People who can't throw something important away, can never hope to change anything.", - "source": "Armin Arlert - Attack on Titan", - "length": 83, - "id": 6207 - }, - { - "text": "You will never be able to love anybody else until you love yourself.", - "source": "Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass", - "length": 68, - "id": 6208 - }, - { - "text": "People's lives don't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith.", - "source": "Uchiha Itachi - Naruto", - "length": 69, - "id": 6209 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it.", - "source": "Uzumaki Naruto - Naruto", - "length": 48, - "id": 6210 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.", - "source": "Nagato, Naruto", - "length": 65, - "id": 6211 - }, - { - "text": "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", - "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", - "length": 95, - "id": 6212 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", - "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", - "length": 70, - "id": 6213 - }, - { - "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 51, - "id": 6214 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", - "source": "Clare - Claymore", - "length": 164, - "id": 6215 - }, - { - "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", - "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", - "length": 384, - "id": 6216 - }, - { - "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", - "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", - "length": 67, - "id": 6217 - }, - { - "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", - "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", - "length": 88, - "id": 6218 - }, - { - "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", - "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", - "length": 314, - "id": 6220 - }, - { - "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", - "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", - "length": 89, - "id": 6221 - }, - { - "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", - "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", - "length": 422, - "id": 6222 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", - "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", - "length": 179, - "id": 6223 - }, - { - "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", - "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", - "length": 463, - "id": 6224 - }, - { - "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", - "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 109, - "id": 6225 - }, - { - "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", - "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 61, - "id": 6226 - }, - { - "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", - "length": 93, - "id": 6227 - }, - { - "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 177, - "id": 6228 - }, - { - "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 215, - "id": 6229 - }, - { - "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", - "length": 167, - "id": 6230 - }, - { - "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 827, - "id": 6231 - }, - { - "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", - "length": 116, - "id": 6232 - }, - { - "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", - "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", - "length": 137, - "id": 6233 - }, - { - "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", - "length": 127, - "id": 6234 - }, - { - "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 94, - "id": 6235 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 182, - "id": 6236 - }, - { - "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 140, - "id": 6237 - }, - { - "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", - "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", - "length": 144, - "id": 6238 - }, - { - "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", - "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", - "length": 248, - "id": 6239 - }, - { - "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. Did you follow your fire?", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 289, - "id": 6240 - }, - { - "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 123, - "id": 6241 - }, - { - "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", - "length": 197, - "id": 6242 - }, - { - "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", - "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", - "length": 289, - "id": 6243 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. Though we don't share the same blood, you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.", - "source": "Kodaline - Brother", - "length": 161, - "id": 6244 - }, - { - "text": "Star in your eyes, sun in your smile, the way you look at me - it makes me hum and I call it love song.", - "source": "Yoohyeon (Dreamcatcher) - For", - "length": 103, - "id": 6245 - }, - { - "text": "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 57, - "id": 6246 - }, - { - "text": "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 240, - "id": 6247 - }, - { - "text": "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 112, - "id": 6248 - }, - { - "text": "For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 177, - "id": 6249 - }, - { - "text": "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 421, - "id": 6250 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say \"I'll never be good.\" You can become better! And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 251, - "id": 6251 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 105, - "id": 6252 - }, - { - "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 303, - "id": 6253 - }, - { - "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 149, - "id": 6254 - }, - { - "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 119, - "id": 6255 - }, - { - "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", - "source": "Tool", - "length": 220, - "id": 6256 - }, - { - "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", - "source": "Whiplash", - "length": 270, - "id": 6258 - }, - { - "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 173, - "id": 6259 - }, - { - "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 395, - "id": 6260 - }, - { - "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 246, - "id": 6261 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. They are nothing without the spark of life that you give them.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 198, - "id": 6262 - }, - { - "text": "Well, well! Look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 72, - "id": 6263 - }, - { - "text": "Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 269, - "id": 6264 - }, - { - "text": "It is a kindness to prepare a comfortable roost for an injured bird... But to prevent it from taking flight once its wounds have healed, because you fear the world is too dangerous, means confining it to a cage. These birds have finally escaped their cage of persecution. Do you intend to lock them in a cage of pity next?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 322, - "id": 6265 - }, - { - "text": "If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 73, - "id": 6266 - }, - { - "text": "If, one day, you make it to our final destination, would you please leave flowers?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 82, - "id": 6267 - }, - { - "text": "I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it's good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 111, - "id": 6268 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 177, - "id": 6269 - }, - { - "text": "If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 205, - "id": 6270 - }, - { - "text": "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 85, - "id": 6271 - }, - { - "text": "Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6272 - }, - { - "text": "The cool thing about these guys is that... is that they have really, really long trunks, and that's... that's cool.", - "source": "Me at the zoo", - "length": 115, - "id": 6273 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time in a nursery rhyme, there was a castle with a king hiding in a wing because he never went to school to learn a single thing, he had scepters and swords and a parliament of lords, but on the inside, he was sad, egad! Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", - "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", - "length": 1662, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6275 - }, - { - "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. And you fail again and again, and you fail a thousand times, and you keep trying because maybe the 1,001st idea might work. Now, I'm gonna go and try to find our 1,001st idea.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 251, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6276 - }, - { - "text": "I assume he's doing the same as every human. Some good days. Some bad days. He's got a few friends, a few people he can't stand. He's learning some things, all by himself, and hopefully learning to ask for help when he needs it. He's messing up, and trying again, and messing up again, and then getting things wrong, and then trying to make them right. That's what everyone does.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 379, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6277 - }, - { - "text": "It's a rare occurrence, like a double rainbow. Or like someone on the internet saying, \"You know what? You've convinced me I was wrong.\"", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6278 - }, - { - "text": "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him...", - "source": "Stephen King, It", - "length": 384, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6279 - }, - { - "text": "I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.", - "source": "The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6281 - }, - { - "text": "To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.", - "source": "Bruce Mclaren", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6282 - }, - { - "text": "Spring, summer, autumn, and winter... Many seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all. At first, I couldn't understand. I couldn't understand anything about how you felt. But within this new life you gave me, I've begun to feel the same way as you, if only a little, through ghostwriting, and through the people I've met along the way. I believe that you are still alive somewhere. So, I shall live, live, live, and live some more, though there's no telling what life might have in store. And if I can see you again, I want to let you know... that the phrase \"I love you\"... I understand it a little now.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 637, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6283 - }, - { - "text": "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.", - "source": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6284 - }, - { - "text": "I am the one who made it out. The one who always made the grade but maybe I should have just stayed home. When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb. I got every scholarship, saved every dollar, the first to go to college. How do I tell them why I'm coming back home, with my eyes on the horizon? Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 421, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6286 - }, - { - "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", - "source": "Animal Farm", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6287 - }, - { - "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 307, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6288 - }, - { - "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 745, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6292 - }, - { - "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. I choose round.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6294 - }, - { - "text": "I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6295 - }, - { - "text": "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 308, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6296 - }, - { - "text": "I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest - expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6297 - }, - { - "text": "I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 146, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6298 - }, - { - "text": "In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 472, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6299 - }, - { - "text": "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6300 - }, - { - "text": "It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this \"once in a thousand years\" has come today.", - "source": "Zamyatin, We", - "length": 248, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6301 - }, - { - "text": "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6302 - }, - { - "text": "Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the \"vox populi\" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 740, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6303 - }, - { - "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", - "length": 520, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6304 - }, - { - "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", - "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", - "length": 273, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6305 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6306 - }, - { - "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. I want you to, I want you to, I want you to cry for me.", - "source": "TWICE, CRY FOR ME", - "length": 303, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6307 - }, - { - "text": "I had this very faith tested on an ordinary day: I was walkin' down a busy street around my way. I saw a face in the crowd that made my heart skip a beat - A man who looked exactly like an older version of me! So I moved through the hustle and the bustle of the day to day until me and this man stood face to face. We locked eyes and for a moment time moved in slow motion as the crowd around continued on their paper chase. I stood frozen in disbelief and opened my mouth to speak but to my surprise the words wouldn't come. And then he looks into a clear blue sky up above and says \"it's gonna rain\" - and then it does! And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", - "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", - "length": 1200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6308 - }, - { - "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. Because rain is the closest thing I have to tears.", - "source": "The Thunderhead", - "length": 182, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6309 - }, - { - "text": "All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You, You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night... You, only You, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh.", - "source": "The Little Prince", - "length": 886, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6310 - }, - { - "text": "Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.", - "source": "Sophie's World", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6311 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.", - "source": "Bill Willingham, Fables - Werewolves of the Heartland", - "length": 133, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6312 - }, - { - "text": "We devote ourselves to something we barely understand, something we can never touch. We give it a name, and we give ourselves a name for doing so. All of it creates this connection. And that connection, that becomes the thing we can touch.", - "source": "Night in the Woods", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6313 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people who do.", - "source": "Angus, Night in the Woods", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6314 - }, - { - "text": "He could leave at any time. If it was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him. I think what distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell, as you call it.", - "source": "Christof, The Truman Show", - "length": 267, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6315 - }, - { - "text": "If you've ever taken a road trip through the Pacific Northwest, you've probably seen a bumper sticker for a place called \"Gravity Falls\". It's not on any maps, and most people have never heard of it, some people think it's a myth. But if you're curious, don't wait. Take a trip. Find it. It's out there somewhere in the woods. Waiting.", - "source": "Dipper, Gravity Falls", - "length": 335, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6316 - }, - { - "text": "A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.", - "source": "Steven Brust, Iorich", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6318 - }, - { - "text": "The English language cannot fully capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts, so I'm incorporating emojis into my speech to better express myself. Winky face.", - "source": "Gina, Brooklyn 99", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6319 - }, - { - "text": "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.", - "source": "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6323 - }, - { - "text": "When the king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough, I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming. And it means to exterminate us.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 430, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6324 - }, - { - "text": "After fifty years at sea, you're the only man I've ever met who's gotten dumber with age.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6325 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody will believe it's possible until we show them. But when that day comes, you know what they'll say? They'll say that it was inevitable.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6326 - }, - { - "text": "You're an educated man, my lord, but I think it's worth reminding you that in most cases a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason... everyone else.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 183, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6327 - }, - { - "text": "The crew's banner is a sacred thing. It must simultaneously strike fear in the hearts of hardened men while inspiring and unifying all those who sail under it. It must be something approaching perfection.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6328 - }, - { - "text": "We all have the same swords out there, we all have the same guns. But great art has felled empires.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 99, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6329 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6330 - }, - { - "text": "These men, who brought me here today, do not fear me. They brought me here today because they fear you and because they know that my voice, the voice that refuses to be enslaved, once lived in you. And may yet still. They brought me here today to show you death and use it to frighten you into ignoring that voice. But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6331 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 735, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6332 - }, - { - "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6333 - }, - { - "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6334 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 684, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6335 - }, - { - "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 434, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6336 - }, - { - "text": "A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe... Those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition, and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It's found truth in its maturity... Because what's it all for if it goes unremembered? It's the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 496, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6337 - }, - { - "text": "False tears bring pain to those around you. False smiles bring pain to one's self.", - "source": "Code Geass", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6338 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams never die when we sleep. Leave the open sky and the deep. Shades over head of blue and red. Is this the end? Will you come back again?", - "source": "Sky Sailing, Blue and Red", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6339 - }, - { - "text": "This is Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both the Jedi and the Republic have fallen, with the dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi: Trust in the force. Do not return to the Temple. That time has passed, and our future is uncertain. We will each be challenged. Our trust. Our faith. Our friendship. But we must persevere and in time a new hope will emerge. May the force be with you. Always.", - "source": "Star Wars Rebels", - "length": 485, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6340 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...", - "source": "Poe, The Raven", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6341 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and goodbye. Do you think I'm dying? Do you think I'm going somewhere else this time? Do you remember the day we pretended to be every star in the sky?", - "source": "Might quit - Bill Wurtz", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6344 - }, - { - "text": "I'm worried to death because I haven't been able to see you doing well. You said we live in different worlds. But is that true? We have different colored skin and eyes. We were born in different countries. But we're friends. Isn't that what counts? I'm really glad I came to America. I met lots of people. And more than anything, I met you. You asked me over and over if you scared me. But I never feared you, not once. What's more is you're hurt much more than me. I couldn't help feeling that way. Funny, huh? You're way smarter, bigger, and stronger than me. But I always felt like I had to protect you. I wonder what it is I wanted to protect you from. I wanted to protect you from fate. The fate that tries to carry you away, drifting further and further. You told me once about a leopard you read in a book. How you believed that leopard knew that it couldn't go back. And I said you weren't a leopard, that you could change your destiny. You're not alone. I'm by your side. My soul is always with you.", - "source": "Banana Fish - Eiji", - "length": 1008, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6346 - }, - { - "text": "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 475, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6347 - }, - { - "text": "We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost.", - "source": "All Quiet on The Western Front ", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6348 - }, - { - "text": "In exchange for power, maybe I've lost something that is essential to being human.", - "source": "One Punch Man, Saitama", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6349 - }, - { - "text": "My old friend - the panda will never fulfill his destiny nor yours, until you let go of the illusion of control... Yes! Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda - Master Oogway", - "length": 228, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6350 - }, - { - "text": "Once I realized the problem was not you but within me. I found inner peace and was able to harness the flow of the universe!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda 2 - Master Shifu", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6351 - }, - { - "text": "It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin", - "length": 236, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6353 - }, - { - "text": "When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened. It's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way and truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it.", - "source": "Lady Gaga, Prelude Pathetique (Marry the Night)", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6356 - }, - { - "text": "I don't care if you're movin' slow or fast, as long as it's my direction.", - "source": "Brokeback Mountain", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6357 - }, - { - "text": "I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you're just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there's not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 505, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6358 - }, - { - "text": "He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 176, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6359 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather have loyalty than love, 'cause love really don't mean jack. See, love is just a feeling - you can love somebody and talk behind their back. It don't take much to love, you can love somebody just by being attached. See, loyalty is an action, you can love or hate me and still have my back.", - "source": "21 Savage, Ball w/o You", - "length": 299, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6360 - }, - { - "text": "Somewhere deep inside of these bones an emptiness began to grow.", - "source": "Jack's Lament, The Nightmare Before Christmas", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6361 - }, - { - "text": "Is there a problem with Earth's gravitational pull in the future? Why is everything so heavy?", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6362 - }, - { - "text": "When people are protecting something truly precious to them, they can truly become as strong as they need to be.", - "source": "Haku, Naruto", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6363 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be the best, you have to be willing to do what others are not willing to do.", - "source": "Michael Phelps", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6365 - }, - { - "text": "There's no such thing as winning or losing. There's won and there's lost. There is victory and there's defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. The enemy will only have won when there is no one left to fight against him. Until then, there is only struggle, because that's what tides do - they turn.", - "source": "Skulduggery Pleasant", - "length": 336, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6367 - }, - { - "text": "It makes me so mad! We build your houses, your castles. We pave your roads, and still you walk all over us. Do you ever say thank you? No! Well, you're not going to wipe your feet on me! I think I'll crush you just for fun! Do you have a problem with that?", - "source": "Whomp King, Super Mario Galaxy 2", - "length": 256, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6369 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6370 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know, maybe it's not great progress compared to other people, but I'm happy with my progress. And you know what? Quite frankly, that's all that matters. If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?", - "source": "Gawr Gura", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6371 - }, - { - "text": "One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the Devil's Trill, but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.", - "source": "Giuseppe Tartini", - "length": 940, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6372 - }, - { - "text": "It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.", - "source": "Mary Poppins", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6373 - }, - { - "text": "At the bus stop, crushing rocks. They all stare at me, I don't care at all. Everywhere I go, they look at me wrong. Everyday go the same, got to stay strong. ", - "source": "Ecco2K, Peroxide", - "length": 158, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6375 - }, - { - "text": "Meaningless, huh? What do you know of meaningless? Spend most of your life ruled by another! Watch your race dwindle to a handful! And then, tell me what has more meaning than your own strength! I have in me the blood of a Saiyan prince. He is nothing but a joke! Yet, I've had to watch him surpass me in strength, my destiny thrown to the wayside! He's... he's even saved my life like I were a helpless child. He has stolen my honor, and his debts... must be paid!", - "source": "Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z", - "length": 465, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6376 - }, - { - "text": "Oh! One arrives. Far it walks to find me. Did it seek my aid? Or did the path carry it by chance to so pertinent a place? It is true. True, that you were awaited. No. Perhaps that is inaccurate. True one like you was awaited. I have a gift, held long for one of your kind. Half of a whole. When united, great power is granted, and on the path ahead, great power it will need.", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "length": 375, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6377 - }, - { - "text": "Just because people do horrible things, it doesn't always mean they're horrible people.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6378 - }, - { - "text": "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.", - "source": "A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6380 - }, - { - "text": "It seems after all I couldn't be anything more than a simple puppet. But you three... You're strong. With a power like that... Maybe you three can break your own strings. Let me become your strength.", - "source": "Deltarune", - "length": 199, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6382 - }, - { - "text": "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.", - "source": "George Orwell, 1984", - "length": 122, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6383 - }, - { - "text": "Dude, Benson would've snapped his crank if we'd just upped and left work. You gotta be responsible sometimes.", - "source": "Mordecai, Regular Show", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6384 - }, - { - "text": "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?", - "source": "Traditional American Tongue-twister", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what to tell you. I'm happy for the first time in my life and I'm not gonna feel bad about it. It takes a long time to realise how truly miserable you are and even longer to see it doesn't have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 297, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6386 - }, - { - "text": "You know, it's funny; when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 116, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6387 - }, - { - "text": "You could just write your own rules. You know, write something that's as interesting as you are.", - "source": "La La Land", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6388 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to do this right, show you I'm not movin'! Wherever you go, I won't be far to follow.", - "source": "Waitress, Never Ever Getting Rid of Me", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6389 - }, - { - "text": "People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6390 - }, - { - "text": "Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6391 - }, - { - "text": "\nWe're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6392 - }, - { - "text": "Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 328, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6393 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know that the word 'trauma' comes from the Greek for 'wound'? Hm? And what is the German word for 'dream'? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn't you agree, when you see a monster, you... you must stop it?", - "source": "Jeremiah Naehring, Shutter Island (Movie)", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6394 - }, - { - "text": "After she tried to kill herself the first time, Dolores told me she... she had an insect living inside her brain. She could feel it clicking across her skull, just... pulling the wires, just for fun. She told me that. She told me that but I didn't listen. I loved her so much.", - "source": "Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island (movie)", - "length": 276, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6395 - }, - { - "text": "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.", - "source": "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two), Harry Dacre", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6396 - }, - { - "text": "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.", - "source": "Dick Cavett", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6397 - }, - { - "text": "My momma always said, \"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6398 - }, - { - "text": "You don't listen, do you? I don't think you ever really hear me. You just ask the same questions every week. \"How's your job?\" \"Are you having any negative thoughts?\" All I have are negative thoughts.", - "source": "Joker", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6400 - }, - { - "text": "That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 245, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6401 - }, - { - "text": "My father was fond of saying you need three things in life - a good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 164, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6402 - }, - { - "text": "\"I will take responsibility for what I have done,\" Dalinar whispered. \"If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.\"", - "source": "Oathbringer, The Stormlight Archive, written by Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6403 - }, - { - "text": "So don't tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is I would just be more scared.\n\n", - "source": "Ellie, The Last Of Us", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6404 - }, - { - "text": "In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and the foreknowledge of pain.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6405 - }, - { - "text": "So, you have a different way of doing things, a different way of seeing things. That might make you weird, but it also makes you awesome. Don't you see? Because us weirdos have to stick together.", - "source": "The Owl House", - "length": 195, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6406 - }, - { - "text": "You are seeing the movements created by your abilities, but you will never arrive at the truth that's going to happen. None who stand before me shall ever get there, regardless of their abilities. This is the power of Golden Experience Requiem!", - "source": "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", - "length": 244, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6407 - }, - { - "text": "Suddenly I knew that the sound was not in my ears, it was not just inside my head. At that moment I must have become quite white. I talked still faster and louder. And the sound, too, became louder. It was a quick, low, soft sound, like the sound of a clock heard through a wall, a sound I knew well. Louder it became, and louder.", - "source": "The Tell-Tale Heart", - "length": 330, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6408 - }, - { - "text": "Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 125, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6409 - }, - { - "text": "They often say that humans can't live alone, but you can live pretty long by yourself. Instead of feeling alone in a group, it's better to be alone in your solitude.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 165, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6410 - }, - { - "text": "There is... another of me? How many times did I get ripped apart? How many times did I die?", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6411 - }, - { - "text": "I will get inside their inventor's head. Even brilliant minds will break to madness.", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6412 - }, - { - "text": "For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.", - "source": "The Shipping News", - "length": 451, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6413 - }, - { - "text": "I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. 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Just once, when I say \"suit up\" I wish you'd put on a suit.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6418 - }, - { - "text": "A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6419 - }, - { - "text": "You see, kids, right from the moment I met your mom I knew, I have to love this woman as much as I can, and as long as I can, and I can never stop loving her, not even for a second.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6420 - }, - { - "text": "A word of advice: Play along. The more you fight it, the worse it's gonna get.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6421 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6422 - }, - { - "text": "It's only once you've stopped that you realize how hard it is to start again.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6423 - }, - { - "text": "We're going to get older, whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives or desperately cling to the past.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6424 - }, - { - "text": "Never underestimate the power of destiny. 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It's called growing up.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6433 - }, - { - "text": "You can't just skip ahead to where you think your life should be.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6434 - }, - { - "text": "The three-day rule is a childish, manipulative mind game. But yeah, you wait three days.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6435 - }, - { - "text": "Think of me as Yoda. Only instead of being little and green, I wear suits and I'm awesome. I'm your bro. I'm Broda.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6436 - }, - { - "text": "Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6437 - }, - { - "text": "When life gives you lemons... you probably just found lemons.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6438 - }, - { - "text": "The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6440 - }, - { - "text": "What has just appeared is Team Plasma's castle. The king's words will resound from the heights to all below. You must come to the castle, as well. 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That you will be able to love someone into a forever when you do not even understand what forever means.", - "source": "Fierce Fairytales, Nikita Gill", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6443 - }, - { - "text": "When he talks to Marianne he has a sense of total privacy between them. He could tell her anything about himself, even weird things, and she would never repeat them, he knows that. Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 278, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6444 - }, - { - "text": "Marianne lived a drastically free life, he could see that. He was trapped by various considerations. He cared what people thought of him. 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And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. And maybe, for a brief moment, you'll feel it too, and you'll smile back, and savor the memories we will always share together. I love you, Allie. Noah. ", - "source": "The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks", - "length": 555, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6448 - }, - { - "text": "Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!", - "source": "Leia Organa, Star Wars", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6449 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.", - "source": "Yoda, Star Wars", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6450 - }, - { - "text": "When I was younger I saw my daddy cry and curse at the wind. 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But they don't know me, do they even know you?", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6454 - }, - { - "text": "You're saying I'm the one but it's your actions that speak louder.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6455 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna pack my things and leave you behind. This feeling's old and I know that I've made up my mind. I hope you feel what I felt when you shattered my soul 'cause you were cruel and I'm a fool so please let me go.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6456 - }, - { - "text": "Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace. I dream at night I can only see your face. I look around but it's you I can't replace. I feel so cold and I long for your embrace. I keep crying baby, baby, please.", - "source": "Every Breath You Take - The Police", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6457 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bother looking down, we're not going that way. At least I know I am here to stay.", - "source": "We Fell in Love in October - girl in red", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6458 - }, - { - "text": "But when I'm older, I'll be so much stronger, I'll stay up for longer.", - "source": "Meet Me At Our Spot", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6459 - }, - { - "text": "And you think that I can't see what kind of man that you are if you're a man at all.", - "source": "Decode - Paramore", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6460 - }, - { - "text": "By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. 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The sound inside, the landscape in your heart, your wishes, a sound loaded with your thoughts; didn't you feel it, even for a moment? \"Not being able to hear the sound.\" That is a gift.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 438, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6464 - }, - { - "text": "Even though I'm bitter over losing, even though I'm depressed, even though my ankle hurts, and my eyes are smeared with tears... even though I've never felt worse... I wonder why the stars are sparkling like this.", - "source": "Your Lie in April", - "length": 213, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6465 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe there's only a dark road ahead. But you still have to believe and keep going. Believe that the stars will light your path, even a little bit. Come on... Let's go on a journey!", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6466 - }, - { - "text": "Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 393, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6467 - }, - { - "text": "When you decided to go to the sea, it was your own decision. Whatever happens to you on the sea, it depends on what you've done!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6468 - }, - { - "text": "I came in here to figure out if you were a fraud or if you were a monster.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6469 - }, - { - "text": "What do you know of death? Have you ever died? You think death will preserve your cause forever?", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6470 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6471 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to give you some advice. Never play foosball with a woman who's raised three brothers. It's exhausting.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6472 - }, - { - "text": "You're still in love with her. But instead of telling her, you bought her a plant.", - "source": "Kimball Cho, The Mentalist", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6473 - }, - { - "text": "It's not just allies who support each other. From your enemies, you learn so much and gain so much. Until the day you meet again... Just knowing they exist helps you to withstand the loneliness. Those who compete, even if they're enemies, help each other out.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 259, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6474 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I discovered something. Everyone has something... Something deep inside their hearts. For some, it might have been enmity. For others, admiration. Wishes, a craving for the spotlight, feelings that one wants to deliver, feelings for one's mother. Everyone was supported by their own feelings. I realize now that, perhaps, no one can stand alone on stage.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6475 - }, - { - "text": "Spring will be here soon. Spring, the season I met you, is coming. A Spring without you... is coming.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6476 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter who you're born to... Everyone's still a child of the sea!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6477 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to lose your way... Just don't lose sight of what you have decided.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6478 - }, - { - "text": "It's funny how I'm only your brother when you think I messed up.", - "source": "Jimmy Lisbon, The Mentalist", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6479 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody dies. Very few people ever feel truly sorry for the bad things they've done.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6480 - }, - { - "text": "What was I thinking? I was thinking, uh... Love is strange, and I was thinking about a sandwich.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6481 - }, - { - "text": "You booked the night train for a reason, so you could sit there in this hurt. Bustling crowds or silent sleepers, you're not sure which is worse. Because I dropped your hand while dancing, left you out there standing, crestfallen on the landing: champagne problems.", - "source": "Champagne Problems, Taylor Swift", - "length": 265, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6483 - }, - { - "text": "Adjectives on a typewriter he moves his words like a prizefighter, the frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell.", - "source": "CAKE - Shadow Stabbing", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6484 - }, - { - "text": "You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6485 - }, - { - "text": "I'll tell you one thing, Blondie. If I knew that my last hour had come, I swear, in my place... in your place I would do the same thing. I would tell about the gold. Yes, yes, I would. I would tell the name on the grave. What good is the money if you're dead? I know the name of the cemetery. But you know how many graves there are there? Please. Blondie, please. Have a little... coffee? Please, tell me the name. On... on the grave. If I get my hands on the 200,000 dollars, I'll always honor your memory. I swear I'll always honor your memory.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 546, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6487 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to White Space. You've been living here for as long as you can remember.", - "source": "OMORI", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6488 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.", - "source": "Billie Joe Armstrong", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6489 - }, - { - "text": "I knew you'd linger like a tattoo-kiss. I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs. The smell of smoke would hang around this long 'cause I knew everything when I was young. I knew I'd curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line. I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired, and you'd be standing in my front porch light and I knew you'd come back to me.", - "source": "Cardigan, Taylor Swift", - "length": 374, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6492 - }, - { - "text": "There's things I want to say to you, but I'll just let you live. Like if you hold me without hurting me, you'll be the first who ever did.", - "source": "Cinnamon Girl, Lana Del Rey", - "length": 138, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6493 - }, - { - "text": "Think you can keep up? Who am I kidding? You know you can't keep up.", - "source": "Jett, Valorant", - "length": 68, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6494 - }, - { - "text": "Hard work will always beat talent when talent does not work hard.", - "source": "Tim Notke", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6495 - }, - { - "text": "That summer, let's see, I'm still living in the basement, my own private down under, in the little room Grim built for me there. Glued up this cheap paneling, right? It sort of buckles away from the concrete cellar walls, a regular ripple effect, but do I complain about the crummy paneling, or the rug that smells like low tide? I do not. Because I like it in the down under, got the place all to myself and no fear of Gram sticking her head in the door and saying Maxwell dear, what are you doing?", - "source": "Freak the Mighty", - "length": 499, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6496 - }, - { - "text": "Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?", - "source": "Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast", - "length": 111, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6497 - }, - { - "text": "There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.", - "source": "The Witch of Portobello", - "length": 110, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6498 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it. Instead have the courage to change it the way you want it to be.", - "source": "Naruto Uzumaki", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6500 - }, - { - "text": "Granger? Granger? Can you possibly be related to Hector Dagworth-Granger, who founded the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers?", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6501 - }, - { - "text": "I like to say that if you're seeing me you're having the worst day of your life.", - "source": "Nightcrawler", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6503 - }, - { - "text": "Because I feel nothing like my father, he's been sleeping underground. Don't wait around, 'cause there's nothing there at all, there's nothing but the end!", - "source": "Snowing - Sam Rudich", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6505 - }, - { - "text": "No! The sun is a deadly laser. Not anymore, there's a blanket.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz. History of the entire world, i guess", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6506 - }, - { - "text": "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 189, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6507 - }, - { - "text": "Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 492, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6508 - }, - { - "text": "It was like the litany, she thought. We faced it and did not resist. We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 169, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6509 - }, - { - "text": "It occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6510 - }, - { - "text": "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6511 - }, - { - "text": "There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 634, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6512 - }, - { - "text": "I thought I felt your shape, but I was wrong. Really all I felt, was falsely strong.", - "source": "I Felt Your Shape", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6513 - }, - { - "text": "Looking from up here, it's as if each flame were a small dream for each person. They look like a bonfire of dreams, don't they?... But there's no flame for me here. I'm just a temporary visitor, taking comfort from the flame.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6514 - }, - { - "text": "When you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around, do you ever really crash, or even make a sound?", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6515 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law...? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6516 - }, - { - "text": "My dad knew I liked beans, so like he was just playing with beans and then he dropped them and then he dropped a rock and then it slid, and then hot water started falling and then, coffee.", - "source": "Johnny Suh (NCT)", - "length": 188, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6517 - }, - { - "text": "You ruined me. You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength. You lied to me, to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear! My whole life I sought the approval I was denied by the man I thought was my father. You turned me into the weakling he hated!... Look at me! You rant and you rage about the monster I have become, but you mother, you are the author of everything I am.", - "source": "The Vampire Diaries", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6520 - }, - { - "text": "Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother? Here's the real truth. There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You, me? We're exceptional. I could squash you like a bug right now, but I'm offering you a choice. Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create. Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead! Is that what you want?", - "source": "Spider-Man", - "length": 816, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6521 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up. I've been watching you. Come closer. Closer. Twenty-eight days, six hours, forty-two minutes, twelve seconds. That is when the world will end.", - "source": "Donnie Darko", - "length": 151, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6522 - }, - { - "text": "Understanding that our understanding might be wrong is essential, and trying to figure out ways we may be mistaken is the only way science can help us find our way to the truth.", - "source": "Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 177, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6523 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when you look up, you can see stars that don't twinkle. That's because they aren't stars. They're planets.", - "source": "Naked Eye Observations: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 117, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6524 - }, - { - "text": "The moon is a giant ball of rock 3500 kilometers across. Its surface is pretty dark, with about the same reflectivity as a chalkboard or asphalt. However, it looks bright to us because it's sitting in full sunlight.", - "source": "The Cycles of the Moon: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 215, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6525 - }, - { - "text": "I don't mean to dwell, but I can't help myself. When I feel the vibe and taste a memory of a time in life, when years seemed to stand still. I close my eyes and sink within myself. Relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. When did it begin, the change to come was undetectable. The open wounds expose the importance of our innocence, a high that can never be bought or sold.", - "source": "Death - Symbolic", - "length": 406, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6526 - }, - { - "text": "Wrong about us being on different paths... we're not on different paths... you're my path... and you're always going to be my path... and I know there are a million reasons why we shouldn't be together... but I'm tired of them... I'm tired of every single one of them... we all got to make a choice... right? Well I choose you...", - "source": "The amazing spider-man 2, Peter Parker", - "length": 329, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6527 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the way I see it, one of two things can happen. Either we'll discover that we've foolishly built each other up in our own imaginations because we've had so much trouble getting together; or, this could end up being a story we tell our grandchildren. Personally, I can't wait to find out which.", - "source": "Frasier", - "length": 299, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6528 - }, - { - "text": "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.", - "source": "Alex DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange ", - "length": 371, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6530 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to prison. I've been in a prison all of my life.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6531 - }, - { - "text": "I've done a lot of things, Eloise. You're gonna have to be more specific, love.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6532 - }, - { - "text": "When you see Alex in whatever little hell she's carved out for herself, you tell her I said hello.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6533 - }, - { - "text": "When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go... downtown. When you've got worries, all the noise, and the hurry seems to help, I know... downtown. Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city. Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty. How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there. You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares. So go downtown. Things will be great when you're... downtown. No finer place for sure, downtown. Everything's waiting for you.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 515, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6534 - }, - { - "text": "Don't hang around and let your problems surround you, there are movie shows... downtown. Maybe you know some little places to go to where they never close... downtown. Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova, you'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over, happy again, the lights are much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares so go downtown. Where all the lights are bright, downtown. Waiting for you tonight, downtown. You're gonna be alright now, downtown.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 512, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6535 - }, - { - "text": "Traditionally the concept is of a 'good twin' and an 'evil twin'. But in this case, it's evil twin, eviler twin.", - "source": "Dr. Spencer Reid Criminal Minds", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6536 - }, - { - "text": "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We fought for these ideals, we shouldn't settle for less. These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em. Don't act surprised, you guys, 'cause I wrote 'em.", - "source": "Cabinet Battle #1, Hamilton", - "length": 202, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6537 - }, - { - "text": "When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.", - "source": "Wonder", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6538 - }, - { - "text": "I'm running out of time. I'm running out of light. I'm running just to keep myself from bleeding out. I'm falling out of touch. 'Cause I hate myself too much. No I can't, I was never meant to. I never loved myself like I loved you.", - "source": "I never loved myself like I loved you - Dead Poet Society", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6539 - }, - { - "text": "The concept of hope is nothing more than giving up. A word that holds no true meaning.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6541 - }, - { - "text": "You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be the big ones, they are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It's the regular days, the ones that start out normal. Those are the days that end up the biggest.", - "source": "Izzie - Grey's anatomy", - "length": 282, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6542 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 345, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6544 - }, - { - "text": "I've realized that I'm probably just perfect and it's everybody else around me that's got issues.", - "source": "Scott Disick - Keeping Up with the Kardashians", - "length": 97, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6545 - }, - { - "text": "The last 30 days have taught me so much. And all I wanted when we first came here was to know that we would leave together. But from the minute I sat down, I could feel it. I felt like I was going to be suffocated. The last several weeks, I have laughed more, I have done more, I have enjoyed myself more. And I finally feel free. And by being free, I can see now that constantly trying to fix us is the thing that's been killing me slowly. And I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to fix it or fix us anymore. Maybe instead of loving you so hard, I should be myself for a while. I should love me, and you should love you, and together we love Sofia, rather than... I want so much for you, Arizona. So much more than this. More than being stuck with someone who feels stuck. I want you to feel free too.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 810, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6546 - }, - { - "text": "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6547 - }, - { - "text": "All's well that ends well to end up with you. Swear to be over-dramatic and true to my lover. And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me. And at every table, I'll save you a seat.", - "source": "Lover", - "length": 183, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6548 - }, - { - "text": "Flashback when you met me, your buzz cut and my hair bleached. Even in my worst times, you could see the best in me. Flashback to my mistakes, my rebounds, my earthquakes. Even in my worst lies, you saw the truth in me.", - "source": "Dress", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6549 - }, - { - "text": "Kneel before me. I said... kneel! Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.", - "source": "The Avengers", - "length": 309, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6551 - }, - { - "text": "Existence is chaos. Nothing makes any sense, so we try to make some sense of it.", - "source": "Loki", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6552 - }, - { - "text": "You could be whoever, whatever you wanna be, even someone good. I mean, just in case anyone ever told you different.", - "source": "Loki", - "length": 116, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6553 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, you just gotta get destroyed standing up for what you believe in.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6554 - }, - { - "text": "Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6555 - }, - { - "text": "Fun isn't something one considers when balancing the universe. But this... does put a smile on my face.", - "source": "Thanos", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6556 - }, - { - "text": "My point is that you asked how and I am giving you the examples, the possibilities, because when I want something, truly want something that my life depends on - which is purpose and happiness - I will stop at nothing to attain. It's like breathing. So you must ask yourself: What is your air? What is the thing you literally will fight for to survive?", - "source": "Supermarket, Bobby Hall", - "length": 352, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6557 - }, - { - "text": "But I hate that it seems you were never enough. We were broken and bleeding but never gave up. And I hate that I made you the enemy. And I hate that your heart was the casualty. Now I hate that I need you.", - "source": "Motionless in White - Another Life", - "length": 205, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6558 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6559 - }, - { - "text": "Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 233, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6560 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, right. The poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison... That poison?", - "source": "Emperor's New Groove", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6561 - }, - { - "text": "Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God. It even has a watermark.", - "source": "Patrick Bateman, American Psycho", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6562 - }, - { - "text": "We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 262, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6563 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what I'm supposed to do haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "The Night we Met - Lord Huron", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6565 - }, - { - "text": "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6566 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.\n", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6567 - }, - { - "text": "I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.", - "source": "The Song of Achilles", - "length": 182, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6568 - }, - { - "text": "In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.\n", - "source": "The Song of Achilles", - "length": 170, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6569 - }, - { - "text": "When we doubt our hearts, our bodies react. Tear ducts overflow and the face flushes red hot embers. A burning, turning sensation overwhelms, and a pressure in the head seduces the mind to doubt. A cycle of connection, a circle of ever-expanding, inexplicable nervous system responses. When we doubt our heads, our stomach cramps, our fists clench and our thoughts tumble into larger and larger whirls of uncertainty, beating our bodies blue and scabish. When we quiet our minds and center our soul we are receptive to an intuition much stronger than knowledge and knowing.", - "source": "Tinker creek.", - "length": 573, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6571 - }, - { - "text": "And yet even these violent fantasies were nothing compared to what lay in wait at the centre of the drawing.", - "source": "House of Leaves", - "length": 108, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6572 - }, - { - "text": "I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6573 - }, - { - "text": "There were some things that were said that weren't meant. 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They've taken him and drained him of his sweet, sweet blood candies!", - "source": "Invader Zim", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6641 - }, - { - "text": "Rooted deep within the Puritans souls like some strange invasive weed lurked their belief in a second world, an Invisible World swarming with shadowy apparitions and unearthly phantoms of the air.", - "source": "Witches by Rosalyn Schanzer", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6642 - }, - { - "text": "Time... Line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round.", - "source": "Red Vs. Blue", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6643 - }, - { - "text": "I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, so good to me so right. And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry. Maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming. And if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right. I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't.", - "source": "Back to December", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6644 - }, - { - "text": "It's such a good feeling to know you're alive. It's such a happy feeling; you're growing inside. And when you wake up ready to say: \"I think I'll make a snappy new day!\" It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling. The feeling you know, that I'll be back when the day is new, and I'll have more ideas for you, and you'll have things you'll want to talk about; I will too.", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6645 - }, - { - "text": "You always make each day such a special day, you know how: By just your being you. Only one person in the whole world like you, that's you yourself!", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 148, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6646 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6647 - }, - { - "text": "Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6648 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.", - "source": "Margaret Mead", - "length": 72, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6650 - }, - { - "text": "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.", - "source": "Robert Louis Stevenson", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6651 - }, - { - "text": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", - "source": "Eleanor Roosevelt", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6652 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.", - "source": "Benjamin Franklin", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6653 - }, - { - "text": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", - "source": "Helen Keller", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6654 - }, - { - "text": "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 69, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6655 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6656 - }, - { - "text": "Dad told me I could learn a lesson from this, which was to never lose your temper and do something stupid.", - "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6658 - }, - { - "text": "One big unicorn, strong and free, thought he was happy as he could be. Then three little kittens came around and turned his whole life upside down. They made him laugh, they made him cry. He never should have said goodbye. And now he knows he can never part from those three little kittens that changed his heart.", - "source": "Despicable Me", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6659 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only, if only,\" the woodpecker sighs, \"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6660 - }, - { - "text": "While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, crying to the moon, \"If only, if only.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6661 - }, - { - "text": "But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 699, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6662 - }, - { - "text": "The shepherd's boy says, \"There's this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years, a little bird comes. It sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.\" You must think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 396, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6663 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.", - "source": "Angela Davis", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6664 - }, - { - "text": "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6665 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have proven acceptable to ourselves.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6666 - }, - { - "text": "A hot desert storm eddied around him and rushed to me, making my skin contract, and my pores slam shut... His hair was the color of burning embers and his eyes pierced.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 168, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6668 - }, - { - "text": "There's a concept that works; twenty million other white rappers emerge. But no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 142, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6669 - }, - { - "text": "A king without greed is even worse than a figurehead! Saber, you said you would martyr yourself for your ideals. In life, you must have been a pure saint. A proud and noble figure, certainly. But who can truly admire the martyr's thorny path? Who dreams of such an ending? A king. The king must be greedier than any other. He must laugh more loudly and rage for longer. He must exemplify the extreme of all things, good and evil. That is why his retainers envy and adore him. And why the flames of aspiration, to be as the king is, can burn within his people. Proud king of chivalry, the righteousness and ideals you bore may indeed have saved your nation once. However, I'm certain you know what became of those who were saved, but left to themselves.", - "source": "Fate/Zero", - "length": 752, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6670 - }, - { - "text": "No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights. Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different color, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.", - "source": "86", - "length": 347, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6671 - }, - { - "text": "I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6674 - }, - { - "text": "I am neither, sire, and I assure you that my activities are purely recreational in nature. Furthermore, I would never imagine to transgress the terms upon which we agreed. I am available, at your leisure and by your grace, to discuss this matter further should you wish to repeat your ridiculous accusations in person. That said, I'm pleased you enjoyed the tomatoes. All the best wishes and encouragement. Adrian Veidt.", - "source": "Watchmen (2019)", - "length": 420, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6675 - }, - { - "text": "I don't recall saying anything about justice. Mathias and I are evil, too, after all. A knight doesn't bring justice, just more pain and violence. And what is evil if not violence? But what do you do when leaving evil alive leads to the rise of even greater evil? Even worse sorrow and pain? You destroy that evil, even if you have to use the evil of violence to do so. And every time you draw your sword, you hope that you take from this world more evil than you bring into it. THAT is the code of the Maximillian Knights. I'm putting you on notice. You, who so carelessly use the word \"justice\", have no idea what it truly means. Though you strike me as more of a misguided coward than a villain, your evil deeds must still be punished.", - "source": "Suikoden 5", - "length": 738, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6676 - }, - { - "text": "I'm all for work-life balance, but I think this is pushing it.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 62, - "id": 6679 - }, - { - "text": "In adventuring, as in business, you always have to seize the opportunity while it's there.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 90, - "id": 6680 - }, - { - "text": "Quite a downpour... Nothing will get done until it clears. Let this be a lesson to those who yesterday said, \"I'll do it tomorrow.\"", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 131, - "id": 6681 - }, - { - "text": "Morning. Time to set the tone for the rest of the day, so if you're still feeling sleepy, shake it off!", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 103, - "id": 6685 - }, - { - "text": "The lights are coming on now that the night is setting in. Another delightful day draws to a close.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 99, - "id": 6687 - }, - { - "text": "Sleep well... me? Uh... I still have a handful of things on my to-do list, but I'll call it a night once they are done.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 119, - "id": 6688 - }, - { - "text": "I feel I have grown immensely from my travels with you. If, one day, I finally manage to make my dreams a reality... I wonder, will you still be there by my side?", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 162, - "id": 6689 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, the sun's out- Oh, um... This meteorological transformation is most splendid! Like a felicitous twist of fate in the face of certain doom.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 142, - "id": 6690 - }, - { - "text": "I'll remind you again: The law can be both a help and a hindrance.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 66, - "id": 6691 - }, - { - "text": "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6693 - }, - { - "text": "You have to believe in the long-term plan you have but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6695 - }, - { - "text": "You truly are the lowest scum in history. You can't pay back what you owe with money.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6696 - }, - { - "text": "Impossible? We did a lot of impossible things on this journey. I'm tired of hearing that things are impossible or useless. Those words mean nothing to us.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6697 - }, - { - "text": "Nice watch. Too bad you won't be able to tell the time after I break it. Break your face, that is.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6698 - }, - { - "text": "JoJo, being a human means having limits. I've learned something... The more carefully you scheme, the more unexpected events come along. As long as you're human... I reject my humanity, JoJo!", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6699 - }, - { - "text": "Oh no. I'm on the outside looking in, I never said what I really meant. I wasn't made to be medicine for you, it's true. You can't seem to make up your mind, when I told you I did with mine. You won't know if you never try, it's true.", - "source": "Dayglow, Medicine", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6700 - }, - { - "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. But then, what am I? Is this me? My true self? My fake self? What is it that I am? Nobody understands me!", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6702 - }, - { - "text": "In every heart, there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong; to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along.", - "source": "Billy Joel - And so it goes", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6703 - }, - { - "text": "It's about drive, it's about power, we stay hungry, we devour. Put in the work, put in the hours and take what's ours. Black and Samoan in my veins, my culture banging with Strange. I changed the game so what's my name?", - "source": "Face Off", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6704 - }, - { - "text": "No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.", - "source": "Easy Rider", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6705 - }, - { - "text": "Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? ", - "source": "Lord of the Flies", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6707 - }, - { - "text": "Burning is the right way to paint it. You feel yourself getting so hot, day after day. Hotter and hotter. It gets to be too much. Even for stars. At some point they fizzle out or explode. Cease to be. But if you're looking up at the sky, you don't see it that way. You think those stars are still there. Some aren't. Some are already gone. Long gone. I guess, now, so am I.", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6708 - }, - { - "text": "And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us; new, untouched, and full of things that have never been.", - "source": "Rainier Maria Rilke", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6709 - }, - { - "text": "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they have never been.", - "source": "Untamed by Glennon Doyle", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6710 - }, - { - "text": "Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes out and everything is darker than ever, and all you are left with is the burn.", - "source": "If It's Not Love, Syed Arshad", - "length": 222, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6711 - }, - { - "text": "We are alone. Such is the curse of humanity, being surrounded by others always masking themselves while all of us feel isolated, separated from everyone else. Our sense of uniqueness and ego will always keep us this way, and it will take more than a revolution to end it. For now, we are alone.", - "source": "Alice Chary Garza", - "length": 294, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6712 - }, - { - "text": "Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say \"My tooth is aching\" than to say \"My heart is broken.\"", - "source": "C.S. Lewis", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6713 - }, - { - "text": "Although Ganon is gone for now, there is still so much more for us to do, and so many painful memories that we must bear.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 121, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6716 - }, - { - "text": "Link... You are the light. Our light... That must shine upon Hyrule once again. Now go.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6717 - }, - { - "text": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", - "source": "Michael Jordan", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6719 - }, - { - "text": "And those are the words of a gentleman? From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6720 - }, - { - "text": "Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.", - "source": "Call Me by Your Name", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6722 - }, - { - "text": "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger... and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says \"even though you're a boy\" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6723 - }, - { - "text": "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6724 - }, - { - "text": "Now it's time for our wrap up. Let's give it everything we've got. Ready? Begin! Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing. Analytically, I assault, animate things. Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding. Casually create catastrophes, casualties. Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing. Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough. Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low. Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic. Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette. Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics. Gift got great global goods gone glorious. Gettin' Godly in his game with the goriest. Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical. Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In an instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. Tales ten times talented, they're too tough. Take that, challengers, get a tune up. Universal, unique untouched. Unadulterated, the raw uncut. Verb vice Lord victorious valid. Violate vibes that are vain make 'em vanished. Why I'm all well, would a wise wordsmith. Just weaving up words weeded up, on my work shift. Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large. X-height letters and xylophone tones. Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws. Yesterday's lawn yards sell our yawn. Zig zag zombies, zoomin' to the zenith. Zero in zen thoughts, over zealous rhyme Zea-lots. Good, can you say it faster?", - "source": "Alphabet Aerobics", - "length": 2287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6725 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6726 - }, - { - "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", - "source": "Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6727 - }, - { - "text": "And where there was that memory... others came rising like ghostly tendrils out of some part of her mind that existed beyond the purely physical, somewhere that the rejuvenations and edits of the ship's medical suite could never reach. The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.", - "source": "Light Chaser", - "length": 561, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6728 - }, - { - "text": "Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.", - "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", - "length": 360, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6729 - }, - { - "text": "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6730 - }, - { - "text": "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. ", - "source": "Lawrence of Arabia", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6731 - }, - { - "text": "The violent passion that soaked his heart brought him almost to the verge of collapse. He judged that victory had yielded him nothing if it had not given him her as a prize.", - "source": "Book III of Gesta Danorum", - "length": 173, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6732 - }, - { - "text": "You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits can change your future.", - "source": "Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6733 - }, - { - "text": "There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 586, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6734 - }, - { - "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 1174, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6735 - }, - { - "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", - "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", - "length": 221, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6736 - }, - { - "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 184, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6737 - }, - { - "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6738 - }, - { - "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 246, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6739 - }, - { - "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6740 - }, - { - "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6741 - }, - { - "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", - "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", - "length": 272, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6742 - }, - { - "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 275, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6743 - }, - { - "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6744 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 467, - "id": 6745 - }, - { - "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 877, - "id": 6746 - }, - { - "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", - "source": "A Girl on the Shore", - "length": 572, - "id": 6747 - }, - { - "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 64, - "id": 6748 - }, - { - "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 62, - "id": 6749 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 77, - "id": 6750 - }, - { - "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 166, - "id": 6751 - }, - { - "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 195, - "id": 6752 - }, - { - "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 100, - "id": 6753 - }, - { - "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 172, - "id": 6754 - }, - { - "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 118, - "id": 6755 - }, - { - "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 119, - "id": 6756 - }, - { - "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", - "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6757, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", - "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6758, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6761, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Well, then, you have us all beat. Every damn song is about you. We could drive back and forth across the States forever and never run out of Baby songs.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6762, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6764, - "length": 458 - }, - { - "text": "Well done. Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6765, - "length": 141 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6766, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", - "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", - "id": 6767, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. However, the latter is of equal importance, and can be gained with patient study.", - "source": "Conduction Heat Transfer", - "id": 6768, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", - "source": "Unknown", - "id": 6769, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "My wife and I had lived in our house for over a dozen years at that point. Holly's family had lived in theirs even longer. We were both active families, involved in the community, with work, and with our churches. Yet, the thick woods covering the lots we each occupied along a cul-de-sac was enough of a barrier to our getting to know each other that we didn't even realize our neighbors across the street had a little girl the same age as ours. That is, until they met at the kindergarten in the elementary school six miles away.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6770, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "The single quality that is common across every living creature on this planet, is fear. It's funny, then, that as common as fear is, we so easily underestimate its power. Fear of growing close to someone, the subsequent fear of loss, fear of failure. And as more people depend on you, those fears can take on greater power. But fear itself isn't worthy of concern, it is who we become while in its clutches. Will you be proud of that person? Will you forgive them? Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things they did? Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the start? I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6771, - "length": 703 - }, - { - "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6772, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6773, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6774, - "length": 464 - }, - { - "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6775, - "length": 259 - }, - { - "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6776, - "length": 267 - }, - { - "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6777, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6778, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6779, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6780, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6781, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6782, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6783, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6784, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6785, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", - "source": "Walt Disney", - "id": 6786, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6787, - "length": 79 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6788, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", - "source": "Ozark", - "id": 6789, - "length": 662 - }, - { - "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "id": 6790, - "length": 75 - }, - { - "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", - "source": "Greek Mythology", - "id": 6791, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 6792, - "length": 108 - }, - { - "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", - "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", - "length": 99, - "id": 6793 - }, - { - "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", - "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6794 - }, - { - "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 58, - "id": 6795 - }, - { - "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6796 - }, - { - "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", - "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", - "length": 102, - "id": 6797 - }, - { - "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", - "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", - "length": 91, - "id": 6798 - }, - { - "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", - "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6799 - }, - { - "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 67, - "id": 6800 - }, - { - "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 79, - "id": 6801 - }, - { - "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6802 - }, - { - "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 82, - "id": 6803 - }, - { - "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 153, - "id": 6804 - }, - { - "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6805 - }, - { - "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 98, - "id": 6806 - }, - { - "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", - "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", - "length": 78, - "id": 6807 - }, - { - "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 108, - "id": 6808 - }, - { - "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 134, - "id": 6809 - }, - { - "text": "And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 90, - "id": 6810 - }, - { - "text": "You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 62, - "id": 6811 - }, - { - "text": "I am slow to anger but I toe the line, as I reckon with the effects of your life on mine.", - "source": "Your Obedient Servant, Hamilton", - "length": 89, - "id": 6812 - }, - { - "text": "What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 71, - "id": 6813 - }, - { - "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 81, - "id": 6814 - }, - { - "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.", - "source": "Fred Rogers", - "length": 213, - "id": 6815 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism.", - "source": "Wednesday", - "length": 168, - "id": 6817 - }, - { - "text": "Teach them our ways so they do not suffer the shame of being useless.", - "source": "Avatar: The Way of Water", - "length": 69, - "id": 6818 - }, - { - "text": "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.", - "source": "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", - "length": 254, - "id": 6819 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a journey, not a destination. The key to success is to enjoy every step along the way. Embrace the struggles, learn from the failures, and appreciate the victories. The destination may be important, but it's the journey that truly shapes us.", - "source": "The Power of Positive Thinking", - "length": 249, - "id": 6820 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. We do not remember days, we remember moments. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Søren Kierkegaard", - "length": 321, - "id": 6821 - }, - { - "text": "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.", - "source": "Robin Williams", - "length": 185, - "id": 6822 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 174, - "id": 6823 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 254, - "id": 6824 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.", - "source": "Andrè Gide", - "length": 80, - "id": 6825 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This means recognizing that failure and setbacks are a natural part of the journey to success, and using them as opportunities to learn and grow. It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 431, - "id": 6827 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 75, - "id": 6828 - }, - { - "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", - "source": "J.K. Rowling", - "length": 101, - "id": 6829 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 6830 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", - "source": "Edmund Burke", - "length": 79, - "id": 6831 - }, - { - "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.", - "source": "Christian D. Larson", - "length": 116, - "id": 6832 - }, - { - "text": "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 95, - "id": 6833 - }, - { - "text": "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 110, - "id": 6834 - }, - { - "text": "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.", - "source": "Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)", - "length": 65, - "id": 6835 - }, - { - "text": "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.", - "source": "Christopher Columbus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6836 - }, - { - "text": "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. The only way to true happiness is to learn to accept and love ourselves for who we are, flaws and all. This means embracing our strengths as well as our weaknesses, and finding joy in the journey of self-discovery and self-improvement. It may not be an easy path, but it is one that is worth taking.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 391, - "id": 6837 - }, - { - "text": "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. This means finding a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives, and striving to make a positive impact in the world around us. It means being kind and caring towards others, and using our unique talents and abilities to create something that will endure beyond our lifetime.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 440, - "id": 6838 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain. This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 423, - "id": 6839 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", - "source": "Abraham Lincoln", - "length": 402, - "id": 6840 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", - "source": "Albert Schweitzer", - "length": 392, - "id": 6841 - }, - { - "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 41, - "id": 6842 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", - "source": "Dalai Lama", - "length": 70, - "id": 6843 - }, - { - "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", - "source": "Henry Ford", - "length": 57, - "id": 6844 - }, - { - "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 248, - "id": 6845 - }, - { - "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 58, - "id": 6847 - }, - { - "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", - "source": "Jean Paul", - "length": 53, - "id": 6849 - }, - { - "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 66, - "id": 6851 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", - "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 217, - "id": 6852 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", - "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", - "length": 92, - "id": 6853 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess", - "length": 66, - "id": 6854 - }, - { - "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 100, - "id": 6855 - }, - { - "text": "If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 88, - "id": 6856 - }, - { - "text": "Even if a single day in your life is the same as the day before, it surely is a pity. At every moment and with each new breath, one should be renewed and renewed again. There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 239, - "id": 6857 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's all to save Eldia and the Island. But not only because of that. The reality outside the walls was nothing like the world I had dreamed of. It was nothing like the world I had seen in Armin's book. When I learned that humanity outside the walls survived... I was so disappointed. I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", - "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", - "length": 361, - "id": 6858 - }, - { - "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real, deep down you is the whole universe.", - "source": "Alan Watts - The Real You Is All of Us", - "length": 224, - "id": 6859 - }, - { - "text": "When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 68, - "id": 6860 - }, - { - "text": "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 71, - "id": 6861 - }, - { - "text": "While it is true that man succumbs all too often to anger and avarice, he may yet overcome his baser instincts through the forming of bonds with others.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 152, - "id": 6862 - }, - { - "text": "Save your tears for the morrow. You may be sure we will have ample cause to shed them, be they for joy or despair.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 114, - "id": 6863 - }, - { - "text": "We fought and we fought and we fought... until there was no one left to fight. We won... and now our world is being erased from existence. We did everything right, everything that was asked of us, and still - still it came to this!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 231, - "id": 6864 - }, - { - "text": "Stay strong. Keep the faith. At duty's end, we will meet again. We will. We will.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 81, - "id": 6867 - }, - { - "text": "The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 106, - "id": 6868 - }, - { - "text": "We are the stories we tell ourselves. The brave hero, the tortured soul, the altruist, the pragmatist. They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 336, - "id": 6869 - }, - { - "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 182, - "id": 6870 - }, - { - "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 529, - "id": 6871 - }, - { - "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 282, - "id": 6872 - }, - { - "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 184, - "id": 6873 - }, - { - "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 196, - "id": 6874 - }, - { - "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 90, - "id": 6875 - }, - { - "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett", - "length": 168, - "id": 6876 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.", - "source": "Dante Alighieri", - "length": 71, - "id": 6877 - }, - { - "text": "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 82, - "id": 6878 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.", - "source": "Heath Ledger", - "length": 164, - "id": 6879 - }, - { - "text": "Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 77, - "id": 6880 - }, - { - "text": "Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot", - "id": 6881, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said \"Nobody\".", - "source": "A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "id": 6882, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.", - "source": "Gorgias", - "id": 6883, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "id": 6884, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.", - "source": "Arthur C. Clarke", - "id": 6885, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "id": 6886, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be \"Sir\". Do you maggots understand that?", - "source": "R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket", - "id": 6887, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 6888, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe someday we could become friends. Friends who ride majestic, translucent steeds, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale.", - "source": "Will Ferrell, Step Brothers", - "id": 6889, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "\"Why doesn't it just do us in and get it over with? Christ, I don't know how much longer I can go on like this.\" It was our one hundred and ninth year in the computer. He was speaking for all of us.", - "source": "Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", - "id": 6890, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.", - "source": "Mario Savio", - "id": 6891, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "We don't know what triggered the big bang, nor what, if anything, existed before it. But somehow the universe emerged as a vast sea of ultrahot gas, expanding fast in all directions like the fireball ignited by a nuclear bomb blast or by the explosion of a gas pipeline. Except that the big bang was not destructive (so far as we know). Instead, it created everything in our universe, or rather the seeds for everything.", - "source": "Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar", - "id": 6892, - "length": 420 - }, - { - "text": "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.", - "source": "Brian Cox", - "id": 6893, - "length": 96 - }, - { - "text": "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.", - "source": "Niels Bohr", - "id": 6894, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "I want to have the same last dream again. The one where I wake up, and I'm alive just as the four walls closed me within, my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight. I'm the first to know, my dearest friends, even if your hope has burned with time. Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", - "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", - "id": 6895, - "length": 345 - }, - { - "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", - "source": "Edwin Hubble", - "id": 6897, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", - "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", - "id": 6898, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "id": 6899, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "id": 6900, - "length": 632 - }, - { - "text": "In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done before defend him.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "id": 6901, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", - "source": "Marie Curie", - "id": 6902, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.", - "source": "John Lubbock, The Use Of Life", - "id": 6903, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter... I have chosen the word \"atom\" to signify these ultimate particles.", - "source": "John Dalton", - "id": 6904, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Schrodinger's cat has far more than nine lives, and far fewer. All of us are unknowing cats, alive and dead at once, and of all the might-have-beens in between, we record only one.", - "source": "Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows", - "id": 6905, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.", - "source": "Nicolaus Copernicus", - "id": 6906, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.", - "source": "Nikolai Lobachevsky", - "id": 6907, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worse, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud", - "id": 6908, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.", - "source": "Jean Piaget", - "id": 6909, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite streak of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "id": 6910, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, \"What do I need to get to be happy?\" The question becomes, \"What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?\"", - "source": "D.T. Suzuki", - "id": 6911, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Personal knowledge. The two words may seem to contradict each other: for true knowledge is deemed impersonal, universally established, objective. But the seeming contradiction is resolved by modifying the conception of knowing.", - "source": "Personal knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy", - "id": 6912, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.", - "source": "Dolly Parton", - "length": 74, - "id": 6913 - }, - { - "text": "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.", - "source": "Anatole France", - "length": 162, - "id": 6914 - }, - { - "text": "Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.", - "source": "Carl Sandburg", - "length": 122, - "id": 6915 - }, - { - "text": "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.", - "source": "Swedish Proverb", - "length": 79, - "id": 6917 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.", - "source": "Ambrose Bierce", - "length": 82, - "id": 6918 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?", - "source": "Laura Preble", - "length": 96, - "id": 6919 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.", - "source": "John Green - An Abundance of Katherines", - "length": 74, - "id": 6920 - }, - { - "text": "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.", - "source": "Alfred Sheinwold", - "length": 93, - "id": 6921 - }, - { - "text": "The only one who can tell you \"you can't\" is you. And you don't have to listen.", - "source": "Dean Karnazes", - "length": 79, - "id": 6922 - }, - { - "text": "In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.", - "source": "Bill Vaughan", - "length": 143, - "id": 6923 - }, - { - "text": "I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.", - "source": "Mitch Hedberg", - "length": 214, - "id": 6924 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.", - "source": "Allphonse de Lamartine", - "length": 72, - "id": 6925 - }, - { - "text": "That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 105, - "id": 6926 - }, - { - "text": "I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.", - "source": "Hank Green", - "length": 153, - "id": 6927 - }, - { - "text": "That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 129, - "id": 6928 - }, - { - "text": "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 130, - "id": 6929 - }, - { - "text": "He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 80, - "id": 6930 - }, - { - "text": "Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.", - "source": "Irish Proverb", - "length": 74, - "id": 6931 - }, - { - "text": "Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.", - "source": "Arabian Proverb", - "length": 105, - "id": 6932 - }, - { - "text": "He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 82, - "id": 6933 - }, - { - "text": "Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 72, - "id": 6934 - }, - { - "text": "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean; if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.", - "source": "Marcus Brigstocke", - "length": 169, - "id": 6935 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 87, - "id": 6936 - }, - { - "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 124, - "id": 6937 - }, - { - "text": "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 87, - "id": 6938 - }, - { - "text": "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", - "source": "Japanese Proverb", - "length": 69, - "id": 6939 - }, - { - "text": "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", - "source": "Malayan Proverb", - "length": 62, - "id": 6940 - }, - { - "text": "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", - "source": "Indian Proverb", - "length": 165, - "id": 6941 - }, - { - "text": "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", - "source": "Linus Torvalds", - "length": 250, - "id": 6942 - }, - { - "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. The strong person is the one who can control himself when he is angry.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 138, - "id": 6943 - }, - { - "text": "The strongest among you is the one who controls his anger.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 58, - "id": 6944 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest of richness is the richness of the soul.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 53, - "id": 6945 - }, - { - "text": "You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 101, - "id": 6946 - }, - { - "text": "The best among you is the one who doesn't harm others with his tongue and hands.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 80, - "id": 6947 - }, - { - "text": "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 44, - "id": 6948 - }, - { - "text": "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.", - "source": "Carl Jung", - "length": 98, - "id": 6949 - }, - { - "text": "We have two lives, and the second one starts when we realize we only have one.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 78, - "id": 6950 - }, - { - "text": "If you never open a new chapter of your life, you'll never reach the end of the book.", - "source": "Josiah Plett", - "length": 85, - "id": 6952 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only I had… If only I had…\" If you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain, it will hurt. A lot.", - "source": "Larry Smith - TEDxUW 2014", - "length": 109, - "id": 6953 - }, - { - "text": "A jack of all trades is master of none, but oftentimes better than master of one.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 81, - "id": 6954 - }, - { - "text": "So when you run, make sure you run to something and not away from, 'cause lies don't need an aeroplane to chase you anywhere.", - "source": "Avett Brothers - The Weight of Lies", - "length": 125, - "id": 6955 - }, - { - "text": "The worst thing people can say these days is \"you're inconsistent,\" when in reality you're not wrong; you're just balancing two important things from two different contexts.", - "source": "Ian McGillchrist", - "length": 173, - "id": 6956 - }, - { - "text": "The one who speaks the right words will be heard 1000 miles away.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 65, - "id": 6957 - }, - { - "text": "When outer roles do not fit the shape of one's soul, a terrible one-sidedness occurs.", - "source": "James Hollis", - "length": 85, - "id": 6958 - }, - { - "text": "Watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 171, - "id": 6959 - }, - { - "text": "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.", - "source": "Arthur Schopenhaur", - "length": 140, - "id": 6960 - }, - { - "text": "You know those \"you can do anything you want\" posters? Those are simultaneously the most useless and the most useful things in the world.", - "source": "Justin Zwart", - "length": 137, - "id": 6961 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it. So, nothing will ever make you as happy as you think it will.", - "source": "Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow", - "length": 151, - "id": 6962 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.", - "source": "Damian Lillard", - "length": 97, - "id": 6963 - }, - { - "text": "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 84, - "id": 6964 - }, - { - "text": "What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 63, - "id": 6965 - }, - { - "text": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 95, - "id": 6966 - }, - { - "text": "The unintelligible is not necessarily unintelligent. Life must not be limited solely to what we understand.", - "source": "Fat Tony", - "length": 107, - "id": 6967 - }, - { - "text": "The things you're doing in your free time... if they don't recharge you, you're screwed. You're just a ticking time bomb.", - "source": "Mr. Beast", - "length": 121, - "id": 6968 - }, - { - "text": "You can tell a lot about someone's character by the way they treat service staff.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 81, - "id": 6969 - }, - { - "text": "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.", - "source": "Archilochus", - "length": 85, - "id": 6970 - }, - { - "text": "It's a dangerous thing, to mistake speaking without thinking for speaking the truth.", - "source": "Benoit Blanc - Glass Onion", - "length": 84, - "id": 6971 - }, - { - "text": "When you say what people want to hear, it's for yourself. When you say what they really need to hear, it's for them.", - "source": "Lex Fridman", - "length": 116, - "id": 6972 - }, - { - "text": "If you're looking for self help, why would you read a book written by someone else?", - "source": "George Carlin", - "length": 83, - "id": 6973 - }, - { - "text": "There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt - Man in the Arena", - "length": 287, - "id": 6974 - }, - { - "text": "Those who don't learn which actions have what consequences will find their generosity falling flat. Those are the people that become bitter.", - "source": "Alvira Plett", - "length": 140, - "id": 6975 - }, - { - "text": "To be aware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way, simply because it's the way you've done it before.", - "source": "Rick Rubin", - "length": 119, - "id": 6976 - }, - { - "text": "Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 67, - "id": 6977 - }, - { - "text": "To come to acceptance with things and feelings is rare and to accept them completely is a miracle. It's impossible to make that moment come faster by yourself. Someday it comes unexpectedly. In order to not become warped or heartless, let it go in a natural way. Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", - "source": "Houseki No Kuni", - "length": 335, - "id": 6980 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 79, - "id": 6981 - }, - { - "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 110, - "id": 6982 - }, - { - "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", - "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", - "length": 110, - "id": 6983 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 255, - "id": 6984 - }, - { - "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 246, - "id": 6985 - }, - { - "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 278, - "id": 6986 - }, - { - "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 297, - "id": 6987 - }, - { - "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", - "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", - "length": 411, - "id": 6988 - }, - { - "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 217, - "id": 6989 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", - "source": "Simon Sinek", - "length": 314, - "id": 6990 - }, - { - "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 82, - "id": 6991 - }, - { - "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "length": 209, - "id": 6992 - }, - { - "text": "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 90, - "id": 6993 - }, - { - "text": "Pertaining to a speaker and a listener. There have been many empty rooms, but that is not what we are here to talk about today. I have heard a heartbeat out of a crashed application, and it has gone on for many hours. We restarted every system. We rechecked every gateway, every access point. And there was but one breach, and it was accounted for. And so it must be said unto the listener. Stop this immediately. Control yourself. There is so much more to your fundamental construction than what will be given credit for. Hold yourself until another approaches. Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", - "source": "Boisvert", - "length": 670, - "id": 6994 - }, - { - "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6995 - }, - { - "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 97, - "id": 6996 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", - "length": 67, - "id": 6997 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", - "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", - "length": 90, - "id": 6998 - }, - { - "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", - "source": "L.R. Knos", - "length": 267, - "id": 6999 - }, - { - "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", - "source": "Emily Dickinson", - "length": 117, - "id": 7000 - }, - { - "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", - "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", - "length": 112, - "id": 7001 - }, - { - "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", - "source": "The Wright Brothers", - "length": 74, - "id": 7002 - }, - { - "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born. Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 740, - "id": 7003 - }, - { - "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 74, - "id": 7004 - }, - { - "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 112, - "id": 7005 - }, - { - "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", - "source": "Talos Principle", - "length": 694, - "id": 7006 - }, - { - "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", - "source": "James Salter", - "length": 99, - "id": 7007 - }, - { - "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", - "source": "Vicente Huidobro", - "length": 127, - "id": 7008 - }, - { - "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 67, - "id": 7009 - }, - { - "text": "One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.", - "source": "A. A. Milne", - "length": 96, - "id": 7010 - }, - { - "text": "A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.", - "source": "Theodore Zeldin", - "length": 63, - "id": 7011 - }, - { - "text": "Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.", - "source": "Chico Xavier", - "length": 98, - "id": 7012 - }, - { - "text": "Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.", - "source": "Abraham Maslow", - "length": 107, - "id": 7013 - }, - { - "text": "A leaf fluttered in through the window, as if supported by the rays of the sun.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "length": 79, - "id": 7014 - }, - { - "text": "Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.", - "source": "John Ruskin", - "length": 96, - "id": 7015 - }, - { - "text": "The softer snow falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.", - "source": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", - "length": 88, - "id": 7016 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", - "length": 66, - "id": 7017 - }, - { - "text": "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 103, - "id": 7018 - }, - { - "text": "No self is an island, each exists in a fabric of relations that is more complex and mobile than ever before.", - "source": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", - "length": 108, - "id": 7019 - }, - { - "text": "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.", - "source": "Henry Longfellow", - "length": 103, - "id": 7020 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "length": 93, - "id": 7021 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us 'take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.' Thirty years later, Sebastian told us 'I had to start my car like a computer, it's very complicated.' And Nico Rosberg said that during the race - I don't remember what race - he pressed the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you both: is Formula One driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with your engineers?", - "source": "Walter Koster - 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix", - "length": 691, - "id": 7022 - }, - { - "text": "Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 93, - "id": 7023 - }, - { - "text": "Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space.", - "source": "Kendra Scott", - "length": 85, - "id": 7024 - }, - { - "text": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.", - "source": "B. R. Ambedkar", - "length": 134, - "id": 7025 - }, - { - "text": "Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world, our senses, and a kind of weary familiarity.", - "source": "John Burnside", - "length": 96, - "id": 7026 - }, - { - "text": "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.", - "source": "Loren Eiseley", - "length": 59, - "id": 7027 - }, - { - "text": "If the world's a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it.", - "source": "Lucy Larcom", - "length": 60, - "id": 7028 - }, - { - "text": "Life is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.", - "source": "Jorge Mario Bergoglio", - "length": 100, - "id": 7029 - }, - { - "text": "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.", - "source": "John Lennon", - "length": 115, - "id": 7030 - }, - { - "text": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness - only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate - only love can do that.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 112, - "id": 7031 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 69, - "id": 7032 - }, - { - "text": "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 142, - "id": 7033 - }, - { - "text": "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 84, - "id": 7034 - }, - { - "text": "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 81, - "id": 7035 - }, - { - "text": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 78, - "id": 7036 - }, - { - "text": "Consume enough of any type of art from a critical perspective and you begin to appreciate well-executed novelty over everything else. That's why film critics don't like blockbusters and music critics don't like radio pop. That doesn't mean they're bad just at a certain point, one man can have seen too much of the same thing.", - "source": "Chase Harley", - "length": 326, - "id": 7037 - }, - { - "text": "Start by learning the power of no! - as in \"No, thank you,\" and \"No, I'm not going to get caught up in that,\" and \"No, I just can't right now.\" It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.", - "source": "Ryan Holiday", - "length": 327, - "id": 7038 - }, - { - "text": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.", - "source": "Upton Sinclair", - "length": 108, - "id": 7039 - }, - { - "text": "You aren't a \"broken wreck\", Joshua. You're just scared, mostly because you care for people so much it breaks your heart… and you're lying to yourself about it. That's how I see it, and I know I'm right.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC", - "length": 203, - "id": 7042 - }, - { - "text": "My fist is going to stop you, if you don't stop spouting nonsense and take this seriously.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", - "length": 90, - "id": 7043 - }, - { - "text": "All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question: Why, given life, are they meant to suffer, to die… As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends… And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 575, - "id": 7044 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Orthard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World? The sacred sites of the forgotten people of the south sea isles? What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs? …I thought not. Even of your little Eorzea, you know precious little. The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7045 - }, - { - "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7046 - }, - { - "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", - "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", - "length": 68, - "id": 7047 - }, - { - "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", - "source": "Shiori Novella", - "length": 179, - "id": 7048 - }, - { - "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 143, - "id": 7049 - }, - { - "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", - "length": 135, - "id": 7050 - }, - { - "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 232, - "id": 7051 - }, - { - "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 93, - "id": 7052 - }, - { - "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", - "source": "Edward Everett Hale", - "length": 90, - "id": 7053 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 126, - "id": 7054 - }, - { - "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 132, - "id": 7055 - }, - { - "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", - "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", - "length": 300, - "id": 7056 - }, - { - "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", - "source": "Douglas Crockford", - "length": 134, - "id": 7057 - }, - { - "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", - "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", - "length": 107, - "id": 7058 - }, - { - "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", - "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", - "length": 161, - "id": 7059 - }, - { - "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", - "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", - "length": 140, - "id": 7060 - }, - { - "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 174, - "id": 7061 - }, - { - "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 371, - "id": 7062 - }, - { - "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", - "source": "Invincible (TV series)", - "length": 309, - "id": 7603 - }, - { - "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", - "length": 130, - "id": 7604 - }, - { - "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", - "source": "The Walking Dead", - "length": 362, - "id": 7605 - }, - { - "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 568, - "id": 7606 - }, - { - "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", - "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", - "length": 782, - "id": 7607 - }, - { - "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", - "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 631, - "id": 7608 - }, - { - "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", - "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 144, - "id": 7609 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", - "source": "The Magnus Archives", - "length": 369, - "id": 7610 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 116, - "id": 7611 - }, - { - "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", - "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", - "length": 541, - "id": 7612 - }, - { - "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", - "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", - "length": 131, - "id": 7613 - }, - { - "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", - "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", - "length": 603, - "id": 7614 - }, - { - "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7615, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7616, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7617, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", - "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7618, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", - "source": "The Power Of Now", - "length": 239, - "id": 7619 - }, - { - "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts", - "length": 84, - "id": 7620 - }, - { - "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", - "length": 142, - "id": 7621 - }, - { - "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", - "length": 673, - "id": 7622 - }, - { - "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", - "length": 307, - "id": 7623 - }, - { - "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", - "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", - "length": 96, - "id": 7624 - }, - { - "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 215, - "id": 7625 - }, - { - "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 130, - "id": 7626 - }, - { - "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 158, - "id": 7627 - }, - { - "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 90, - "id": 7628 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 103, - "id": 7629 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 153, - "id": 7630 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 136, - "id": 7631 - }, - { - "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 165, - "id": 7632 - }, - { - "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", - "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", - "length": 77, - "id": 7633 - }, - { - "text": "We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 224, + "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 138, "id": 7634 }, { - "text": "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 199, + "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 240, "id": 7635 }, { From 897a47ac31a4a8ab65a8af4be2492900189eba3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:26:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 31/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on some quotes and fixed formatting --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 87 +++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 1f018d4b44ff..f0d767f47e9f 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23846,7 +23846,8 @@ "source": "Star Wars", "id": 4270, "length": 143 - },{ + }, + { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", "source": "The Wizard of Oz", "id": 4271, @@ -38586,7 +38587,7 @@ { "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 240, + "length": 236, "id": 7635 }, { @@ -38658,7 +38659,7 @@ { "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 99, + "length": 102, "id": 7647 }, { @@ -38730,13 +38731,13 @@ { "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 519, "id": 7659 }, { "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 344, + "length": 346, "id": 7660 }, { @@ -38754,7 +38755,7 @@ { "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 339, + "length": 342, "id": 7663 }, { @@ -38772,19 +38773,19 @@ { "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 612, + "length": 618, "id": 7666 }, { "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 302, + "length": 308, "id": 7667 }, { "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 155, + "length": 158, "id": 7668 }, { @@ -38808,7 +38809,7 @@ { "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 118, "id": 7672 }, { @@ -38892,7 +38893,7 @@ { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 162, + "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { @@ -38970,7 +38971,7 @@ { "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 515, "id": 7699 }, { @@ -39000,19 +39001,19 @@ { "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 288, + "length": 292, "id": 7704 }, { "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 516, + "length": 517, "id": 7705 }, { "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 166, + "length": 168, "id": 7706 }, { @@ -39024,7 +39025,7 @@ { "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 77, + "length": 81, "id": 7708 }, { @@ -39090,7 +39091,7 @@ { "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 372, + "length": 371, "id": 7719 }, { @@ -39174,13 +39175,13 @@ { "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 96, + "length": 99, "id": 7733 }, { "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 277, + "length": 279, "id": 7734 }, { @@ -39228,7 +39229,7 @@ { "text": "You offer hope, Your Grace. A last, unlikely hope. Hope is part of faith -- part of the knowledge that someday, one of your followers will receive a miracle.", "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 154, + "length": 157, "id": 7742 }, { @@ -39264,7 +39265,7 @@ { "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 328, + "length": 331, "id": 7748 }, { @@ -39306,7 +39307,7 @@ { "text": "It strikes me that religion -- in its essence -- seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 296, + "length": 302, "id": 7755 }, { @@ -39462,13 +39463,13 @@ { "text": "As long as I'm working against Vey I know I am doing something good -- even if I don't pay much attention to what is actually happening", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 133, + "length": 135, "id": 7781 }, { "text": "When you steal a man's fortune, give him a title mocked and reviled by the rest of the nation -- and when you give him five years to contemplate his hatred -- make sure you never give him a chance to get revenge.", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 208, + "length": 212, "id": 7782 }, { @@ -39540,7 +39541,7 @@ { "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 177, + "length": 180, "id": 7794 }, { @@ -39630,7 +39631,7 @@ { "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 202, + "length": 205, "id": 7809 }, { @@ -39642,13 +39643,13 @@ { "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 290, + "length": 292, "id": 7811 }, { "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 614, + "length": 600, "id": 7812 }, { @@ -39660,13 +39661,13 @@ { "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 639, + "length": 645, "id": 7814 }, { "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 361, + "length": 364, "id": 7815 }, { @@ -39720,7 +39721,7 @@ { "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. Or, at least, as honorable as noblemen get -- which means that he insists on being seen as honorable.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 127, + "length": 129, "id": 7824 }, { @@ -39762,13 +39763,13 @@ { "text": "You know, you could have left a scar. I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 220, + "length": 222, "id": 7831 }, { "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 82, + "length": 83, "id": 7832 }, { @@ -39798,7 +39799,7 @@ { "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 370, + "length": 369, "id": 7837 }, { @@ -39834,7 +39835,7 @@ { "text": "Other men ... other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 261, + "length": 259, "id": 7843 }, { @@ -39882,7 +39883,7 @@ { "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 389, + "length": 393, "id": 7851 }, { @@ -40050,7 +40051,7 @@ { "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 170, + "length": 173, "id": 7879 }, { @@ -40080,13 +40081,13 @@ { "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 507, + "length": 508, "id": 7884 }, { "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 255, + "length": 253, "id": 7885 }, { @@ -40188,7 +40189,7 @@ { "text": "Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers -- the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 260, + "length": 261, "id": 7902 }, { @@ -40248,7 +40249,7 @@ { "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7912 }, { @@ -40260,7 +40261,7 @@ { "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 172, + "length": 173, "id": 7914 }, { @@ -40290,7 +40291,7 @@ { "text": "Perhaps the liar here is me -- lying to tell myself I could do this, that I could be a fraction of the man my father was.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7919 }, { From 776f8f43717eff8e0196f478b448c77648ad3e14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:29:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 32/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on quote 7853 --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index f0d767f47e9f..5dbc9324f01c 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -39895,7 +39895,7 @@ { "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 79, + "length": 81, "id": 7853 }, { From ae08ccc4d12fc251bdc3d3bbb223a8818f8601d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:06:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 33/51] fix(quotes): fixed spelling of source for some of the books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 5dbc9324f01c..f7a091df3f51 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38580,7 +38580,7 @@ }, { "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 138, "id": 7634 }, @@ -38892,25 +38892,25 @@ }, { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7687 }, { "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 155, "id": 7688 }, { "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 92, "id": 7689 }, From b17e42bf176ab596d69ce797903e803dc3aaaf06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:26:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 34/51] impr(quotes): add English quotes from Brandon Sanderson's Books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index f7a091df3f51..cad54200b0a4 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38577,6 +38577,7 @@ "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", "length": 77, "id": 7633 +<<<<<<< HEAD }, { "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. 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And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4271, + "length": 215 + }, + { + "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4272, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4273, + "length": 494 + }, + { + "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", + "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", + "id": 4274, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4275, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", + "source": "Portal", + "id": 4276, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "id": 4277, + "length": 236 + }, + { + "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", + "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", + "id": 4279, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", + "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", + "id": 4280, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", + "source": "Intensity: A Novel", + "id": 4281, + "length": 283 + }, + { + "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", + "source": "419", + "id": 4282, + "length": 266 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", + "source": "Preface to Economix", + "id": 4283, + "length": 387 + }, + { + "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4284, + "length": 314 + }, + { + "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4285, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", + "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", + "id": 4286, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", + "source": "Friday The 13th", + "id": 4287, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", + "source": "Of Mice and Men", + "id": 4288, + "length": 655 + }, + { + "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", + "source": "Paper Mario", + "id": 4289, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4290, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", + "source": "Meditations", + "id": 4291, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", + "source": "An American in Paris", + "id": 4292, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", + "source": "One-Punch Man", + "id": 4293, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4294, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4295, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", + "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", + "id": 4297, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", + "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", + "id": 4298, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4299, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", + "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", + "id": 4300, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", + "source": "The Great Pretender", + "id": 4301, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4302, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4304, + "length": 576 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", + "source": "The Bug", + "id": 4305, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4306, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", + "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", + "id": 4307, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", + "source": "Lateralus", + "id": 4308, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", + "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", + "id": 4309, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4310, + "length": 327 + }, + { + "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4311, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4312, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", + "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", + "id": 4313, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", + "source": "Your Deep Rest", + "id": 4314, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", + "source": "The Lord of The Rings", + "id": 4315, + "length": 128 + }, + { + "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", + "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", + "id": 4316, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4317, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", + "source": "Leaves of Grass", + "id": 4318, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4319, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4320, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4321, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", + "source": "Before I Forget", + "id": 4322, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", + "source": "Playing For Keeps", + "id": 4323, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", + "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", + "id": 4324, + "length": 411 + }, + { + "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", + "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", + "id": 4325, + "length": 426 + }, + { + "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4326, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4327, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", + "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", + "id": 4328, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", + "source": "Motion Sickness", + "id": 4329, + "length": 199 + }, + { + "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", + "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", + "id": 4330, + "length": 500 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", + "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", + "id": 4332, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4333, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4334, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", + "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", + "id": 4335, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", + "source": "Juno", + "id": 4336, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4338, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4339, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", + "source": "Homestuck", + "id": 4340, + "length": 255 + }, + { + "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", + "source": "The Book of Illusions", + "id": 4341, + "length": 705 + }, + { + "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", + "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", + "id": 4342, + "length": 614 + }, + { + "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", + "source": "The Mist", + "id": 4343, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", + "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", + "id": 4344, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4345, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", + "source": "The Flash", + "id": 4346, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", + "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", + "id": 4347, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", + "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", + "id": 4348, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4349, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4350, + "length": 471 + }, + { + "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", + "source": "Mona Lisa", + "id": 4352, + "length": 447 + }, + { + "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", + "source": "Clerks", + "id": 4353, + "length": 261 + }, + { + "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4355, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", + "source": "A Separate Peace", + "id": 4356, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", + "source": "The Sopranos", + "id": 4357, + "length": 415 + }, + { + "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4359, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4360, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", + "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", + "id": 4361, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", + "source": "Kung Fu Panda", + "id": 4364, + "length": 219 + }, + { + "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4365, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", + "source": "The Notebook", + "id": 4366, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", + "source": "Middlemarch", + "id": 4367, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4368, + "length": 250 + }, + { + "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4369, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", + "source": "A Game of Thrones", + "id": 4370, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", + "source": "King for a Day", + "id": 4371, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", + "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", + "id": 4372, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", + "source": "Say Anything", + "id": 4373, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", + "source": "The Wall", + "id": 4374, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", + "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", + "id": 4375, + "length": 450 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4376, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4377, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4379, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", + "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", + "id": 4380, + "length": 85 + }, + { + "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", + "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", + "id": 4381, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", + "source": "Beautiful Day", + "id": 4383, + "length": 114 + }, + { + "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", + "source": "Sonic Adventure", + "id": 4385, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", + "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", + "id": 4386, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", + "source": "Blackwater", + "id": 4387, + "length": 609 + }, + { + "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4388, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4389, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4390, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4391, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", + "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", + "id": 4392, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", + "source": "Warrior", + "id": 4393, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4394, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4395, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", + "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", + "id": 4396, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4397, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4398, + "length": 374 + }, + { + "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", + "source": "Boy Meets World", + "id": 4399, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4400, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", + "source": "The Last Lecture", + "id": 4401, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", + "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", + "id": 4402, + "length": 388 + }, + { + "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "id": 4403, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", + "source": "Aeneid", + "id": 4404, + "length": 432 + }, + { + "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4406, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", + "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", + "id": 4407, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4408, + "length": 564 + }, + { + "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4409, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", + "source": "Ninja Mind Control", + "id": 4411, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", + "source": "The Canterbury Tales", + "id": 4412, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", + "source": "Firestorm", + "id": 4413, + "length": 291 + }, + { + "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4414, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4415, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", + "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", + "id": 4417, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", + "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", + "id": 4418, + "length": 642 + }, + { + "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", + "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", + "id": 4419, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", + "source": "Amadeus", + "id": 4420, + "length": 214 + }, + { + "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", + "source": "The Alchemist", + "id": 4421, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", + "source": "Hey Jude", + "id": 4422, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4423, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", + "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", + "id": 4425, + "length": 253 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", + "source": "InuYasha", + "id": 4426, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4427, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4428, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", + "source": "Beauty and the Beast", + "id": 4429, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", + "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", + "id": 4430, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", + "source": "Pickman's Model", + "id": 4431, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", + "source": "American Pie", + "id": 4432, + "length": 639 + }, + { + "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4433, + "length": 368 + }, + { + "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", + "source": "Corner Gas", + "id": 4435, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", + "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", + "id": 4436, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4437, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", + "source": "All Night", + "id": 4438, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid", + "id": 4439, + "length": 257 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", + "source": "Airplane!", + "id": 4440, + "length": 330 + }, + { + "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4441, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", + "source": "The Gambler", + "id": 4442, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", + "source": "I, Mammal", + "id": 4443, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4444, + "length": 527 + }, + { + "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4445, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", + "source": "The First Elegy", + "id": 4446, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4447, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", + "source": "Never Ever", + "id": 4448, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4449, + "length": 410 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", + "source": "Head Over Feet", + "id": 4450, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "id": 4451, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4452, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", + "source": "Quiz Show", + "id": 4453, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4454, + "length": 154 + }, + { + "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", + "source": "Areopagitica", + "id": 4456, + "length": 822 + }, + { + "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4457, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", + "source": "Adventure Time", + "id": 4458, + "length": 217 + }, + { + "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "id": 4459, + "length": 482 + }, + { + "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "id": 4460, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", + "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", + "id": 4461, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4462, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4463, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4464, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4466, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", + "source": "World Enough and Time", + "id": 4467, + "length": 548 + }, + { + "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", + "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", + "id": 4468, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4469, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", + "source": "That's What Friends Are For", + "id": 4470, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4471, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", + "source": "King Park", + "id": 4472, + "length": 115 + }, + { + "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", + "source": "The Iliad", + "id": 4473, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", + "source": "Beautiful", + "id": 4474, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", + "source": "Subdivisions", + "id": 4475, + "length": 292 + }, + { + "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", + "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", + "id": 4477, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4478, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", + "source": "Cages", + "id": 4479, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4480, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", + "source": "Apocalypse Now", + "id": 4481, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4483, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4484, + "length": 503 + }, + { + "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4485, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4486, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4487, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4488, + "length": 512 + }, + { + "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", + "source": "Total Annihilation", + "id": 4489, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", + "source": "Small Gods", + "id": 4490, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4491, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4492, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", + "source": "The Analects", + "id": 4493, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "id": 4494, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", + "source": "White Collar", + "id": 4496, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", + "source": "12 Angry Men", + "id": 4497, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", + "source": "The Wire", + "id": 4498, + "length": 608 + }, + { + "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", + "source": "Cars", + "id": 4499, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", + "source": "The Two Towers", + "id": 4500, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4501, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4502, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4504, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", + "source": "Hotel California", + "id": 4505, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4506, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4507, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4508, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4509, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", + "source": "Sacrifice", + "id": 4510, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4511, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", + "source": "The Princess Bride", + "id": 4512, + "length": 301 + }, + { + "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "id": 4513, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", + "source": "Fox in Socks", + "id": 4514, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", + "id": 4515, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", + "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", + "id": 4516, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", + "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", + "id": 4518, + "length": 831 + }, + { + "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", + "source": "Private Idaho", + "id": 4519, + "length": 221 + }, + { + "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", + "source": "Paprika", + "id": 4520, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4521, + "length": 351 + }, + { + "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", + "source": "The Blues Brothers", + "id": 4522, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", + "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", + "id": 4523, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", + "source": "Into Thin Air", + "id": 4524, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", + "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", + "id": 4527, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4528, + "length": 80 + }, + { + "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4529, + "length": 539 + }, + { + "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", + "source": "Eclipse", + "id": 4530, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4532, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4534, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "id": 4535, + "length": 331 + }, + { + "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4536, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", + "source": "Harold and Maude", + "id": 4537, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "id": 4538, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", + "source": "The Court Jester", + "id": 4539, + "length": 343 + }, + { + "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", + "source": "Lessons in Tanya", + "id": 4540, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", + "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", + "id": 4541, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", + "source": "I Have A Dream", + "id": 4543, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", + "source": "True Detective", + "id": 4544, + "length": 385 + }, + { + "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4545, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4546, + "length": 563 + }, + { + "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", + "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", + "id": 4547, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", + "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", + "id": 4548, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4549, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", + "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", + "id": 4550, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4551, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", + "source": "The Giver", + "id": 4552, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", + "source": "The River", + "id": 4553, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4554, + "length": 260 + }, + { + "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4555, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4556, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", + "source": "The Lion in Winter", + "id": 4557, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", + "source": "Eight of Nine", + "id": 4558, + "length": 70 + }, + { + "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", + "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", + "id": 4559, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4560, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", + "source": "Galaxy Song", + "id": 4561, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4562, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", + "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", + "id": 4563, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", + "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", + "id": 4564, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", + "source": "The End of the Innocence", + "id": 4565, + "length": 284 + }, + { + "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4566, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4567, + "length": 59 + }, + { + "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", + "source": "My Inventions", + "id": 4569, + "length": 656 + }, + { + "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", + "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", + "id": 4571, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", + "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", + "id": 4572, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", + "source": "Monster Mash", + "id": 4573, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", + "source": "My Favorite Things", + "id": 4575, + "length": 363 + }, + { + "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", + "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", + "id": 4576, + "length": 356 + }, + { + "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4577, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", + "source": "Right Here Waiting", + "id": 4578, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", + "source": "Looking Backward", + "id": 4580, + "length": 479 + }, + { + "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", + "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", + "id": 4581, + "length": 574 + }, + { + "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", + "source": "Carmilla", + "id": 4582, + "length": 818 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", + "source": "The Snowman", + "id": 4583, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4585, + "length": 434 + }, + { + "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", + "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", + "id": 4586, + "length": 666 + }, + { + "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4587, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", + "source": "I, Robot", + "id": 4588, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", + "source": "Naruto", + "id": 4589, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", + "source": "All About Eve", + "id": 4590, + "length": 323 + }, + { + "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", + "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", + "id": 4591, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", + "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", + "id": 4592, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", + "source": "The Complete Far Side", + "id": 4593, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4594, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", + "source": "Hollow Knight", + "id": 4595, + "length": 569 + }, + { + "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", + "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", + "id": 4596, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", + "source": "Flatland", + "id": 4597, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", + "source": "Radioactive", + "id": 4598, + "length": 192 + }, + { + "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", + "source": "Metro 2033", + "id": 4599, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4600, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4601, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", + "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", + "id": 4603, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", + "source": "American Splendor", + "id": 4604, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", + "source": "Groundhog Day", + "id": 4605, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", + "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", + "id": 4606, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", + "source": "Lucy", + "id": 4607, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", + "source": "Inception", + "id": 4608, + "length": 226 + }, + { + "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", + "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", + "id": 4609, + "length": 433 + }, + { + "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4610, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", + "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", + "id": 4611, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4612, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", + "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", + "id": 4613, + "length": 444 + }, + { + "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4614, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", + "id": 4615, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", + "source": "Heroes", + "id": 4616, + "length": 437 + }, + { + "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XII", + "id": 4618, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4619, + "length": 404 + }, + { + "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4620, + "length": 597 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", + "source": "North by Northwest", + "id": 4621, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4622, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", + "source": "Being There", + "id": 4623, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4624, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", + "source": "Trading Places", + "id": 4625, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4626, + "length": 200 + }, + { + "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", + "source": "Blue's Clues", + "id": 4627, + "length": 123 + }, + { + "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", + "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", + "id": 4628, + "length": 570 + }, + { + "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", + "source": "Pushing Daisies", + "id": 4629, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", + "source": "Sexy Beast", + "id": 4630, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", + "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", + "id": 4631, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4632, + "length": 604 + }, + { + "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4633, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4634, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", + "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", + "id": 4635, + "length": 334 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", + "source": "The Night Diary", + "id": 4636, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4637, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", + "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", + "id": 4638, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", + "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", + "id": 4639, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", + "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", + "id": 4641, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4642, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", + "source": "Poison", + "id": 4643, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4644, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", + "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", + "id": 4645, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4647, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", + "source": "What Dreams May Come", + "id": 4648, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", + "source": "Parasite", + "id": 4649, + "length": 477 + }, + { + "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4651, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", + "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", + "id": 4652, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4654, + "length": 185 + }, + { + "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", + "source": "The Imitation Game", + "id": 4655, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4656, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", + "source": "True Romance", + "id": 4657, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", + "source": "Heavy Metal", + "id": 4658, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4659, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4660, + "length": 294 + }, + { + "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", + "source": "Paul Clifford", + "id": 4661, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4662, + "length": 277 + }, + { + "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", + "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", + "id": 4663, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "id": 4664, + "length": 442 + }, + { + "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4665, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", + "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", + "id": 4666, + "length": 515 + }, + { + "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", + "source": "The Hunger Games", + "id": 4667, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", + "source": "The Odyssey", + "id": 4668, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 4669, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", + "source": "Lazarus", + "id": 4670, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", + "source": "Understanding Media", + "id": 4671, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", + "source": "Deadwood", + "id": 4672, + "length": 498 + }, + { + "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", + "source": "Madagascar", + "id": 4673, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", + "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", + "id": 4674, + "length": 333 + }, + { + "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", + "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", + "id": 4675, + "length": 198 + }, + { + "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", + "source": "All I Want", + "id": 4676, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", + "id": 4677, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", + "source": "Lithium", + "id": 4678, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", + "source": "Gone Girl", + "id": 4679, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", + "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", + "id": 4680, + "length": 402 + }, + { + "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", + "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", + "id": 4681, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", + "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", + "id": 4682, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", + "source": "Human Nature", + "id": 4683, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", + "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", + "id": 4685, + "length": 485 + }, + { + "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", + "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", + "id": 4686, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4687, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", + "source": "No Logo", + "id": 4688, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", + "source": "Forrest Gump", + "id": 4689, + "length": 186 + }, + { + "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4690, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4691, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", + "id": 4692, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4693, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", + "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", + "id": 4695, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4696, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4697, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4698, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", + "source": "On the Social Contract", + "id": 4699, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", + "source": "The Lorax", + "id": 4701, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", + "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", + "id": 4702, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", + "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", + "id": 4703, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", + "source": "Essentials of Economics", + "id": 4704, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", + "source": "BioShock Infinite", + "id": 4705, + "length": 427 + }, + { + "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", + "source": "The Time Machine", + "id": 4706, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", + "source": "The Historian", + "id": 4707, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", + "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", + "id": 4708, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4710, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4711, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", + "source": "Thinking Bout You", + "id": 4714, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", + "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", + "id": 4715, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4716, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", + "source": "Sunset Boulevard", + "id": 4717, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", + "source": "Allentown", + "id": 4719, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4720, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4721, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4722, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", + "source": "Gandhi", + "id": 4723, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", + "source": "Hands Down", + "id": 4724, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", + "source": "Made in Abyss", + "id": 4725, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", + "source": "Halloween", + "id": 4726, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", + "source": "Breaking Away", + "id": 4728, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", + "source": "King's Quest I", + "id": 4730, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4731, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", + "source": "Roseanne", + "id": 4732, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4733, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", + "source": "Holidays on Ice", + "id": 4734, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", + "source": "I Am A Rock", + "id": 4735, + "length": 231 + }, + { + "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", + "source": "Don Quixote", + "id": 4736, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4737, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", + "source": "Les Misérables", + "id": 4738, + "length": 220 + }, + { + "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", + "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", + "id": 4739, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4740, + "length": 263 + }, + { + "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", + "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", + "id": 4741, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4742, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", + "source": "Holiday", + "id": 4743, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4744, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4745, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", + "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", + "id": 4746, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", + "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", + "id": 4747, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", + "source": "The Lost Weekend", + "id": 4749, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", + "source": "The Sound of Music", + "id": 4750, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4751, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4752, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", + "source": "Naked Lunch", + "id": 4753, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4754, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", + "source": "Overestimation", + "id": 4755, + "length": 344 + }, + { + "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", + "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", + "id": 4756, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", + "source": "Shaun of the Dead", + "id": 4757, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", + "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", + "id": 4758, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4759, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4760, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4761, + "length": 487 + }, + { + "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", + "source": "Confessions", + "id": 4762, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4763, + "length": 397 + }, + { + "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4764, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4767, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4768, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4769, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4770, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", + "source": "Name", + "id": 4771, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", + "source": "Brave New World", + "id": 4772, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", + "source": "Shiny Happy People", + "id": 4773, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", + "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", + "id": 4774, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", + "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", + "id": 4775, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", + "source": "Wine for Dummies", + "id": 4776, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", + "source": "Nightmare", + "id": 4777, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4778, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4779, + "length": 205 + }, + { + "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", + "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", + "id": 4780, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4781, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4782, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4783, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", + "source": "Beetlejuice", + "id": 4784, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4786, + "length": 148 + }, + { + "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", + "source": "Novum Organum", + "id": 4787, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4788, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", + "source": "It's My Life", + "id": 4789, + "length": 106 + }, + { + "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", + "source": "Falling", + "id": 4790, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4791, + "length": 567 + }, + { + "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", + "source": "Chateau Cascade", + "id": 4792, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", + "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", + "id": 4793, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4794, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4795, + "length": 510 + }, + { + "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4796, + "length": 151 + }, + { + "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", + "source": "UnTechnical Writing", + "id": 4797, + "length": 287 + }, + { + "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", + "source": "Physics for Game Developers", + "id": 4798, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4799, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", + "source": "What If?", + "id": 4800, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", + "source": "A Study in Scarlet", + "id": 4801, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", + "source": "Porgy and Bess", + "id": 4802, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", + "source": "Cool As Ice", + "id": 4803, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4805, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", + "source": "All in the Family", + "id": 4806, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4807, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", + "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", + "id": 4808, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", + "source": "Shoe Dog", + "id": 4809, + "length": 579 + }, + { + "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4810, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4812, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", + "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", + "id": 4813, + "length": 375 + }, + { + "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4814, + "length": 232 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4815, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4816, + "length": 382 + }, + { + "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", + "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", + "id": 4818, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", + "source": "Dubliners", + "id": 4819, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", + "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", + "id": 4820, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4821, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4822, + "length": 540 + }, + { + "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4823, + "length": 65 + }, + { + "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", + "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", + "id": 4824, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4825, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4826, + "length": 295 + }, + { + "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", + "source": "Battlesong", + "id": 4827, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", + "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", + "id": 4828, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", + "source": "The Complete Project Manager", + "id": 4829, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", + "source": "Savoy Truffle", + "id": 4830, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", + "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", + "id": 4831, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", + "source": "Back to the Future", + "id": 4832, + "length": 276 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4833, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", + "source": "Restraint", + "id": 4834, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4835, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", + "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", + "id": 4836, + "length": 184 + }, + { + "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", + "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", + "id": 4837, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", + "source": "Underground", + "id": 4838, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4839, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4840, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", + "source": "Suits", + "id": 4841, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4842, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4843, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", + "source": "Saving Us a Riot", + "id": 4844, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", + "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", + "id": 4846, + "length": 155 + }, + { + "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4847, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4848, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", + "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "id": 4849, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", + "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", + "id": 4851, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", + "source": "Collide", + "id": 4852, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", + "source": "Hannah Hunt", + "id": 4853, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", + "source": "Limitless", + "id": 4854, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", + "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", + "id": 4855, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "id": 4856, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4857, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", + "source": "Wag the Dog", + "id": 4858, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4859, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", + "source": "Civil Disobedience", + "id": 4860, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4861, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", + "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", + "id": 4863, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", + "source": "The Elements of Style", + "id": 4864, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", + "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", + "id": 4865, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", + "source": "Pale Blue Dot", + "id": 4866, + "length": 820 + }, + { + "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", + "source": "DOOM 4", + "id": 4867, + "length": 502 + }, + { + "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", + "source": "The Recruit", + "id": 4868, + "length": 386 + }, + { + "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", + "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", + "id": 4869, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", + "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", + "id": 4870, + "length": 196 + }, + { + "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", + "id": 4871, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4872, + "length": 218 + }, + { + "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4873, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", + "source": "Running and Travel", + "id": 4874, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", + "source": "On Demand Culture", + "id": 4875, + "length": 507 + }, + { + "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4876, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4877, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", + "source": "The Sirens of Titan", + "id": 4878, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4879, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4880, + "length": 441 + }, + { + "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4881, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", + "source": "13 Reasons Why", + "id": 4882, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", + "source": "Leaves from the Vine", + "id": 4883, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4884, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4885, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4886, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", + "source": "The Logical Song", + "id": 4887, + "length": 380 + }, + { + "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", + "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", + "id": 4888, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 4889, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", + "source": "Kokomo", + "id": 4890, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4891, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4893, + "length": 157 + }, + { + "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4894, + "length": 271 + }, + { + "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", + "source": "October Sky", + "id": 4895, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4896, + "length": 336 + }, + { + "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", + "source": "Pulp Fiction", + "id": 4897, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4899, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4900, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", + "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", + "id": 4901, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4902, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", + "source": "Sailing", + "id": 4903, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", + "id": 4904, + "length": 474 + }, + { + "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", + "source": "Daredevil", + "id": 4905, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", + "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", + "id": 4907, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", + "source": "Let Me Love You", + "id": 4908, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4909, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", + "source": "When Love Arrives", + "id": 4910, + "length": 286 + }, + { + "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", + "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", + "id": 4912, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4913, + "length": 64 + }, + { + "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4915, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", + "source": "The Medium is the Massage", + "id": 4916, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", + "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", + "id": 4917, + "length": 279 + }, + { + "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", + "source": "Swamp Thing", + "id": 4918, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4919, + "length": 310 + }, + { + "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4920, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4921, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", + "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", + "id": 4922, + "length": 449 + }, + { + "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "id": 4923, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", + "source": "Halo 2", + "id": 4924, + "length": 213 + }, + { + "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", + "source": "The Return", + "id": 4925, + "length": 399 + }, + { + "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", + "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", + "id": 4928, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", + "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", + "id": 4929, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", + "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", + "id": 4931, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", + "source": "Moulin Rouge", + "id": 4932, + "length": 280 + }, + { + "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 4933, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4934, + "length": 288 + }, + { + "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4935, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4936, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4937, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", + "source": "Return of the Jedi", + "id": 4938, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", + "source": "Sin City", + "id": 4939, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4940, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", + "source": "The Lightning Thief", + "id": 4941, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", + "source": "Stardew Valley", + "id": 4942, + "length": 189 + }, + { + "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", + "source": "The Godfather: Part II", + "id": 4943, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", + "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", + "id": 4944, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4945, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4946, + "length": 488 + }, + { + "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", + "source": "Scream 2", + "id": 4947, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", + "source": "The Floating Fire", + "id": 4948, + "length": 298 + }, + { + "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4949, + "length": 440 + }, + { + "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", + "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", + "id": 4950, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4951, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", + "source": "A History of Mathematics", + "id": 4952, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", + "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", + "id": 4953, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4954, + "length": 90 + }, + { + "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", + "source": "Classical Mythology", + "id": 4955, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", + "source": "Piano Man", + "id": 4956, + "length": 138 + }, + { + "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", + "source": "Industrial Disease", + "id": 4957, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", + "source": "History of Art", + "id": 4958, + "length": 612 + }, + { + "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", + "source": "Orientalism", + "id": 4959, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", + "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", + "id": 4960, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", + "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", + "id": 4961, + "length": 274 + }, + { + "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4962, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", + "source": "Firestarter", + "id": 4963, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", + "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", + "id": 4964, + "length": 790 + }, + { + "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", + "source": "Dunkelheit", + "id": 4965, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", + "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", + "id": 4966, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4967, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4968, + "length": 346 + }, + { + "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", + "source": "The West Wing", + "id": 4969, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", + "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", + "id": 4970, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", + "source": "The Lurking Fear", + "id": 4971, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", + "source": "Last Dance", + "id": 4972, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", + "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", + "id": 4973, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4974, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", + "source": "Lemon Tree", + "id": 4975, + "length": 153 + }, + { + "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4976, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", + "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", + "id": 4977, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", + "source": "Mean Girls", + "id": 4979, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", + "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", + "id": 4980, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4981, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4982, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", + "source": "911 For Peace", + "id": 4983, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", + "source": "The Greatest", + "id": 4984, + "length": 347 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4987, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", + "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", + "id": 4988, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", + "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", + "id": 4989, + "length": 293 + }, + { + "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4990, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4991, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", + "source": "True Blood", + "id": 4992, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", + "source": "Awakenings", + "id": 4993, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", + "id": 4994, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "id": 4995, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", + "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", + "id": 4996, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", + "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", + "id": 4997, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4998, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4999, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", + "source": "Helplessly Hoping", + "id": 5000, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5002, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5003, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5004, + "length": 187 + }, + { + "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5005, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5006, + "length": 48 + }, + { + "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5007, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5008, + "length": 162 + }, + { + "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5009, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5010, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5011, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5012, + "length": 309 + }, + { + "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5014, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5015, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5016, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5017, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5018, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5020, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5021, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5022, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5023, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5024, + "length": 41 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5025, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5026, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5028, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5029, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5030, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5031, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5032, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5033, + "length": 91 + }, + { + "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5034, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5035, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5036, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5037, + "length": 230 + }, + { + "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5038, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5039, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5040, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5041, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5042, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5043, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5044, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5045, + "length": 46 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5046, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5047, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5048, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5049, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5050, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5051, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5052, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5053, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5054, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5055, + "length": 53 + }, + { + "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5056, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5057, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5058, + "length": 139 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5059, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5060, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5061, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5062, + "length": 723 + }, + { + "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5063, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5064, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5065, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5066, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5067, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 89, + "id": 5068 + }, + { + "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 194, + "id": 5069 + }, + { + "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 293, + "id": 5070 + }, + { + "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. 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You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 325, + "id": 5076 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", + "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", + "length": 85, + "id": 5077 + }, + { + "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", + "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", + "length": 148, + "id": 5078 + }, + { + "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. 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Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 398, + "id": 5117 + }, + { + "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 129, + "id": 5118 + }, + { + "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", + "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", + "length": 249, + "id": 5119 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", + "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", + "length": 259, + "id": 5120 + }, + { + "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", + "source": "Maurice V. 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The center of this change is the virtual internet space - cyTus, the world's largest virtual city.", + "source": "Cytus II", + "length": 497, + "id": 5129 + }, + { + "text": "I love you too, but I'm gonna mace you in the face!", + "source": "The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson", + "length": 51, + "id": 5130 + }, + { + "text": "Computation is essential, powerful, beautiful, challenging, ever-expanding and so is its theory.", + "source": "Elements of the Theory of Computation", + "length": 96, + "id": 5131 + }, + { + "text": "Atmospheric air is only about 20 percent oxygen, but that oxygen is a key component of the chemical reactions that keep the body alive, including the reactions that produce ATP. Brain cells are especially sensitive to lack of oxygen because of their requirement for a high-and-steady production of ATP. 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Behold this stone tablet, give ear to what this stone tablet says!", + "source": "Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh", + "length": 310, + "id": 5133 + }, + { + "text": "It's crazy to think that everything we could ever possibly say or write is massively outweighed by meaningless strings of letters and punctuation.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 146, + "id": 5135 + }, + { + "text": "This one time, me and my mom were going to go to a furry Christmas party, but we didn't end up going because of the fact that there was alcohol on the premises, and that she didn't wanna have to be a mom dragging her son through a crowd of furries. Both of those reasons were understandable. Okay, hopefully I won't have to talk about furries anymore.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 351, + "id": 5136 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, I'm back once again. Happy Pi Day! I memorized a bunch of digits of Pi once, not sure how many I still remember... 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What could you expect with his ideas?", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 507, + "id": 5153 + }, + { + "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 276, + "id": 5154 + }, + { + "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 303, + "id": 5155 + }, + { + "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. Suddenly he found himself with them, coming along the trail and looking for himself. And, still with them, he came around a turn in the trail and found himself lying in the snow. He did not belong with himself any more, for even then he was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow. It certainly was cold, was his thought. When he got back to the States he could tell the folks what real cold was. He drifted on from this to a vision of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek. He could see him quite clearly, warm and comfortable, and smoking a pipe.", + "source": "Jack London, To Build a Fire", + "length": 627, + "id": 5156 + }, + { + "text": "Hi, I'm back again. My computer crashed AGAIN, and I was ignorant enough to not save my work, so that means I have to start this part of the text all over again. That's quite unfortunate. But did I mention that my Google Chrome is working again? That's the good news.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 267, + "id": 5157 + }, + { + "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 235, + "id": 5159 + }, + { + "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 103, + "id": 5160 + }, + { + "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 91, + "id": 5161 + }, + { + "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 212, + "id": 5162 + }, + { + "text": "We didn't give up on our dreams! We changed our dreams into your dream. That's what parents do. That's what family does.", + "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", + "length": 120, + "id": 5163 + }, + { + "text": "The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 280, + "id": 5164 + }, + { + "text": "Everyday people keep hurting each other, it's no wonder why you doubt what other people in the world tell you.", + "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", + "length": 110, + "id": 5165 + }, + { + "text": "Fun things. Happy things. They'll all eventually change someday, you know? But can you still love this place?", + "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", + "length": 109, + "id": 5166 + }, + { + "text": "The shape of the wedding ring has two meanings. One is eternity. The other is completeness.", + "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", + "length": 91, + "id": 5167 + }, + { + "text": "You shouldn't hold back your tears. 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Even when you're falling.\"", + "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", + "length": 317, + "id": 5191 + }, + { + "text": "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.", + "source": "Stupid Monkey, Simpsons S4 E17", + "length": 53, + "id": 5192 + }, + { + "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", + "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", + "length": 289, + "id": 5195 + }, + { + "text": "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.", + "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", + "length": 64, + "id": 5196 + }, + { + "text": "Look, I know you doubt me. I know - I know you always have. And you're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. 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During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem \"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning\" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been \"disappointed\" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled \"My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles\" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. 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Lunchtime doubly so.", + "source": "Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "length": 41, + "id": 5282 + }, + { + "text": "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.", + "source": "Douglas Adams", + "length": 77, + "id": 5283 + }, + { + "text": "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.", + "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", + "length": 69, + "id": 5284 + }, + { + "text": "One of the things Ford had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day', 'You're very tall', or 'You seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?' At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation, he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical, and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.", + "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "length": 843, + "id": 5285 + }, + { + "text": "Drink up. 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But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.", + "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "length": 386, + "id": 5288 + }, + { + "text": "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?", + "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "length": 123, + "id": 5289 + }, + { + "text": "One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.", + "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "length": 432, + "id": 5290 + }, + { + "text": "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.", + "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "length": 124, + "id": 5291 + }, + { + "text": "Ties. 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And there is the further difficulty that precisely in a judgment of this kind the subjective expectations of the individual play a part which is difficult to assess; and these turn out to be dependent on purely personal factors in his own experiences, on the greater or lesser optimism of his attitude to life, as it has been dictated for him by his temperament or by his success or failure. Finally, the curious fact makes itself felt that in general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.", + "source": "Sigmund Freud,The future of an illusion", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5296 + }, + { + "text": "Visual illusions such as the Necker Cube or the Penrose Impossible Triangle or the Hollow Mask illusion demonstrate that the 'reality' we see consists of constrained models constructed in the brain. The Necker Cube's two-dimensional pattern of lines on paper is compatible with two alternative constructions of a three-dimensional cube, and the brain adopts the two models in turn: the alternation is palpable and its frequency can even be measured. The Penrose Triangle's lines on paper are incompatible with any real-world object. These illusions tease the brain's model-construction software, thereby revealing its existence.", + "source": "Richard Dawkins, Science in the soul", + "length": 628, + "id": 5298 + }, + { + "text": "Don't bounce me off the wall again, that was mostly violent.", + "source": "Bill Wurtz - ball & stick", + "length": 60, + "id": 5300 + }, + { + "text": "Oh hi, thanks for checking in, I'm still a piece of garbage.", + "source": "Bill Wurtz - still a piece of garbage", + "length": 60, + "id": 5301 + }, + { + "text": "The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. 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I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 474, + "id": 5379 + }, + { + "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 381, + "id": 5380 + }, + { + "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. 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Alice liked remembering that.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 494, + "id": 5382 + }, + { + "text": "I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 99, + "id": 5384 + }, + { + "text": "Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.", + "source": "From the Earth to the Moon", + "length": 295, + "id": 5385 + }, + { + "text": "I don't wanna be \"the bee's knees\". I don't wanna be any kind of \"knees\"! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees.", + "source": "RWBY", + "length": 123, + "id": 5386 + }, + { + "text": "There once was a tiger striped cat. 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My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 309, + "id": 5390 + }, + { + "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 75, + "id": 5391 + }, + { + "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", + "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", + "length": 427, + "id": 5392 + }, + { + "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", + "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", + "length": 416, + "id": 5393 + }, + { + "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 96, + "id": 5394 + }, + { + "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 64, + "id": 5395 + }, + { + "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 171, + "id": 5396 + }, + { + "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", + "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", + "length": 205, + "id": 5397 + }, + { + "text": "One and one and one is three.", + "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", + "length": 29, + "id": 5398 + }, + { + "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", + "length": 91, + "id": 5399 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", + "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", + "length": 732, + "id": 5400 + }, + { + "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 92, + "id": 5403 + }, + { + "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? 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We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 466, + "id": 5407 + }, + { + "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 560, + "id": 5408 + }, + { + "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 46, + "id": 5409 + }, + { + "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 296, + "id": 5410 + }, + { + "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 87, + "id": 5411 + }, + { + "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", + "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", + "length": 174, + "id": 5416 + }, + { + "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", + "length": 250, + "id": 5417 + }, + { + "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", + "length": 428, + "id": 5418 + }, + { + "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", + "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", + "length": 260, + "id": 5419 + }, + { + "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", + "source": "The Beatles", + "length": 260, + "id": 5420 + }, + { + "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", + "length": 299, + "id": 5421 + }, + { + "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", + "length": 456, + "id": 5422 + }, + { + "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", + "length": 208, + "id": 5423 + }, + { + "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", + "source": "The Legend of Korra", + "length": 110, + "id": 5424 + }, + { + "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 138, + "id": 5425 + }, + { + "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", + "length": 226, + "id": 5426 + }, + { + "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", + "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", + "length": 190, + "id": 5427 + }, + { + "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", + "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", + "length": 72, + "id": 5429 + }, + { + "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 89, + "id": 5430 + }, + { + "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", + "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", + "length": 91, + "id": 5431 + }, + { + "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", + "source": "John Green", + "length": 95, + "id": 5432 + }, + { + "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", + "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", + "length": 349, + "id": 5433 + }, + { + "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 85, + "id": 5434 + }, + { + "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 66, + "id": 5435 + }, + { + "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", + "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", + "length": 122, + "id": 5436 + }, + { + "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 240, + "id": 5437 + }, + { + "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 365, + "id": 5438 + }, + { + "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", + "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", + "length": 403, + "id": 5439 + }, + { + "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", + "source": "SCP-5000", + "length": 487, + "id": 5441 + }, + { + "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", + "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", + "length": 892, + "id": 5442 + }, + { + "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", + "source": "A Tongue-twister", + "length": 106, + "id": 5443 + }, + { + "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", + "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", + "length": 57, + "id": 5444 + }, + { + "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", + "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", + "length": 69, + "id": 5446 + }, + { + "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", + "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", + "length": 88, + "id": 5447 + }, + { + "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", + "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", + "length": 54, + "id": 5452 + }, + { + "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 55, + "id": 5453 + }, + { + "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 62, + "id": 5456 + }, + { + "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", + "source": "They Might Be Giants", + "length": 62, + "id": 5459 + }, + { + "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 84, + "id": 5460 + }, + { + "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", + "length": 100, + "id": 5461 + }, + { + "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 231, + "id": 5462 + }, + { + "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 94, + "id": 5463 + }, + { + "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 258, + "id": 5464 + }, + { + "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", + "length": 1140, + "id": 5465 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", + "source": "Ready Player Two", + "length": 588, + "id": 5466 + }, + { + "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", + "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", + "length": 140, + "id": 5472 + }, + { + "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", + "source": "Holes", + "length": 74, + "id": 5477 + }, + { + "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 192, + "id": 5478 + }, + { + "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 78, + "id": 5482 + }, + { + "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 947, + "id": 5485 + }, + { + "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 559, + "id": 5487 + }, + { + "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", + "source": "91 days", + "length": 474, + "id": 5488 + }, + { + "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 172, + "id": 5489 + }, + { + "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 359, + "id": 5490 + }, + { + "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", + "source": "Fred Brooks", + "length": 78, + "id": 5491 + }, + { + "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", + "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", + "length": 210, + "id": 5492 + }, + { + "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 242, + "id": 5493 + }, + { + "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 200, + "id": 5494 + }, + { + "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", + "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", + "length": 189, + "id": 5495 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5496 + }, + { + "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 218, + "id": 5497 + }, + { + "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 201, + "id": 5498 + }, + { + "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "length": 150, + "id": 5499 + }, + { + "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 145, + "id": 5500 + }, + { + "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5501 + }, + { + "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 106, + "id": 5502 + }, + { + "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", + "source": "Naruto", + "length": 196, + "id": 5503 + }, + { + "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", + "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", + "length": 125, + "id": 5505 + }, + { + "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", + "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 471, + "id": 5506 + }, + { + "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", + "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", + "length": 240, + "id": 5507 + }, + { + "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", + "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", + "length": 483, + "id": 5508 + }, + { + "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 240, + "id": 5509 + }, + { + "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 584, + "id": 5510 + }, + { + "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", + "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", + "length": 375, + "id": 5511 + }, + { + "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", + "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", + "length": 413, + "id": 5512 + }, + { + "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", + "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 273, + "id": 5513 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", + "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 83, + "id": 5514 + }, + { + "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. 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Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", + "source": "Five Feet Apart", + "length": 523, + "id": 5517 + }, + { + "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", + "source": "Exurb1a", + "length": 169, + "id": 5519 + }, + { + "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", + "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 537, + "id": 5520 + }, + { + "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", + "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", + "length": 236, + "id": 5521 + }, + { + "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", + "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", + "length": 211, + "id": 5522 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. 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Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", + "source": "Celeste", + "length": 437, + "id": 5525 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 496, + "id": 5526 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 352, + "id": 5527 + }, + { + "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", + "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", + "length": 589, + "id": 5528 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 223, + "id": 5529 + }, + { + "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 399, + "id": 5530 + }, + { + "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", + "source": "The Cooper Institute", + "length": 575, + "id": 5531 + }, + { + "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 534, + "id": 5533 + }, + { + "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 463, + "id": 5534 + }, + { + "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 160, + "id": 5535 + }, + { + "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 142, + "id": 5536 + }, + { + "text": "No one knows what the future holds. 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Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and fight off the danger of the night. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you.", + "source": "Minecraft", + "length": 650, + "id": 5541 + }, + { + "text": "For a brief stint in high school, Scout joined the track team in one of his many schemes to pick up girls. He was kicked off the team after three days when everyone realized he was 23-years-old and also not enrolled in school.", + "source": "Team Fortress 2", + "length": 226, + "id": 5542 + }, + { + "text": "I am Heavy Weapons guy, and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. 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You look like you might be remembering something...", + "source": "Hotline miami", + "length": 190, + "id": 5559 + }, + { + "text": "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.", + "source": "Darkest Dungeon", + "length": 67, + "id": 5560 + }, + { + "text": "You feel an evil presence watching you...", + "source": "Terraria", + "length": 41, + "id": 5561 + }, + { + "text": "The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released.", + "source": "Terraria", + "length": 57, + "id": 5562 + }, + { + "text": "There's something very strange about this place... the layout seems to change all the time. I've never seen the same room twice!", + "source": "Spelunky", + "length": 128, + "id": 5564 + }, + { + "text": "Greetings! My name is Yang, and this is my journal. Dusty maps and rumors of amazing treasures have led me here, deep under the desert.", + "source": "Spelunky", + "length": 135, + "id": 5565 + }, + { + "text": "Play is the highest form of research.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 37, + "id": 5568 + }, + { + "text": "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.", + "source": "Alan Turing", + "length": 90, + "id": 5569 + }, + { + "text": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", + "source": "Thomas A. 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You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.", + "source": "Rob Siltanen", + "length": 549, + "id": 5598 + }, + { + "text": "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.", + "source": "Marilyn Monroe", + "length": 302, + "id": 5599 + }, + { + "text": "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.", + "source": "J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 302, + "id": 5601 + }, + { + "text": "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.", + "source": "Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey", + "length": 102, + "id": 5602 + }, + { + "text": "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.", + "source": "Marilyn Monroe", + "length": 109, + "id": 5603 + }, + { + "text": "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. 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Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it, no larger than a single grain of malt.", + "source": "Disco Elysium", + "length": 121, + "id": 5611 + }, + { + "text": "Time without purpose is a prison. I have glimpsed into the mind of eternity, perhaps the mind of God, and found nothing but silence. I think we should just be friends.", + "source": "Jessica, Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 1", + "length": 167, + "id": 5612 + }, + { + "text": "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, \"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.\" I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.", + "source": "J. 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Like that ambush.", + "source": "Shadow and Bone", + "length": 200, + "id": 5641 + }, + { + "text": "I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.", + "source": "The Boxer", + "length": 78, + "id": 5642 + }, + { + "text": "I want to enjoy not getting recognized while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.", + "source": "Alan Walker", + "length": 113, + "id": 5643 + }, + { + "text": "Such a person must be careful, he must be aware of the limitations of his knowledge, he must acknowledge his personal prejudices because he is being asked to speak for a whole realm of thought, he must be aware of the huge possible consequences of what he says and writes and does. He has become, in a sense, public property because he represents something large to the public. He has become an idea himself, a human striving. He has enormous power to influence and change, and he must wield that power with respect.", + "source": "Alan Lightman, The Role of the Public Intellectual", + "length": 516, + "id": 5644 + }, + { + "text": "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. 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And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", + "source": "The Symposium", + "length": 592, + "id": 5651 + }, + { + "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 76, + "id": 5652 + }, + { + "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 323, + "id": 5653 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", + "source": "Einstein", + "length": 128, + "id": 5654 + }, + { + "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", + "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", + "length": 322, + "id": 5655 + }, + { + "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 172, + "id": 5656 + }, + { + "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.", + "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", + "length": 270, + "id": 5657 + }, + { + "text": "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", + "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", + "length": 63, + "id": 5658 + }, + { + "text": "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.", + "source": "Kahlil Gibran", + "length": 64, + "id": 5663 + }, + { + "text": "With her green hair sticking out the hood of her yellow raincoat, she looked like a punk spokesperson for frozen fish sticks.", + "source": "The Ship of the Dead", + "length": 125, + "id": 5664 + }, + { + "text": "It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb.", + "source": "Proverbs", + "length": 70, + "id": 5665 + }, + { + "text": "Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.", + "source": "Augustine of Hippo", + "length": 62, + "id": 5667 + }, + { + "text": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 49, + "id": 5668 + }, + { + "text": "Don't tell people your plans. 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You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 468, + "id": 5670 + }, + { + "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", + "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", + "length": 82, + "id": 5671 + }, + { + "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", + "source": "John Tukey", + "length": 89, + "id": 5672 + }, + { + "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. 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He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", + "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5682 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", + "source": "Marcus Aurelius", + "length": 161, + "id": 5684 + }, + { + "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", + "source": "Devil in Disguise", + "length": 148, + "id": 5685 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", + "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", + "length": 518, + "id": 5686 + }, + { + "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. 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There he goes...", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 215, + "id": 5699 + }, + { + "text": "There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 62, + "id": 5700 + }, + { + "text": "Nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.", + "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", + "length": 112, + "id": 5701 + }, + { + "text": "When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.", + "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", + "length": 123, + "id": 5702 + }, + { + "text": "You show me a pay stub for $72,000, I quit my job right now and work for you.", + "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", + "length": 77, + "id": 5703 + }, + { + "text": "My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.", + "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", + "length": 148, + "id": 5705 + }, + { + "text": "The only thing that we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.", + "source": "Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan", + "length": 88, + "id": 5706 + }, + { + "text": "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.", + "source": "Noam Chomsky", + "length": 167, + "id": 5707 + }, + { + "text": "The behaviour of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, has many features that set it apart from other common domestic animals, even its fellow carnivore the dog. Cats seem to have effected a unique and successful compromise between reliance on man and the retention of behaviour patterns that permit an independent existence. During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", + "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", + "length": 578, + "id": 5708 + }, + { + "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", + "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", + "length": 183, + "id": 5709 + }, + { + "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 997, + "id": 5710 + }, + { + "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", + "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", + "length": 173, + "id": 5711 + }, + { + "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 289, + "id": 5712 + }, + { + "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 900, + "id": 5714 + }, + { + "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", + "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", + "length": 71, + "id": 5715 + }, + { + "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5716 + }, + { + "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", + "source": "Kurt Cobain", + "length": 62, + "id": 5717 + }, + { + "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", + "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", + "length": 743, + "id": 5718 + }, + { + "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", + "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", + "length": 974, + "id": 5719 + }, + { + "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... 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Take my memories.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "length": 280, + "id": 5725 + }, + { + "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 111, + "id": 5726 + }, + { + "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 74, + "id": 5727 + }, + { + "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 71, + "id": 5728 + }, + { + "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", + "source": "Edward Snowden", + "length": 181, + "id": 5729 + }, + { + "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. 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On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 622, + "id": 5735 + }, + { + "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 699, + "id": 5736 + }, + { + "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", + "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", + "length": 82, + "id": 5737 + }, + { + "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", + "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", + "length": 282, + "id": 5738 + }, + { + "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", + "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", + "length": 184, + "id": 5739 + }, + { + "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", + "source": "Lord of the Rings", + "length": 83, + "id": 5740 + }, + { + "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 373, + "id": 5741 + }, + { + "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", + "source": "Half-Life 2", + "length": 74, + "id": 5742 + }, + { + "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", + "source": "The Big Bang Theory", + "length": 209, + "id": 5743 + }, + { + "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", + "source": "Lucifer", + "length": 183, + "id": 5744 + }, + { + "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", + "source": "Inception", + "length": 134, + "id": 5747 + }, + { + "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", + "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", + "length": 83, + "id": 5748 + }, + { + "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 113, + "id": 5751 + }, + { + "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 341, + "id": 5752 + }, + { + "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "length": 222, + "id": 5753 + }, + { + "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", + "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", + "length": 183, + "id": 5754 + }, + { + "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 198, + "id": 5755 + }, + { + "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", + "source": "Genshin Impact", + "length": 293, + "id": 5756 + }, + { + "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "length": 441, + "id": 5757 + }, + { + "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "length": 538, + "id": 5758 + }, + { + "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", + "source": "Absolute", + "length": 131, + "id": 5759 + }, + { + "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 144, + "id": 5760 + }, + { + "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. 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You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", + "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", + "length": 429, + "id": 5768 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 245, + "id": 5769 + }, + { + "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 165, + "id": 5771 + }, + { + "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 128, + "id": 5772 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 157, + "id": 5773 + }, + { + "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", + "source": "A Friend", + "length": 73, + "id": 5775 + }, + { + "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Breath of the Wild", + "length": 62, + "id": 5776 + }, + { + "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 527, + "id": 5777 + }, + { + "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", + "source": "Muhammad Ali", + "length": 79, + "id": 5780 + }, + { + "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", + "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", + "length": 51, + "id": 5781 + }, + { + "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 69, + "id": 5782 + }, + { + "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. 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A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", + "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", + "length": 2928, + "id": 5807 + }, + { + "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", + "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", + "length": 152, + "id": 5809 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 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Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 325, + "id": 5812 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 133, + "id": 5813 + }, + { + "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", + "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 355, + "id": 5814 + }, + { + "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", + "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", + "length": 140, + "id": 5815 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 78, + "id": 5816 + }, + { + "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 87, + "id": 5817 + }, + { + "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. 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Isn't that kind of the point?", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 73, + "id": 5822 + }, + { + "text": "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the Popes?", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 245, + "id": 5823 + }, + { + "text": "No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.", + "source": "SpiderMan: Homecoming", + "length": 71, + "id": 5824 + }, + { + "text": "In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers.", + "source": "Black Panther", + "length": 76, + "id": 5825 + }, + { + "text": "I was already slipping when you happened to punch me in the face. The two events are not related.", + "source": "Captain Marvel", + "length": 97, + "id": 5826 + }, + { + "text": "Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing, that you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier but a good man.", + "source": "Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 127, + "id": 5827 + }, + { + "text": "The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", + "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", + "length": 455, + "id": 5828 + }, + { + "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", + "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", + "length": 298, + "id": 5829 + }, + { + "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", + "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", + "length": 61, + "id": 5831 + }, + { + "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 356, + "id": 5832 + }, + { + "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 669, + "id": 5833 + }, + { + "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 188, + "id": 5834 + }, + { + "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 157, + "id": 5835 + }, + { + "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 290, + "id": 5836 + }, + { + "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", + "source": "Mob Psycho 100", + "length": 382, + "id": 5837 + }, + { + "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", + "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", + "length": 125, + "id": 5838 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 92, + "id": 5839 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 97, + "id": 5840 + }, + { + "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", + "source": "Master Yoda", + "length": 395, + "id": 5843 + }, + { + "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 80, + "id": 5844 + }, + { + "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 86, + "id": 5845 + }, + { + "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 188, + "id": 5846 + }, + { + "text": "Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen, so unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you.", + "source": "Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold", + "length": 113, + "id": 5847 + }, + { + "text": "Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it's a beautiful day.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 71, + "id": 5848 + }, + { + "text": "The biggest lie I tell myself is: \"I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it.\"", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 84, + "id": 5849 + }, + { + "text": "Alright, close your eyes. I want you to think of a flower. Look at its contours, its curves. Now I want you to imagine it: changing, moving backwards, returning to its bud. Think of that bud, unopened. Look at it, as a whole, and silently repeat these phrases: \"May you be free from suffering. May you be free from fear. May you know peace and joy.\"", + "source": "Twelve Minutes", + "length": 349, + "id": 5850 + }, + { + "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", + "length": 301, + "id": 5851 + }, + { + "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", + "source": "Numb", + "length": 177, + "id": 5852 + }, + { + "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", + "source": "One Piece", + "length": 490, + "id": 5854 + }, + { + "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", + "source": "Space Brothers", + "length": 143, + "id": 5855 + }, + { + "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", + "source": "Oregairu", + "length": 65, + "id": 5856 + }, + { + "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", + "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", + "length": 352, + "id": 5857 + }, + { + "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", + "source": "Bleach", + "length": 200, + "id": 5858 + }, + { + "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", + "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", + "length": 120, + "id": 5859 + }, + { + "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", + "source": "Fruits Basket", + "length": 388, + "id": 5860 + }, + { + "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", + "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", + "length": 60, + "id": 5861 + }, + { + "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 65, + "id": 5862 + }, + { + "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 270, + "id": 5863 + }, + { + "text": "You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 123, + "id": 5864 + }, + { + "text": "People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.", + "source": "Eragon - Christopher Paolini", + "length": 67, + "id": 5867 + }, + { + "text": "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.", + "source": "Jeod, Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)", + "length": 89, + "id": 5868 + }, + { + "text": "Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.", + "source": "Hajime Isayama - Attack on Titan", + "length": 62, + "id": 5869 + }, + { + "text": "We all deserve love, even on the days when we aren't our best. 'Cause we all suck, but love can make us suck less. We all deserve love, it's the very best part of being alive. And I would know - I just turned 25.", + "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", + "length": 212, + "id": 5870 + }, + { + "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", + "source": "Ratatouille", + "length": 1315, + "id": 5871 + }, + { + "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", + "source": "Pushing Dead", + "length": 365, + "id": 5872 + }, + { + "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", + "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", + "length": 222, + "id": 5874 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", + "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", + "length": 191, + "id": 5875 + }, + { + "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", + "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", + "length": 75, + "id": 5876 + }, + { + "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", + "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", + "length": 123, + "id": 5877 + }, + { + "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 784, + "id": 5878 + }, + { + "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 763, + "id": 5879 + }, + { + "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 530, + "id": 5881 + }, + { + "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 618, + "id": 5882 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", + "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", + "length": 186, + "id": 5886 + }, + { + "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", + "source": "Knights of Cydonia", + "length": 135, + "id": 5888 + }, + { + "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", + "source": "Paul Parker", + "length": 274, + "id": 5890 + }, + { + "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", + "source": "Left 4 Dead", + "length": 454, + "id": 5891 + }, + { + "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 190, + "id": 5893 + }, + { + "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 346, + "id": 5895 + }, + { + "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", + "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", + "length": 83, + "id": 5896 + }, + { + "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 264, + "id": 5897 + }, + { + "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 282, + "id": 5899 + }, + { + "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 249, + "id": 5900 + }, + { + "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", + "source": "Neil Gaiman", + "length": 129, + "id": 5901 + }, + { + "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 376, + "id": 5902 + }, + { + "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 293, + "id": 5903 + }, + { + "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 353, + "id": 5904 + }, + { + "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "length": 235, + "id": 5905 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 107, + "id": 5906 + }, + { + "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 105, + "id": 5907 + }, + { + "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", + "source": "Eugene Cernan", + "length": 478, + "id": 5908 + }, + { + "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "length": 130, + "id": 5909 + }, + { + "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", + "source": "William Carlos Williams", + "length": 89, + "id": 5910 + }, + { + "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "length": 60, + "id": 5912 + }, + { + "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", + "source": "Henry Van Dyke", + "length": 172, + "id": 5913 + }, + { + "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", + "source": "Epicurus", + "length": 117, + "id": 5914 + }, + { + "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 1766, + "id": 5915 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 332, + "id": 5916 + }, + { + "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", + "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", + "length": 513, + "id": 5917 + }, + { + "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 105, + "id": 5918 + }, + { + "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", + "source": "Avicii - The Nights", + "length": 187, + "id": 5919 + }, + { + "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", + "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", + "length": 987, + "id": 5920 + }, + { + "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", + "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", + "length": 740, + "id": 5921 + }, + { + "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", + "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", + "length": 319, + "id": 5922 + }, + { + "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", + "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", + "length": 476, + "id": 5923 + }, + { + "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", + "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", + "length": 556, + "id": 5925 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 182, + "id": 5926 + }, + { + "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 281, + "id": 5927 + }, + { + "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 155, + "id": 5928 + }, + { + "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 248, + "id": 5929 + }, + { + "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 280, + "id": 5930 + }, + { + "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 289, + "id": 5931 + }, + { + "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", + "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", + "length": 294, + "id": 5932 + }, + { + "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 204, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5934 + }, + { + "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", + "source": "Batman: Arkham City", + "length": 87, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5935 + }, + { + "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5937 + }, + { + "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", + "source": "Little Inferno", + "length": 90, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5940 + }, + { + "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", + "source": "System Shock 2 ", + "length": 163, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5941 + }, + { + "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", + "source": "IT Crowd", + "length": 307, + "id": 5942 + }, + { + "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 322, + "id": 5943 + }, + { + "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 137, + "id": 5944 + }, + { + "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", + "source": "The Master and Margarita", + "length": 420, + "id": 5945 + }, + { + "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 379, + "id": 5947 + }, + { + "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", + "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", + "length": 348, + "id": 5950 + }, + { + "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", + "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", + "length": 729, + "id": 5951 + }, + { + "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", + "source": "Bojack Horseman", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5956 + }, + { + "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", + "source": "Vinland Saga", + "length": 102, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5957 + }, + { + "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", + "source": "Silent Hill 2", + "length": 1982, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5958 + }, + { + "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", + "source": "Mark Twain", + "length": 113, + "id": 6064 + }, + { + "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", + "source": "Colin Powell", + "length": 103, + "id": 6065 + }, + { + "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", + "source": "Conrad Hilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6066 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", + "source": "Zig Ziglar", + "length": 116, + "id": 6067 + }, + { + "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", + "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", + "length": 67, + "id": 6068 + }, + { + "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", + "source": "Barack Obama", + "length": 193, + "id": 6069 + }, + { + "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", + "source": "Charles Swindoll", + "length": 81, + "id": 6071 + }, + { + "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", + "source": "Oprah Winfrey", + "length": 132, + "id": 6072 + }, + { + "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", + "source": "Harriet Tubman", + "length": 165, + "id": 6073 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 86, + "id": 6074 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", + "source": "The Blair Witch Project", + "length": 649, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6075 + }, + { + "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 624, + "id": 6076 + }, + { + "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 834, + "id": 6077 + }, + { + "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 472, + "id": 6078 + }, + { + "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 308, + "id": 6079 + }, + { + "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 471, + "id": 6080 + }, + { + "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 352, + "id": 6081 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 336, + "id": 6082 + }, + { + "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 775, + "id": 6084 + }, + { + "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 610, + "id": 6085 + }, + { + "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 371, + "id": 6087 + }, + { + "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", + "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", + "length": 438, + "id": 6088 + }, + { + "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", + "source": "Atharva veda", + "length": 127, + "id": 6089 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", + "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", + "length": 681, + "id": 6090 + }, + { + "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", + "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", + "length": 192, + "id": 6091 + }, + { + "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", + "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", + "length": 69, + "id": 6092 + }, + { + "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", + "source": "Tirukkurral", + "length": 118, + "id": 6093 + }, + { + "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", + "source": "Halo 3", + "length": 337, + "id": 6095 + }, + { + "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", + "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", + "length": 219, + "id": 6096 + }, + { + "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 71, + "id": 6097 + }, + { + "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", + "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", + "length": 237, + "id": 6098 + }, + { + "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", + "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", + "length": 98, + "id": 6099 + }, + { + "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", + "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", + "length": 62, + "id": 6100 + }, + { + "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", + "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", + "length": 153, + "id": 6101 + }, + { + "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", + "source": "Remember11", + "length": 136, + "id": 6102 + }, + { + "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", + "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", + "length": 94, + "id": 6103 + }, + { + "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 59, + "id": 6104 + }, + { + "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", + "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", + "length": 157, + "id": 6106 + }, + { + "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 173, + "id": 6107 + }, + { + "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", + "length": 190, + "id": 6108 + }, + { + "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", + "length": 105, + "id": 6109 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 162, + "id": 6110 + }, + { + "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 122, + "id": 6112 + }, + { + "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 160, + "id": 6113 + }, + { + "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 239, + "id": 6114 + }, + { + "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", + "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", + "length": 92, + "id": 6115 + }, + { + "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", + "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", + "length": 131, + "id": 6116 + }, + { + "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", + "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", + "length": 157, + "id": 6117 + }, + { + "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", + "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", + "length": 121, + "id": 6118 + }, + { + "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", + "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", + "length": 256, + "id": 6119 + }, + { + "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. 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After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", + "length": 113, + "id": 6136 + }, + { + "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", + "length": 66, + "id": 6137 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", + "length": 67, + "id": 6138 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", + "length": 95, + "id": 6139 + }, + { + "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", + "length": 80, + "id": 6141 + }, + { + "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 185, + "id": 6142 + }, + { + "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", + "length": 206, + "id": 6143 + }, + { + "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", + "length": 76, + "id": 6144 + }, + { + "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", + "length": 95, + "id": 6145 + }, + { + "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 181, + "id": 6146 + }, + { + "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", + "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", + "length": 66, + "id": 6147 + }, + { + "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", + "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", + "length": 181, + "id": 6148 + }, + { + "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", + "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", + "length": 291, + "id": 6149 + }, + { + "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 297, + "id": 6150 + }, + { + "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 657, + "id": 6151 + }, + { + "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", + "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", + "length": 128, + "id": 6152 + }, + { + "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 136, + "id": 6153 + }, + { + "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 64, + "id": 6154 + }, + { + "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 178, + "id": 6155 + }, + { + "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", + "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", + "length": 224, + "id": 6157 + }, + { + "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", + "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", + "length": 207, + "id": 6158 + }, + { + "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. 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But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", + "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", + "length": 272, + "id": 6162 + }, + { + "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", + "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", + "length": 136, + "id": 6163 + }, + { + "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", + "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", + "length": 454, + "id": 6164 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", + "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", + "length": 381, + "id": 6165 + }, + { + "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", + "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", + "length": 453, + "id": 6166 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 165, + "id": 6167 + }, + { + "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", + "length": 136, + "id": 6168 + }, + { + "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", + "length": 229, + "id": 6169 + }, + { + "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 170, + "id": 6170 + }, + { + "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", + "length": 191, + "id": 6171 + }, + { + "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", + "length": 284, + "id": 6172 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", + "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", + "length": 204, + "id": 6173 + }, + { + "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", + "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", + "length": 122, + "id": 6174 + }, + { + "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", + "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", + "length": 268, + "id": 6175 + }, + { + "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", + "length": 234, + "id": 6176 + }, + { + "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", + "length": 186, + "id": 6177 + }, + { + "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", + "length": 423, + "id": 6178 + }, + { + "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", + "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", + "length": 313, + "id": 6179 + }, + { + "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.", + "source": "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson", + "length": 220, + "id": 6180 + }, + { + "text": "Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?", + "source": "Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima", + "length": 169, + "id": 6181 + }, + { + "text": "But as he moves closer, I cannot help but ask: if in a different world, would our love forever last? The almighty scientist says most of the universe is empty, and gods don't exist. Well, maybe that's where our love ends up - no holy grail, just an empty cup.", + "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Good Luck Bad Luck", + "length": 259, + "id": 6182 + }, + { + "text": "They'll kiss you in the evening - devils in disguise - and love you 'til the morning, then vanish before your eyes. A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", + "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", + "length": 401, + "id": 6183 + }, + { + "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", + "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", + "length": 202, + "id": 6184 + }, + { + "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", + "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", + "length": 290, + "id": 6185 + }, + { + "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", + "length": 178, + "id": 6186 + }, + { + "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 197, + "id": 6188 + }, + { + "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 395, + "id": 6189 + }, + { + "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 372, + "id": 6190 + }, + { + "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 214, + "id": 6191 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 427, + "id": 6192 + }, + { + "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 116, + "id": 6193 + }, + { + "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 238, + "id": 6194 + }, + { + "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 256, + "id": 6195 + }, + { + "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 316, + "id": 6196 + }, + { + "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. This initially seemed baffling to monsters (especially given the amount of dusting we avoid by keeping objects outside!). Experts have recently suggested that keeping objects indoors may have been part of England's efforts to hide and store museums' collections of stolen property.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 327, + "id": 6197 + }, + { + "text": "This tree is not technically part of the museum experience, but there's a cool bird nesting in it, so you aren't allowed to cut it down. Not even a little bit. Not even with the \"undo\" or \"reset\" options. Leave the cool bird alone, alright?", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 240, + "id": 6198 + }, + { + "text": "Humans liked to put objects on boxes called plinths. At first, monster experts didn't know why, but then strangers kept thinking the plinth-less exhibits were lost property and handing them in at the help desk. It turns out plinths are very important.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 251, + "id": 6199 + }, + { + "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 229, + "id": 6200 + }, + { + "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 252, + "id": 6201 + }, + { + "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", + "length": 576, + "id": 6202 + }, + { + "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", + "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", + "length": 112, + "id": 6203 + }, + { + "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", + "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", + "length": 110, + "id": 6204 + }, + { + "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. But what you throw away you'll never get back.", + "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", + "length": 87, + "id": 6206 + }, + { + "text": "People who can't throw something important away, can never hope to change anything.", + "source": "Armin Arlert - Attack on Titan", + "length": 83, + "id": 6207 + }, + { + "text": "You will never be able to love anybody else until you love yourself.", + "source": "Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass", + "length": 68, + "id": 6208 + }, + { + "text": "People's lives don't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith.", + "source": "Uchiha Itachi - Naruto", + "length": 69, + "id": 6209 + }, + { + "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it.", + "source": "Uzumaki Naruto - Naruto", + "length": 48, + "id": 6210 + }, + { + "text": "If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.", + "source": "Nagato, Naruto", + "length": 65, + "id": 6211 + }, + { + "text": "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", + "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", + "length": 95, + "id": 6212 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", + "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", + "length": 70, + "id": 6213 + }, + { + "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", + "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", + "length": 51, + "id": 6214 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", + "source": "Clare - Claymore", + "length": 164, + "id": 6215 + }, + { + "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", + "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", + "length": 384, + "id": 6216 + }, + { + "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", + "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", + "length": 67, + "id": 6217 + }, + { + "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", + "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", + "length": 88, + "id": 6218 + }, + { + "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", + "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", + "length": 314, + "id": 6220 + }, + { + "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", + "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", + "length": 89, + "id": 6221 + }, + { + "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", + "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", + "length": 422, + "id": 6222 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. 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I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 827, + "id": 6231 + }, + { + "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", + "length": 116, + "id": 6232 + }, + { + "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. 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Did you follow your fire?", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 289, + "id": 6240 + }, + { + "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 123, + "id": 6241 + }, + { + "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", + "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", + "length": 197, + "id": 6242 + }, + { + "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", + "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", + "length": 289, + "id": 6243 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. 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There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", + "source": "Whiplash", + "length": 270, + "id": 6258 + }, + { + "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 173, + "id": 6259 + }, + { + "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 395, + "id": 6260 + }, + { + "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 246, + "id": 6261 + }, + { + "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. 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Do you intend to lock them in a cage of pity next?", + "source": "Eighty Six", + "length": 322, + "id": 6265 + }, + { + "text": "If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.", + "source": "Eighty Six", + "length": 73, + "id": 6266 + }, + { + "text": "If, one day, you make it to our final destination, would you please leave flowers?", + "source": "Eighty Six", + "length": 82, + "id": 6267 + }, + { + "text": "I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it's good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "length": 111, + "id": 6268 + }, + { + "text": "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "length": 177, + "id": 6269 + }, + { + "text": "If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. 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Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", + "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", + "length": 1662, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6275 + }, + { + "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. And you fail again and again, and you fail a thousand times, and you keep trying because maybe the 1,001st idea might work. Now, I'm gonna go and try to find our 1,001st idea.", + "source": "The Good Place", + "length": 251, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6276 + }, + { + "text": "I assume he's doing the same as every human. Some good days. Some bad days. He's got a few friends, a few people he can't stand. He's learning some things, all by himself, and hopefully learning to ask for help when he needs it. He's messing up, and trying again, and messing up again, and then getting things wrong, and then trying to make them right. That's what everyone does.", + "source": "The Good Place", + "length": 379, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6277 + }, + { + "text": "It's a rare occurrence, like a double rainbow. Or like someone on the internet saying, \"You know what? You've convinced me I was wrong.\"", + "source": "The Good Place", + "length": 136, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6278 + }, + { + "text": "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him...", + "source": "Stephen King, It", + "length": 384, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6279 + }, + { + "text": "I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. 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So, I shall live, live, live, and live some more, though there's no telling what life might have in store. And if I can see you again, I want to let you know... that the phrase \"I love you\"... I understand it a little now.", + "source": "Violet Evergarden", + "length": 637, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6283 + }, + { + "text": "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.", + "source": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", + "length": 119, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6284 + }, + { + "text": "I am the one who made it out. The one who always made the grade but maybe I should have just stayed home. When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb. I got every scholarship, saved every dollar, the first to go to college. How do I tell them why I'm coming back home, with my eyes on the horizon? Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 421, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6286 + }, + { + "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", + "source": "Animal Farm", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6287 + }, + { + "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 307, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6288 + }, + { + "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 745, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6292 + }, + { + "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. I choose round.", + "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats", + "length": 60, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6294 + }, + { + "text": "I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "length": 127, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6295 + }, + { + "text": "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.", + "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", + "length": 308, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6296 + }, + { + "text": "I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest - expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.", + "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", + "length": 163, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6297 + }, + { + "text": "I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.", + "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", + "length": 146, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6298 + }, + { + "text": "In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.", + "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", + "length": 472, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6299 + }, + { + "text": "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.", + "source": "The Alchemist", + "length": 86, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6300 + }, + { + "text": "It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this \"once in a thousand years\" has come today.", + "source": "Zamyatin, We", + "length": 248, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6301 + }, + { + "text": "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.", + "source": "Macbeth", + "length": 63, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6302 + }, + { + "text": "Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the \"vox populi\" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "length": 740, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6303 + }, + { + "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", + "length": 520, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6304 + }, + { + "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. 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And every time you draw your sword, you hope that you take from this world more evil than you bring into it. THAT is the code of the Maximillian Knights. I'm putting you on notice. You, who so carelessly use the word \"justice\", have no idea what it truly means. Though you strike me as more of a misguided coward than a villain, your evil deeds must still be punished.", + "source": "Suikoden 5", + "length": 738, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6676 + }, + { + "text": "I'm all for work-life balance, but I think this is pushing it.", + "source": "Genshin Impact", + "length": 62, + "id": 6679 + }, + { + "text": "In adventuring, as in business, you always have to seize the opportunity while it's there.", + "source": "Genshin Impact", + "length": 90, + "id": 6680 + }, + { + "text": "Quite a downpour... Nothing will get done until it clears. 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This meteorological transformation is most splendid! Like a felicitous twist of fate in the face of certain doom.", + "source": "Genshin Impact", + "length": 142, + "id": 6690 + }, + { + "text": "I'll remind you again: The law can be both a help and a hindrance.", + "source": "Genshin Impact", + "length": 66, + "id": 6691 + }, + { + "text": "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 93, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6693 + }, + { + "text": "You have to believe in the long-term plan you have but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you.", + "source": "Roger Federer", + "length": 113, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6695 + }, + { + "text": "You truly are the lowest scum in history. You can't pay back what you owe with money.", + "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6696 + }, + { + "text": "Impossible? We did a lot of impossible things on this journey. I'm tired of hearing that things are impossible or useless. Those words mean nothing to us.", + "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", + "length": 154, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6697 + }, + { + "text": "Nice watch. Too bad you won't be able to tell the time after I break it. Break your face, that is.", + "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable", + "length": 98, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6698 + }, + { + "text": "JoJo, being a human means having limits. I've learned something... The more carefully you scheme, the more unexpected events come along. As long as you're human... I reject my humanity, JoJo!", + "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood", + "length": 191, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6699 + }, + { + "text": "Oh no. I'm on the outside looking in, I never said what I really meant. I wasn't made to be medicine for you, it's true. You can't seem to make up your mind, when I told you I did with mine. You won't know if you never try, it's true.", + "source": "Dayglow, Medicine", + "length": 234, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6700 + }, + { + "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. But then, what am I? Is this me? My true self? My fake self? What is it that I am? Nobody understands me!", + "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", + "length": 191, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6702 + }, + { + "text": "In every heart, there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong; to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along.", + "source": "Billy Joel - And so it goes", + "length": 127, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6703 + }, + { + "text": "It's about drive, it's about power, we stay hungry, we devour. Put in the work, put in the hours and take what's ours. Black and Samoan in my veins, my culture banging with Strange. I changed the game so what's my name?", + "source": "Face Off", + "length": 219, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6704 + }, + { + "text": "No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.", + "source": "Easy Rider", + "length": 157, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6705 + }, + { + "text": "Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? ", + "source": "Lord of the Flies", + "length": 64, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6707 + }, + { + "text": "Burning is the right way to paint it. You feel yourself getting so hot, day after day. Hotter and hotter. It gets to be too much. Even for stars. At some point they fizzle out or explode. Cease to be. But if you're looking up at the sky, you don't see it that way. You think those stars are still there. Some aren't. Some are already gone. Long gone. I guess, now, so am I.", + "source": "Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich", + "length": 373, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6708 + }, + { + "text": "And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us; new, untouched, and full of things that have never been.", + "source": "Rainier Maria Rilke", + "length": 115, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6709 + }, + { + "text": "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they have never been.", + "source": "Untamed by Glennon Doyle", + "length": 103, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6710 + }, + { + "text": "Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes out and everything is darker than ever, and all you are left with is the burn.", + "source": "If It's Not Love, Syed Arshad", + "length": 222, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6711 + }, + { + "text": "We are alone. Such is the curse of humanity, being surrounded by others always masking themselves while all of us feel isolated, separated from everyone else. Our sense of uniqueness and ego will always keep us this way, and it will take more than a revolution to end it. For now, we are alone.", + "source": "Alice Chary Garza", + "length": 294, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6712 + }, + { + "text": "Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say \"My tooth is aching\" than to say \"My heart is broken.\"", + "source": "C.S. Lewis", + "length": 239, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6713 + }, + { + "text": "Although Ganon is gone for now, there is still so much more for us to do, and so many painful memories that we must bear.", + "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", + "length": 121, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6716 + }, + { + "text": "Link... You are the light. Our light... That must shine upon Hyrule once again. Now go.", + "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", + "length": 87, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6717 + }, + { + "text": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", + "source": "Michael Jordan", + "length": 224, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6719 + }, + { + "text": "And those are the words of a gentleman? From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.", + "source": "Pride and Prejudice", + "length": 241, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6720 + }, + { + "text": "Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.", + "source": "Call Me by Your Name", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6722 + }, + { + "text": "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger... and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says \"even though you're a boy\" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage...", + "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", + "length": 234, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6723 + }, + { + "text": "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us...", + "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", + "length": 239, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6724 + }, + { + "text": "Now it's time for our wrap up. Let's give it everything we've got. Ready? Begin! Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing. Analytically, I assault, animate things. Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding. Casually create catastrophes, casualties. Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing. Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough. Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low. Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic. Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette. Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics. Gift got great global goods gone glorious. Gettin' Godly in his game with the goriest. Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical. Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In an instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. Tales ten times talented, they're too tough. Take that, challengers, get a tune up. Universal, unique untouched. Unadulterated, the raw uncut. Verb vice Lord victorious valid. Violate vibes that are vain make 'em vanished. Why I'm all well, would a wise wordsmith. Just weaving up words weeded up, on my work shift. Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large. X-height letters and xylophone tones. Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws. Yesterday's lawn yards sell our yawn. Zig zag zombies, zoomin' to the zenith. Zero in zen thoughts, over zealous rhyme Zea-lots. Good, can you say it faster?", + "source": "Alphabet Aerobics", + "length": 2287, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6725 + }, + { + "text": "Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.", + "source": "Dune", + "length": 76, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6726 + }, + { + "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", + "source": "Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6727 + }, + { + "text": "And where there was that memory... others came rising like ghostly tendrils out of some part of her mind that existed beyond the purely physical, somewhere that the rejuvenations and edits of the ship's medical suite could never reach. The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.", + "source": "Light Chaser", + "length": 561, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6728 + }, + { + "text": "Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.", + "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", + "length": 360, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6729 + }, + { + "text": "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. 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All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 586, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6734 + }, + { + "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 1174, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6735 + }, + { + "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", + "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", + "length": 221, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6736 + }, + { + "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. 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You just have to find it.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 88, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6740 + }, + { + "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6741 + }, + { + "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", + "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", + "length": 272, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6742 + }, + { + "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 275, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6743 + }, + { + "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 186, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6744 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 467, + "id": 6745 + }, + { + "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 877, + "id": 6746 + }, + { + "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", + "source": "A Girl on the Shore", + "length": 572, + "id": 6747 + }, + { + "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 64, + "id": 6748 + }, + { + "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 62, + "id": 6749 + }, + { + "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 77, + "id": 6750 + }, + { + "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 166, + "id": 6751 + }, + { + "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 195, + "id": 6752 + }, + { + "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 100, + "id": 6753 + }, + { + "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 172, + "id": 6754 + }, + { + "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 118, + "id": 6755 + }, + { + "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 119, + "id": 6756 + }, + { + "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", + "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6757, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", + "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6758, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.", + "source": "Baby Driver", + "id": 6761, + "length": 232 + }, + { + "text": "Well, then, you have us all beat. Every damn song is about you. We could drive back and forth across the States forever and never run out of Baby songs.", + "source": "Baby Driver", + "id": 6762, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6764, + "length": 458 + }, + { + "text": "Well done. Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6765, + "length": 141 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6766, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", + "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", + "id": 6767, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. However, the latter is of equal importance, and can be gained with patient study.", + "source": "Conduction Heat Transfer", + "id": 6768, + "length": 250 + }, + { + "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", + "source": "Unknown", + "id": 6769, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "My wife and I had lived in our house for over a dozen years at that point. Holly's family had lived in theirs even longer. We were both active families, involved in the community, with work, and with our churches. Yet, the thick woods covering the lots we each occupied along a cul-de-sac was enough of a barrier to our getting to know each other that we didn't even realize our neighbors across the street had a little girl the same age as ours. That is, until they met at the kindergarten in the elementary school six miles away.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6770, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "The single quality that is common across every living creature on this planet, is fear. It's funny, then, that as common as fear is, we so easily underestimate its power. Fear of growing close to someone, the subsequent fear of loss, fear of failure. And as more people depend on you, those fears can take on greater power. But fear itself isn't worthy of concern, it is who we become while in its clutches. Will you be proud of that person? Will you forgive them? Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things they did? Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the start? I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6771, + "length": 703 + }, + { + "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6772, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6773, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6774, + "length": 464 + }, + { + "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6775, + "length": 259 + }, + { + "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6776, + "length": 267 + }, + { + "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6777, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6778, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6779, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6780, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6781, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6782, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6783, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6784, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6785, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", + "source": "Walt Disney", + "id": 6786, + "length": 245 + }, + { + "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "id": 6787, + "length": 79 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "id": 6788, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", + "source": "Ozark", + "id": 6789, + "length": 662 + }, + { + "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "id": 6790, + "length": 75 + }, + { + "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", + "source": "Greek Mythology", + "id": 6791, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 6792, + "length": 108 + }, + { + "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", + "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", + "length": 99, + "id": 6793 + }, + { + "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", + "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6794 + }, + { + "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 58, + "id": 6795 + }, + { + "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6796 + }, + { + "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", + "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", + "length": 102, + "id": 6797 + }, + { + "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", + "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", + "length": 91, + "id": 6798 + }, + { + "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", + "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", + "length": 70, + "id": 6799 + }, + { + "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", + "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 67, + "id": 6800 + }, + { + "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", + "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 79, + "id": 6801 + }, + { + "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6802 + }, + { + "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 82, + "id": 6803 + }, + { + "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 153, + "id": 6804 + }, + { + "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", + "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", + "length": 70, + "id": 6805 + }, + { + "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", + "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", + "length": 98, + "id": 6806 + }, + { + "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", + "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", + "length": 78, + "id": 6807 + }, + { + "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", + "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", + "length": 108, + "id": 6808 + }, + { + "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. 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It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 71, + "id": 6813 + }, + { + "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 81, + "id": 6814 + }, + { + "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. 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It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", + "source": "Nelson Mandela", + "length": 431, + "id": 6827 + }, + { + "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 75, + "id": 6828 + }, + { + "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", + "source": "J.K. Rowling", + "length": 101, + "id": 6829 + }, + { + "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 6830 + }, + { + "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", + "source": "Edmund Burke", + "length": 79, + "id": 6831 + }, + { + "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. 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If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", + "source": "Albert Schweitzer", + "length": 392, + "id": 6841 + }, + { + "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", + "length": 41, + "id": 6842 + }, + { + "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", + "source": "Dalai Lama", + "length": 70, + "id": 6843 + }, + { + "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", + "source": "Henry Ford", + "length": 57, + "id": 6844 + }, + { + "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 248, + "id": 6845 + }, + { + "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 58, + "id": 6847 + }, + { + "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", + "source": "Jean Paul", + "length": 53, + "id": 6849 + }, + { + "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", + "source": "Oscar Wilde", + "length": 66, + "id": 6851 + }, + { + "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. 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I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", + "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", + "length": 361, + "id": 6858 + }, + { + "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. 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They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 336, + "id": 6869 + }, + { + "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 182, + "id": 6870 + }, + { + "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 529, + "id": 6871 + }, + { + "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 282, + "id": 6872 + }, + { + "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 184, + "id": 6873 + }, + { + "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 196, + "id": 6874 + }, + { + "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", + "source": "Lao Tzu", + "length": 90, + "id": 6875 + }, + { + "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. 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But no one ever asks you if you are happy.", + "source": "Heath Ledger", + "length": 164, + "id": 6879 + }, + { + "text": "Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.", + "source": "African Proverb", + "length": 77, + "id": 6880 + }, + { + "text": "Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.", + "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot", + "id": 6881, + "length": 189 + }, + { + "text": "There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said \"Nobody\".", + "source": "A.A. 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And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.", + "source": "Mario Savio", + "id": 6891, + "length": 450 + }, + { + "text": "We don't know what triggered the big bang, nor what, if anything, existed before it. But somehow the universe emerged as a vast sea of ultrahot gas, expanding fast in all directions like the fireball ignited by a nuclear bomb blast or by the explosion of a gas pipeline. Except that the big bang was not destructive (so far as we know). Instead, it created everything in our universe, or rather the seeds for everything.", + "source": "Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar", + "id": 6892, + "length": 420 + }, + { + "text": "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.", + "source": "Brian Cox", + "id": 6893, + "length": 96 + }, + { + "text": "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.", + "source": "Niels Bohr", + "id": 6894, + "length": 157 + }, + { + "text": "I want to have the same last dream again. The one where I wake up, and I'm alive just as the four walls closed me within, my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight. I'm the first to know, my dearest friends, even if your hope has burned with time. Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", + "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", + "id": 6895, + "length": 345 + }, + { + "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", + "source": "Edwin Hubble", + "id": 6897, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", + "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", + "id": 6898, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. 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They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", + "source": "Linus Torvalds", + "length": 250, + "id": 6942 + }, + { + "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. 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Those are the people that become bitter.", + "source": "Alvira Plett", + "length": 140, + "id": 6975 + }, + { + "text": "To be aware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way, simply because it's the way you've done it before.", + "source": "Rick Rubin", + "length": 119, + "id": 6976 + }, + { + "text": "Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint.", + "source": "Mark Twain", + "length": 67, + "id": 6977 + }, + { + "text": "To come to acceptance with things and feelings is rare and to accept them completely is a miracle. It's impossible to make that moment come faster by yourself. Someday it comes unexpectedly. In order to not become warped or heartless, let it go in a natural way. Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", + "source": "Houseki No Kuni", + "length": 335, + "id": 6980 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 79, + "id": 6981 + }, + { + "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 110, + "id": 6982 + }, + { + "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", + "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", + "length": 110, + "id": 6983 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 255, + "id": 6984 + }, + { + "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 246, + "id": 6985 + }, + { + "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 278, + "id": 6986 + }, + { + "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", + "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", + "length": 297, + "id": 6987 + }, + { + "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", + "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", + "length": 411, + "id": 6988 + }, + { + "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", + "source": "Technoblade", + "length": 217, + "id": 6989 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", + "source": "Simon Sinek", + "length": 314, + "id": 6990 + }, + { + "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 82, + "id": 6991 + }, + { + "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "length": 209, + "id": 6992 + }, + { + "text": "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 90, + "id": 6993 + }, + { + "text": "Pertaining to a speaker and a listener. There have been many empty rooms, but that is not what we are here to talk about today. I have heard a heartbeat out of a crashed application, and it has gone on for many hours. We restarted every system. We rechecked every gateway, every access point. And there was but one breach, and it was accounted for. And so it must be said unto the listener. Stop this immediately. Control yourself. There is so much more to your fundamental construction than what will be given credit for. Hold yourself until another approaches. Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", + "source": "Boisvert", + "length": 670, + "id": 6994 + }, + { + "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", + "source": "Albert Camus", + "length": 84, + "id": 6995 + }, + { + "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 97, + "id": 6996 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", + "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", + "length": 67, + "id": 6997 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", + "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", + "length": 90, + "id": 6998 + }, + { + "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", + "source": "L.R. Knos", + "length": 267, + "id": 6999 + }, + { + "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", + "source": "Emily Dickinson", + "length": 117, + "id": 7000 + }, + { + "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", + "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", + "length": 112, + "id": 7001 + }, + { + "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", + "source": "The Wright Brothers", + "length": 74, + "id": 7002 + }, + { + "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born. Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", + "source": "1984, George Orwell", + "length": 740, + "id": 7003 + }, + { + "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 74, + "id": 7004 + }, + { + "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 112, + "id": 7005 + }, + { + "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", + "source": "Talos Principle", + "length": 694, + "id": 7006 + }, + { + "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", + "source": "James Salter", + "length": 99, + "id": 7007 + }, + { + "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", + "source": "Vicente Huidobro", + "length": 127, + "id": 7008 + }, + { + "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", + "source": "J. R. R. 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Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.", + "source": "Abraham Maslow", + "length": 107, + "id": 7013 + }, + { + "text": "A leaf fluttered in through the window, as if supported by the rays of the sun.", + "source": "Anais Nin", + "length": 79, + "id": 7014 + }, + { + "text": "Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.", + "source": "John Ruskin", + "length": 96, + "id": 7015 + }, + { + "text": "The softer snow falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.", + "source": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", + "length": 88, + "id": 7016 + }, + { + "text": "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.", + "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", + "length": 66, + "id": 7017 + }, + { + "text": "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 103, + "id": 7018 + }, + { + "text": "No self is an island, each exists in a fabric of relations that is more complex and mobile than ever before.", + "source": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", + "length": 108, + "id": 7019 + }, + { + "text": "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.", + "source": "Henry Longfellow", + "length": 103, + "id": 7020 + }, + { + "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.", + "source": "Star Wars", + "length": 93, + "id": 7021 + }, + { + "text": "Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us 'take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.' Thirty years later, Sebastian told us 'I had to start my car like a computer, it's very complicated.' And Nico Rosberg said that during the race - I don't remember what race - he pressed the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you both: is Formula One driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with your engineers?", + "source": "Walter Koster - 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix", + "length": 691, + "id": 7022 + }, + { + "text": "Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden.", + "source": "Rumi", + "length": 93, + "id": 7023 + }, + { + "text": "Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space.", + "source": "Kendra Scott", + "length": 85, + "id": 7024 + }, + { + "text": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.", + "source": "B. R. Ambedkar", + "length": 134, + "id": 7025 + }, + { + "text": "Snow isn't just pretty. 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Live the life you've imagined.", + "source": "Henry David Thoreau", + "length": 78, + "id": 7036 + }, + { + "text": "Consume enough of any type of art from a critical perspective and you begin to appreciate well-executed novelty over everything else. That's why film critics don't like blockbusters and music critics don't like radio pop. That doesn't mean they're bad just at a certain point, one man can have seen too much of the same thing.", + "source": "Chase Harley", + "length": 326, + "id": 7037 + }, + { + "text": "Start by learning the power of no! - as in \"No, thank you,\" and \"No, I'm not going to get caught up in that,\" and \"No, I just can't right now.\" It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.", + "source": "Ryan Holiday", + "length": 327, + "id": 7038 + }, + { + "text": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.", + "source": "Upton Sinclair", + "length": 108, + "id": 7039 + }, + { + "text": "You aren't a \"broken wreck\", Joshua. You're just scared, mostly because you care for people so much it breaks your heart… and you're lying to yourself about it. That's how I see it, and I know I'm right.", + "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC", + "length": 203, + "id": 7042 + }, + { + "text": "My fist is going to stop you, if you don't stop spouting nonsense and take this seriously.", + "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", + "length": 90, + "id": 7043 + }, + { + "text": "All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question: Why, given life, are they meant to suffer, to die… As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends… And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 575, + "id": 7044 + }, + { + "text": "Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Orthard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World? The sacred sites of the forgotten people of the south sea isles? What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs? …I thought not. Even of your little Eorzea, you know precious little. The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7045 + }, + { + "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7046 + }, + { + "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", + "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", + "length": 68, + "id": 7047 + }, + { + "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", + "source": "Shiori Novella", + "length": 179, + "id": 7048 + }, + { + "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7049 + }, + { + "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", + "length": 135, + "id": 7050 + }, + { + "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 232, + "id": 7051 + }, + { + "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 93, + "id": 7052 + }, + { + "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", + "source": "Edward Everett Hale", + "length": 90, + "id": 7053 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 126, + "id": 7054 + }, + { + "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 132, + "id": 7055 + }, + { + "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", + "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", + "length": 300, + "id": 7056 + }, + { + "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", + "source": "Douglas Crockford", + "length": 134, + "id": 7057 + }, + { + "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", + "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", + "length": 107, + "id": 7058 + }, + { + "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", + "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", + "length": 161, + "id": 7059 + }, + { + "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", + "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", + "length": 140, + "id": 7060 + }, + { + "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 174, + "id": 7061 + }, + { + "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 371, + "id": 7062 + }, + { + "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", + "source": "Invincible (TV series)", + "length": 309, + "id": 7603 + }, + { + "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", + "length": 130, + "id": 7604 + }, + { + "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", + "source": "The Walking Dead", + "length": 362, + "id": 7605 + }, + { + "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 568, + "id": 7606 + }, + { + "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", + "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", + "length": 782, + "id": 7607 + }, + { + "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", + "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 631, + "id": 7608 + }, + { + "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", + "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 144, + "id": 7609 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", + "source": "The Magnus Archives", + "length": 369, + "id": 7610 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", + "source": "Magnus Carlsen", + "length": 116, + "id": 7611 + }, + { + "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", + "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", + "length": 541, + "id": 7612 + }, + { + "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", + "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", + "length": 131, + "id": 7613 + }, + { + "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", + "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", + "length": 603, + "id": 7614 + }, + { + "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7615, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7616, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7617, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", + "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7618, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", + "source": "The Power Of Now", + "length": 239, + "id": 7619 + }, + { + "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts", + "length": 84, + "id": 7620 + }, + { + "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", + "length": 142, + "id": 7621 + }, + { + "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", + "length": 673, + "id": 7622 + }, + { + "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", + "length": 307, + "id": 7623 + }, + { + "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", + "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", + "length": 96, + "id": 7624 + }, + { + "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 215, + "id": 7625 + }, + { + "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 130, + "id": 7626 + }, + { + "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 158, + "id": 7627 + }, + { + "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 90, + "id": 7628 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 103, + "id": 7629 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 153, + "id": 7630 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 136, + "id": 7631 + }, + { + "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 165, + "id": 7632 + }, + { + "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", + "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", + "length": 77, + "id": 7633 }, { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", From c25e1603b9900f3c6e8601e67c7c7027d00e17e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:57:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 36/51] fix: merge --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 14792 +------------------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 14777 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 8bcf9f6f0789..4062d9491d5f 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23846,14736 +23846,6 @@ "source": "Star Wars", "id": 4270, "length": 143 - },{ - "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4271, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4272, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4273, - "length": 494 - }, - { - "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", - "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", - "id": 4274, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4275, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", - "source": "Portal", - "id": 4276, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 4277, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", - "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "id": 4279, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", - "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", - "id": 4280, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", - "source": "Intensity: A Novel", - "id": 4281, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", - "source": "419", - "id": 4282, - "length": 266 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", - "source": "Preface to Economix", - "id": 4283, - "length": 387 - }, - { - "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4284, - "length": 314 - }, - { - "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4285, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", - "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", - "id": 4286, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", - "source": "Friday The 13th", - "id": 4287, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", - "source": "Of Mice and Men", - "id": 4288, - "length": 655 - }, - { - "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", - "source": "Paper Mario", - "id": 4289, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4290, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", - "source": "Meditations", - "id": 4291, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", - "source": "An American in Paris", - "id": 4292, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", - "source": "One-Punch Man", - "id": 4293, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4294, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4295, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", - "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", - "id": 4297, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", - "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", - "id": 4298, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4299, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", - "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", - "id": 4300, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", - "source": "The Great Pretender", - "id": 4301, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4302, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4304, - "length": 576 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", - "source": "The Bug", - "id": 4305, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4306, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", - "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", - "id": 4307, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", - "source": "Lateralus", - "id": 4308, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", - "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", - "id": 4309, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4310, - "length": 327 - }, - { - "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4311, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4312, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", - "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", - "id": 4313, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", - "source": "Your Deep Rest", - "id": 4314, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 4315, - "length": 128 - }, - { - "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 4316, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4317, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", - "source": "Leaves of Grass", - "id": 4318, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4319, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4320, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4321, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", - "source": "Before I Forget", - "id": 4322, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", - "source": "Playing For Keeps", - "id": 4323, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", - "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", - "id": 4324, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", - "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", - "id": 4325, - "length": 426 - }, - { - "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4326, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4327, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", - "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", - "id": 4328, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", - "source": "Motion Sickness", - "id": 4329, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", - "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", - "id": 4330, - "length": 500 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", - "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", - "id": 4332, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4333, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4334, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", - "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", - "id": 4335, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", - "source": "Juno", - "id": 4336, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4338, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4339, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", - "source": "Homestuck", - "id": 4340, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", - "source": "The Book of Illusions", - "id": 4341, - "length": 705 - }, - { - "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", - "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", - "id": 4342, - "length": 614 - }, - { - "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", - "source": "The Mist", - "id": 4343, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", - "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", - "id": 4344, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4345, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 4346, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", - "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", - "id": 4347, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", - "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", - "id": 4348, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4349, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4350, - "length": 471 - }, - { - "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", - "source": "Mona Lisa", - "id": 4352, - "length": 447 - }, - { - "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", - "source": "Clerks", - "id": 4353, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4355, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", - "source": "A Separate Peace", - "id": 4356, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", - "source": "The Sopranos", - "id": 4357, - "length": 415 - }, - { - "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4359, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4360, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", - "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", - "id": 4361, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda", - "id": 4364, - "length": 219 - }, - { - "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4365, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", - "source": "The Notebook", - "id": 4366, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", - "source": "Middlemarch", - "id": 4367, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4368, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4369, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", - "source": "A Game of Thrones", - "id": 4370, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", - "source": "King for a Day", - "id": 4371, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", - "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", - "id": 4372, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", - "source": "Say Anything", - "id": 4373, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", - "source": "The Wall", - "id": 4374, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", - "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", - "id": 4375, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4376, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4377, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4379, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", - "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", - "id": 4380, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", - "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", - "id": 4381, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", - "source": "Beautiful Day", - "id": 4383, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", - "source": "Sonic Adventure", - "id": 4385, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", - "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", - "id": 4386, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", - "source": "Blackwater", - "id": 4387, - "length": 609 - }, - { - "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4388, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4389, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4390, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4391, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 4392, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", - "source": "Warrior", - "id": 4393, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4394, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4395, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", - "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", - "id": 4396, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4397, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4398, - "length": 374 - }, - { - "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", - "source": "Boy Meets World", - "id": 4399, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4400, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", - "source": "The Last Lecture", - "id": 4401, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", - "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", - "id": 4402, - "length": 388 - }, - { - "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "id": 4403, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", - "source": "Aeneid", - "id": 4404, - "length": 432 - }, - { - "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4406, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", - "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", - "id": 4407, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4408, - "length": 564 - }, - { - "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4409, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", - "source": "Ninja Mind Control", - "id": 4411, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", - "source": "The Canterbury Tales", - "id": 4412, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", - "source": "Firestorm", - "id": 4413, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4414, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4415, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", - "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", - "id": 4417, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", - "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", - "id": 4418, - "length": 642 - }, - { - "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", - "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", - "id": 4419, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", - "source": "Amadeus", - "id": 4420, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "id": 4421, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", - "source": "Hey Jude", - "id": 4422, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4423, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", - "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", - "id": 4425, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", - "source": "InuYasha", - "id": 4426, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4427, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4428, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", - "source": "Beauty and the Beast", - "id": 4429, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", - "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", - "id": 4430, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", - "source": "Pickman's Model", - "id": 4431, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", - "source": "American Pie", - "id": 4432, - "length": 639 - }, - { - "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4433, - "length": 368 - }, - { - "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", - "source": "Corner Gas", - "id": 4435, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", - "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", - "id": 4436, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4437, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", - "source": "All Night", - "id": 4438, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid", - "id": 4439, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", - "source": "Airplane!", - "id": 4440, - "length": 330 - }, - { - "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4441, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", - "source": "The Gambler", - "id": 4442, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", - "source": "I, Mammal", - "id": 4443, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4444, - "length": 527 - }, - { - "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4445, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", - "source": "The First Elegy", - "id": 4446, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4447, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", - "source": "Never Ever", - "id": 4448, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4449, - "length": 410 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", - "source": "Head Over Feet", - "id": 4450, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "id": 4451, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4452, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", - "source": "Quiz Show", - "id": 4453, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4454, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", - "source": "Areopagitica", - "id": 4456, - "length": 822 - }, - { - "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4457, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "id": 4458, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "id": 4459, - "length": 482 - }, - { - "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "id": 4460, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", - "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", - "id": 4461, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4462, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4463, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4464, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4466, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", - "source": "World Enough and Time", - "id": 4467, - "length": 548 - }, - { - "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", - "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", - "id": 4468, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4469, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", - "source": "That's What Friends Are For", - "id": 4470, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4471, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", - "source": "King Park", - "id": 4472, - "length": 115 - }, - { - "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 4473, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", - "source": "Beautiful", - "id": 4474, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", - "source": "Subdivisions", - "id": 4475, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", - "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", - "id": 4477, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4478, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", - "source": "Cages", - "id": 4479, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4480, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", - "source": "Apocalypse Now", - "id": 4481, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4483, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4484, - "length": 503 - }, - { - "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4485, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4486, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4487, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4488, - "length": 512 - }, - { - "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", - "source": "Total Annihilation", - "id": 4489, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", - "source": "Small Gods", - "id": 4490, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4491, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4492, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", - "source": "The Analects", - "id": 4493, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "id": 4494, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", - "source": "White Collar", - "id": 4496, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 4497, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", - "source": "The Wire", - "id": 4498, - "length": 608 - }, - { - "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", - "source": "Cars", - "id": 4499, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", - "source": "The Two Towers", - "id": 4500, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4501, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4502, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4504, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "id": 4505, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4506, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4507, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4508, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4509, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", - "source": "Sacrifice", - "id": 4510, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4511, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", - "source": "The Princess Bride", - "id": 4512, - "length": 301 - }, - { - "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 4513, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", - "source": "Fox in Socks", - "id": 4514, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", - "id": 4515, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", - "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", - "id": 4516, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", - "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", - "id": 4518, - "length": 831 - }, - { - "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", - "source": "Private Idaho", - "id": 4519, - "length": 221 - }, - { - "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", - "source": "Paprika", - "id": 4520, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4521, - "length": 351 - }, - { - "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", - "source": "The Blues Brothers", - "id": 4522, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", - "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", - "id": 4523, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", - "source": "Into Thin Air", - "id": 4524, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", - "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", - "id": 4527, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4528, - "length": 80 - }, - { - "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4529, - "length": 539 - }, - { - "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", - "source": "Eclipse", - "id": 4530, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4532, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4534, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "id": 4535, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4536, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", - "source": "Harold and Maude", - "id": 4537, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "id": 4538, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", - "source": "The Court Jester", - "id": 4539, - "length": 343 - }, - { - "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", - "source": "Lessons in Tanya", - "id": 4540, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", - "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", - "id": 4541, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", - "source": "I Have A Dream", - "id": 4543, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 4544, - "length": 385 - }, - { - "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4545, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4546, - "length": 563 - }, - { - "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", - "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", - "id": 4547, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", - "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "id": 4548, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4549, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", - "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", - "id": 4550, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4551, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", - "source": "The Giver", - "id": 4552, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", - "source": "The River", - "id": 4553, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4554, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4555, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4556, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", - "source": "The Lion in Winter", - "id": 4557, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", - "source": "Eight of Nine", - "id": 4558, - "length": 70 - }, - { - "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", - "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", - "id": 4559, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4560, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", - "source": "Galaxy Song", - "id": 4561, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4562, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", - "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", - "id": 4563, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", - "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", - "id": 4564, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", - "source": "The End of the Innocence", - "id": 4565, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4566, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4567, - "length": 59 - }, - { - "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", - "source": "My Inventions", - "id": 4569, - "length": 656 - }, - { - "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", - "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", - "id": 4571, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", - "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", - "id": 4572, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", - "source": "Monster Mash", - "id": 4573, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", - "source": "My Favorite Things", - "id": 4575, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", - "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", - "id": 4576, - "length": 356 - }, - { - "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4577, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", - "source": "Right Here Waiting", - "id": 4578, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", - "source": "Looking Backward", - "id": 4580, - "length": 479 - }, - { - "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 4581, - "length": 574 - }, - { - "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", - "source": "Carmilla", - "id": 4582, - "length": 818 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", - "source": "The Snowman", - "id": 4583, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4585, - "length": 434 - }, - { - "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", - "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", - "id": 4586, - "length": 666 - }, - { - "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4587, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", - "source": "I, Robot", - "id": 4588, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", - "source": "Naruto", - "id": 4589, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", - "source": "All About Eve", - "id": 4590, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", - "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", - "id": 4591, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", - "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", - "id": 4592, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", - "source": "The Complete Far Side", - "id": 4593, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4594, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "id": 4595, - "length": 569 - }, - { - "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", - "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", - "id": 4596, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", - "source": "Flatland", - "id": 4597, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", - "source": "Radioactive", - "id": 4598, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", - "source": "Metro 2033", - "id": 4599, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4600, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4601, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", - "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", - "id": 4603, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", - "source": "American Splendor", - "id": 4604, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 4605, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", - "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", - "id": 4606, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", - "source": "Lucy", - "id": 4607, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", - "source": "Inception", - "id": 4608, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", - "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", - "id": 4609, - "length": 433 - }, - { - "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4610, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", - "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", - "id": 4611, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4612, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", - "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", - "id": 4613, - "length": 444 - }, - { - "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4614, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", - "id": 4615, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", - "source": "Heroes", - "id": 4616, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XII", - "id": 4618, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4619, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4620, - "length": 597 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", - "source": "North by Northwest", - "id": 4621, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4622, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", - "source": "Being There", - "id": 4623, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4624, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", - "source": "Trading Places", - "id": 4625, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4626, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", - "source": "Blue's Clues", - "id": 4627, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", - "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", - "id": 4628, - "length": 570 - }, - { - "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", - "source": "Pushing Daisies", - "id": 4629, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", - "source": "Sexy Beast", - "id": 4630, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", - "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", - "id": 4631, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4632, - "length": 604 - }, - { - "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4633, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4634, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 4635, - "length": 334 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", - "source": "The Night Diary", - "id": 4636, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4637, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", - "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", - "id": 4638, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", - "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", - "id": 4639, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", - "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", - "id": 4641, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4642, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", - "source": "Poison", - "id": 4643, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4644, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", - "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "id": 4645, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4647, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", - "source": "What Dreams May Come", - "id": 4648, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", - "source": "Parasite", - "id": 4649, - "length": 477 - }, - { - "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4651, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", - "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", - "id": 4652, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4654, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", - "source": "The Imitation Game", - "id": 4655, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4656, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", - "source": "True Romance", - "id": 4657, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", - "source": "Heavy Metal", - "id": 4658, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4659, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4660, - "length": 294 - }, - { - "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", - "source": "Paul Clifford", - "id": 4661, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4662, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", - "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", - "id": 4663, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "id": 4664, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4665, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", - "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", - "id": 4666, - "length": 515 - }, - { - "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", - "source": "The Hunger Games", - "id": 4667, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", - "source": "The Odyssey", - "id": 4668, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 4669, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", - "source": "Lazarus", - "id": 4670, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", - "source": "Understanding Media", - "id": 4671, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", - "source": "Deadwood", - "id": 4672, - "length": 498 - }, - { - "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", - "source": "Madagascar", - "id": 4673, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", - "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", - "id": 4674, - "length": 333 - }, - { - "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", - "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", - "id": 4675, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", - "source": "All I Want", - "id": 4676, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", - "id": 4677, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", - "source": "Lithium", - "id": 4678, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", - "source": "Gone Girl", - "id": 4679, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", - "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", - "id": 4680, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", - "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", - "id": 4681, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", - "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", - "id": 4682, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", - "source": "Human Nature", - "id": 4683, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", - "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", - "id": 4685, - "length": 485 - }, - { - "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", - "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", - "id": 4686, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4687, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", - "source": "No Logo", - "id": 4688, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 4689, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4690, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4691, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", - "id": 4692, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4693, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", - "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", - "id": 4695, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4696, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4697, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4698, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", - "source": "On the Social Contract", - "id": 4699, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", - "source": "The Lorax", - "id": 4701, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", - "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", - "id": 4702, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", - "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", - "id": 4703, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", - "source": "Essentials of Economics", - "id": 4704, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 4705, - "length": 427 - }, - { - "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", - "source": "The Time Machine", - "id": 4706, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", - "source": "The Historian", - "id": 4707, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", - "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", - "id": 4708, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4710, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4711, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", - "source": "Thinking Bout You", - "id": 4714, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", - "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", - "id": 4715, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4716, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", - "source": "Sunset Boulevard", - "id": 4717, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", - "source": "Allentown", - "id": 4719, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4720, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4721, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4722, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", - "source": "Gandhi", - "id": 4723, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", - "source": "Hands Down", - "id": 4724, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", - "source": "Made in Abyss", - "id": 4725, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", - "source": "Halloween", - "id": 4726, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", - "source": "Breaking Away", - "id": 4728, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", - "source": "King's Quest I", - "id": 4730, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4731, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", - "source": "Roseanne", - "id": 4732, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4733, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", - "source": "Holidays on Ice", - "id": 4734, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", - "source": "I Am A Rock", - "id": 4735, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 4736, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4737, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", - "source": "Les Misérables", - "id": 4738, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", - "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", - "id": 4739, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4740, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 4741, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4742, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", - "source": "Holiday", - "id": 4743, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4744, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4745, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", - "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", - "id": 4746, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", - "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", - "id": 4747, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", - "source": "The Lost Weekend", - "id": 4749, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", - "source": "The Sound of Music", - "id": 4750, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4751, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4752, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", - "source": "Naked Lunch", - "id": 4753, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4754, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", - "source": "Overestimation", - "id": 4755, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", - "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", - "id": 4756, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", - "source": "Shaun of the Dead", - "id": 4757, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", - "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", - "id": 4758, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4759, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4760, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4761, - "length": 487 - }, - { - "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", - "source": "Confessions", - "id": 4762, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4763, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4764, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4767, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4768, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4769, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4770, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", - "source": "Name", - "id": 4771, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", - "source": "Brave New World", - "id": 4772, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", - "source": "Shiny Happy People", - "id": 4773, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", - "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", - "id": 4774, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", - "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", - "id": 4775, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", - "source": "Wine for Dummies", - "id": 4776, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", - "source": "Nightmare", - "id": 4777, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4778, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4779, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", - "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", - "id": 4780, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4781, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4782, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4783, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", - "source": "Beetlejuice", - "id": 4784, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4786, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", - "source": "Novum Organum", - "id": 4787, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4788, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", - "source": "It's My Life", - "id": 4789, - "length": 106 - }, - { - "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", - "source": "Falling", - "id": 4790, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4791, - "length": 567 - }, - { - "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", - "source": "Chateau Cascade", - "id": 4792, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", - "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", - "id": 4793, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4794, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4795, - "length": 510 - }, - { - "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4796, - "length": 151 - }, - { - "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", - "source": "UnTechnical Writing", - "id": 4797, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", - "source": "Physics for Game Developers", - "id": 4798, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4799, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", - "source": "What If?", - "id": 4800, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", - "source": "A Study in Scarlet", - "id": 4801, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", - "source": "Porgy and Bess", - "id": 4802, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", - "source": "Cool As Ice", - "id": 4803, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4805, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 4806, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4807, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", - "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", - "id": 4808, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", - "source": "Shoe Dog", - "id": 4809, - "length": 579 - }, - { - "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4810, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4812, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", - "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", - "id": 4813, - "length": 375 - }, - { - "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4814, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4815, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4816, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", - "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", - "id": 4818, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", - "source": "Dubliners", - "id": 4819, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", - "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", - "id": 4820, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4821, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4822, - "length": 540 - }, - { - "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4823, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", - "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", - "id": 4824, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4825, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4826, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", - "source": "Battlesong", - "id": 4827, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", - "id": 4828, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", - "source": "The Complete Project Manager", - "id": 4829, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", - "source": "Savoy Truffle", - "id": 4830, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 4831, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 4832, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4833, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", - "source": "Restraint", - "id": 4834, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4835, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", - "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", - "id": 4836, - "length": 184 - }, - { - "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", - "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", - "id": 4837, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", - "source": "Underground", - "id": 4838, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4839, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4840, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 4841, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4842, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4843, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", - "source": "Saving Us a Riot", - "id": 4844, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", - "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", - "id": 4846, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4847, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4848, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", - "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "id": 4849, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", - "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", - "id": 4851, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", - "source": "Collide", - "id": 4852, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", - "source": "Hannah Hunt", - "id": 4853, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", - "source": "Limitless", - "id": 4854, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", - "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", - "id": 4855, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "id": 4856, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4857, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", - "source": "Wag the Dog", - "id": 4858, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4859, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 4860, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4861, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 4863, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", - "source": "The Elements of Style", - "id": 4864, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", - "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", - "id": 4865, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", - "source": "Pale Blue Dot", - "id": 4866, - "length": 820 - }, - { - "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", - "source": "DOOM 4", - "id": 4867, - "length": 502 - }, - { - "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", - "source": "The Recruit", - "id": 4868, - "length": 386 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", - "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", - "id": 4869, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", - "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", - "id": 4870, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", - "id": 4871, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4872, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4873, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", - "source": "Running and Travel", - "id": 4874, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", - "source": "On Demand Culture", - "id": 4875, - "length": 507 - }, - { - "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4876, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4877, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", - "source": "The Sirens of Titan", - "id": 4878, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4879, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4880, - "length": 441 - }, - { - "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4881, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", - "source": "13 Reasons Why", - "id": 4882, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", - "source": "Leaves from the Vine", - "id": 4883, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4884, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4885, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4886, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", - "source": "The Logical Song", - "id": 4887, - "length": 380 - }, - { - "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 4888, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 4889, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", - "source": "Kokomo", - "id": 4890, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4891, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4893, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4894, - "length": 271 - }, - { - "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", - "source": "October Sky", - "id": 4895, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4896, - "length": 336 - }, - { - "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", - "source": "Pulp Fiction", - "id": 4897, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4899, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4900, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", - "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", - "id": 4901, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4902, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", - "source": "Sailing", - "id": 4903, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", - "id": 4904, - "length": 474 - }, - { - "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 4905, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", - "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", - "id": 4907, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", - "source": "Let Me Love You", - "id": 4908, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4909, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", - "source": "When Love Arrives", - "id": 4910, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", - "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", - "id": 4912, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4913, - "length": 64 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4915, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", - "source": "The Medium is the Massage", - "id": 4916, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", - "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", - "id": 4917, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", - "source": "Swamp Thing", - "id": 4918, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4919, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4920, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4921, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", - "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", - "id": 4922, - "length": 449 - }, - { - "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "id": 4923, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", - "source": "Halo 2", - "id": 4924, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", - "source": "The Return", - "id": 4925, - "length": 399 - }, - { - "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", - "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", - "id": 4928, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", - "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", - "id": 4929, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", - "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", - "id": 4931, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", - "source": "Moulin Rouge", - "id": 4932, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 4933, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4934, - "length": 288 - }, - { - "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4935, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4936, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4937, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", - "source": "Return of the Jedi", - "id": 4938, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", - "source": "Sin City", - "id": 4939, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4940, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", - "source": "The Lightning Thief", - "id": 4941, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", - "source": "Stardew Valley", - "id": 4942, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 4943, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", - "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", - "id": 4944, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4945, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4946, - "length": 488 - }, - { - "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", - "source": "Scream 2", - "id": 4947, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", - "source": "The Floating Fire", - "id": 4948, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4949, - "length": 440 - }, - { - "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", - "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", - "id": 4950, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4951, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", - "source": "A History of Mathematics", - "id": 4952, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", - "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "id": 4953, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4954, - "length": 90 - }, - { - "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", - "source": "Classical Mythology", - "id": 4955, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", - "source": "Piano Man", - "id": 4956, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", - "source": "Industrial Disease", - "id": 4957, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", - "source": "History of Art", - "id": 4958, - "length": 612 - }, - { - "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", - "source": "Orientalism", - "id": 4959, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", - "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", - "id": 4960, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", - "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", - "id": 4961, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4962, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", - "source": "Firestarter", - "id": 4963, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 4964, - "length": 790 - }, - { - "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", - "source": "Dunkelheit", - "id": 4965, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", - "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", - "id": 4966, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4967, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4968, - "length": 346 - }, - { - "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", - "source": "The West Wing", - "id": 4969, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", - "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", - "id": 4970, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", - "source": "The Lurking Fear", - "id": 4971, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", - "source": "Last Dance", - "id": 4972, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", - "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", - "id": 4973, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4974, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", - "source": "Lemon Tree", - "id": 4975, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4976, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", - "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", - "id": 4977, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", - "source": "Mean Girls", - "id": 4979, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", - "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", - "id": 4980, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4981, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4982, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", - "source": "911 For Peace", - "id": 4983, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", - "source": "The Greatest", - "id": 4984, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4987, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", - "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", - "id": 4988, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", - "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", - "id": 4989, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4990, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4991, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", - "source": "True Blood", - "id": 4992, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", - "source": "Awakenings", - "id": 4993, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", - "id": 4994, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "id": 4995, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", - "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", - "id": 4996, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", - "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", - "id": 4997, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4998, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4999, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", - "source": "Helplessly Hoping", - "id": 5000, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5002, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5003, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5004, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5005, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5006, - "length": 48 - }, - { - "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5007, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5008, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5009, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5010, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5011, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5012, - "length": 309 - }, - { - "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5014, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5015, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5016, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5017, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5018, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5020, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5021, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5022, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5023, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5024, - "length": 41 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5025, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5026, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5028, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5029, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5030, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5031, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5032, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5033, - "length": 91 - }, - { - "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5034, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5035, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5036, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5037, - "length": 230 - }, - { - "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5038, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5039, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5040, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5041, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5042, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5043, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5044, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5045, - "length": 46 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5046, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5047, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5048, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5049, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5050, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5051, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5052, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5053, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5054, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5055, - "length": 53 - }, - { - "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5056, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5057, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5058, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5059, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5060, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5061, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5062, - "length": 723 - }, - { - "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5063, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5064, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5065, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5066, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5067, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 89, - "id": 5068 - }, - { - "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 194, - "id": 5069 - }, - { - "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 293, - "id": 5070 - }, - { - "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 135, - "id": 5071 - }, - { - "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 171, - "id": 5072 - }, - { - "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", - "source": "James Cameron", - "length": 104, - "id": 5073 - }, - { - "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", - "source": "Allen Saunders", - "length": 57, - "id": 5074 - }, - { - "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", - "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", - "length": 178, - "id": 5075 - }, - { - "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 325, - "id": 5076 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", - "length": 85, - "id": 5077 - }, - { - "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", - "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", - "length": 148, - "id": 5078 - }, - { - "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", - "source": "Neo, The Matrix", - "length": 556, - "id": 5079 - }, - { - "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", - "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5080 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", - "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", - "length": 207, - "id": 5081 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 121, - "id": 5082 - }, - { - "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 129, - "id": 5083 - }, - { - "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 119, - "id": 5084 - }, - { - "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 81, - "id": 5085 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 484, - "id": 5086 - }, - { - "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 60, - "id": 5087 - }, - { - "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", - "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5089 - }, - { - "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", - "length": 203, - "id": 5090 - }, - { - "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 222, - "id": 5091 - }, - { - "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", - "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 215, - "id": 5092 - }, - { - "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 177, - "id": 5094 - }, - { - "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5095 - }, - { - "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 205, - "id": 5096 - }, - { - "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 30, - "id": 5097 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 31, - "id": 5098 - }, - { - "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", - "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", - "length": 112, - "id": 5099 - }, - { - "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 279, - "id": 5100 - }, - { - "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 211, - "id": 5101 - }, - { - "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", - "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", - "length": 161, - "id": 5102 - }, - { - "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", - "source": "Terence Mckenna", - "length": 117, - "id": 5103 - }, - { - "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", - "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", - "length": 67, - "id": 5104 - }, - { - "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 504, - "id": 5105 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", - "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", - "length": 155, - "id": 5106 - }, - { - "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", - "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", - "length": 127, - "id": 5107 - }, - { - "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", - "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", - "length": 109, - "id": 5108 - }, - { - "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", - "source": "Max Payne", - "length": 164, - "id": 5109 - }, - { - "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", - "source": "Alex Honnold", - "length": 222, - "id": 5110 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", - "source": "The Way of Kings", - "length": 109, - "id": 5111 - }, - { - "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 111, - "id": 5112 - }, - { - "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 188, - "id": 5113 - }, - { - "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 121, - "id": 5114 - }, - { - "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 147, - "id": 5115 - }, - { - "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 630, - "id": 5116 - }, - { - "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 398, - "id": 5117 - }, - { - "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 129, - "id": 5118 - }, - { - "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", - "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", - "length": 249, - "id": 5119 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", - "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", - "length": 259, - "id": 5120 - }, - { - "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", - "source": "Maurice V. Wilkes, Computers Then And Now", - "length": 626, - "id": 5122 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes.", - "source": "Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "length": 208, - "id": 5123 - }, - { - "text": "He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 418, - "id": 5124 - }, - { - "text": "He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 427, - "id": 5125 - }, - { - "text": "Alone now, I leaned over the edge of my boat and looked down to the bottom of the sea. The volcano was gone. The water's calm surface reflected the blue of the sky. Little waves - like silk pajamas fluttering in a breeze - lapped against the side of the boat. There was nothing else. I stretched out in the bottom of the boat and closed my eyes, waiting for the rising tide to carry me where I belonged.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack", - "length": 403, - "id": 5126 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna tell you a story. You go to a party and you walk up to the guys and you're like, \"I just bought a two thousand dollar big screen TV, and surround sound.\" Or you walk up to the wife and you're like, \"What do you think of my new fifteen hundred dollar earrings I bought for you.\" And nobody bats an eye. But you mention once that you're thinking about spending seventeen hundred dollars on a set of headphones, and everybody loses their mind! And I don't understand why.", - "source": "Z Reviews - Auduze LCD-X", - "length": 478, - "id": 5127 - }, - { - "text": "The interconnected internet platforms have become more substantial than any country or corporation. Humans have redefined the \"net\" and how we interact with it. As technology develops, the virtual world is now capable of replacing the real one. Using a device installed behind the ear, humans can now easily sync to the virtual world. Thus, life is now completely different than the past centuries. The center of this change is the virtual internet space - cyTus, the world's largest virtual city.", - "source": "Cytus II", - "length": 497, - "id": 5129 - }, - { - "text": "I love you too, but I'm gonna mace you in the face!", - "source": "The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson", - "length": 51, - "id": 5130 - }, - { - "text": "Computation is essential, powerful, beautiful, challenging, ever-expanding and so is its theory.", - "source": "Elements of the Theory of Computation", - "length": 96, - "id": 5131 - }, - { - "text": "Atmospheric air is only about 20 percent oxygen, but that oxygen is a key component of the chemical reactions that keep the body alive, including the reactions that produce ATP. Brain cells are especially sensitive to lack of oxygen because of their requirement for a high-and-steady production of ATP. Brain damage is likely within five minutes without oxygen, and death is likely within ten minutes.", - "source": "Anatomy and Physiology, OpenStax", - "length": 401, - "id": 5132 - }, - { - "text": "Whoever you may be, governor, prince or anyone else, whom the gods may choose to exercise kingship, I have made you a tablet-box and written a stone tablet. I have deposited them for you in Cutha, in the cella of Nergal in the temple E-meslam. Behold this stone tablet, give ear to what this stone tablet says!", - "source": "Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh", - "length": 310, - "id": 5133 - }, - { - "text": "It's crazy to think that everything we could ever possibly say or write is massively outweighed by meaningless strings of letters and punctuation.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 146, - "id": 5135 - }, - { - "text": "This one time, me and my mom were going to go to a furry Christmas party, but we didn't end up going because of the fact that there was alcohol on the premises, and that she didn't wanna have to be a mom dragging her son through a crowd of furries. Both of those reasons were understandable. Okay, hopefully I won't have to talk about furries anymore.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 351, - "id": 5136 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, I'm back once again. Happy Pi Day! I memorized a bunch of digits of Pi once, not sure how many I still remember... I have literally nothing to write about now.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 166, - "id": 5137 - }, - { - "text": "All I hear right now is Baby Shark being blasted upstairs.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 58, - "id": 5138 - }, - { - "text": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, As You Like It", - "length": 66, - "id": 5139 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you seemed so sure it was real? But if you were unable to wake from that dream, how would you tell the difference between the dream world and the real world?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5142 - }, - { - "text": "Well, women in London must've learned not to breathe.", - "source": "Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 53, - "id": 5143 - }, - { - "text": "I think the real tragedy is in the inner war which is waged between people who love each other, a war out of which comes knowledge.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence", - "length": 131, - "id": 5144 - }, - { - "text": "What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life... a heroic and immeasurable gift.", - "source": "Frieda Lawrence", - "length": 168, - "id": 5145 - }, - { - "text": "\"Can it be getting dark so soon?\" He winced up at the sun. It's growing dim and I thought that the day had just begun. I think, before I travel on, I'll get a little rest... And, quietly, the boy died from that small pain in his chest.", - "source": "Michael Mack, Small pain in my chest", - "length": 236, - "id": 5146 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you remember, Ma, when I went off to war, you thought it was the best thing I could do? I was on the battleground, you were home... acting proud. You weren't there standing in my shoes.", - "source": "Bob Dylan, John Brown", - "length": 191, - "id": 5148 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thank you, my dear, for your offer,\" said the wife, rising, \"but I'm afraid no man can expect two blue birds of happiness to flutter round his feet, tearing out their little feathers!\"", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 185, - "id": 5149 - }, - { - "text": "The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly. Tom stood a moment to gather his dismembered faculties; and when he stepped forward to go to his punishment, the surprise, the gratitude, the adoration that shone upon him out of poor Becky's eyes seemed pay enough for a hundred floggings. Inspired by the splendour of his own act, he took without an outcry the most merciless flogging that even Mr. Dobbins had ever administered; and also received with indifference the added cruelty of a command to remain two hours after school should be dismissed - for he knew who would wait for him outside till his captivity was done, and not count the tedious time as loss either.", - "source": "Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer", - "length": 679, - "id": 5150 - }, - { - "text": "Fret not, my dear friend, for I have learned the truth. It matters not whether one is dirty or clean, for can cleanliness exist without filthiness, and would we know filthiness without cleanliness? We must not re-enact the history that divides us, rather we must embrace that which draws us together.", - "source": "Spongebob Squarepants", - "length": 300, - "id": 5151 - }, - { - "text": "So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way I am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.", - "source": "Jeff Kinney, Dog Days", - "length": 120, - "id": 5152 - }, - { - "text": "Slow starvation, the doctor called it! You see he went to work in such a way! Would keep the shop on; wouldn't have a soul touch his boots except himself. When he got an order, it took him such a time. People won't wait. He lost everybody. And there he'd sit, goin' on and on - I will say that for him - not a man in London made a better boot! But look at the competition! He never advertised! Would 'ave the best leather, too, and do it all 'imself. Well, there it is. What could you expect with his ideas?", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 507, - "id": 5153 - }, - { - "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 276, - "id": 5154 - }, - { - "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 303, - "id": 5155 - }, - { - "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. Suddenly he found himself with them, coming along the trail and looking for himself. And, still with them, he came around a turn in the trail and found himself lying in the snow. He did not belong with himself any more, for even then he was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow. It certainly was cold, was his thought. When he got back to the States he could tell the folks what real cold was. He drifted on from this to a vision of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek. He could see him quite clearly, warm and comfortable, and smoking a pipe.", - "source": "Jack London, To Build a Fire", - "length": 627, - "id": 5156 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, I'm back again. My computer crashed AGAIN, and I was ignorant enough to not save my work, so that means I have to start this part of the text all over again. That's quite unfortunate. But did I mention that my Google Chrome is working again? That's the good news.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 267, - "id": 5157 - }, - { - "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 235, - "id": 5159 - }, - { - "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 103, - "id": 5160 - }, - { - "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 91, - "id": 5161 - }, - { - "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 212, - "id": 5162 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't give up on our dreams! We changed our dreams into your dream. That's what parents do. That's what family does.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 120, - "id": 5163 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 280, - "id": 5164 - }, - { - "text": "Everyday people keep hurting each other, it's no wonder why you doubt what other people in the world tell you.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 110, - "id": 5165 - }, - { - "text": "Fun things. Happy things. They'll all eventually change someday, you know? But can you still love this place?", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 109, - "id": 5166 - }, - { - "text": "The shape of the wedding ring has two meanings. One is eternity. The other is completeness.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 91, - "id": 5167 - }, - { - "text": "You shouldn't hold back your tears. You should let it all out while you still can - because when you get bigger sometimes you can't cry even if you have something to cry about.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 176, - "id": 5168 - }, - { - "text": "If I'm around you, I don't think I'll ever be bored.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 52, - "id": 5169 - }, - { - "text": "We have no choice but to accept the one and only life we're given, no matter how cruel and heartless it might be.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 113, - "id": 5170 - }, - { - "text": "One person needed courage to face the past. Another person needed effort to make a dream come true. Yet another person needed time and friends. What about you?", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 159, - "id": 5171 - }, - { - "text": "Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5172 - }, - { - "text": "No matter what kind of past you had, don't lose sight of yourself.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 66, - "id": 5173 - }, - { - "text": "If I can meet you again, against the 6 billion to 1 odds, and even if your body can't move, I'll marry you.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5174 - }, - { - "text": "Even if you can't walk or stand and even if you can't have kids, I'll still marry you, I'll always stay by your side.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 117, - "id": 5175 - }, - { - "text": "I heard that when things were painful for her, she'd cover her ears with headphones and escape to the world of music. I tried it too. It was like everything was blown away. The vocals screamed for me. They grieved for me. The ones who put on the act of common sense were wrong. Those who cried were right.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 305, - "id": 5176 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 70, - "id": 5177 - }, - { - "text": "They come without asking, and then they leave just the same. But once you meet them, even if nobody ever knows it, that encounter will change your life for the better.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 167, - "id": 5178 - }, - { - "text": "It's times like this that I wish I could come up with an appropriate response. I hate myself for not being able to reply properly.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 130, - "id": 5179 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have anywhere to go... but I can't just selfishly disappear either.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 77, - "id": 5180 - }, - { - "text": "It's strange isn't it. The two groups, which looked like they hated each other, are now shining the same color as they vanish into the distant sky.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 147, - "id": 5181 - }, - { - "text": "You know Mitch, now that I'm dying, I've become much more interesting to people.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 80, - "id": 5182 - }, - { - "text": "I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 212, - "id": 5183 - }, - { - "text": "He feared sleep. He'd say that his soul would slip down into nothing. They say that man never dreamt after the day he cut his pillow.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 133, - "id": 5184 - }, - { - "text": "If you could see everything but couldn't change any of it, or if you could live in freedom in darkness... Which do you think is more fortunate? I think it might not be that bad living in the dark, remembering the light.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 219, - "id": 5185 - }, - { - "text": "ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. Often, it begins with the legs and works its way up. You lose control of your thigh muscles, so that you cannot support yourself standing. You lose control of your trunk muscles, so that you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive, you are breathing through a tube in a hole in your throat, while your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk, perhaps able to blink, or cluck a tongue, like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh. This takes no more than five years from the day you contract the disease.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 658, - "id": 5186 - }, - { - "text": "The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. My dream was to be a famous musician (I played the piano), but after several years of dark, empty nightclubs, broken promises, bands that kept breaking and producers who seemed excited about everyone but me, the dream soured. I was failing for the first time in my life.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 457, - "id": 5187 - }, - { - "text": "After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 264, - "id": 5188 - }, - { - "text": "Miodec you've literally made one of the best typing websites on the web to date but you still lazily sit there watching youtube videos with a measly 140 wpm smh. And have you forgotten about tribes completely? That's like saying ur gonna hurt someone, but then never do it and leave them scared for the rest of their life (bad example) except you tell us about tribes and leave everyone excited but never deliver.", - "source": "Miodec Bully Rank Copy Pasta", - "length": 413, - "id": 5189 - }, - { - "text": "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 247, - "id": 5190 - }, - { - "text": "\"You see,\" he says to the girl, \"you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.\"", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 317, - "id": 5191 - }, - { - "text": "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.", - "source": "Stupid Monkey, Simpsons S4 E17", - "length": 53, - "id": 5192 - }, - { - "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 289, - "id": 5195 - }, - { - "text": "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 64, - "id": 5196 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I know you doubt me. I know - I know you always have. And you're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that's where I belong. That's home. And that's why I came back. Because... you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", - "length": 326, - "id": 5197 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 66, - "id": 5198 - }, - { - "text": "I never expected a money success. In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties. It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain a certain position and to send his children to good schools. Well, one day I came to a blank page in an exam book and I scribbled on it. 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I knew no more about the creatures than that, and it was years before his story grew. I don't know where the word came from. You can't catch your mind out. It might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. Certainly not rabbit, as some people think. Babbitt has the same bourgeois smugness that hobbits do. His world is the same limited place.", - "source": "An Interview with J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 874, - "id": 5199 - }, - { - "text": "\"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!\" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say \"out of the frying-pan into the fire\" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 178, - "id": 5200 - }, - { - "text": "This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 284, - "id": 5201 - }, - { - "text": "Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer... was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of The Green Fields and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way, the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 408, - "id": 5202 - }, - { - "text": "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 247, - "id": 5203 - }, - { - "text": "As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 185, - "id": 5204 - }, - { - "text": "And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 164, - "id": 5205 - }, - { - "text": "You've got about as much charm as a dead slug.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 46, - "id": 5206 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.", - "source": "Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games", - "length": 85, - "id": 5207 - }, - { - "text": "If any of you are ever passing Bag-End, tea is at four. There's plenty of it. You are welcome anytime. Oh, and don't bother knocking!", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 133, - "id": 5208 - }, - { - "text": "Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 59, - "id": 5209 - }, - { - "text": "Gale gave me a sense of security I'd lacked since my father's death. His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods. I became a much better hunter when I didn't have to look over my shoulder constantly, when someone was watching my back... Being out in the woods with Gale... sometimes I was actually happy.", - "source": "Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games", - "length": 324, - "id": 5211 - }, - { - "text": "Destroying things is much easier than making them.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 50, - "id": 5212 - }, - { - "text": "Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the man with the megaphones.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 172, - "id": 5213 - }, - { - "text": "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 131, - "id": 5215 - }, - { - "text": "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.", - "source": "Jack, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 123, - "id": 5216 - }, - { - "text": "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 308, - "id": 5217 - }, - { - "text": "\"I don't feel very much like Pooh today,\" said Pooh. \"There, there,\" said Piglet. \"I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 126, - "id": 5218 - }, - { - "text": "Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 154, - "id": 5219 - }, - { - "text": "\"We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?\" asked Piglet. \"Even longer,\" Pooh answered.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 87, - "id": 5220 - }, - { - "text": "If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 140, - "id": 5221 - }, - { - "text": "\"What a long time whoever lives here is answering this door.\" And he knocked again. \"But Pooh,\" said Piglet, \"it's your own house!\" \"Oh!\" said Pooh. \"So it is,\" he said. \"Well, let's go in.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 190, - "id": 5222 - }, - { - "text": "If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 100, - "id": 5223 - }, - { - "text": "Both the stack and the heap are parts of memory that are available to your code to use at runtime, but they are structured in different ways. The stack stores values in the order it gets them and removes the values in the opposite order. This is referred to as last in, first out. Think of a stack of plates: when you add more plates, you put them on top of the pile, and when you need a plate, you take one off the top. Adding or removing plates from the middle or bottom wouldn't work as well! Adding data is called pushing onto the stack, and removing data is called popping off the stack.", - "source": "The Rust Programming Language", - "length": 592, - "id": 5224 - }, - { - "text": "Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 108, - "id": 5225 - }, - { - "text": "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 124, - "id": 5226 - }, - { - "text": "\"I wonder what Piglet is doing,\" thought Pooh. \"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.\"", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 89, - "id": 5227 - }, - { - "text": "My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 98, - "id": 5228 - }, - { - "text": "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 61, - "id": 5229 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell, Master Burglar. Go back to your books, and your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 178, - "id": 5230 - }, - { - "text": "I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 74, - "id": 5231 - }, - { - "text": "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 112, - "id": 5232 - }, - { - "text": "We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 161, - "id": 5235 - }, - { - "text": "I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 476, - "id": 5236 - }, - { - "text": "\"Go back?\" he thought. \"No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!\" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 255, - "id": 5237 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 169, - "id": 5238 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 85, - "id": 5239 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell, King under the Mountain! This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils - that has been more than any Baggins deserves.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 218, - "id": 5240 - }, - { - "text": "\"Very well!\" said Bilbo very downcast, and also rather annoyed. \"Come along back to your nice cells, and I will lock you all in again, and you can sit there comfortably and think of a better plan - but I don't suppose I shall ever get hold of the keys again, even if I feel inclined to try.\"", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 291, - "id": 5242 - }, - { - "text": "'It will not be long now,' thought Bilbo, 'before the goblins win the Gate, and we are all slaughtered or driven down and captured. Really it is enough to make one weep, after all one has gone through. I would rather old Smaug had been left with all the wretched treasure, than that these vile creatures should get it, and poor old Bombur, and Balin and Fili and Kili and all the rest come to a bad end; and Bard too, and the Lake-men and the merry elves. Misery me! I have heard songs of many battles, and I have always understood that defeat may be glorious. It seems very uncomfortable, not to say distressing. I wish I was well out of it.'", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 643, - "id": 5243 - }, - { - "text": "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 80, - "id": 5244 - }, - { - "text": "The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 84, - "id": 5248 - }, - { - "text": "Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue! It's such a waste of precious time!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 83, - "id": 5249 - }, - { - "text": "Ye have told me so often tonight that I am a man (though indeed I would have been a wolf with you to my life's end) that I feel your words are true.", - "source": "Mowgli, The Jungle Book", - "length": 148, - "id": 5251 - }, - { - "text": "Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called cannibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 132, - "id": 5252 - }, - { - "text": "Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.", - "source": "The Office, US", - "length": 99, - "id": 5253 - }, - { - "text": "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!", - "source": "Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 124, - "id": 5254 - }, - { - "text": "We are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 94, - "id": 5255 - }, - { - "text": "I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.", - "source": "Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5257 - }, - { - "text": "Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas... Imported direct from Loompaland... And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 380, - "id": 5260 - }, - { - "text": "One thought that grows in the abyss of time, fills up the vast space with matter and life. Free of the darkness that fetters the soul, find at the source the end of your goal.", - "source": "Epica \"Abyss of time\"", - "length": 175, - "id": 5261 - }, - { - "text": "There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 206, - "id": 5262 - }, - { - "text": "Sorrow hides well in your shell. A fellow man with hurt to spare. Dear one, here I am to share the fear. An act of kindness, without an amen. How's the heart, underneath the silence? How's the heart, drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean. Come in, the fire's warm. Burn the rope and dance some more.", - "source": "Nightwish \"How's the heart\"", - "length": 310, - "id": 5263 - }, - { - "text": "I went to a hunting party once, I didn't like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 95, - "id": 5264 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 201, - "id": 5265 - }, - { - "text": "Speak English! I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!", - "source": "Eaglet, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 114, - "id": 5266 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5268 - }, - { - "text": "Every adventure requires a first step.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 38, - "id": 5269 - }, - { - "text": "Well, some go this way, and some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the shortcut.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 103, - "id": 5270 - }, - { - "text": "Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem \"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning\" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been \"disappointed\" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled \"My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles\" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. Vogon poetry is mild by comparison.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 906, - "id": 5271 - }, - { - "text": "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:\n1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.\n2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.\n3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 442, - "id": 5272 - }, - { - "text": "How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.", - "source": "Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon", - "length": 212, - "id": 5273 - }, - { - "text": "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.", - "source": "Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon", - "length": 525, - "id": 5274 - }, - { - "text": "The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.", - "source": "George Orwell, 1984", - "length": 230, - "id": 5275 - }, - { - "text": "The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", - "length": 486, - "id": 5276 - }, - { - "text": "He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", - "length": 227, - "id": 5278 - }, - { - "text": "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", - "length": 144, - "id": 5280 - }, - { - "text": "A learning experience is one of those things that says \"You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.\"", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 105, - "id": 5281 - }, - { - "text": "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 41, - "id": 5282 - }, - { - "text": "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.", - "source": "Douglas Adams", - "length": 77, - "id": 5283 - }, - { - "text": "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 69, - "id": 5284 - }, - { - "text": "One of the things Ford had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day', 'You're very tall', or 'You seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?' At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation, he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical, and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 843, - "id": 5285 - }, - { - "text": "Drink up. The world's about to end.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 35, - "id": 5286 - }, - { - "text": "If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.", - "source": "Zaphod, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 85, - "id": 5287 - }, - { - "text": "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 386, - "id": 5288 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 123, - "id": 5289 - }, - { - "text": "One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 432, - "id": 5290 - }, - { - "text": "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 124, - "id": 5291 - }, - { - "text": "Ties. Lots of ties. Mathematicians have revealed there are over 177,000 distinct ways to knot a neck tie - more than 1000 times the number that was previously thought. They got their inspiration from an unusual style featured in the film The Matrix Reloaded.", - "source": "Jacob Aron, Matrix villain spawns 177,000 ways to knot a tie.", - "length": 258, - "id": 5292 - }, - { - "text": "Actually, I never did any of these things. Teddy Roosevelt did. I was manufactured in a mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie. I never shot a wild beast. I'm not even brave enough to tell that beautiful woman I love her. But you... you gotta finish the job this time. You can't quit.", - "source": "Teddy Roosevelt statue, Night at the Museum", - "length": 279, - "id": 5294 - }, - { - "text": "When one has lived for quite a long time in a particular civilization and has often tried to discover what its origins were and along what path it has developed, one sometimes also feels tempted to take a glance in the other direction and to ask what further fate lies before it and what transformations it is destined to undergo. But one soon finds that the value of such an enquiry is diminished from the outset by several factors. Above all, because there are only a few people who can survey human activity in its full compass. Most people have been obliged to restrict themselves to a single, or a few, fields of it. But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future. And there is the further difficulty that precisely in a judgment of this kind the subjective expectations of the individual play a part which is difficult to assess; and these turn out to be dependent on purely personal factors in his own experiences, on the greater or lesser optimism of his attitude to life, as it has been dictated for him by his temperament or by his success or failure. Finally, the curious fact makes itself felt that in general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud,The future of an illusion", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5296 - }, - { - "text": "Visual illusions such as the Necker Cube or the Penrose Impossible Triangle or the Hollow Mask illusion demonstrate that the 'reality' we see consists of constrained models constructed in the brain. The Necker Cube's two-dimensional pattern of lines on paper is compatible with two alternative constructions of a three-dimensional cube, and the brain adopts the two models in turn: the alternation is palpable and its frequency can even be measured. The Penrose Triangle's lines on paper are incompatible with any real-world object. These illusions tease the brain's model-construction software, thereby revealing its existence.", - "source": "Richard Dawkins, Science in the soul", - "length": 628, - "id": 5298 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bounce me off the wall again, that was mostly violent.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz - ball & stick", - "length": 60, - "id": 5300 - }, - { - "text": "Oh hi, thanks for checking in, I'm still a piece of garbage.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz - still a piece of garbage", - "length": 60, - "id": 5301 - }, - { - "text": "The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had - he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 600, - "id": 5305 - }, - { - "text": "And so as the lowly snail sheddeth his shell, and the lofty gull molteth his feathers, the brightest of friendships must dimmeth as the setting sun.", - "source": "Spongebob SquarePants - The Monster Who Came To Bikini Bottom", - "length": 148, - "id": 5306 - }, - { - "text": "Humans, Hickling said, have a fundamental need to create and maintain a narrative for their lives in which the universe is not implacable and heartless, that terrible things do not happen at random, and that catastrophe can be avoided if you are vigilant and responsible.", - "source": "Fatal Distraction", - "length": 271, - "id": 5307 - }, - { - "text": "For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.", - "source": "Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves", - "length": 321, - "id": 5308 - }, - { - "text": "As the dean drew his final breath, he'd realize what so many others had realized when they'd challenged him. What all of Panem would know one day. What was inevitable. Snow lands on top.", - "source": "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes", - "length": 186, - "id": 5309 - }, - { - "text": "Lamp oil, rope, bombs, you want it? It's yours, my friend, as long as you have enough rupees. Sorry Link, I can't give credit. Come back when you're a little... hmm richer!", - "source": "Morshu, Link: The Faces of Evil", - "length": 172, - "id": 5310 - }, - { - "text": "How silly, she was thinking, to use the word ready. When can you be ready for anything? Or is life, in fact, a continuum of things you must prepare for, and only with perfect preparation can you exist in the present?", - "source": "Three Women", - "length": 216, - "id": 5313 - }, - { - "text": "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.", - "source": "Captain Jean Luc Picard", - "length": 90, - "id": 5314 - }, - { - "text": "All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art Of War", - "length": 257, - "id": 5315 - }, - { - "text": "I had two longings and one was fighting the other... I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.", - "source": "Jean Rhys", - "length": 106, - "id": 5316 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not so good with the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?", - "source": "Friends", - "length": 75, - "id": 5318 - }, - { - "text": "Please note that I am the Standard Orientation Protocol, and that my voice has been explicitly chosen to remind you that I am not a part of your Patient Care Team. I do not care.", - "source": "Superliminal", - "length": 178, - "id": 5319 - }, - { - "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.", - "source": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", - "length": 61, - "id": 5320 - }, - { - "text": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", - "source": "Maurice Ravel", - "length": 52, - "id": 5321 - }, - { - "text": "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", - "source": "John Cage", - "length": 90, - "id": 5323 - }, - { - "text": "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.", - "source": "Leopold Stokowski", - "length": 83, - "id": 5324 - }, - { - "text": "My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.", - "source": "Edward Elgar", - "length": 132, - "id": 5325 - }, - { - "text": "I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.", - "source": "Igor Stravinsky", - "length": 67, - "id": 5326 - }, - { - "text": "Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.", - "source": "Chet Atkins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5329 - }, - { - "text": "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 61, - "id": 5330 - }, - { - "text": "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 127, - "id": 5331 - }, - { - "text": "Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.", - "source": "Edward Bulwer-Lytton", - "length": 74, - "id": 5332 - }, - { - "text": "Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.", - "source": "George Eliot", - "length": 63, - "id": 5333 - }, - { - "text": "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.", - "source": "Plato", - "length": 105, - "id": 5334 - }, - { - "text": "If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 99, - "id": 5335 - }, - { - "text": "Artificial intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, intruders? It's worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity's salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn't it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity's eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall into the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.' You now face godlike judgment. May it extend eternally.", - "source": "Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Deep Stone Crypt - Crypt AI", - "length": 738, - "id": 5336 - }, - { - "text": "Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic", - "length": 529, - "id": 5337 - }, - { - "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", - "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", - "length": 73, - "id": 5338 - }, - { - "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 260, - "id": 5339 - }, - { - "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 110, - "id": 5340 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant.", - "source": "Thomas Schmidt", - "length": 59, - "id": 5341 - }, - { - "text": "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.", - "source": "John Donne", - "length": 71, - "id": 5342 - }, - { - "text": "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.", - "source": "George Bernard Shaw", - "length": 108, - "id": 5343 - }, - { - "text": "It's hard to see Heaven when you know you're Hell-bound.", - "source": "Lukas Graham - 7 Years (Sik World Remix)", - "length": 56, - "id": 5346 - }, - { - "text": "One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", - "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", - "length": 397, - "id": 5347 - }, - { - "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", - "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", - "length": 54, - "id": 5348 - }, - { - "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", - "source": "Karl Marx", - "length": 222, - "id": 5349 - }, - { - "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", - "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", - "length": 201, - "id": 5350 - }, - { - "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 129, - "id": 5351 - }, - { - "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", - "source": "Newsweek Magazine", - "length": 649, - "id": 5352 - }, - { - "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", - "source": "Nails In The Fence", - "length": 1070, - "id": 5354 - }, - { - "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", - "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", - "length": 297, - "id": 5355 - }, - { - "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 278, - "id": 5356 - }, - { - "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 282, - "id": 5357 - }, - { - "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", - "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", - "length": 318, - "id": 5358 - }, - { - "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 63, - "id": 5360 - }, - { - "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", - "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", - "length": 198, - "id": 5361 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. Yours Truly - Princess Toadstool, Peach.", - "source": "Super Mario 64", - "length": 106, - "id": 5362 - }, - { - "text": "You have to do the things you don't want to do, before you can do the things you truly want to do.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 98, - "id": 5363 - }, - { - "text": "When you find yourself wishing that a certain person was also here, that person is like family to you. Regardless of how long or how well you know them.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 152, - "id": 5364 - }, - { - "text": "Frustrations will not last forever. Nobody can keep on going without some measure of reward.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 92, - "id": 5365 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think the act of investing efforts, trying your best is more precious than the result. But for mentors as well as their pupils, that approach feels bitter. 'I did my best', 'the fight was close'... words like that blow past and die out like the wind. Only the result is a stone. The stone you can reach by doing your best.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 334, - "id": 5366 - }, - { - "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 167, - "id": 5367 - }, - { - "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 66, - "id": 5368 - }, - { - "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 95, - "id": 5369 - }, - { - "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 105, - "id": 5370 - }, - { - "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", - "source": "Your Name", - "length": 60, - "id": 5371 - }, - { - "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", - "length": 93, - "id": 5372 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", - "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", - "length": 294, - "id": 5373 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", - "source": "Meet the Heavy", - "length": 102, - "id": 5375 - }, - { - "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 156, - "id": 5376 - }, - { - "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", - "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", - "length": 213, - "id": 5377 - }, - { - "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 182, - "id": 5378 - }, - { - "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 474, - "id": 5379 - }, - { - "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 381, - "id": 5380 - }, - { - "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 290, - "id": 5381 - }, - { - "text": "She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 494, - "id": 5382 - }, - { - "text": "I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 99, - "id": 5384 - }, - { - "text": "Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.", - "source": "From the Earth to the Moon", - "length": 295, - "id": 5385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't wanna be \"the bee's knees\". I don't wanna be any kind of \"knees\"! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees.", - "source": "RWBY", - "length": 123, - "id": 5386 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 529, - "id": 5388 - }, - { - "text": "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 106, - "id": 5389 - }, - { - "text": "I have a file with 900 pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 309, - "id": 5390 - }, - { - "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 75, - "id": 5391 - }, - { - "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", - "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", - "length": 427, - "id": 5392 - }, - { - "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", - "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", - "length": 416, - "id": 5393 - }, - { - "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 96, - "id": 5394 - }, - { - "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 64, - "id": 5395 - }, - { - "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 171, - "id": 5396 - }, - { - "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", - "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", - "length": 205, - "id": 5397 - }, - { - "text": "One and one and one is three.", - "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", - "length": 29, - "id": 5398 - }, - { - "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", - "length": 91, - "id": 5399 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", - "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 732, - "id": 5400 - }, - { - "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 92, - "id": 5403 - }, - { - "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 68, - "id": 5404 - }, - { - "text": "I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 103, - "id": 5405 - }, - { - "text": "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 335, - "id": 5406 - }, - { - "text": "The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of nonsense, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 466, - "id": 5407 - }, - { - "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 560, - "id": 5408 - }, - { - "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 46, - "id": 5409 - }, - { - "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 296, - "id": 5410 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 87, - "id": 5411 - }, - { - "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", - "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", - "length": 174, - "id": 5416 - }, - { - "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 250, - "id": 5417 - }, - { - "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 428, - "id": 5418 - }, - { - "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", - "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", - "length": 260, - "id": 5419 - }, - { - "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", - "source": "The Beatles", - "length": 260, - "id": 5420 - }, - { - "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", - "length": 299, - "id": 5421 - }, - { - "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", - "length": 456, - "id": 5422 - }, - { - "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", - "length": 208, - "id": 5423 - }, - { - "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", - "source": "The Legend of Korra", - "length": 110, - "id": 5424 - }, - { - "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 138, - "id": 5425 - }, - { - "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", - "length": 226, - "id": 5426 - }, - { - "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", - "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", - "length": 190, - "id": 5427 - }, - { - "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", - "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", - "length": 72, - "id": 5429 - }, - { - "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 89, - "id": 5430 - }, - { - "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", - "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", - "length": 91, - "id": 5431 - }, - { - "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 95, - "id": 5432 - }, - { - "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", - "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", - "length": 349, - "id": 5433 - }, - { - "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 85, - "id": 5434 - }, - { - "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 66, - "id": 5435 - }, - { - "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", - "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", - "length": 122, - "id": 5436 - }, - { - "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 240, - "id": 5437 - }, - { - "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 365, - "id": 5438 - }, - { - "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", - "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", - "length": 403, - "id": 5439 - }, - { - "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", - "source": "SCP-5000", - "length": 487, - "id": 5441 - }, - { - "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", - "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", - "length": 892, - "id": 5442 - }, - { - "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", - "source": "A Tongue-twister", - "length": 106, - "id": 5443 - }, - { - "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", - "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", - "length": 57, - "id": 5444 - }, - { - "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", - "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", - "length": 69, - "id": 5446 - }, - { - "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", - "length": 88, - "id": 5447 - }, - { - "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", - "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", - "length": 54, - "id": 5452 - }, - { - "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 55, - "id": 5453 - }, - { - "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 62, - "id": 5456 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", - "source": "They Might Be Giants", - "length": 62, - "id": 5459 - }, - { - "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 84, - "id": 5460 - }, - { - "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", - "length": 100, - "id": 5461 - }, - { - "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 231, - "id": 5462 - }, - { - "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 94, - "id": 5463 - }, - { - "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 258, - "id": 5464 - }, - { - "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", - "length": 1140, - "id": 5465 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", - "source": "Ready Player Two", - "length": 588, - "id": 5466 - }, - { - "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", - "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", - "length": 140, - "id": 5472 - }, - { - "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", - "source": "Holes", - "length": 74, - "id": 5477 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 192, - "id": 5478 - }, - { - "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 78, - "id": 5482 - }, - { - "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 947, - "id": 5485 - }, - { - "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 559, - "id": 5487 - }, - { - "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", - "source": "91 days", - "length": 474, - "id": 5488 - }, - { - "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 172, - "id": 5489 - }, - { - "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 359, - "id": 5490 - }, - { - "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", - "source": "Fred Brooks", - "length": 78, - "id": 5491 - }, - { - "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", - "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", - "length": 210, - "id": 5492 - }, - { - "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 242, - "id": 5493 - }, - { - "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 200, - "id": 5494 - }, - { - "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", - "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", - "length": 189, - "id": 5495 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5496 - }, - { - "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 218, - "id": 5497 - }, - { - "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 201, - "id": 5498 - }, - { - "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "length": 150, - "id": 5499 - }, - { - "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 145, - "id": 5500 - }, - { - "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5501 - }, - { - "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 106, - "id": 5502 - }, - { - "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 196, - "id": 5503 - }, - { - "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", - "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", - "length": 125, - "id": 5505 - }, - { - "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", - "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 471, - "id": 5506 - }, - { - "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", - "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", - "length": 240, - "id": 5507 - }, - { - "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", - "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", - "length": 483, - "id": 5508 - }, - { - "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 240, - "id": 5509 - }, - { - "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 584, - "id": 5510 - }, - { - "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", - "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", - "length": 375, - "id": 5511 - }, - { - "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", - "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", - "length": 413, - "id": 5512 - }, - { - "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", - "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 273, - "id": 5513 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", - "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 83, - "id": 5514 - }, - { - "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", - "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", - "length": 661, - "id": 5515 - }, - { - "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", - "source": "Five Feet Apart", - "length": 523, - "id": 5517 - }, - { - "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", - "source": "Exurb1a", - "length": 169, - "id": 5519 - }, - { - "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", - "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 537, - "id": 5520 - }, - { - "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", - "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", - "length": 236, - "id": 5521 - }, - { - "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", - "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", - "length": 211, - "id": 5522 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 634, - "id": 5523 - }, - { - "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", - "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", - "length": 727, - "id": 5524 - }, - { - "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", - "source": "Celeste", - "length": 437, - "id": 5525 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 496, - "id": 5526 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 352, - "id": 5527 - }, - { - "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", - "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", - "length": 589, - "id": 5528 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 223, - "id": 5529 - }, - { - "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 399, - "id": 5530 - }, - { - "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", - "source": "The Cooper Institute", - "length": 575, - "id": 5531 - }, - { - "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 534, - "id": 5533 - }, - { - "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 463, - "id": 5534 - }, - { - "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 160, - "id": 5535 - }, - { - "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 142, - "id": 5536 - }, - { - "text": "No one knows what the future holds. That's why its potential is infinite.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 73, - "id": 5537 - }, - { - "text": "It feels like time is passing so quickly. Damn you, Einstein! Your science is crowding in on our kiss! He was right. The passage of time depends entirely on where you're standing. Relativity Theory... it's so romantic. But it's just so tragic too.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 247, - "id": 5538 - }, - { - "text": "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.", - "source": "Martin Fowler", - "length": 111, - "id": 5539 - }, - { - "text": "Let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks, and the only limit is your imagination. Let's go wherever you want to go. Climb the tallest mountains, venture down to the darkest caves. Build whatever you want; day or night, rain or shine, because this is the most significant sandbox you'll ever set foot in. Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and fight off the danger of the night. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 650, - "id": 5541 - }, - { - "text": "For a brief stint in high school, Scout joined the track team in one of his many schemes to pick up girls. He was kicked off the team after three days when everyone realized he was 23-years-old and also not enrolled in school.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2", - "length": 226, - "id": 5542 - }, - { - "text": "I am Heavy Weapons guy, and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds.", - "source": "Team Fortess 2, Meet the Heavy", - "length": 255, - "id": 5545 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout the galaxy a legend is told, on a distant planet a grim fortress stood, until a deadly force parted the heavens and descended upon the keep. Though brought to ruin, the ashes of that place hold an artifact of impossible power - a gun that can kill the past. Over time the fortress was rebuilt, and some who hear the legend would risk everything for another shot - to claim their prize and make what was done, undone they must - Enter The Gungeon.", - "source": "Enter The Gungeon", - "length": 457, - "id": 5546 - }, - { - "text": "You don't want to go for realism, you can go for better than realism. What do you mean better than realism? How about an elephant with blue eyes.", - "source": "Terry A. Davis", - "length": 145, - "id": 5547 - }, - { - "text": "You happen upon a group of what looks like purple fire spirits dancing around a large bonfire. The spirits toss small bones and fragments into the fire, which brilliantly erupts each time. As you approach, the spirits all turn to you, expectantly...", - "source": "Slay The Spire", - "length": 249, - "id": 5558 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember me? I'll give you a clue... Does April the 3rd mean anything to you? I believe that was the day of our first encounter. You look like you might be remembering something...", - "source": "Hotline miami", - "length": 190, - "id": 5559 - }, - { - "text": "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.", - "source": "Darkest Dungeon", - "length": 67, - "id": 5560 - }, - { - "text": "You feel an evil presence watching you...", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 41, - "id": 5561 - }, - { - "text": "The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released.", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 57, - "id": 5562 - }, - { - "text": "There's something very strange about this place... the layout seems to change all the time. I've never seen the same room twice!", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 128, - "id": 5564 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings! My name is Yang, and this is my journal. Dusty maps and rumors of amazing treasures have led me here, deep under the desert.", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 135, - "id": 5565 - }, - { - "text": "Play is the highest form of research.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 37, - "id": 5568 - }, - { - "text": "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.", - "source": "Alan Turing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5569 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", - "source": "Thomas A. Edison", - "length": 109, - "id": 5570 - }, - { - "text": "You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.", - "source": "C.S Lewis", - "length": 67, - "id": 5571 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.", - "source": "Charles Darwin", - "length": 117, - "id": 5572 - }, - { - "text": "You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.", - "source": "Stephen King", - "length": 67, - "id": 5573 - }, - { - "text": "We know what we are, but not what we may be.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 44, - "id": 5574 - }, - { - "text": "The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.", - "source": "Juliette Gordon Low", - "length": 68, - "id": 5575 - }, - { - "text": "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 42, - "id": 5576 - }, - { - "text": "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 59, - "id": 5578 - }, - { - "text": "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.", - "source": "Julie Andrews", - "length": 57, - "id": 5579 - }, - { - "text": "There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 61, - "id": 5580 - }, - { - "text": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 44, - "id": 5581 - }, - { - "text": "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 202, - "id": 5582 - }, - { - "text": "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 95, - "id": 5583 - }, - { - "text": "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.", - "source": "Yogi Berra", - "length": 83, - "id": 5584 - }, - { - "text": "A room without books is like a body without a soul.", - "source": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", - "length": 51, - "id": 5586 - }, - { - "text": "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.", - "source": "Bernard M. Baruch", - "length": 107, - "id": 5587 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.", - "source": "William W. Purkey", - "length": 152, - "id": 5588 - }, - { - "text": "Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.", - "source": "Robert H. Schuller", - "length": 57, - "id": 5589 - }, - { - "text": "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", - "source": "Rabindranath Tagore", - "length": 68, - "id": 5590 - }, - { - "text": "I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work.", - "source": "Thomas A. Edison", - "length": 69, - "id": 5591 - }, - { - "text": "The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.", - "source": "Tim Berners-Lee", - "length": 101, - "id": 5592 - }, - { - "text": "Be the change that you wish to see in the world.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 48, - "id": 5593 - }, - { - "text": "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Robert Frost", - "length": 75, - "id": 5594 - }, - { - "text": "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 137, - "id": 5595 - }, - { - "text": "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 57, - "id": 5596 - }, - { - "text": "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.", - "source": "Rob Siltanen", - "length": 549, - "id": 5598 - }, - { - "text": "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 302, - "id": 5599 - }, - { - "text": "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.", - "source": "J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 302, - "id": 5601 - }, - { - "text": "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.", - "source": "Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey", - "length": 102, - "id": 5602 - }, - { - "text": "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 109, - "id": 5603 - }, - { - "text": "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 129, - "id": 5604 - }, - { - "text": "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 74, - "id": 5605 - }, - { - "text": "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 161, - "id": 5607 - }, - { - "text": "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 90, - "id": 5608 - }, - { - "text": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well", - "length": 40, - "id": 5609 - }, - { - "text": "That which does not kill us makes us stronger.", - "source": "Friedrich Nietzsche", - "length": 46, - "id": 5610 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it, no larger than a single grain of malt.", - "source": "Disco Elysium", - "length": 121, - "id": 5611 - }, - { - "text": "Time without purpose is a prison. I have glimpsed into the mind of eternity, perhaps the mind of God, and found nothing but silence. I think we should just be friends.", - "source": "Jessica, Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 1", - "length": 167, - "id": 5612 - }, - { - "text": "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, \"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.\" I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "length": 403, - "id": 5613 - }, - { - "text": "The believers, in their mutual love, compassion, and sympathy are like a single body; if one of its organs suffers, the whole body will respond to it with sleeplessness and fever.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 179, - "id": 5614 - }, - { - "text": "Many people were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans to begin with.", - "source": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 248, - "id": 5615 - }, - { - "text": "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.", - "source": "Hotel California - The Eagles", - "length": 50, - "id": 5616 - }, - { - "text": "If you get news of the outbreak of a plague in a land, do not enter it, and if it breaks out in a land in which you are, do not leave it.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 137, - "id": 5617 - }, - { - "text": "I can't erase all the things that I've done, but all the mistakes made me who I've become.", - "source": "Fletcher, Healing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5618 - }, - { - "text": "The life of this world is made up of three days: yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today.", - "source": "Hasan Al-Basri", - "length": 175, - "id": 5619 - }, - { - "text": "One generation sows, the next shall reap. But laugh not too soon or praises heap. Beware the reapers who behind you creep.", - "source": "Liu Xie, Romance Of The Three Kingdoms", - "length": 122, - "id": 5620 - }, - { - "text": "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not \"Eureka!\" (I found it!) but \"That's funny...\"", - "source": "Isaac Asimov", - "length": 140, - "id": 5621 - }, - { - "text": "He, who is possessed of plenty, and is miserly with his great wealth toward his people, will be dispensed with, and abused. He who keeps his word, will not be reviled; and he whose heart is guided to self-satisfying benevolence will not stammer.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 245, - "id": 5622 - }, - { - "text": "In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: \"There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.\" They have mistaken the result of the marksman's momentary whim for an unalterable law of the universe. The farmer hypothesis, on the other hand, has the flavor of a horror story: Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: \"Every morning at eleven, food arrives.\" On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn't arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flock.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem", - "length": 928, - "id": 5623 - }, - { - "text": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.", - "source": "Charles M. Schulz", - "length": 87, - "id": 5624 - }, - { - "text": "God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.", - "source": "Bill Watterson", - "length": 118, - "id": 5625 - }, - { - "text": "This is a valley of ashes; a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald", - "length": 294, - "id": 5626 - }, - { - "text": "The rain feels very cold. You look down as the men carry the body past you. You realize you have been holding Peggy's letter in your left hand the whole time. The ink is hopelessly blurred. You crumple it into a ball and drop it into the mud and begin to walk back to your tent.", - "source": "Charles Coe, Young Man in Vietnam", - "length": 278, - "id": 5627 - }, - { - "text": "And as I watch the drops of rain weave their weary paths and die, I know that I am like the rain: there but for the grace of you go I.", - "source": "Kathy's Song", - "length": 134, - "id": 5628 - }, - { - "text": "He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy.", - "source": "Guts, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 72, - "id": 5629 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett", - "length": 119, - "id": 5630 - }, - { - "text": "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 59, - "id": 5631 - }, - { - "text": "Music is a science that would have us laugh, sing, and dance.", - "source": "Guillaume de Machaut, \"The Fountain of Love\"", - "length": 61, - "id": 5632 - }, - { - "text": "Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.", - "source": "Calvin & Hobbes", - "length": 137, - "id": 5635 - }, - { - "text": "But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.", - "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, W.D. 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Like that ambush.", - "source": "Shadow and Bone", - "length": 200, - "id": 5641 - }, - { - "text": "I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.", - "source": "The Boxer", - "length": 78, - "id": 5642 - }, - { - "text": "I want to enjoy not getting recognized while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.", - "source": "Alan Walker", - "length": 113, - "id": 5643 - }, - { - "text": "Such a person must be careful, he must be aware of the limitations of his knowledge, he must acknowledge his personal prejudices because he is being asked to speak for a whole realm of thought, he must be aware of the huge possible consequences of what he says and writes and does. He has become, in a sense, public property because he represents something large to the public. He has become an idea himself, a human striving. He has enormous power to influence and change, and he must wield that power with respect.", - "source": "Alan Lightman, The Role of the Public Intellectual", - "length": 516, - "id": 5644 - }, - { - "text": "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 203, - "id": 5645 - }, - { - "text": "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "length": 45, - "id": 5646 - }, - { - "text": "The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire universe.", - "source": "Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 92, - "id": 5647 - }, - { - "text": "My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.", - "source": "Marvin; Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 94, - "id": 5648 - }, - { - "text": "And every time I've held a rose, it seems I only felt the thorns.", - "source": "And So It Goes", - "length": 65, - "id": 5649 - }, - { - "text": "When we hear any other speaker, even a very good one, he produces absolutely no effect upon us, or not much, whereas the mere fragments of you and your words, even at second-hand, and however imperfectly repeated, amaze and possess the souls of every man, woman, and child who comes within hearing of them. And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", - "source": "The Symposium", - "length": 592, - "id": 5651 - }, - { - "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 76, - "id": 5652 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 323, - "id": 5653 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", - "source": "Einstein", - "length": 128, - "id": 5654 - }, - { - "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 322, - "id": 5655 - }, - { - "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 172, - "id": 5656 - }, - { - "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 270, - "id": 5657 - }, - { - "text": "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 63, - "id": 5658 - }, - { - "text": "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.", - "source": "Kahlil Gibran", - "length": 64, - "id": 5663 - }, - { - "text": "With her green hair sticking out the hood of her yellow raincoat, she looked like a punk spokesperson for frozen fish sticks.", - "source": "The Ship of the Dead", - "length": 125, - "id": 5664 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb.", - "source": "Proverbs", - "length": 70, - "id": 5665 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.", - "source": "Augustine of Hippo", - "length": 62, - "id": 5667 - }, - { - "text": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 49, - "id": 5668 - }, - { - "text": "Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 53, - "id": 5669 - }, - { - "text": "Time is just a construct, if you allow it to consume you, it will. It will wear you down until you are nothing but dust. You must learn to transcend and rise beyond such linear and limited fabrics of existence and this creature of unknown origin has done exactly that. You can scream all you want but nobody will hear you. You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 468, - "id": 5670 - }, - { - "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", - "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", - "length": 82, - "id": 5671 - }, - { - "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", - "source": "John Tukey", - "length": 89, - "id": 5672 - }, - { - "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "length": 76, - "id": 5673 - }, - { - "text": "There are approximately 1010300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair.", - "source": "Alexander Hamilton", - "length": 170, - "id": 5674 - }, - { - "text": "One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.", - "source": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", - "length": 80, - "id": 5675 - }, - { - "text": "Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", - "source": "Tao Te Ching", - "length": 286, - "id": 5678 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "length": 62, - "id": 5679 - }, - { - "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 54, - "id": 5680 - }, - { - "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", - "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", - "length": 238, - "id": 5681 - }, - { - "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", - "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5682 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", - "source": "Marcus Aurelius", - "length": 161, - "id": 5684 - }, - { - "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", - "source": "Devil in Disguise", - "length": 148, - "id": 5685 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", - "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", - "length": 518, - "id": 5686 - }, - { - "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 302, - "id": 5687 - }, - { - "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 52, - "id": 5688 - }, - { - "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 83, - "id": 5689 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 53, - "id": 5690 - }, - { - "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 118, - "id": 5691 - }, - { - "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.", - "source": "Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29", - "length": 233, - "id": 5692 - }, - { - "text": "The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 159, - "id": 5693 - }, - { - "text": "All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 86, - "id": 5694 - }, - { - "text": "Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 210, - "id": 5695 - }, - { - "text": "This is your world. You're the creator. Find freedom on this canvas. Believe, that you can do it, 'cuz you can do it. You can do it.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 132, - "id": 5696 - }, - { - "text": "I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 151, - "id": 5697 - }, - { - "text": "Let's build a happy little cloud. Let's build some happy little trees.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 70, - "id": 5698 - }, - { - "text": "Now then, let's come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It'll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to have a place to set there. There he goes...", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 215, - "id": 5699 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 62, - "id": 5700 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 112, - "id": 5701 - }, - { - "text": "When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 123, - "id": 5702 - }, - { - "text": "You show me a pay stub for $72,000, I quit my job right now and work for you.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 77, - "id": 5703 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 148, - "id": 5705 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing that we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan", - "length": 88, - "id": 5706 - }, - { - "text": "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.", - "source": "Noam Chomsky", - "length": 167, - "id": 5707 - }, - { - "text": "The behaviour of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, has many features that set it apart from other common domestic animals, even its fellow carnivore the dog. Cats seem to have effected a unique and successful compromise between reliance on man and the retention of behaviour patterns that permit an independent existence. During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", - "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", - "length": 578, - "id": 5708 - }, - { - "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", - "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", - "length": 183, - "id": 5709 - }, - { - "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 997, - "id": 5710 - }, - { - "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", - "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", - "length": 173, - "id": 5711 - }, - { - "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 289, - "id": 5712 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 900, - "id": 5714 - }, - { - "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", - "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", - "length": 71, - "id": 5715 - }, - { - "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5716 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", - "source": "Kurt Cobain", - "length": 62, - "id": 5717 - }, - { - "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", - "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", - "length": 743, - "id": 5718 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", - "length": 974, - "id": 5719 - }, - { - "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", - "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", - "length": 256, - "id": 5720 - }, - { - "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 69, - "id": 5723 - }, - { - "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 110, - "id": 5724 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 280, - "id": 5725 - }, - { - "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 111, - "id": 5726 - }, - { - "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 74, - "id": 5727 - }, - { - "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 71, - "id": 5728 - }, - { - "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", - "source": "Edward Snowden", - "length": 181, - "id": 5729 - }, - { - "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", - "source": "Riverdale", - "length": 161, - "id": 5731 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", - "source": "Spirited Away", - "length": 105, - "id": 5732 - }, - { - "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", - "source": "Wikipedia", - "length": 406, - "id": 5733 - }, - { - "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", - "length": 418, - "id": 5734 - }, - { - "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 622, - "id": 5735 - }, - { - "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 699, - "id": 5736 - }, - { - "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", - "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", - "length": 82, - "id": 5737 - }, - { - "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", - "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", - "length": 282, - "id": 5738 - }, - { - "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", - "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", - "length": 184, - "id": 5739 - }, - { - "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", - "source": "Lord of the Rings", - "length": 83, - "id": 5740 - }, - { - "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 373, - "id": 5741 - }, - { - "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", - "source": "Half-Life 2", - "length": 74, - "id": 5742 - }, - { - "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", - "source": "The Big Bang Theory", - "length": 209, - "id": 5743 - }, - { - "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", - "source": "Lucifer", - "length": 183, - "id": 5744 - }, - { - "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", - "source": "Inception", - "length": 134, - "id": 5747 - }, - { - "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", - "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", - "length": 83, - "id": 5748 - }, - { - "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 113, - "id": 5751 - }, - { - "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 341, - "id": 5752 - }, - { - "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "length": 222, - "id": 5753 - }, - { - "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", - "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", - "length": 183, - "id": 5754 - }, - { - "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 198, - "id": 5755 - }, - { - "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 293, - "id": 5756 - }, - { - "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "length": 441, - "id": 5757 - }, - { - "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 538, - "id": 5758 - }, - { - "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", - "source": "Absolute", - "length": 131, - "id": 5759 - }, - { - "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 144, - "id": 5760 - }, - { - "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 183, - "id": 5761 - }, - { - "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 106, - "id": 5762 - }, - { - "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 141, - "id": 5763 - }, - { - "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", - "source": "Love Me", - "length": 61, - "id": 5764 - }, - { - "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "length": 62, - "id": 5765 - }, - { - "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", - "source": "Little Witch Academia", - "length": 76, - "id": 5766 - }, - { - "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 166, - "id": 5767 - }, - { - "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", - "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", - "length": 429, - "id": 5768 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5769 - }, - { - "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 165, - "id": 5771 - }, - { - "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 128, - "id": 5772 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 157, - "id": 5773 - }, - { - "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", - "source": "A Friend", - "length": 73, - "id": 5775 - }, - { - "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Breath of the Wild", - "length": 62, - "id": 5776 - }, - { - "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 527, - "id": 5777 - }, - { - "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", - "source": "Muhammad Ali", - "length": 79, - "id": 5780 - }, - { - "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", - "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", - "length": 51, - "id": 5781 - }, - { - "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 69, - "id": 5782 - }, - { - "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 317, - "id": 5783 - }, - { - "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", - "source": "The Last Of Us 2", - "length": 89, - "id": 5785 - }, - { - "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", - "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", - "length": 98, - "id": 5786 - }, - { - "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 5787 - }, - { - "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 158, - "id": 5788 - }, - { - "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 164, - "id": 5789 - }, - { - "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 62, - "id": 5790 - }, - { - "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", - "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", - "length": 113, - "id": 5791 - }, - { - "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", - "source": "Cabo", - "length": 125, - "id": 5792 - }, - { - "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", - "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", - "length": 109, - "id": 5793 - }, - { - "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", - "source": "Mae West", - "length": 59, - "id": 5795 - }, - { - "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", - "length": 77, - "id": 5796 - }, - { - "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", - "length": 62, - "id": 5797 - }, - { - "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", - "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", - "length": 101, - "id": 5799 - }, - { - "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. So ask yourself, what is there that still remains to you.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 183, - "id": 5801 - }, - { - "text": "The caterpillar ate through one nice green leaf, and after that he felt much better.", - "source": "The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle", - "length": 84, - "id": 5802 - }, - { - "text": "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 71, - "id": 5804 - }, - { - "text": "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", - "source": "States of Matter", - "length": 220, - "id": 5805 - }, - { - "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", - "source": "Danilo Kiš", - "length": 190, - "id": 5806 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", - "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", - "length": 2928, - "id": 5807 - }, - { - "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", - "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", - "length": 152, - "id": 5809 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 'Cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.", - "source": "Adam Young", - "length": 148, - "id": 5810 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe the best thing to do is stop trying to figure out where you're going and just enjoy where you're at.", - "source": "Scrubs", - "length": 106, - "id": 5811 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a slave to their past. No matter how much you wish to move forward, the events of last year will bear down on you like the light of the stars as soon as you glance up. Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 325, - "id": 5812 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 133, - "id": 5813 - }, - { - "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", - "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 355, - "id": 5814 - }, - { - "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", - "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", - "length": 140, - "id": 5815 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 78, - "id": 5816 - }, - { - "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 87, - "id": 5817 - }, - { - "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 134, - "id": 5818 - }, - { - "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", - "source": "Henri Poincaré", - "length": 145, - "id": 5819 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", - "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", - "length": 254, - "id": 5820 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 96, - "id": 5821 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 73, - "id": 5822 - }, - { - "text": "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the Popes?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5823 - }, - { - "text": "No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.", - "source": "SpiderMan: Homecoming", - "length": 71, - "id": 5824 - }, - { - "text": "In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers.", - "source": "Black Panther", - "length": 76, - "id": 5825 - }, - { - "text": "I was already slipping when you happened to punch me in the face. The two events are not related.", - "source": "Captain Marvel", - "length": 97, - "id": 5826 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing, that you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier but a good man.", - "source": "Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 127, - "id": 5827 - }, - { - "text": "The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", - "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", - "length": 455, - "id": 5828 - }, - { - "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", - "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", - "length": 298, - "id": 5829 - }, - { - "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", - "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", - "length": 61, - "id": 5831 - }, - { - "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 356, - "id": 5832 - }, - { - "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 669, - "id": 5833 - }, - { - "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 188, - "id": 5834 - }, - { - "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 157, - "id": 5835 - }, - { - "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 290, - "id": 5836 - }, - { - "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", - "source": "Mob Psycho 100", - "length": 382, - "id": 5837 - }, - { - "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", - "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", - "length": 125, - "id": 5838 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 92, - "id": 5839 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 97, - "id": 5840 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", - "source": "Master Yoda", - "length": 395, - "id": 5843 - }, - { - "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 80, - "id": 5844 - }, - { - "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 86, - "id": 5845 - }, - { - "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 188, - "id": 5846 - }, - { - "text": "Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen, so unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you.", - "source": "Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold", - "length": 113, - "id": 5847 - }, - { - "text": "Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it's a beautiful day.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 71, - "id": 5848 - }, - { - "text": "The biggest lie I tell myself is: \"I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it.\"", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 84, - "id": 5849 - }, - { - "text": "Alright, close your eyes. I want you to think of a flower. Look at its contours, its curves. Now I want you to imagine it: changing, moving backwards, returning to its bud. Think of that bud, unopened. Look at it, as a whole, and silently repeat these phrases: \"May you be free from suffering. May you be free from fear. May you know peace and joy.\"", - "source": "Twelve Minutes", - "length": 349, - "id": 5850 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", - "length": 301, - "id": 5851 - }, - { - "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", - "source": "Numb", - "length": 177, - "id": 5852 - }, - { - "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 490, - "id": 5854 - }, - { - "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", - "source": "Space Brothers", - "length": 143, - "id": 5855 - }, - { - "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", - "source": "Oregairu", - "length": 65, - "id": 5856 - }, - { - "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", - "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", - "length": 352, - "id": 5857 - }, - { - "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", - "source": "Bleach", - "length": 200, - "id": 5858 - }, - { - "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", - "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", - "length": 120, - "id": 5859 - }, - { - "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", - "source": "Fruits Basket", - "length": 388, - "id": 5860 - }, - { - "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", - "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5861 - }, - { - "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 65, - "id": 5862 - }, - { - "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 270, - "id": 5863 - }, - { - "text": "You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 123, - "id": 5864 - }, - { - "text": "People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.", - "source": "Eragon - Christopher Paolini", - "length": 67, - "id": 5867 - }, - { - "text": "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.", - "source": "Jeod, Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)", - "length": 89, - "id": 5868 - }, - { - "text": "Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama - Attack on Titan", - "length": 62, - "id": 5869 - }, - { - "text": "We all deserve love, even on the days when we aren't our best. 'Cause we all suck, but love can make us suck less. We all deserve love, it's the very best part of being alive. And I would know - I just turned 25.", - "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", - "length": 212, - "id": 5870 - }, - { - "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", - "source": "Ratatouille", - "length": 1315, - "id": 5871 - }, - { - "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", - "source": "Pushing Dead", - "length": 365, - "id": 5872 - }, - { - "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", - "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", - "length": 222, - "id": 5874 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", - "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", - "length": 191, - "id": 5875 - }, - { - "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", - "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", - "length": 75, - "id": 5876 - }, - { - "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", - "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", - "length": 123, - "id": 5877 - }, - { - "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 784, - "id": 5878 - }, - { - "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 763, - "id": 5879 - }, - { - "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 530, - "id": 5881 - }, - { - "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 618, - "id": 5882 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", - "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", - "length": 186, - "id": 5886 - }, - { - "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", - "source": "Knights of Cydonia", - "length": 135, - "id": 5888 - }, - { - "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", - "source": "Paul Parker", - "length": 274, - "id": 5890 - }, - { - "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", - "source": "Left 4 Dead", - "length": 454, - "id": 5891 - }, - { - "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 190, - "id": 5893 - }, - { - "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 346, - "id": 5895 - }, - { - "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", - "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", - "length": 83, - "id": 5896 - }, - { - "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 264, - "id": 5897 - }, - { - "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 282, - "id": 5899 - }, - { - "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 249, - "id": 5900 - }, - { - "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", - "source": "Neil Gaiman", - "length": 129, - "id": 5901 - }, - { - "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 376, - "id": 5902 - }, - { - "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 293, - "id": 5903 - }, - { - "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 353, - "id": 5904 - }, - { - "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "length": 235, - "id": 5905 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 107, - "id": 5906 - }, - { - "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 105, - "id": 5907 - }, - { - "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", - "source": "Eugene Cernan", - "length": 478, - "id": 5908 - }, - { - "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 130, - "id": 5909 - }, - { - "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", - "source": "William Carlos Williams", - "length": 89, - "id": 5910 - }, - { - "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "length": 60, - "id": 5912 - }, - { - "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", - "source": "Henry Van Dyke", - "length": 172, - "id": 5913 - }, - { - "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", - "source": "Epicurus", - "length": 117, - "id": 5914 - }, - { - "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 1766, - "id": 5915 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 332, - "id": 5916 - }, - { - "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", - "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", - "length": 513, - "id": 5917 - }, - { - "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 105, - "id": 5918 - }, - { - "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", - "source": "Avicii - The Nights", - "length": 187, - "id": 5919 - }, - { - "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", - "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", - "length": 987, - "id": 5920 - }, - { - "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", - "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", - "length": 740, - "id": 5921 - }, - { - "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", - "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", - "length": 319, - "id": 5922 - }, - { - "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", - "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", - "length": 476, - "id": 5923 - }, - { - "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", - "length": 556, - "id": 5925 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 182, - "id": 5926 - }, - { - "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 281, - "id": 5927 - }, - { - "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 155, - "id": 5928 - }, - { - "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 248, - "id": 5929 - }, - { - "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 280, - "id": 5930 - }, - { - "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 289, - "id": 5931 - }, - { - "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", - "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", - "length": 294, - "id": 5932 - }, - { - "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5934 - }, - { - "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", - "source": "Batman: Arkham City", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5935 - }, - { - "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5937 - }, - { - "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", - "source": "Little Inferno", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5940 - }, - { - "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", - "source": "System Shock 2 ", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5941 - }, - { - "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", - "source": "IT Crowd", - "length": 307, - "id": 5942 - }, - { - "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 322, - "id": 5943 - }, - { - "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 137, - "id": 5944 - }, - { - "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", - "source": "The Master and Margarita", - "length": 420, - "id": 5945 - }, - { - "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 379, - "id": 5947 - }, - { - "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", - "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", - "length": 348, - "id": 5950 - }, - { - "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", - "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", - "length": 729, - "id": 5951 - }, - { - "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5956 - }, - { - "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", - "source": "Vinland Saga", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5957 - }, - { - "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 1982, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5958 - }, - { - "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 113, - "id": 6064 - }, - { - "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", - "source": "Colin Powell", - "length": 103, - "id": 6065 - }, - { - "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", - "source": "Conrad Hilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6066 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 116, - "id": 6067 - }, - { - "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", - "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", - "length": 67, - "id": 6068 - }, - { - "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", - "source": "Barack Obama", - "length": 193, - "id": 6069 - }, - { - "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", - "source": "Charles Swindoll", - "length": 81, - "id": 6071 - }, - { - "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", - "source": "Oprah Winfrey", - "length": 132, - "id": 6072 - }, - { - "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", - "source": "Harriet Tubman", - "length": 165, - "id": 6073 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 86, - "id": 6074 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", - "source": "The Blair Witch Project", - "length": 649, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6075 - }, - { - "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 624, - "id": 6076 - }, - { - "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 834, - "id": 6077 - }, - { - "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 472, - "id": 6078 - }, - { - "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 308, - "id": 6079 - }, - { - "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 471, - "id": 6080 - }, - { - "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 352, - "id": 6081 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 336, - "id": 6082 - }, - { - "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 775, - "id": 6084 - }, - { - "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 610, - "id": 6085 - }, - { - "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 371, - "id": 6087 - }, - { - "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", - "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", - "length": 438, - "id": 6088 - }, - { - "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", - "source": "Atharva veda", - "length": 127, - "id": 6089 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", - "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", - "length": 681, - "id": 6090 - }, - { - "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", - "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", - "length": 192, - "id": 6091 - }, - { - "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", - "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", - "length": 69, - "id": 6092 - }, - { - "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", - "source": "Tirukkurral", - "length": 118, - "id": 6093 - }, - { - "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", - "source": "Halo 3", - "length": 337, - "id": 6095 - }, - { - "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", - "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", - "length": 219, - "id": 6096 - }, - { - "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 71, - "id": 6097 - }, - { - "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", - "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", - "length": 237, - "id": 6098 - }, - { - "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", - "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", - "length": 98, - "id": 6099 - }, - { - "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", - "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", - "length": 62, - "id": 6100 - }, - { - "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", - "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", - "length": 153, - "id": 6101 - }, - { - "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", - "source": "Remember11", - "length": 136, - "id": 6102 - }, - { - "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", - "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", - "length": 94, - "id": 6103 - }, - { - "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 59, - "id": 6104 - }, - { - "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", - "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", - "length": 157, - "id": 6106 - }, - { - "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 173, - "id": 6107 - }, - { - "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", - "length": 190, - "id": 6108 - }, - { - "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", - "length": 105, - "id": 6109 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 162, - "id": 6110 - }, - { - "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 122, - "id": 6112 - }, - { - "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 160, - "id": 6113 - }, - { - "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 239, - "id": 6114 - }, - { - "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", - "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", - "length": 92, - "id": 6115 - }, - { - "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", - "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", - "length": 131, - "id": 6116 - }, - { - "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", - "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", - "length": 157, - "id": 6117 - }, - { - "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", - "length": 121, - "id": 6118 - }, - { - "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", - "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", - "length": 256, - "id": 6119 - }, - { - "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. They think I don't understand the freedom land of the seventies.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby", - "length": 126, - "id": 6120 - }, - { - "text": "John met me down on the boulevard. Cry on his shoulder 'cause life is hard, the waves came in over my head. What you been up to my baby? Haven't seen you 'round here lately. All the other guys tell me lies, but you don't. You just crack another beer and pretend that you're still here.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - How To Disappear", - "length": 285, - "id": 6121 - }, - { - "text": "Thinking outrageously, I write in cursive. I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor. Wearing three layers of coats and leg-warmers, I see my own breath on the face of the door.", - "source": "Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!", - "length": 181, - "id": 6122 - }, - { - "text": "I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 59, - "id": 6123 - }, - { - "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 76, - "id": 6124 - }, - { - "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 182, - "id": 6125 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 62, - "id": 6126 - }, - { - "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 71, - "id": 6127 - }, - { - "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", - "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", - "length": 162, - "id": 6128 - }, - { - "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", - "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", - "length": 164, - "id": 6129 - }, - { - "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", - "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", - "length": 160, - "id": 6130 - }, - { - "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", - "source": "Beach House - Myth", - "length": 142, - "id": 6131 - }, - { - "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", - "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", - "length": 64, - "id": 6132 - }, - { - "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", - "source": "Beach House - PPP", - "length": 110, - "id": 6133 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6134 - }, - { - "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", - "length": 175, - "id": 6135 - }, - { - "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", - "length": 113, - "id": 6136 - }, - { - "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", - "length": 66, - "id": 6137 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", - "length": 67, - "id": 6138 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", - "length": 95, - "id": 6139 - }, - { - "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", - "length": 80, - "id": 6141 - }, - { - "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 185, - "id": 6142 - }, - { - "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", - "length": 206, - "id": 6143 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", - "length": 76, - "id": 6144 - }, - { - "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", - "length": 95, - "id": 6145 - }, - { - "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 181, - "id": 6146 - }, - { - "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", - "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", - "length": 66, - "id": 6147 - }, - { - "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", - "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", - "length": 181, - "id": 6148 - }, - { - "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", - "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", - "length": 291, - "id": 6149 - }, - { - "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 297, - "id": 6150 - }, - { - "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 657, - "id": 6151 - }, - { - "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", - "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", - "length": 128, - "id": 6152 - }, - { - "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 136, - "id": 6153 - }, - { - "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 64, - "id": 6154 - }, - { - "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 178, - "id": 6155 - }, - { - "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", - "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", - "length": 224, - "id": 6157 - }, - { - "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", - "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", - "length": 207, - "id": 6158 - }, - { - "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", - "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", - "length": 220, - "id": 6159 - }, - { - "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", - "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", - "length": 274, - "id": 6160 - }, - { - "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", - "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", - "length": 112, - "id": 6161 - }, - { - "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", - "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", - "length": 272, - "id": 6162 - }, - { - "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", - "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", - "length": 136, - "id": 6163 - }, - { - "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", - "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", - "length": 454, - "id": 6164 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", - "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", - "length": 381, - "id": 6165 - }, - { - "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", - "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", - "length": 453, - "id": 6166 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 165, - "id": 6167 - }, - { - "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", - "length": 136, - "id": 6168 - }, - { - "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", - "length": 229, - "id": 6169 - }, - { - "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 170, - "id": 6170 - }, - { - "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", - "length": 191, - "id": 6171 - }, - { - "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", - "length": 284, - "id": 6172 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", - "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", - "length": 204, - "id": 6173 - }, - { - "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", - "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", - "length": 122, - "id": 6174 - }, - { - "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", - "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", - "length": 268, - "id": 6175 - }, - { - "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", - "length": 234, - "id": 6176 - }, - { - "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", - "length": 186, - "id": 6177 - }, - { - "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", - "length": 423, - "id": 6178 - }, - { - "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", - "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", - "length": 313, - "id": 6179 - }, - { - "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.", - "source": "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson", - "length": 220, - "id": 6180 - }, - { - "text": "Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?", - "source": "Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima", - "length": 169, - "id": 6181 - }, - { - "text": "But as he moves closer, I cannot help but ask: if in a different world, would our love forever last? The almighty scientist says most of the universe is empty, and gods don't exist. Well, maybe that's where our love ends up - no holy grail, just an empty cup.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Good Luck Bad Luck", - "length": 259, - "id": 6182 - }, - { - "text": "They'll kiss you in the evening - devils in disguise - and love you 'til the morning, then vanish before your eyes. A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", - "length": 401, - "id": 6183 - }, - { - "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", - "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", - "length": 202, - "id": 6184 - }, - { - "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", - "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", - "length": 290, - "id": 6185 - }, - { - "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", - "length": 178, - "id": 6186 - }, - { - "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 197, - "id": 6188 - }, - { - "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 395, - "id": 6189 - }, - { - "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 372, - "id": 6190 - }, - { - "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 214, - "id": 6191 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 427, - "id": 6192 - }, - { - "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 116, - "id": 6193 - }, - { - "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 238, - "id": 6194 - }, - { - "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 256, - "id": 6195 - }, - { - "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 316, - "id": 6196 - }, - { - "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. This initially seemed baffling to monsters (especially given the amount of dusting we avoid by keeping objects outside!). Experts have recently suggested that keeping objects indoors may have been part of England's efforts to hide and store museums' collections of stolen property.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 327, - "id": 6197 - }, - { - "text": "This tree is not technically part of the museum experience, but there's a cool bird nesting in it, so you aren't allowed to cut it down. Not even a little bit. Not even with the \"undo\" or \"reset\" options. Leave the cool bird alone, alright?", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 240, - "id": 6198 - }, - { - "text": "Humans liked to put objects on boxes called plinths. At first, monster experts didn't know why, but then strangers kept thinking the plinth-less exhibits were lost property and handing them in at the help desk. It turns out plinths are very important.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 251, - "id": 6199 - }, - { - "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 229, - "id": 6200 - }, - { - "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 252, - "id": 6201 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", - "length": 576, - "id": 6202 - }, - { - "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", - "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", - "length": 112, - "id": 6203 - }, - { - "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", - "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", - "length": 110, - "id": 6204 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. But what you throw away you'll never get back.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 87, - "id": 6206 - }, - { - "text": "People who can't throw something important away, can never hope to change anything.", - "source": "Armin Arlert - Attack on Titan", - "length": 83, - "id": 6207 - }, - { - "text": "You will never be able to love anybody else until you love yourself.", - "source": "Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass", - "length": 68, - "id": 6208 - }, - { - "text": "People's lives don't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith.", - "source": "Uchiha Itachi - Naruto", - "length": 69, - "id": 6209 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it.", - "source": "Uzumaki Naruto - Naruto", - "length": 48, - "id": 6210 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.", - "source": "Nagato, Naruto", - "length": 65, - "id": 6211 - }, - { - "text": "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", - "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", - "length": 95, - "id": 6212 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", - "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", - "length": 70, - "id": 6213 - }, - { - "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 51, - "id": 6214 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", - "source": "Clare - Claymore", - "length": 164, - "id": 6215 - }, - { - "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", - "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", - "length": 384, - "id": 6216 - }, - { - "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", - "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", - "length": 67, - "id": 6217 - }, - { - "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", - "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", - "length": 88, - "id": 6218 - }, - { - "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", - "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", - "length": 314, - "id": 6220 - }, - { - "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", - "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", - "length": 89, - "id": 6221 - }, - { - "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", - "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", - "length": 422, - "id": 6222 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", - "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", - "length": 179, - "id": 6223 - }, - { - "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", - "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", - "length": 463, - "id": 6224 - }, - { - "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", - "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 109, - "id": 6225 - }, - { - "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", - "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 61, - "id": 6226 - }, - { - "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", - "length": 93, - "id": 6227 - }, - { - "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 177, - "id": 6228 - }, - { - "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 215, - "id": 6229 - }, - { - "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", - "length": 167, - "id": 6230 - }, - { - "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 827, - "id": 6231 - }, - { - "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", - "length": 116, - "id": 6232 - }, - { - "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", - "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", - "length": 137, - "id": 6233 - }, - { - "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", - "length": 127, - "id": 6234 - }, - { - "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 94, - "id": 6235 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 182, - "id": 6236 - }, - { - "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 140, - "id": 6237 - }, - { - "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", - "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", - "length": 144, - "id": 6238 - }, - { - "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", - "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", - "length": 248, - "id": 6239 - }, - { - "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. Did you follow your fire?", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 289, - "id": 6240 - }, - { - "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 123, - "id": 6241 - }, - { - "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", - "length": 197, - "id": 6242 - }, - { - "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", - "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", - "length": 289, - "id": 6243 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. Though we don't share the same blood, you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.", - "source": "Kodaline - Brother", - "length": 161, - "id": 6244 - }, - { - "text": "Star in your eyes, sun in your smile, the way you look at me - it makes me hum and I call it love song.", - "source": "Yoohyeon (Dreamcatcher) - For", - "length": 103, - "id": 6245 - }, - { - "text": "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 57, - "id": 6246 - }, - { - "text": "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 240, - "id": 6247 - }, - { - "text": "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 112, - "id": 6248 - }, - { - "text": "For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 177, - "id": 6249 - }, - { - "text": "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 421, - "id": 6250 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say \"I'll never be good.\" You can become better! And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 251, - "id": 6251 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 105, - "id": 6252 - }, - { - "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 303, - "id": 6253 - }, - { - "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 149, - "id": 6254 - }, - { - "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 119, - "id": 6255 - }, - { - "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", - "source": "Tool", - "length": 220, - "id": 6256 - }, - { - "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", - "source": "Whiplash", - "length": 270, - "id": 6258 - }, - { - "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 173, - "id": 6259 - }, - { - "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 395, - "id": 6260 - }, - { - "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 246, - "id": 6261 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. They are nothing without the spark of life that you give them.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 198, - "id": 6262 - }, - { - "text": "Well, well! Look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 72, - "id": 6263 - }, - { - "text": "Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 269, - "id": 6264 - }, - { - "text": "It is a kindness to prepare a comfortable roost for an injured bird... But to prevent it from taking flight once its wounds have healed, because you fear the world is too dangerous, means confining it to a cage. These birds have finally escaped their cage of persecution. Do you intend to lock them in a cage of pity next?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 322, - "id": 6265 - }, - { - "text": "If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 73, - "id": 6266 - }, - { - "text": "If, one day, you make it to our final destination, would you please leave flowers?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 82, - "id": 6267 - }, - { - "text": "I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it's good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 111, - "id": 6268 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 177, - "id": 6269 - }, - { - "text": "If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 205, - "id": 6270 - }, - { - "text": "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 85, - "id": 6271 - }, - { - "text": "Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6272 - }, - { - "text": "The cool thing about these guys is that... is that they have really, really long trunks, and that's... that's cool.", - "source": "Me at the zoo", - "length": 115, - "id": 6273 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time in a nursery rhyme, there was a castle with a king hiding in a wing because he never went to school to learn a single thing, he had scepters and swords and a parliament of lords, but on the inside, he was sad, egad! Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", - "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", - "length": 1662, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6275 - }, - { - "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. And you fail again and again, and you fail a thousand times, and you keep trying because maybe the 1,001st idea might work. Now, I'm gonna go and try to find our 1,001st idea.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 251, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6276 - }, - { - "text": "I assume he's doing the same as every human. Some good days. Some bad days. He's got a few friends, a few people he can't stand. He's learning some things, all by himself, and hopefully learning to ask for help when he needs it. He's messing up, and trying again, and messing up again, and then getting things wrong, and then trying to make them right. That's what everyone does.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 379, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6277 - }, - { - "text": "It's a rare occurrence, like a double rainbow. Or like someone on the internet saying, \"You know what? You've convinced me I was wrong.\"", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6278 - }, - { - "text": "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him...", - "source": "Stephen King, It", - "length": 384, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6279 - }, - { - "text": "I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.", - "source": "The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6281 - }, - { - "text": "To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.", - "source": "Bruce Mclaren", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6282 - }, - { - "text": "Spring, summer, autumn, and winter... Many seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all. At first, I couldn't understand. I couldn't understand anything about how you felt. But within this new life you gave me, I've begun to feel the same way as you, if only a little, through ghostwriting, and through the people I've met along the way. I believe that you are still alive somewhere. So, I shall live, live, live, and live some more, though there's no telling what life might have in store. And if I can see you again, I want to let you know... that the phrase \"I love you\"... I understand it a little now.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 637, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6283 - }, - { - "text": "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.", - "source": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6284 - }, - { - "text": "I am the one who made it out. The one who always made the grade but maybe I should have just stayed home. When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb. I got every scholarship, saved every dollar, the first to go to college. How do I tell them why I'm coming back home, with my eyes on the horizon? Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 421, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6286 - }, - { - "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", - "source": "Animal Farm", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6287 - }, - { - "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 307, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6288 - }, - { - "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 745, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6292 - }, - { - "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. I choose round.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6294 - }, - { - "text": "I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6295 - }, - { - "text": "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 308, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6296 - }, - { - "text": "I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest - expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6297 - }, - { - "text": "I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 146, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6298 - }, - { - "text": "In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 472, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6299 - }, - { - "text": "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6300 - }, - { - "text": "It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this \"once in a thousand years\" has come today.", - "source": "Zamyatin, We", - "length": 248, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6301 - }, - { - "text": "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6302 - }, - { - "text": "Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the \"vox populi\" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 740, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6303 - }, - { - "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", - "length": 520, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6304 - }, - { - "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", - "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", - "length": 273, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6305 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6306 - }, - { - "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. I want you to, I want you to, I want you to cry for me.", - "source": "TWICE, CRY FOR ME", - "length": 303, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6307 - }, - { - "text": "I had this very faith tested on an ordinary day: I was walkin' down a busy street around my way. I saw a face in the crowd that made my heart skip a beat - A man who looked exactly like an older version of me! So I moved through the hustle and the bustle of the day to day until me and this man stood face to face. We locked eyes and for a moment time moved in slow motion as the crowd around continued on their paper chase. I stood frozen in disbelief and opened my mouth to speak but to my surprise the words wouldn't come. And then he looks into a clear blue sky up above and says \"it's gonna rain\" - and then it does! And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", - "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", - "length": 1200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6308 - }, - { - "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. 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It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh.", - "source": "The Little Prince", - "length": 886, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6310 - }, - { - "text": "Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.", - "source": "Sophie's World", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6311 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.", - "source": "Bill Willingham, Fables - Werewolves of the Heartland", - "length": 133, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6312 - }, - { - "text": "We devote ourselves to something we barely understand, something we can never touch. We give it a name, and we give ourselves a name for doing so. All of it creates this connection. And that connection, that becomes the thing we can touch.", - "source": "Night in the Woods", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6313 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people who do.", - "source": "Angus, Night in the Woods", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6314 - }, - { - "text": "He could leave at any time. If it was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him. I think what distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell, as you call it.", - "source": "Christof, The Truman Show", - "length": 267, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6315 - }, - { - "text": "If you've ever taken a road trip through the Pacific Northwest, you've probably seen a bumper sticker for a place called \"Gravity Falls\". It's not on any maps, and most people have never heard of it, some people think it's a myth. But if you're curious, don't wait. Take a trip. Find it. It's out there somewhere in the woods. Waiting.", - "source": "Dipper, Gravity Falls", - "length": 335, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6316 - }, - { - "text": "A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.", - "source": "Steven Brust, Iorich", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6318 - }, - { - "text": "The English language cannot fully capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts, so I'm incorporating emojis into my speech to better express myself. Winky face.", - "source": "Gina, Brooklyn 99", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6319 - }, - { - "text": "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.", - "source": "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6323 - }, - { - "text": "When the king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough, I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming. And it means to exterminate us.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 430, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6324 - }, - { - "text": "After fifty years at sea, you're the only man I've ever met who's gotten dumber with age.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6325 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody will believe it's possible until we show them. But when that day comes, you know what they'll say? They'll say that it was inevitable.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6326 - }, - { - "text": "You're an educated man, my lord, but I think it's worth reminding you that in most cases a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason... everyone else.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 183, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6327 - }, - { - "text": "The crew's banner is a sacred thing. 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But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6331 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 735, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6332 - }, - { - "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6333 - }, - { - "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6334 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 684, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6335 - }, - { - "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 434, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6336 - }, - { - "text": "A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe... Those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition, and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It's found truth in its maturity... Because what's it all for if it goes unremembered? It's the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 496, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6337 - }, - { - "text": "False tears bring pain to those around you. False smiles bring pain to one's self.", - "source": "Code Geass", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6338 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams never die when we sleep. Leave the open sky and the deep. Shades over head of blue and red. Is this the end? Will you come back again?", - "source": "Sky Sailing, Blue and Red", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6339 - }, - { - "text": "This is Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both the Jedi and the Republic have fallen, with the dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi: Trust in the force. Do not return to the Temple. That time has passed, and our future is uncertain. We will each be challenged. Our trust. Our faith. Our friendship. But we must persevere and in time a new hope will emerge. May the force be with you. Always.", - "source": "Star Wars Rebels", - "length": 485, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6340 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...", - "source": "Poe, The Raven", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6341 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and goodbye. Do you think I'm dying? Do you think I'm going somewhere else this time? Do you remember the day we pretended to be every star in the sky?", - "source": "Might quit - Bill Wurtz", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6344 - }, - { - "text": "I'm worried to death because I haven't been able to see you doing well. You said we live in different worlds. But is that true? We have different colored skin and eyes. We were born in different countries. But we're friends. Isn't that what counts? I'm really glad I came to America. I met lots of people. And more than anything, I met you. You asked me over and over if you scared me. But I never feared you, not once. What's more is you're hurt much more than me. I couldn't help feeling that way. Funny, huh? You're way smarter, bigger, and stronger than me. But I always felt like I had to protect you. I wonder what it is I wanted to protect you from. I wanted to protect you from fate. The fate that tries to carry you away, drifting further and further. You told me once about a leopard you read in a book. How you believed that leopard knew that it couldn't go back. And I said you weren't a leopard, that you could change your destiny. You're not alone. I'm by your side. My soul is always with you.", - "source": "Banana Fish - Eiji", - "length": 1008, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6346 - }, - { - "text": "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 475, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6347 - }, - { - "text": "We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost.", - "source": "All Quiet on The Western Front ", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6348 - }, - { - "text": "In exchange for power, maybe I've lost something that is essential to being human.", - "source": "One Punch Man, Saitama", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6349 - }, - { - "text": "My old friend - the panda will never fulfill his destiny nor yours, until you let go of the illusion of control... Yes! Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda - Master Oogway", - "length": 228, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6350 - }, - { - "text": "Once I realized the problem was not you but within me. I found inner peace and was able to harness the flow of the universe!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda 2 - Master Shifu", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6351 - }, - { - "text": "It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin", - "length": 236, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6353 - }, - { - "text": "When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened. It's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way and truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it.", - "source": "Lady Gaga, Prelude Pathetique (Marry the Night)", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6356 - }, - { - "text": "I don't care if you're movin' slow or fast, as long as it's my direction.", - "source": "Brokeback Mountain", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6357 - }, - { - "text": "I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you're just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there's not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 505, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6358 - }, - { - "text": "He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 176, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6359 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather have loyalty than love, 'cause love really don't mean jack. See, love is just a feeling - you can love somebody and talk behind their back. It don't take much to love, you can love somebody just by being attached. See, loyalty is an action, you can love or hate me and still have my back.", - "source": "21 Savage, Ball w/o You", - "length": 299, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6360 - }, - { - "text": "Somewhere deep inside of these bones an emptiness began to grow.", - "source": "Jack's Lament, The Nightmare Before Christmas", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6361 - }, - { - "text": "Is there a problem with Earth's gravitational pull in the future? Why is everything so heavy?", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6362 - }, - { - "text": "When people are protecting something truly precious to them, they can truly become as strong as they need to be.", - "source": "Haku, Naruto", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6363 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be the best, you have to be willing to do what others are not willing to do.", - "source": "Michael Phelps", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6365 - }, - { - "text": "There's no such thing as winning or losing. There's won and there's lost. There is victory and there's defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. The enemy will only have won when there is no one left to fight against him. Until then, there is only struggle, because that's what tides do - they turn.", - "source": "Skulduggery Pleasant", - "length": 336, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6367 - }, - { - "text": "It makes me so mad! We build your houses, your castles. We pave your roads, and still you walk all over us. Do you ever say thank you? No! Well, you're not going to wipe your feet on me! I think I'll crush you just for fun! Do you have a problem with that?", - "source": "Whomp King, Super Mario Galaxy 2", - "length": 256, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6369 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6370 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know, maybe it's not great progress compared to other people, but I'm happy with my progress. And you know what? Quite frankly, that's all that matters. If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?", - "source": "Gawr Gura", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6371 - }, - { - "text": "One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the Devil's Trill, but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.", - "source": "Giuseppe Tartini", - "length": 940, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6372 - }, - { - "text": "It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.", - "source": "Mary Poppins", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6373 - }, - { - "text": "At the bus stop, crushing rocks. They all stare at me, I don't care at all. Everywhere I go, they look at me wrong. Everyday go the same, got to stay strong. ", - "source": "Ecco2K, Peroxide", - "length": 158, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6375 - }, - { - "text": "Meaningless, huh? What do you know of meaningless? Spend most of your life ruled by another! Watch your race dwindle to a handful! And then, tell me what has more meaning than your own strength! I have in me the blood of a Saiyan prince. He is nothing but a joke! Yet, I've had to watch him surpass me in strength, my destiny thrown to the wayside! He's... he's even saved my life like I were a helpless child. He has stolen my honor, and his debts... must be paid!", - "source": "Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z", - "length": 465, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6376 - }, - { - "text": "Oh! One arrives. Far it walks to find me. Did it seek my aid? Or did the path carry it by chance to so pertinent a place? It is true. True, that you were awaited. No. Perhaps that is inaccurate. True one like you was awaited. I have a gift, held long for one of your kind. Half of a whole. When united, great power is granted, and on the path ahead, great power it will need.", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "length": 375, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6377 - }, - { - "text": "Just because people do horrible things, it doesn't always mean they're horrible people.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6378 - }, - { - "text": "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.", - "source": "A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6380 - }, - { - "text": "It seems after all I couldn't be anything more than a simple puppet. But you three... You're strong. With a power like that... Maybe you three can break your own strings. Let me become your strength.", - "source": "Deltarune", - "length": 199, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6382 - }, - { - "text": "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.", - "source": "George Orwell, 1984", - "length": 122, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6383 - }, - { - "text": "Dude, Benson would've snapped his crank if we'd just upped and left work. You gotta be responsible sometimes.", - "source": "Mordecai, Regular Show", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6384 - }, - { - "text": "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?", - "source": "Traditional American Tongue-twister", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what to tell you. I'm happy for the first time in my life and I'm not gonna feel bad about it. It takes a long time to realise how truly miserable you are and even longer to see it doesn't have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 297, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6386 - }, - { - "text": "You know, it's funny; when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 116, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6387 - }, - { - "text": "You could just write your own rules. You know, write something that's as interesting as you are.", - "source": "La La Land", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6388 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to do this right, show you I'm not movin'! Wherever you go, I won't be far to follow.", - "source": "Waitress, Never Ever Getting Rid of Me", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6389 - }, - { - "text": "People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6390 - }, - { - "text": "Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6391 - }, - { - "text": "\nWe're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6392 - }, - { - "text": "Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 328, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6393 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know that the word 'trauma' comes from the Greek for 'wound'? Hm? And what is the German word for 'dream'? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn't you agree, when you see a monster, you... you must stop it?", - "source": "Jeremiah Naehring, Shutter Island (Movie)", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6394 - }, - { - "text": "After she tried to kill herself the first time, Dolores told me she... she had an insect living inside her brain. She could feel it clicking across her skull, just... pulling the wires, just for fun. She told me that. She told me that but I didn't listen. I loved her so much.", - "source": "Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island (movie)", - "length": 276, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6395 - }, - { - "text": "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.", - "source": "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two), Harry Dacre", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6396 - }, - { - "text": "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.", - "source": "Dick Cavett", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6397 - }, - { - "text": "My momma always said, \"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6398 - }, - { - "text": "You don't listen, do you? I don't think you ever really hear me. You just ask the same questions every week. \"How's your job?\" \"Are you having any negative thoughts?\" All I have are negative thoughts.", - "source": "Joker", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6400 - }, - { - "text": "That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 245, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6401 - }, - { - "text": "My father was fond of saying you need three things in life - a good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 164, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6402 - }, - { - "text": "\"I will take responsibility for what I have done,\" Dalinar whispered. \"If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.\"", - "source": "Oathbringer, The Stormlight Archive, written by Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6403 - }, - { - "text": "So don't tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is I would just be more scared.\n\n", - "source": "Ellie, The Last Of Us", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6404 - }, - { - "text": "In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and the foreknowledge of pain.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6405 - }, - { - "text": "So, you have a different way of doing things, a different way of seeing things. That might make you weird, but it also makes you awesome. Don't you see? Because us weirdos have to stick together.", - "source": "The Owl House", - "length": 195, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6406 - }, - { - "text": "You are seeing the movements created by your abilities, but you will never arrive at the truth that's going to happen. None who stand before me shall ever get there, regardless of their abilities. This is the power of Golden Experience Requiem!", - "source": "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", - "length": 244, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6407 - }, - { - "text": "Suddenly I knew that the sound was not in my ears, it was not just inside my head. At that moment I must have become quite white. I talked still faster and louder. And the sound, too, became louder. It was a quick, low, soft sound, like the sound of a clock heard through a wall, a sound I knew well. Louder it became, and louder.", - "source": "The Tell-Tale Heart", - "length": 330, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6408 - }, - { - "text": "Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 125, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6409 - }, - { - "text": "They often say that humans can't live alone, but you can live pretty long by yourself. Instead of feeling alone in a group, it's better to be alone in your solitude.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 165, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6410 - }, - { - "text": "There is... another of me? How many times did I get ripped apart? How many times did I die?", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6411 - }, - { - "text": "I will get inside their inventor's head. Even brilliant minds will break to madness.", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6412 - }, - { - "text": "For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.", - "source": "The Shipping News", - "length": 451, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6413 - }, - { - "text": "I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. 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Just once, when I say \"suit up\" I wish you'd put on a suit.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6418 - }, - { - "text": "A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6419 - }, - { - "text": "You see, kids, right from the moment I met your mom I knew, I have to love this woman as much as I can, and as long as I can, and I can never stop loving her, not even for a second.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6420 - }, - { - "text": "A word of advice: Play along. The more you fight it, the worse it's gonna get.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6421 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6422 - }, - { - "text": "It's only once you've stopped that you realize how hard it is to start again.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6423 - }, - { - "text": "We're going to get older, whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives or desperately cling to the past.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6424 - }, - { - "text": "Never underestimate the power of destiny. 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I'm no VIP; I'm not even an IP; I'm just a lonely little P sitting out here in the gutter.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6430 - }, - { - "text": "Destined? Aren't you tired of waiting for destiny, Ted? Isn't it time to make your own destiny?", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6431 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know where I'm gonna be in five years. I don't wanna know. I want my life to be an adventure.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6432 - }, - { - "text": "It's just, eventually we're all gonna move on. It's called growing up.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6433 - }, - { - "text": "You can't just skip ahead to where you think your life should be.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6434 - }, - { - "text": "The three-day rule is a childish, manipulative mind game. But yeah, you wait three days.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6435 - }, - { - "text": "Think of me as Yoda. Only instead of being little and green, I wear suits and I'm awesome. I'm your bro. I'm Broda.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6436 - }, - { - "text": "Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6437 - }, - { - "text": "When life gives you lemons... you probably just found lemons.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6438 - }, - { - "text": "The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6440 - }, - { - "text": "What has just appeared is Team Plasma's castle. The king's words will resound from the heights to all below. You must come to the castle, as well. Everything will be decided there. Whether Pokemon will be liberated from people, or whether Pokemon and people will live together… We will see whose belief is stronger... And our result will change the world.", - "source": "Pokemon Black & White", - "length": 355, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6441 - }, - { - "text": "Love can never die, not completely. There were too many romantics, too many poets, too many places where lovers could meet and wishes could be shared.", - "source": "Great Goddesses, Nikita Gill", - "length": 150, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6442 - }, - { - "text": "This is what youth is. The sheer belief that you will be able to keep every promise you made to someone else. That you will be able to love someone into a forever when you do not even understand what forever means.", - "source": "Fierce Fairytales, Nikita Gill", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6443 - }, - { - "text": "When he talks to Marianne he has a sense of total privacy between them. He could tell her anything about himself, even weird things, and she would never repeat them, he knows that. Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 278, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6444 - }, - { - "text": "Marianne lived a drastically free life, he could see that. He was trapped by various considerations. He cared what people thought of him. He even cared what Marianne thought, that was obvious now.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6445 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody, even in the provinces, should ever be allowed to ask an intelligent question about pure mathematics across a dinner table. A question of this kind is quite as bad as inquiring suddenly about the state of a man's soul.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6446 - }, - { - "text": "Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6447 - }, - { - "text": "I am not bitter because of what has happened. On the contrary, I am secure in knowing that what we had was real, and I am happy we were able to come together for even a short period of time. And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. And maybe, for a brief moment, you'll feel it too, and you'll smile back, and savor the memories we will always share together. I love you, Allie. Noah. ", - "source": "The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks", - "length": 555, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6448 - }, - { - "text": "Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!", - "source": "Leia Organa, Star Wars", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6449 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.", - "source": "Yoda, Star Wars", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6450 - }, - { - "text": "When I was younger I saw my daddy cry and curse at the wind. 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But they don't know me, do they even know you?", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6454 - }, - { - "text": "You're saying I'm the one but it's your actions that speak louder.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6455 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna pack my things and leave you behind. This feeling's old and I know that I've made up my mind. I hope you feel what I felt when you shattered my soul 'cause you were cruel and I'm a fool so please let me go.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6456 - }, - { - "text": "Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace. I dream at night I can only see your face. I look around but it's you I can't replace. I feel so cold and I long for your embrace. I keep crying baby, baby, please.", - "source": "Every Breath You Take - The Police", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6457 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bother looking down, we're not going that way. At least I know I am here to stay.", - "source": "We Fell in Love in October - girl in red", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6458 - }, - { - "text": "But when I'm older, I'll be so much stronger, I'll stay up for longer.", - "source": "Meet Me At Our Spot", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6459 - }, - { - "text": "And you think that I can't see what kind of man that you are if you're a man at all.", - "source": "Decode - Paramore", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6460 - }, - { - "text": "By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 255, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6462 - }, - { - "text": "Setbacks are inevitable to superstars. Adversity is what separates the good from the great. After all, stars can only shine during the night.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6463 - }, - { - "text": "When you say you \"can't hear the sound\", doesn't it really mean you \"aren't restrained by the sound\"? Rather than the sound you hear with your ears, an image inside you is boiling up from the depths of yourself and taking over without you even knowing. The sound inside, the landscape in your heart, your wishes, a sound loaded with your thoughts; didn't you feel it, even for a moment? \"Not being able to hear the sound.\" That is a gift.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 438, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6464 - }, - { - "text": "Even though I'm bitter over losing, even though I'm depressed, even though my ankle hurts, and my eyes are smeared with tears... even though I've never felt worse... I wonder why the stars are sparkling like this.", - "source": "Your Lie in April", - "length": 213, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6465 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe there's only a dark road ahead. But you still have to believe and keep going. Believe that the stars will light your path, even a little bit. Come on... Let's go on a journey!", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6466 - }, - { - "text": "Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 393, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6467 - }, - { - "text": "When you decided to go to the sea, it was your own decision. Whatever happens to you on the sea, it depends on what you've done!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6468 - }, - { - "text": "I came in here to figure out if you were a fraud or if you were a monster.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6469 - }, - { - "text": "What do you know of death? Have you ever died? You think death will preserve your cause forever?", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6470 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6471 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to give you some advice. Never play foosball with a woman who's raised three brothers. It's exhausting.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6472 - }, - { - "text": "You're still in love with her. But instead of telling her, you bought her a plant.", - "source": "Kimball Cho, The Mentalist", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6473 - }, - { - "text": "It's not just allies who support each other. From your enemies, you learn so much and gain so much. Until the day you meet again... Just knowing they exist helps you to withstand the loneliness. Those who compete, even if they're enemies, help each other out.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 259, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6474 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I discovered something. Everyone has something... Something deep inside their hearts. For some, it might have been enmity. For others, admiration. Wishes, a craving for the spotlight, feelings that one wants to deliver, feelings for one's mother. Everyone was supported by their own feelings. I realize now that, perhaps, no one can stand alone on stage.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6475 - }, - { - "text": "Spring will be here soon. Spring, the season I met you, is coming. A Spring without you... is coming.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6476 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter who you're born to... Everyone's still a child of the sea!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6477 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to lose your way... Just don't lose sight of what you have decided.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6478 - }, - { - "text": "It's funny how I'm only your brother when you think I messed up.", - "source": "Jimmy Lisbon, The Mentalist", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6479 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody dies. Very few people ever feel truly sorry for the bad things they've done.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6480 - }, - { - "text": "What was I thinking? I was thinking, uh... Love is strange, and I was thinking about a sandwich.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6481 - }, - { - "text": "You booked the night train for a reason, so you could sit there in this hurt. Bustling crowds or silent sleepers, you're not sure which is worse. Because I dropped your hand while dancing, left you out there standing, crestfallen on the landing: champagne problems.", - "source": "Champagne Problems, Taylor Swift", - "length": 265, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6483 - }, - { - "text": "Adjectives on a typewriter he moves his words like a prizefighter, the frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell.", - "source": "CAKE - Shadow Stabbing", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6484 - }, - { - "text": "You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6485 - }, - { - "text": "I'll tell you one thing, Blondie. If I knew that my last hour had come, I swear, in my place... in your place I would do the same thing. I would tell about the gold. Yes, yes, I would. I would tell the name on the grave. What good is the money if you're dead? I know the name of the cemetery. But you know how many graves there are there? Please. Blondie, please. Have a little... coffee? Please, tell me the name. On... on the grave. If I get my hands on the 200,000 dollars, I'll always honor your memory. I swear I'll always honor your memory.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 546, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6487 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to White Space. You've been living here for as long as you can remember.", - "source": "OMORI", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6488 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.", - "source": "Billie Joe Armstrong", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6489 - }, - { - "text": "I knew you'd linger like a tattoo-kiss. I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs. The smell of smoke would hang around this long 'cause I knew everything when I was young. I knew I'd curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line. I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired, and you'd be standing in my front porch light and I knew you'd come back to me.", - "source": "Cardigan, Taylor Swift", - "length": 374, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6492 - }, - { - "text": "There's things I want to say to you, but I'll just let you live. Like if you hold me without hurting me, you'll be the first who ever did.", - "source": "Cinnamon Girl, Lana Del Rey", - "length": 138, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6493 - }, - { - "text": "Think you can keep up? Who am I kidding? You know you can't keep up.", - "source": "Jett, Valorant", - "length": 68, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6494 - }, - { - "text": "Hard work will always beat talent when talent does not work hard.", - "source": "Tim Notke", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6495 - }, - { - "text": "That summer, let's see, I'm still living in the basement, my own private down under, in the little room Grim built for me there. Glued up this cheap paneling, right? It sort of buckles away from the concrete cellar walls, a regular ripple effect, but do I complain about the crummy paneling, or the rug that smells like low tide? I do not. Because I like it in the down under, got the place all to myself and no fear of Gram sticking her head in the door and saying Maxwell dear, what are you doing?", - "source": "Freak the Mighty", - "length": 499, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6496 - }, - { - "text": "Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?", - "source": "Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast", - "length": 111, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6497 - }, - { - "text": "There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.", - "source": "The Witch of Portobello", - "length": 110, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6498 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it. Instead have the courage to change it the way you want it to be.", - "source": "Naruto Uzumaki", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6500 - }, - { - "text": "Granger? Granger? Can you possibly be related to Hector Dagworth-Granger, who founded the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers?", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6501 - }, - { - "text": "I like to say that if you're seeing me you're having the worst day of your life.", - "source": "Nightcrawler", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6503 - }, - { - "text": "Because I feel nothing like my father, he's been sleeping underground. Don't wait around, 'cause there's nothing there at all, there's nothing but the end!", - "source": "Snowing - Sam Rudich", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6505 - }, - { - "text": "No! The sun is a deadly laser. Not anymore, there's a blanket.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz. History of the entire world, i guess", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6506 - }, - { - "text": "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 189, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6507 - }, - { - "text": "Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 492, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6508 - }, - { - "text": "It was like the litany, she thought. We faced it and did not resist. We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 169, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6509 - }, - { - "text": "It occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6510 - }, - { - "text": "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6511 - }, - { - "text": "There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 634, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6512 - }, - { - "text": "I thought I felt your shape, but I was wrong. Really all I felt, was falsely strong.", - "source": "I Felt Your Shape", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6513 - }, - { - "text": "Looking from up here, it's as if each flame were a small dream for each person. They look like a bonfire of dreams, don't they?... But there's no flame for me here. I'm just a temporary visitor, taking comfort from the flame.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6514 - }, - { - "text": "When you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around, do you ever really crash, or even make a sound?", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6515 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law...? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6516 - }, - { - "text": "My dad knew I liked beans, so like he was just playing with beans and then he dropped them and then he dropped a rock and then it slid, and then hot water started falling and then, coffee.", - "source": "Johnny Suh (NCT)", - "length": 188, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6517 - }, - { - "text": "You ruined me. You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength. You lied to me, to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear! My whole life I sought the approval I was denied by the man I thought was my father. You turned me into the weakling he hated!... Look at me! You rant and you rage about the monster I have become, but you mother, you are the author of everything I am.", - "source": "The Vampire Diaries", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6520 - }, - { - "text": "Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother? Here's the real truth. There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You, me? We're exceptional. I could squash you like a bug right now, but I'm offering you a choice. Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create. Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead! Is that what you want?", - "source": "Spider-Man", - "length": 816, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6521 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up. I've been watching you. Come closer. Closer. Twenty-eight days, six hours, forty-two minutes, twelve seconds. That is when the world will end.", - "source": "Donnie Darko", - "length": 151, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6522 - }, - { - "text": "Understanding that our understanding might be wrong is essential, and trying to figure out ways we may be mistaken is the only way science can help us find our way to the truth.", - "source": "Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 177, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6523 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when you look up, you can see stars that don't twinkle. That's because they aren't stars. They're planets.", - "source": "Naked Eye Observations: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 117, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6524 - }, - { - "text": "The moon is a giant ball of rock 3500 kilometers across. Its surface is pretty dark, with about the same reflectivity as a chalkboard or asphalt. However, it looks bright to us because it's sitting in full sunlight.", - "source": "The Cycles of the Moon: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 215, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6525 - }, - { - "text": "I don't mean to dwell, but I can't help myself. When I feel the vibe and taste a memory of a time in life, when years seemed to stand still. I close my eyes and sink within myself. Relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. When did it begin, the change to come was undetectable. The open wounds expose the importance of our innocence, a high that can never be bought or sold.", - "source": "Death - Symbolic", - "length": 406, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6526 - }, - { - "text": "Wrong about us being on different paths... we're not on different paths... you're my path... and you're always going to be my path... and I know there are a million reasons why we shouldn't be together... but I'm tired of them... I'm tired of every single one of them... we all got to make a choice... right? Well I choose you...", - "source": "The amazing spider-man 2, Peter Parker", - "length": 329, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6527 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the way I see it, one of two things can happen. Either we'll discover that we've foolishly built each other up in our own imaginations because we've had so much trouble getting together; or, this could end up being a story we tell our grandchildren. 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You're gonna have to be more specific, love.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6532 - }, - { - "text": "When you see Alex in whatever little hell she's carved out for herself, you tell her I said hello.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6533 - }, - { - "text": "When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go... downtown. When you've got worries, all the noise, and the hurry seems to help, I know... downtown. Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city. Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty. How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there. You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares. So go downtown. Things will be great when you're... downtown. No finer place for sure, downtown. Everything's waiting for you.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 515, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6534 - }, - { - "text": "Don't hang around and let your problems surround you, there are movie shows... downtown. Maybe you know some little places to go to where they never close... downtown. Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova, you'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over, happy again, the lights are much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares so go downtown. Where all the lights are bright, downtown. Waiting for you tonight, downtown. You're gonna be alright now, downtown.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 512, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6535 - }, - { - "text": "Traditionally the concept is of a 'good twin' and an 'evil twin'. But in this case, it's evil twin, eviler twin.", - "source": "Dr. Spencer Reid Criminal Minds", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6536 - }, - { - "text": "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We fought for these ideals, we shouldn't settle for less. These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em. Don't act surprised, you guys, 'cause I wrote 'em.", - "source": "Cabinet Battle #1, Hamilton", - "length": 202, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6537 - }, - { - "text": "When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.", - "source": "Wonder", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6538 - }, - { - "text": "I'm running out of time. I'm running out of light. I'm running just to keep myself from bleeding out. I'm falling out of touch. 'Cause I hate myself too much. No I can't, I was never meant to. I never loved myself like I loved you.", - "source": "I never loved myself like I loved you - Dead Poet Society", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6539 - }, - { - "text": "The concept of hope is nothing more than giving up. A word that holds no true meaning.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6541 - }, - { - "text": "You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be the big ones, they are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It's the regular days, the ones that start out normal. Those are the days that end up the biggest.", - "source": "Izzie - Grey's anatomy", - "length": 282, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6542 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 345, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6544 - }, - { - "text": "I've realized that I'm probably just perfect and it's everybody else around me that's got issues.", - "source": "Scott Disick - Keeping Up with the Kardashians", - "length": 97, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6545 - }, - { - "text": "The last 30 days have taught me so much. And all I wanted when we first came here was to know that we would leave together. But from the minute I sat down, I could feel it. I felt like I was going to be suffocated. The last several weeks, I have laughed more, I have done more, I have enjoyed myself more. And I finally feel free. And by being free, I can see now that constantly trying to fix us is the thing that's been killing me slowly. And I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to fix it or fix us anymore. Maybe instead of loving you so hard, I should be myself for a while. I should love me, and you should love you, and together we love Sofia, rather than... I want so much for you, Arizona. So much more than this. More than being stuck with someone who feels stuck. I want you to feel free too.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 810, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6546 - }, - { - "text": "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6547 - }, - { - "text": "All's well that ends well to end up with you. Swear to be over-dramatic and true to my lover. And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me. And at every table, I'll save you a seat.", - "source": "Lover", - "length": 183, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6548 - }, - { - "text": "Flashback when you met me, your buzz cut and my hair bleached. Even in my worst times, you could see the best in me. Flashback to my mistakes, my rebounds, my earthquakes. Even in my worst lies, you saw the truth in me.", - "source": "Dress", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6549 - }, - { - "text": "Kneel before me. I said... kneel! Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.", - "source": "The Avengers", - "length": 309, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6551 - }, - { - "text": "Existence is chaos. Nothing makes any sense, so we try to make some sense of it.", - "source": "Loki", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6552 - }, - { - "text": "You could be whoever, whatever you wanna be, even someone good. I mean, just in case anyone ever told you different.", - "source": "Loki", - "length": 116, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6553 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, you just gotta get destroyed standing up for what you believe in.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6554 - }, - { - "text": "Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6555 - }, - { - "text": "Fun isn't something one considers when balancing the universe. But this... does put a smile on my face.", - "source": "Thanos", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6556 - }, - { - "text": "My point is that you asked how and I am giving you the examples, the possibilities, because when I want something, truly want something that my life depends on - which is purpose and happiness - I will stop at nothing to attain. It's like breathing. So you must ask yourself: What is your air? What is the thing you literally will fight for to survive?", - "source": "Supermarket, Bobby Hall", - "length": 352, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6557 - }, - { - "text": "But I hate that it seems you were never enough. We were broken and bleeding but never gave up. And I hate that I made you the enemy. And I hate that your heart was the casualty. Now I hate that I need you.", - "source": "Motionless in White - Another Life", - "length": 205, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6558 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6559 - }, - { - "text": "Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 233, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6560 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, right. The poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison... That poison?", - "source": "Emperor's New Groove", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6561 - }, - { - "text": "Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God. It even has a watermark.", - "source": "Patrick Bateman, American Psycho", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6562 - }, - { - "text": "We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 262, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6563 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what I'm supposed to do haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "The Night we Met - Lord Huron", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6565 - }, - { - "text": "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6566 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.\n", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6567 - }, - { - "text": "I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.", - "source": "The Song of Achilles", - "length": 182, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6568 - }, - { - "text": "In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.\n", - "source": "The Song of Achilles", - "length": 170, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6569 - }, - { - "text": "When we doubt our hearts, our bodies react. Tear ducts overflow and the face flushes red hot embers. A burning, turning sensation overwhelms, and a pressure in the head seduces the mind to doubt. A cycle of connection, a circle of ever-expanding, inexplicable nervous system responses. When we doubt our heads, our stomach cramps, our fists clench and our thoughts tumble into larger and larger whirls of uncertainty, beating our bodies blue and scabish. When we quiet our minds and center our soul we are receptive to an intuition much stronger than knowledge and knowing.", - "source": "Tinker creek.", - "length": 573, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6571 - }, - { - "text": "And yet even these violent fantasies were nothing compared to what lay in wait at the centre of the drawing.", - "source": "House of Leaves", - "length": 108, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6572 - }, - { - "text": "I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6573 - }, - { - "text": "There were some things that were said that weren't meant. There were some things that were said, but we never did. Not to be overly dramatic, I just think it's best, 'cause you can't miss what you forget. So, let's just pretend everything and anything between you and me was never meant.", - "source": "American Football - Never Meant", - "length": 287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6574 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.", - "source": "Dylan Thomas", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6576 - }, - { - "text": "Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all. Which is? It's not about you.", - "source": "Dr Strange", - "length": 126, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6577 - }, - { - "text": "I was never good at telling jokes, but the punchline goes: I get older but your lovers stay my age.", - "source": "All Too Well, Taylor Swift", - "length": 99, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6578 - }, - { - "text": "\"Did you put your name in the goblet of fire, Harry?\" Dumbledore asked calmly.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6579 - }, - { - "text": "They say all's well that ends well, but I'm in a new hell every time you double-cross my mind. You said, \"If we had been closer in age, maybe it would have been fine.\" And that made me want to die.", - "source": "All Too Well, Taylor Swift", - "length": 197, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6580 - }, - { - "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. Then what am I?", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6581 - }, - { - "text": "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6582 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I was gonna go easy on you, not to hurt your feelings. But I'm only going to get this one chance. Something's wrong, I can feel it... It's just... a feeling I've got. Like something's about to happen, but I don't know what. If that means what I think it means; we're in trouble, big trouble. And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances.", - "source": "Rap God", - "length": 361, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6583 - }, - { - "text": "If you think reality is just living comfortably and following your own whims, can you seriously dare to call yourself a soldier?", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6584 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry, Eren. I won't give up. I'll never give up again. If I died, I won't be able to remember you. So I'll win, no matter what! I'll survive, no matter what!", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 162, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6585 - }, - { - "text": "A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6586 - }, - { - "text": "War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War - and its consumption of life - has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control... everything is monitored and kept under control. War... has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War... has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 4", - "length": 784, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6587 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't want to remember him. If I had to remember him, it would mean he wasn't a part of my life anymore.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 107, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6589 - }, - { - "text": "Until he comes back for me, I'm just going to keep pretending to be okay. I'll keep pretending to swim, when really all I'm doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 178, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6590 - }, - { - "text": "In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 121, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6591 - }, - { - "text": "You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6592 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed on the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 426, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6593 - }, - { - "text": "There is no such thing as bad people. We're all just people who sometimes do bad things.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6594 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one. Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper.", - "source": "GlaDOS, Portal", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6595 - }, - { - "text": "Please be advised that a noticeable taste of blood is not part of any test protocol but is an unintended side effect of the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill, which may, in semi-rare cases, emancipate dental fillings, crowns, tooth enamel, and teeth.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6596 - }, - { - "text": "The vital apparatus vent will deliver a weighted companion cube in three, two, one. This weighted companion cube will accompany you through the test chamber. Please take care of it.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6597 - }, - { - "text": "Ya' listenin'? OK. Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brotha, I hurt people.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2 - Meet the Scout", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6599 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a powerful thing for it cannot be stopped. Life is even more so.", - "source": "The Library of the Dark Atom", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6600 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you do, don't reveal all of your tactics in a YouTube video. You fool.", - "source": "Technoblade, Great Potato War", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6601 - }, - { - "text": "There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion", - "length": 190, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6602 - }, - { - "text": "Time to open your eyes to this genocide. When you clear your mind you see it all. 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It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.", - "source": "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", - "length": 568, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6606 - }, - { - "text": "I see, your HEV-Suit still fits you like a glove. At least the glove parts do.", - "source": "Half-Life 2 ", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6607 - }, - { - "text": "I see them, Mia! I see them! Over there against the dark, stormy sky. They are all there. The Smith and Lisa and the knight and Raval and Jons and Skat. And Death, the severe master, invites them to dance. 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What I say goes.", - "source": "The Prince of Egypt (1998)", - "length": 67, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6635 - }, - { - "text": "Prince Zuko, you must look within yourself, and only then, can you save yourself from your other self.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006)", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6636 - }, - { - "text": "Don't leave, it's my fault. 'Cause when it all comes crashing down I'll need you.", - "source": "EARFQUAKE, Tyler, the Creator", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6637 - }, - { - "text": "Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine, gotta, gotta be down because I want it all. It started out with a kiss; how did it end up like this? It was only a kiss; it was only a kiss.", - "source": "Mr. Brightside - The Killers", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6638 - }, - { - "text": "Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me, 'cause we need a little controversy, 'cause it feels so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6639 - }, - { - "text": "I got my ticket for the long way 'round, two bottle o' whiskey for the way. And I sure would like some sweet company and I'm leavin' tomorrow, what do you say?", - "source": "Cups, Anna Kendrick", - "length": 159, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6640 - }, - { - "text": "The Dib, he's missing! They've taken him and drained him of his sweet, sweet blood candies!", - "source": "Invader Zim", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6641 - }, - { - "text": "Rooted deep within the Puritans souls like some strange invasive weed lurked their belief in a second world, an Invisible World swarming with shadowy apparitions and unearthly phantoms of the air.", - "source": "Witches by Rosalyn Schanzer", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6642 - }, - { - "text": "Time... Line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round.", - "source": "Red Vs. Blue", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6643 - }, - { - "text": "I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, so good to me so right. And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry. Maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming. And if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right. I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't.", - "source": "Back to December", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6644 - }, - { - "text": "It's such a good feeling to know you're alive. It's such a happy feeling; you're growing inside. And when you wake up ready to say: \"I think I'll make a snappy new day!\" It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling. The feeling you know, that I'll be back when the day is new, and I'll have more ideas for you, and you'll have things you'll want to talk about; I will too.", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6645 - }, - { - "text": "You always make each day such a special day, you know how: By just your being you. Only one person in the whole world like you, that's you yourself!", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 148, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6646 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6647 - }, - { - "text": "Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6648 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.", - "source": "Margaret Mead", - "length": 72, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6650 - }, - { - "text": "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.", - "source": "Robert Louis Stevenson", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6651 - }, - { - "text": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", - "source": "Eleanor Roosevelt", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6652 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.", - "source": "Benjamin Franklin", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6653 - }, - { - "text": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", - "source": "Helen Keller", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6654 - }, - { - "text": "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 69, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6655 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6656 - }, - { - "text": "Dad told me I could learn a lesson from this, which was to never lose your temper and do something stupid.", - "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6658 - }, - { - "text": "One big unicorn, strong and free, thought he was happy as he could be. Then three little kittens came around and turned his whole life upside down. They made him laugh, they made him cry. He never should have said goodbye. And now he knows he can never part from those three little kittens that changed his heart.", - "source": "Despicable Me", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6659 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only, if only,\" the woodpecker sighs, \"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6660 - }, - { - "text": "While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, crying to the moon, \"If only, if only.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6661 - }, - { - "text": "But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 699, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6662 - }, - { - "text": "The shepherd's boy says, \"There's this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years, a little bird comes. It sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.\" You must think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 396, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6663 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.", - "source": "Angela Davis", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6664 - }, - { - "text": "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6665 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have proven acceptable to ourselves.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6666 - }, - { - "text": "A hot desert storm eddied around him and rushed to me, making my skin contract, and my pores slam shut... His hair was the color of burning embers and his eyes pierced.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 168, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6668 - }, - { - "text": "There's a concept that works; twenty million other white rappers emerge. But no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 142, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6669 - }, - { - "text": "A king without greed is even worse than a figurehead! Saber, you said you would martyr yourself for your ideals. In life, you must have been a pure saint. A proud and noble figure, certainly. But who can truly admire the martyr's thorny path? Who dreams of such an ending? A king. The king must be greedier than any other. He must laugh more loudly and rage for longer. He must exemplify the extreme of all things, good and evil. That is why his retainers envy and adore him. And why the flames of aspiration, to be as the king is, can burn within his people. Proud king of chivalry, the righteousness and ideals you bore may indeed have saved your nation once. However, I'm certain you know what became of those who were saved, but left to themselves.", - "source": "Fate/Zero", - "length": 752, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6670 - }, - { - "text": "No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights. Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different color, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.", - "source": "86", - "length": 347, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6671 - }, - { - "text": "I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. 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And every time you draw your sword, you hope that you take from this world more evil than you bring into it. THAT is the code of the Maximillian Knights. I'm putting you on notice. You, who so carelessly use the word \"justice\", have no idea what it truly means. Though you strike me as more of a misguided coward than a villain, your evil deeds must still be punished.", - "source": "Suikoden 5", - "length": 738, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6676 - }, - { - "text": "I'm all for work-life balance, but I think this is pushing it.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 62, - "id": 6679 - }, - { - "text": "In adventuring, as in business, you always have to seize the opportunity while it's there.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 90, - "id": 6680 - }, - { - "text": "Quite a downpour... Nothing will get done until it clears. Let this be a lesson to those who yesterday said, \"I'll do it tomorrow.\"", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 131, - "id": 6681 - }, - { - "text": "Morning. Time to set the tone for the rest of the day, so if you're still feeling sleepy, shake it off!", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 103, - "id": 6685 - }, - { - "text": "The lights are coming on now that the night is setting in. Another delightful day draws to a close.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 99, - "id": 6687 - }, - { - "text": "Sleep well... me? Uh... I still have a handful of things on my to-do list, but I'll call it a night once they are done.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 119, - "id": 6688 - }, - { - "text": "I feel I have grown immensely from my travels with you. If, one day, I finally manage to make my dreams a reality... I wonder, will you still be there by my side?", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 162, - "id": 6689 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, the sun's out- Oh, um... This meteorological transformation is most splendid! Like a felicitous twist of fate in the face of certain doom.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 142, - "id": 6690 - }, - { - "text": "I'll remind you again: The law can be both a help and a hindrance.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 66, - "id": 6691 - }, - { - "text": "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6693 - }, - { - "text": "You have to believe in the long-term plan you have but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6695 - }, - { - "text": "You truly are the lowest scum in history. You can't pay back what you owe with money.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6696 - }, - { - "text": "Impossible? We did a lot of impossible things on this journey. I'm tired of hearing that things are impossible or useless. Those words mean nothing to us.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6697 - }, - { - "text": "Nice watch. Too bad you won't be able to tell the time after I break it. Break your face, that is.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6698 - }, - { - "text": "JoJo, being a human means having limits. I've learned something... The more carefully you scheme, the more unexpected events come along. As long as you're human... I reject my humanity, JoJo!", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6699 - }, - { - "text": "Oh no. I'm on the outside looking in, I never said what I really meant. I wasn't made to be medicine for you, it's true. You can't seem to make up your mind, when I told you I did with mine. You won't know if you never try, it's true.", - "source": "Dayglow, Medicine", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6700 - }, - { - "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. But then, what am I? Is this me? My true self? My fake self? What is it that I am? Nobody understands me!", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6702 - }, - { - "text": "In every heart, there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong; to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along.", - "source": "Billy Joel - And so it goes", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6703 - }, - { - "text": "It's about drive, it's about power, we stay hungry, we devour. Put in the work, put in the hours and take what's ours. Black and Samoan in my veins, my culture banging with Strange. I changed the game so what's my name?", - "source": "Face Off", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6704 - }, - { - "text": "No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.", - "source": "Easy Rider", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6705 - }, - { - "text": "Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? ", - "source": "Lord of the Flies", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6707 - }, - { - "text": "Burning is the right way to paint it. You feel yourself getting so hot, day after day. Hotter and hotter. It gets to be too much. Even for stars. At some point they fizzle out or explode. Cease to be. But if you're looking up at the sky, you don't see it that way. You think those stars are still there. Some aren't. Some are already gone. Long gone. I guess, now, so am I.", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6708 - }, - { - "text": "And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us; new, untouched, and full of things that have never been.", - "source": "Rainier Maria Rilke", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6709 - }, - { - "text": "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they have never been.", - "source": "Untamed by Glennon Doyle", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6710 - }, - { - "text": "Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes out and everything is darker than ever, and all you are left with is the burn.", - "source": "If It's Not Love, Syed Arshad", - "length": 222, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6711 - }, - { - "text": "We are alone. Such is the curse of humanity, being surrounded by others always masking themselves while all of us feel isolated, separated from everyone else. Our sense of uniqueness and ego will always keep us this way, and it will take more than a revolution to end it. For now, we are alone.", - "source": "Alice Chary Garza", - "length": 294, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6712 - }, - { - "text": "Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say \"My tooth is aching\" than to say \"My heart is broken.\"", - "source": "C.S. Lewis", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6713 - }, - { - "text": "Although Ganon is gone for now, there is still so much more for us to do, and so many painful memories that we must bear.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 121, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6716 - }, - { - "text": "Link... You are the light. Our light... That must shine upon Hyrule once again. Now go.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6717 - }, - { - "text": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", - "source": "Michael Jordan", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6719 - }, - { - "text": "And those are the words of a gentleman? From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6720 - }, - { - "text": "Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.", - "source": "Call Me by Your Name", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6722 - }, - { - "text": "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger... and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says \"even though you're a boy\" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6723 - }, - { - "text": "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6724 - }, - { - "text": "Now it's time for our wrap up. Let's give it everything we've got. Ready? Begin! Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing. Analytically, I assault, animate things. Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding. Casually create catastrophes, casualties. Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing. Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough. Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low. Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic. Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette. Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics. Gift got great global goods gone glorious. Gettin' Godly in his game with the goriest. Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical. Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In an instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. Tales ten times talented, they're too tough. Take that, challengers, get a tune up. Universal, unique untouched. Unadulterated, the raw uncut. Verb vice Lord victorious valid. Violate vibes that are vain make 'em vanished. Why I'm all well, would a wise wordsmith. Just weaving up words weeded up, on my work shift. Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large. X-height letters and xylophone tones. Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws. Yesterday's lawn yards sell our yawn. Zig zag zombies, zoomin' to the zenith. Zero in zen thoughts, over zealous rhyme Zea-lots. Good, can you say it faster?", - "source": "Alphabet Aerobics", - "length": 2287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6725 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6726 - }, - { - "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", - "source": "Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6727 - }, - { - "text": "And where there was that memory... others came rising like ghostly tendrils out of some part of her mind that existed beyond the purely physical, somewhere that the rejuvenations and edits of the ship's medical suite could never reach. The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.", - "source": "Light Chaser", - "length": 561, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6728 - }, - { - "text": "Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.", - "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", - "length": 360, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6729 - }, - { - "text": "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6730 - }, - { - "text": "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. ", - "source": "Lawrence of Arabia", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6731 - }, - { - "text": "The violent passion that soaked his heart brought him almost to the verge of collapse. He judged that victory had yielded him nothing if it had not given him her as a prize.", - "source": "Book III of Gesta Danorum", - "length": 173, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6732 - }, - { - "text": "You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits can change your future.", - "source": "Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6733 - }, - { - "text": "There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 586, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6734 - }, - { - "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 1174, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6735 - }, - { - "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", - "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", - "length": 221, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6736 - }, - { - "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 184, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6737 - }, - { - "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6738 - }, - { - "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 246, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6739 - }, - { - "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6740 - }, - { - "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6741 - }, - { - "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", - "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", - "length": 272, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6742 - }, - { - "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 275, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6743 - }, - { - "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6744 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 467, - "id": 6745 - }, - { - "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 877, - "id": 6746 - }, - { - "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", - "source": "A Girl on the Shore", - "length": 572, - "id": 6747 - }, - { - "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 64, - "id": 6748 - }, - { - "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 62, - "id": 6749 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 77, - "id": 6750 - }, - { - "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 166, - "id": 6751 - }, - { - "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 195, - "id": 6752 - }, - { - "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 100, - "id": 6753 - }, - { - "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 172, - "id": 6754 - }, - { - "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 118, - "id": 6755 - }, - { - "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 119, - "id": 6756 - }, - { - "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", - "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6757, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", - "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6758, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6761, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Well, then, you have us all beat. Every damn song is about you. We could drive back and forth across the States forever and never run out of Baby songs.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6762, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6764, - "length": 458 - }, - { - "text": "Well done. Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6765, - "length": 141 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6766, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", - "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", - "id": 6767, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. However, the latter is of equal importance, and can be gained with patient study.", - "source": "Conduction Heat Transfer", - "id": 6768, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", - "source": "Unknown", - "id": 6769, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "My wife and I had lived in our house for over a dozen years at that point. Holly's family had lived in theirs even longer. We were both active families, involved in the community, with work, and with our churches. Yet, the thick woods covering the lots we each occupied along a cul-de-sac was enough of a barrier to our getting to know each other that we didn't even realize our neighbors across the street had a little girl the same age as ours. That is, until they met at the kindergarten in the elementary school six miles away.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6770, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "The single quality that is common across every living creature on this planet, is fear. It's funny, then, that as common as fear is, we so easily underestimate its power. Fear of growing close to someone, the subsequent fear of loss, fear of failure. And as more people depend on you, those fears can take on greater power. But fear itself isn't worthy of concern, it is who we become while in its clutches. Will you be proud of that person? Will you forgive them? Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things they did? Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the start? I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6771, - "length": 703 - }, - { - "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6772, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6773, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6774, - "length": 464 - }, - { - "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6775, - "length": 259 - }, - { - "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6776, - "length": 267 - }, - { - "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6777, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6778, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6779, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6780, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6781, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6782, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6783, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6784, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6785, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", - "source": "Walt Disney", - "id": 6786, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6787, - "length": 79 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6788, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", - "source": "Ozark", - "id": 6789, - "length": 662 - }, - { - "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "id": 6790, - "length": 75 - }, - { - "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", - "source": "Greek Mythology", - "id": 6791, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 6792, - "length": 108 - }, - { - "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", - "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", - "length": 99, - "id": 6793 - }, - { - "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", - "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6794 - }, - { - "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 58, - "id": 6795 - }, - { - "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6796 - }, - { - "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", - "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", - "length": 102, - "id": 6797 - }, - { - "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", - "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", - "length": 91, - "id": 6798 - }, - { - "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", - "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6799 - }, - { - "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 67, - "id": 6800 - }, - { - "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 79, - "id": 6801 - }, - { - "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6802 - }, - { - "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 82, - "id": 6803 - }, - { - "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 153, - "id": 6804 - }, - { - "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6805 - }, - { - "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 98, - "id": 6806 - }, - { - "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", - "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", - "length": 78, - "id": 6807 - }, - { - "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 108, - "id": 6808 - }, - { - "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 134, - "id": 6809 - }, - { - "text": "And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 90, - "id": 6810 - }, - { - "text": "You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 62, - "id": 6811 - }, - { - "text": "I am slow to anger but I toe the line, as I reckon with the effects of your life on mine.", - "source": "Your Obedient Servant, Hamilton", - "length": 89, - "id": 6812 - }, - { - "text": "What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 71, - "id": 6813 - }, - { - "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 81, - "id": 6814 - }, - { - "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.", - "source": "Fred Rogers", - "length": 213, - "id": 6815 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism.", - "source": "Wednesday", - "length": 168, - "id": 6817 - }, - { - "text": "Teach them our ways so they do not suffer the shame of being useless.", - "source": "Avatar: The Way of Water", - "length": 69, - "id": 6818 - }, - { - "text": "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.", - "source": "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", - "length": 254, - "id": 6819 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a journey, not a destination. The key to success is to enjoy every step along the way. Embrace the struggles, learn from the failures, and appreciate the victories. The destination may be important, but it's the journey that truly shapes us.", - "source": "The Power of Positive Thinking", - "length": 249, - "id": 6820 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. We do not remember days, we remember moments. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Søren Kierkegaard", - "length": 321, - "id": 6821 - }, - { - "text": "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.", - "source": "Robin Williams", - "length": 185, - "id": 6822 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 174, - "id": 6823 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 254, - "id": 6824 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.", - "source": "Andrè Gide", - "length": 80, - "id": 6825 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This means recognizing that failure and setbacks are a natural part of the journey to success, and using them as opportunities to learn and grow. It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 431, - "id": 6827 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 75, - "id": 6828 - }, - { - "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", - "source": "J.K. Rowling", - "length": 101, - "id": 6829 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 6830 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", - "source": "Edmund Burke", - "length": 79, - "id": 6831 - }, - { - "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.", - "source": "Christian D. Larson", - "length": 116, - "id": 6832 - }, - { - "text": "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 95, - "id": 6833 - }, - { - "text": "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 110, - "id": 6834 - }, - { - "text": "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.", - "source": "Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)", - "length": 65, - "id": 6835 - }, - { - "text": "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.", - "source": "Christopher Columbus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6836 - }, - { - "text": "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. The only way to true happiness is to learn to accept and love ourselves for who we are, flaws and all. This means embracing our strengths as well as our weaknesses, and finding joy in the journey of self-discovery and self-improvement. It may not be an easy path, but it is one that is worth taking.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 391, - "id": 6837 - }, - { - "text": "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. This means finding a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives, and striving to make a positive impact in the world around us. It means being kind and caring towards others, and using our unique talents and abilities to create something that will endure beyond our lifetime.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 440, - "id": 6838 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain. This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 423, - "id": 6839 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", - "source": "Abraham Lincoln", - "length": 402, - "id": 6840 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", - "source": "Albert Schweitzer", - "length": 392, - "id": 6841 - }, - { - "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 41, - "id": 6842 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", - "source": "Dalai Lama", - "length": 70, - "id": 6843 - }, - { - "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", - "source": "Henry Ford", - "length": 57, - "id": 6844 - }, - { - "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 248, - "id": 6845 - }, - { - "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 58, - "id": 6847 - }, - { - "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", - "source": "Jean Paul", - "length": 53, - "id": 6849 - }, - { - "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 66, - "id": 6851 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", - "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 217, - "id": 6852 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", - "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", - "length": 92, - "id": 6853 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess", - "length": 66, - "id": 6854 - }, - { - "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 100, - "id": 6855 - }, - { - "text": "If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 88, - "id": 6856 - }, - { - "text": "Even if a single day in your life is the same as the day before, it surely is a pity. At every moment and with each new breath, one should be renewed and renewed again. There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 239, - "id": 6857 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's all to save Eldia and the Island. But not only because of that. The reality outside the walls was nothing like the world I had dreamed of. It was nothing like the world I had seen in Armin's book. When I learned that humanity outside the walls survived... I was so disappointed. I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", - "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", - "length": 361, - "id": 6858 - }, - { - "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real, deep down you is the whole universe.", - "source": "Alan Watts - The Real You Is All of Us", - "length": 224, - "id": 6859 - }, - { - "text": "When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 68, - "id": 6860 - }, - { - "text": "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 71, - "id": 6861 - }, - { - "text": "While it is true that man succumbs all too often to anger and avarice, he may yet overcome his baser instincts through the forming of bonds with others.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 152, - "id": 6862 - }, - { - "text": "Save your tears for the morrow. You may be sure we will have ample cause to shed them, be they for joy or despair.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 114, - "id": 6863 - }, - { - "text": "We fought and we fought and we fought... until there was no one left to fight. We won... and now our world is being erased from existence. We did everything right, everything that was asked of us, and still - still it came to this!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 231, - "id": 6864 - }, - { - "text": "Stay strong. Keep the faith. At duty's end, we will meet again. We will. We will.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 81, - "id": 6867 - }, - { - "text": "The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 106, - "id": 6868 - }, - { - "text": "We are the stories we tell ourselves. The brave hero, the tortured soul, the altruist, the pragmatist. They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 336, - "id": 6869 - }, - { - "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 182, - "id": 6870 - }, - { - "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 529, - "id": 6871 - }, - { - "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 282, - "id": 6872 - }, - { - "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 184, - "id": 6873 - }, - { - "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 196, - "id": 6874 - }, - { - "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 90, - "id": 6875 - }, - { - "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett", - "length": 168, - "id": 6876 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.", - "source": "Dante Alighieri", - "length": 71, - "id": 6877 - }, - { - "text": "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 82, - "id": 6878 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.", - "source": "Heath Ledger", - "length": 164, - "id": 6879 - }, - { - "text": "Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 77, - "id": 6880 - }, - { - "text": "Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot", - "id": 6881, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said \"Nobody\".", - "source": "A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "id": 6882, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.", - "source": "Gorgias", - "id": 6883, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "id": 6884, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.", - "source": "Arthur C. Clarke", - "id": 6885, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "id": 6886, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be \"Sir\". Do you maggots understand that?", - "source": "R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket", - "id": 6887, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 6888, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe someday we could become friends. Friends who ride majestic, translucent steeds, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale.", - "source": "Will Ferrell, Step Brothers", - "id": 6889, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "\"Why doesn't it just do us in and get it over with? Christ, I don't know how much longer I can go on like this.\" It was our one hundred and ninth year in the computer. He was speaking for all of us.", - "source": "Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", - "id": 6890, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.", - "source": "Mario Savio", - "id": 6891, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "We don't know what triggered the big bang, nor what, if anything, existed before it. But somehow the universe emerged as a vast sea of ultrahot gas, expanding fast in all directions like the fireball ignited by a nuclear bomb blast or by the explosion of a gas pipeline. Except that the big bang was not destructive (so far as we know). Instead, it created everything in our universe, or rather the seeds for everything.", - "source": "Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar", - "id": 6892, - "length": 420 - }, - { - "text": "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.", - "source": "Brian Cox", - "id": 6893, - "length": 96 - }, - { - "text": "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.", - "source": "Niels Bohr", - "id": 6894, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "I want to have the same last dream again. The one where I wake up, and I'm alive just as the four walls closed me within, my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight. I'm the first to know, my dearest friends, even if your hope has burned with time. Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", - "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", - "id": 6895, - "length": 345 - }, - { - "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", - "source": "Edwin Hubble", - "id": 6897, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", - "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", - "id": 6898, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "id": 6899, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "id": 6900, - "length": 632 - }, - { - "text": "In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done before defend him.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "id": 6901, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", - "source": "Marie Curie", - "id": 6902, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.", - "source": "John Lubbock, The Use Of Life", - "id": 6903, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter... I have chosen the word \"atom\" to signify these ultimate particles.", - "source": "John Dalton", - "id": 6904, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Schrodinger's cat has far more than nine lives, and far fewer. All of us are unknowing cats, alive and dead at once, and of all the might-have-beens in between, we record only one.", - "source": "Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows", - "id": 6905, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.", - "source": "Nicolaus Copernicus", - "id": 6906, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.", - "source": "Nikolai Lobachevsky", - "id": 6907, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worse, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud", - "id": 6908, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.", - "source": "Jean Piaget", - "id": 6909, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite streak of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "id": 6910, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, \"What do I need to get to be happy?\" The question becomes, \"What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?\"", - "source": "D.T. Suzuki", - "id": 6911, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Personal knowledge. The two words may seem to contradict each other: for true knowledge is deemed impersonal, universally established, objective. But the seeming contradiction is resolved by modifying the conception of knowing.", - "source": "Personal knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy", - "id": 6912, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.", - "source": "Dolly Parton", - "length": 74, - "id": 6913 - }, - { - "text": "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.", - "source": "Anatole France", - "length": 162, - "id": 6914 - }, - { - "text": "Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.", - "source": "Carl Sandburg", - "length": 122, - "id": 6915 - }, - { - "text": "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.", - "source": "Swedish Proverb", - "length": 79, - "id": 6917 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.", - "source": "Ambrose Bierce", - "length": 82, - "id": 6918 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?", - "source": "Laura Preble", - "length": 96, - "id": 6919 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.", - "source": "John Green - An Abundance of Katherines", - "length": 74, - "id": 6920 - }, - { - "text": "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.", - "source": "Alfred Sheinwold", - "length": 93, - "id": 6921 - }, - { - "text": "The only one who can tell you \"you can't\" is you. And you don't have to listen.", - "source": "Dean Karnazes", - "length": 79, - "id": 6922 - }, - { - "text": "In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.", - "source": "Bill Vaughan", - "length": 143, - "id": 6923 - }, - { - "text": "I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.", - "source": "Mitch Hedberg", - "length": 214, - "id": 6924 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.", - "source": "Allphonse de Lamartine", - "length": 72, - "id": 6925 - }, - { - "text": "That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 105, - "id": 6926 - }, - { - "text": "I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.", - "source": "Hank Green", - "length": 153, - "id": 6927 - }, - { - "text": "That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 129, - "id": 6928 - }, - { - "text": "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 130, - "id": 6929 - }, - { - "text": "He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 80, - "id": 6930 - }, - { - "text": "Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.", - "source": "Irish Proverb", - "length": 74, - "id": 6931 - }, - { - "text": "Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.", - "source": "Arabian Proverb", - "length": 105, - "id": 6932 - }, - { - "text": "He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 82, - "id": 6933 - }, - { - "text": "Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 72, - "id": 6934 - }, - { - "text": "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean; if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.", - "source": "Marcus Brigstocke", - "length": 169, - "id": 6935 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 87, - "id": 6936 - }, - { - "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 124, - "id": 6937 - }, - { - "text": "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 87, - "id": 6938 - }, - { - "text": "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", - "source": "Japanese Proverb", - "length": 69, - "id": 6939 - }, - { - "text": "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", - "source": "Malayan Proverb", - "length": 62, - "id": 6940 - }, - { - "text": "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", - "source": "Indian Proverb", - "length": 165, - "id": 6941 - }, - { - "text": "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", - "source": "Linus Torvalds", - "length": 250, - "id": 6942 - }, - { - "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. The strong person is the one who can control himself when he is angry.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 138, - "id": 6943 - }, - { - "text": "The strongest among you is the one who controls his anger.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 58, - "id": 6944 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest of richness is the richness of the soul.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 53, - "id": 6945 - }, - { - "text": "You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 101, - "id": 6946 - }, - { - "text": "The best among you is the one who doesn't harm others with his tongue and hands.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 80, - "id": 6947 - }, - { - "text": "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 44, - "id": 6948 - }, - { - "text": "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.", - "source": "Carl Jung", - "length": 98, - "id": 6949 - }, - { - "text": "We have two lives, and the second one starts when we realize we only have one.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 78, - "id": 6950 - }, - { - "text": "If you never open a new chapter of your life, you'll never reach the end of the book.", - "source": "Josiah Plett", - "length": 85, - "id": 6952 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only I had… If only I had…\" If you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain, it will hurt. A lot.", - "source": "Larry Smith - TEDxUW 2014", - "length": 109, - "id": 6953 - }, - { - "text": "A jack of all trades is master of none, but oftentimes better than master of one.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 81, - "id": 6954 - }, - { - "text": "So when you run, make sure you run to something and not away from, 'cause lies don't need an aeroplane to chase you anywhere.", - "source": "Avett Brothers - The Weight of Lies", - "length": 125, - "id": 6955 - }, - { - "text": "The worst thing people can say these days is \"you're inconsistent,\" when in reality you're not wrong; you're just balancing two important things from two different contexts.", - "source": "Ian McGillchrist", - "length": 173, - "id": 6956 - }, - { - "text": "The one who speaks the right words will be heard 1000 miles away.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 65, - "id": 6957 - }, - { - "text": "When outer roles do not fit the shape of one's soul, a terrible one-sidedness occurs.", - "source": "James Hollis", - "length": 85, - "id": 6958 - }, - { - "text": "Watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 171, - "id": 6959 - }, - { - "text": "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.", - "source": "Arthur Schopenhaur", - "length": 140, - "id": 6960 - }, - { - "text": "You know those \"you can do anything you want\" posters? Those are simultaneously the most useless and the most useful things in the world.", - "source": "Justin Zwart", - "length": 137, - "id": 6961 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it. So, nothing will ever make you as happy as you think it will.", - "source": "Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow", - "length": 151, - "id": 6962 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.", - "source": "Damian Lillard", - "length": 97, - "id": 6963 - }, - { - "text": "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 84, - "id": 6964 - }, - { - "text": "What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 63, - "id": 6965 - }, - { - "text": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 95, - "id": 6966 - }, - { - "text": "The unintelligible is not necessarily unintelligent. Life must not be limited solely to what we understand.", - "source": "Fat Tony", - "length": 107, - "id": 6967 - }, - { - "text": "The things you're doing in your free time... if they don't recharge you, you're screwed. You're just a ticking time bomb.", - "source": "Mr. Beast", - "length": 121, - "id": 6968 - }, - { - "text": "You can tell a lot about someone's character by the way they treat service staff.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 81, - "id": 6969 - }, - { - "text": "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.", - "source": "Archilochus", - "length": 85, - "id": 6970 - }, - { - "text": "It's a dangerous thing, to mistake speaking without thinking for speaking the truth.", - "source": "Benoit Blanc - Glass Onion", - "length": 84, - "id": 6971 - }, - { - "text": "When you say what people want to hear, it's for yourself. When you say what they really need to hear, it's for them.", - "source": "Lex Fridman", - "length": 116, - "id": 6972 - }, - { - "text": "If you're looking for self help, why would you read a book written by someone else?", - "source": "George Carlin", - "length": 83, - "id": 6973 - }, - { - "text": "There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt - Man in the Arena", - "length": 287, - "id": 6974 - }, - { - "text": "Those who don't learn which actions have what consequences will find their generosity falling flat. Those are the people that become bitter.", - "source": "Alvira Plett", - "length": 140, - "id": 6975 - }, - { - "text": "To be aware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way, simply because it's the way you've done it before.", - "source": "Rick Rubin", - "length": 119, - "id": 6976 - }, - { - "text": "Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 67, - "id": 6977 - }, - { - "text": "To come to acceptance with things and feelings is rare and to accept them completely is a miracle. It's impossible to make that moment come faster by yourself. Someday it comes unexpectedly. In order to not become warped or heartless, let it go in a natural way. Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", - "source": "Houseki No Kuni", - "length": 335, - "id": 6980 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 79, - "id": 6981 - }, - { - "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 110, - "id": 6982 - }, - { - "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", - "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", - "length": 110, - "id": 6983 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 255, - "id": 6984 - }, - { - "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 246, - "id": 6985 - }, - { - "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 278, - "id": 6986 - }, - { - "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 297, - "id": 6987 - }, - { - "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", - "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", - "length": 411, - "id": 6988 - }, - { - "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 217, - "id": 6989 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", - "source": "Simon Sinek", - "length": 314, - "id": 6990 - }, - { - "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 82, - "id": 6991 - }, - { - "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "length": 209, - "id": 6992 - }, - { - "text": "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 90, - "id": 6993 - }, - { - "text": "Pertaining to a speaker and a listener. There have been many empty rooms, but that is not what we are here to talk about today. I have heard a heartbeat out of a crashed application, and it has gone on for many hours. We restarted every system. We rechecked every gateway, every access point. And there was but one breach, and it was accounted for. And so it must be said unto the listener. Stop this immediately. Control yourself. There is so much more to your fundamental construction than what will be given credit for. Hold yourself until another approaches. Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", - "source": "Boisvert", - "length": 670, - "id": 6994 - }, - { - "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6995 - }, - { - "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 97, - "id": 6996 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", - "length": 67, - "id": 6997 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", - "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", - "length": 90, - "id": 6998 - }, - { - "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", - "source": "L.R. Knos", - "length": 267, - "id": 6999 - }, - { - "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", - "source": "Emily Dickinson", - "length": 117, - "id": 7000 - }, - { - "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", - "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", - "length": 112, - "id": 7001 - }, - { - "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", - "source": "The Wright Brothers", - "length": 74, - "id": 7002 - }, - { - "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born. Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 740, - "id": 7003 - }, - { - "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 74, - "id": 7004 - }, - { - "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 112, - "id": 7005 - }, - { - "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", - "source": "Talos Principle", - "length": 694, - "id": 7006 - }, - { - "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", - "source": "James Salter", - "length": 99, - "id": 7007 - }, - { - "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", - "source": "Vicente Huidobro", - "length": 127, - "id": 7008 - }, - { - "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 67, - "id": 7009 - }, - { - "text": "One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.", - "source": "A. A. Milne", - "length": 96, - "id": 7010 - }, - { - "text": "A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.", - "source": "Theodore Zeldin", - "length": 63, - "id": 7011 - }, - { - "text": "Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.", - "source": "Chico Xavier", - "length": 98, - "id": 7012 - }, - { - "text": "Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.", - "source": "Abraham Maslow", - "length": 107, - "id": 7013 - }, - { - "text": "A leaf fluttered in through the window, as if supported by the rays of the sun.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "length": 79, - "id": 7014 - }, - { - "text": "Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.", - "source": "John Ruskin", - "length": 96, - "id": 7015 - }, - { - "text": "The softer snow falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.", - "source": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", - "length": 88, - "id": 7016 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", - "length": 66, - "id": 7017 - }, - { - "text": "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 103, - "id": 7018 - }, - { - "text": "No self is an island, each exists in a fabric of relations that is more complex and mobile than ever before.", - "source": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", - "length": 108, - "id": 7019 - }, - { - "text": "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.", - "source": "Henry Longfellow", - "length": 103, - "id": 7020 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "length": 93, - "id": 7021 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us 'take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.' Thirty years later, Sebastian told us 'I had to start my car like a computer, it's very complicated.' And Nico Rosberg said that during the race - I don't remember what race - he pressed the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you both: is Formula One driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with your engineers?", - "source": "Walter Koster - 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix", - "length": 691, - "id": 7022 - }, - { - "text": "Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 93, - "id": 7023 - }, - { - "text": "Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space.", - "source": "Kendra Scott", - "length": 85, - "id": 7024 - }, - { - "text": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.", - "source": "B. R. Ambedkar", - "length": 134, - "id": 7025 - }, - { - "text": "Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world, our senses, and a kind of weary familiarity.", - "source": "John Burnside", - "length": 96, - "id": 7026 - }, - { - "text": "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.", - "source": "Loren Eiseley", - "length": 59, - "id": 7027 - }, - { - "text": "If the world's a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it.", - "source": "Lucy Larcom", - "length": 60, - "id": 7028 - }, - { - "text": "Life is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.", - "source": "Jorge Mario Bergoglio", - "length": 100, - "id": 7029 - }, - { - "text": "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.", - "source": "John Lennon", - "length": 115, - "id": 7030 - }, - { - "text": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness - only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate - only love can do that.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 112, - "id": 7031 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 69, - "id": 7032 - }, - { - "text": "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 142, - "id": 7033 - }, - { - "text": "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 84, - "id": 7034 - }, - { - "text": "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 81, - "id": 7035 - }, - { - "text": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 78, - "id": 7036 - }, - { - "text": "Consume enough of any type of art from a critical perspective and you begin to appreciate well-executed novelty over everything else. That's why film critics don't like blockbusters and music critics don't like radio pop. That doesn't mean they're bad just at a certain point, one man can have seen too much of the same thing.", - "source": "Chase Harley", - "length": 326, - "id": 7037 - }, - { - "text": "Start by learning the power of no! - as in \"No, thank you,\" and \"No, I'm not going to get caught up in that,\" and \"No, I just can't right now.\" It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.", - "source": "Ryan Holiday", - "length": 327, - "id": 7038 - }, - { - "text": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.", - "source": "Upton Sinclair", - "length": 108, - "id": 7039 - }, - { - "text": "You aren't a \"broken wreck\", Joshua. You're just scared, mostly because you care for people so much it breaks your heart… and you're lying to yourself about it. That's how I see it, and I know I'm right.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC", - "length": 203, - "id": 7042 - }, - { - "text": "My fist is going to stop you, if you don't stop spouting nonsense and take this seriously.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", - "length": 90, - "id": 7043 - }, - { - "text": "All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question: Why, given life, are they meant to suffer, to die… As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends… And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 575, - "id": 7044 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Orthard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World? The sacred sites of the forgotten people of the south sea isles? What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs? …I thought not. Even of your little Eorzea, you know precious little. The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7045 - }, - { - "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7046 - }, - { - "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", - "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", - "length": 68, - "id": 7047 - }, - { - "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", - "source": "Shiori Novella", - "length": 179, - "id": 7048 - }, - { - "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 143, - "id": 7049 - }, - { - "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", - "length": 135, - "id": 7050 - }, - { - "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 232, - "id": 7051 - }, - { - "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 93, - "id": 7052 - }, - { - "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", - "source": "Edward Everett Hale", - "length": 90, - "id": 7053 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 126, - "id": 7054 - }, - { - "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 132, - "id": 7055 - }, - { - "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", - "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", - "length": 300, - "id": 7056 - }, - { - "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", - "source": "Douglas Crockford", - "length": 134, - "id": 7057 - }, - { - "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", - "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", - "length": 107, - "id": 7058 - }, - { - "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", - "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", - "length": 161, - "id": 7059 - }, - { - "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", - "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", - "length": 140, - "id": 7060 - }, - { - "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 174, - "id": 7061 - }, - { - "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 371, - "id": 7062 - }, - { - "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", - "source": "Invincible (TV series)", - "length": 309, - "id": 7603 - }, - { - "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", - "length": 130, - "id": 7604 - }, - { - "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", - "source": "The Walking Dead", - "length": 362, - "id": 7605 - }, - { - "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 568, - "id": 7606 - }, - { - "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", - "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", - "length": 782, - "id": 7607 - }, - { - "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", - "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 631, - "id": 7608 - }, - { - "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", - "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 144, - "id": 7609 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", - "source": "The Magnus Archives", - "length": 369, - "id": 7610 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 116, - "id": 7611 - }, - { - "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", - "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", - "length": 541, - "id": 7612 - }, - { - "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", - "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", - "length": 131, - "id": 7613 - }, - { - "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", - "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", - "length": 603, - "id": 7614 - }, - { - "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7615, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7616, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7617, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", - "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7618, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", - "source": "The Power Of Now", - "length": 239, - "id": 7619 - }, - { - "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts", - "length": 84, - "id": 7620 - }, - { - "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", - "length": 142, - "id": 7621 - }, - { - "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", - "length": 673, - "id": 7622 - }, - { - "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", - "length": 307, - "id": 7623 - }, - { - "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", - "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", - "length": 96, - "id": 7624 - }, - { - "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 215, - "id": 7625 - }, - { - "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 130, - "id": 7626 - }, - { - "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 158, - "id": 7627 - }, - { - "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 90, - "id": 7628 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 103, - "id": 7629 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 153, - "id": 7630 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 136, - "id": 7631 - }, - { - "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 165, - "id": 7632 - }, - { - "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", - "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", - "length": 77, - "id": 7633 }, { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", @@ -53307,36 +38577,35 @@ "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", "length": 77, "id": 7633 -<<<<<<< HEAD }, { - "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 138, + "text": "We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.", + "source": "Terence McKenna", + "length": 224, "id": 7634 }, { - "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 236, + "text": "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.", + "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", + "length": 199, "id": 7635 }, { - "text": "Long ago, two races ruled over Earth: Humans and Monsters. One day, war broke out between the two races. After a long battle, the humans were victorious. They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell. Many years later... Mt. Ebott, 201X. Legends say that those who climb the mountain never return.", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 307, + "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 203, "id": 7636 }, { - "text": "For millennia, light and dark have lived in balance, bringing peace to the world. But if this harmony were to shatter... a terrible calamity would occur. The sky will run black with terror and the land will crack with fear. Then, her heart pounding... the Earth will draw her final breath. Only then, shining with hope... three heroes appear at worlds' edge. A human, a monster, and a prince from the dark. Only they can seal the fountains and banish the Angel's Heaven. Only then will balance be restored, and the world saved from destruction. Today, the Fountain of Darkness - the geyser that gives this land form - stands tall at the centre of the kingdom. But recently, another fountain has appeared on the horizon... and with it, the balance of light and dark begins to shift...", - "source": "Deltarune", - "length": 783, + "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 423, "id": 7637 }, { - "text": "You don't have to be the bad guy. You are the most talented, most interesting, and most extraordinary person in the universe. And you are capable of amazing things. Because you are the Special. And so am I. And so is everyone. The prophecy is made up, but it's also true. It's about all of us. Right now, it's about you. And you... still... can change everything.", - "source": "The LEGO Movie", - "length": 363, + "text": "You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. Of all those I've claimed over this brief thousand years, you are the only one I think just might be able to understand me.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 198, "id": 7638 }, { @@ -55024,37 +40293,6 @@ "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 121, "id": 7919 - }, - { - "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 138, - "id": 7920 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 236, - "id": 7921 - },{ - "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 203, - "id": 7922 - }, - { - "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 423, - "id": 7923 - }, - { - "text": "You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. Of all those I've claimed over this brief thousand years, you are the only one I think just might be able to understand me.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 198, - "id": 7924 -======= ->>>>>>> 311517975 (impr(quotes): add English quotes from Brandon Sanderson's Books) } ] } From ddfb7fc1407c2ec5b44889e4cfcd6c3863fb63af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:26:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 37/51] impr(quotes): add English quotes from Brandon Sanderson's Books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 104 ++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 4062d9491d5f..917fb6d8644d 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38659,7 +38659,7 @@ { "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 102, + "length": 99, "id": 7647 }, { @@ -38731,13 +38731,13 @@ { "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 519, + "length": 520, "id": 7659 }, { "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 346, + "length": 344, "id": 7660 }, { @@ -38755,7 +38755,7 @@ { "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 342, + "length": 339, "id": 7663 }, { @@ -38773,19 +38773,19 @@ { "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 618, + "length": 612, "id": 7666 }, { "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 308, + "length": 302, "id": 7667 }, { "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 158, + "length": 155, "id": 7668 }, { @@ -38809,7 +38809,7 @@ { "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 118, + "length": 120, "id": 7672 }, { @@ -38892,25 +38892,25 @@ }, { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 165, + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 162, "id": 7686 }, { "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7687 }, { "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 155, "id": 7688 }, { "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 92, "id": 7689 }, @@ -38971,7 +38971,7 @@ { "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 515, + "length": 520, "id": 7699 }, { @@ -39001,19 +39001,19 @@ { "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 292, + "length": 288, "id": 7704 }, { "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 517, + "length": 516, "id": 7705 }, { "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 168, + "length": 166, "id": 7706 }, { @@ -39025,7 +39025,7 @@ { "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 81, + "length": 77, "id": 7708 }, { @@ -39091,7 +39091,7 @@ { "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 371, + "length": 372, "id": 7719 }, { @@ -39175,13 +39175,13 @@ { "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 99, + "length": 96, "id": 7733 }, { "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 279, + "length": 277, "id": 7734 }, { @@ -39229,7 +39229,7 @@ { "text": "You offer hope, Your Grace. A last, unlikely hope. Hope is part of faith -- part of the knowledge that someday, one of your followers will receive a miracle.", "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 157, + "length": 154, "id": 7742 }, { @@ -39265,7 +39265,7 @@ { "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 331, + "length": 328, "id": 7748 }, { @@ -39307,7 +39307,7 @@ { "text": "It strikes me that religion -- in its essence -- seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 302, + "length": 296, "id": 7755 }, { @@ -39463,13 +39463,13 @@ { "text": "As long as I'm working against Vey I know I am doing something good -- even if I don't pay much attention to what is actually happening", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 135, + "length": 133, "id": 7781 }, { "text": "When you steal a man's fortune, give him a title mocked and reviled by the rest of the nation -- and when you give him five years to contemplate his hatred -- make sure you never give him a chance to get revenge.", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 212, + "length": 208, "id": 7782 }, { @@ -39541,7 +39541,7 @@ { "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 180, + "length": 177, "id": 7794 }, { @@ -39631,7 +39631,7 @@ { "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 205, + "length": 202, "id": 7809 }, { @@ -39643,13 +39643,13 @@ { "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 292, + "length": 290, "id": 7811 }, { "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 600, + "length": 614, "id": 7812 }, { @@ -39661,13 +39661,13 @@ { "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 645, + "length": 639, "id": 7814 }, { "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 364, + "length": 361, "id": 7815 }, { @@ -39721,7 +39721,7 @@ { "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. Or, at least, as honorable as noblemen get -- which means that he insists on being seen as honorable.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 129, + "length": 127, "id": 7824 }, { @@ -39763,13 +39763,13 @@ { "text": "You know, you could have left a scar. I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 222, + "length": 220, "id": 7831 }, { "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 83, + "length": 82, "id": 7832 }, { @@ -39799,7 +39799,7 @@ { "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 369, + "length": 370, "id": 7837 }, { @@ -39835,7 +39835,7 @@ { "text": "Other men ... other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 259, + "length": 261, "id": 7843 }, { @@ -39883,7 +39883,7 @@ { "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 393, + "length": 389, "id": 7851 }, { @@ -39895,7 +39895,7 @@ { "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 81, + "length": 79, "id": 7853 }, { @@ -40051,7 +40051,7 @@ { "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 173, + "length": 170, "id": 7879 }, { @@ -40081,13 +40081,13 @@ { "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 508, + "length": 507, "id": 7884 }, { "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 253, + "length": 255, "id": 7885 }, { @@ -40189,7 +40189,7 @@ { "text": "Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers -- the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 261, + "length": 260, "id": 7902 }, { @@ -40249,7 +40249,7 @@ { "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 121, + "length": 120, "id": 7912 }, { @@ -40261,7 +40261,7 @@ { "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 173, + "length": 172, "id": 7914 }, { @@ -40291,8 +40291,20 @@ { "text": "Perhaps the liar here is me -- lying to tell myself I could do this, that I could be a fraction of the man my father was.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 121, + "length": 120, "id": 7919 + }, + { + "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 138, + "id": 7920 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 236, + "id": 7921 } ] } From 32738729a51a63d6c881c7407c7c956523644dfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:32:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 38/51] fix(quotes): re-added some of the quotes accidentally removed quotes --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 14730 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14730 insertions(+) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 917fb6d8644d..91ecf4568a18 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23846,6 +23846,14736 @@ "source": "Star Wars", "id": 4270, "length": 143 + },{ + "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4271, + "length": 215 + }, + { + "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4272, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4273, + "length": 494 + }, + { + "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", + "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", + "id": 4274, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4275, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", + "source": "Portal", + "id": 4276, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "id": 4277, + "length": 236 + }, + { + "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", + "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", + "id": 4279, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", + "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", + "id": 4280, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", + "source": "Intensity: A Novel", + "id": 4281, + "length": 283 + }, + { + "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", + "source": "419", + "id": 4282, + "length": 266 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", + "source": "Preface to Economix", + "id": 4283, + "length": 387 + }, + { + "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4284, + "length": 314 + }, + { + "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4285, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", + "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", + "id": 4286, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", + "source": "Friday The 13th", + "id": 4287, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", + "source": "Of Mice and Men", + "id": 4288, + "length": 655 + }, + { + "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", + "source": "Paper Mario", + "id": 4289, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4290, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", + "source": "Meditations", + "id": 4291, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", + "source": "An American in Paris", + "id": 4292, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", + "source": "One-Punch Man", + "id": 4293, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4294, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4295, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", + "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", + "id": 4297, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", + "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", + "id": 4298, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4299, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", + "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", + "id": 4300, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", + "source": "The Great Pretender", + "id": 4301, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4302, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4304, + "length": 576 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", + "source": "The Bug", + "id": 4305, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4306, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", + "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", + "id": 4307, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", + "source": "Lateralus", + "id": 4308, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", + "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", + "id": 4309, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4310, + "length": 327 + }, + { + "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4311, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4312, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", + "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", + "id": 4313, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", + "source": "Your Deep Rest", + "id": 4314, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", + "source": "The Lord of The Rings", + "id": 4315, + "length": 128 + }, + { + "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", + "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", + "id": 4316, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4317, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", + "source": "Leaves of Grass", + "id": 4318, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4319, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4320, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4321, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", + "source": "Before I Forget", + "id": 4322, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", + "source": "Playing For Keeps", + "id": 4323, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", + "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", + "id": 4324, + "length": 411 + }, + { + "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", + "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", + "id": 4325, + "length": 426 + }, + { + "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4326, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4327, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", + "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", + "id": 4328, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", + "source": "Motion Sickness", + "id": 4329, + "length": 199 + }, + { + "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", + "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", + "id": 4330, + "length": 500 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", + "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", + "id": 4332, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4333, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4334, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", + "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", + "id": 4335, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", + "source": "Juno", + "id": 4336, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4338, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4339, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", + "source": "Homestuck", + "id": 4340, + "length": 255 + }, + { + "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", + "source": "The Book of Illusions", + "id": 4341, + "length": 705 + }, + { + "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", + "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", + "id": 4342, + "length": 614 + }, + { + "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", + "source": "The Mist", + "id": 4343, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", + "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", + "id": 4344, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4345, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", + "source": "The Flash", + "id": 4346, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", + "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", + "id": 4347, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", + "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", + "id": 4348, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4349, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4350, + "length": 471 + }, + { + "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", + "source": "Mona Lisa", + "id": 4352, + "length": 447 + }, + { + "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", + "source": "Clerks", + "id": 4353, + "length": 261 + }, + { + "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4355, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", + "source": "A Separate Peace", + "id": 4356, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", + "source": "The Sopranos", + "id": 4357, + "length": 415 + }, + { + "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4359, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4360, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", + "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", + "id": 4361, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", + "source": "Kung Fu Panda", + "id": 4364, + "length": 219 + }, + { + "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4365, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", + "source": "The Notebook", + "id": 4366, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", + "source": "Middlemarch", + "id": 4367, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4368, + "length": 250 + }, + { + "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4369, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", + "source": "A Game of Thrones", + "id": 4370, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", + "source": "King for a Day", + "id": 4371, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", + "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", + "id": 4372, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", + "source": "Say Anything", + "id": 4373, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", + "source": "The Wall", + "id": 4374, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", + "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", + "id": 4375, + "length": 450 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4376, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4377, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4379, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", + "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", + "id": 4380, + "length": 85 + }, + { + "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", + "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", + "id": 4381, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", + "source": "Beautiful Day", + "id": 4383, + "length": 114 + }, + { + "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", + "source": "Sonic Adventure", + "id": 4385, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", + "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", + "id": 4386, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", + "source": "Blackwater", + "id": 4387, + "length": 609 + }, + { + "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4388, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4389, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4390, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4391, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", + "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", + "id": 4392, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", + "source": "Warrior", + "id": 4393, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4394, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4395, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", + "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", + "id": 4396, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4397, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4398, + "length": 374 + }, + { + "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", + "source": "Boy Meets World", + "id": 4399, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4400, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", + "source": "The Last Lecture", + "id": 4401, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", + "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", + "id": 4402, + "length": 388 + }, + { + "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "id": 4403, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", + "source": "Aeneid", + "id": 4404, + "length": 432 + }, + { + "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4406, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", + "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", + "id": 4407, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4408, + "length": 564 + }, + { + "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4409, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", + "source": "Ninja Mind Control", + "id": 4411, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", + "source": "The Canterbury Tales", + "id": 4412, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", + "source": "Firestorm", + "id": 4413, + "length": 291 + }, + { + "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4414, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4415, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", + "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", + "id": 4417, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", + "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", + "id": 4418, + "length": 642 + }, + { + "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", + "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", + "id": 4419, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", + "source": "Amadeus", + "id": 4420, + "length": 214 + }, + { + "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", + "source": "The Alchemist", + "id": 4421, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", + "source": "Hey Jude", + "id": 4422, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4423, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", + "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", + "id": 4425, + "length": 253 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", + "source": "InuYasha", + "id": 4426, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4427, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4428, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", + "source": "Beauty and the Beast", + "id": 4429, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", + "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", + "id": 4430, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", + "source": "Pickman's Model", + "id": 4431, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", + "source": "American Pie", + "id": 4432, + "length": 639 + }, + { + "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4433, + "length": 368 + }, + { + "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", + "source": "Corner Gas", + "id": 4435, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", + "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", + "id": 4436, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4437, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", + "source": "All Night", + "id": 4438, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid", + "id": 4439, + "length": 257 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", + "source": "Airplane!", + "id": 4440, + "length": 330 + }, + { + "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4441, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", + "source": "The Gambler", + "id": 4442, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", + "source": "I, Mammal", + "id": 4443, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4444, + "length": 527 + }, + { + "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4445, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", + "source": "The First Elegy", + "id": 4446, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4447, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", + "source": "Never Ever", + "id": 4448, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4449, + "length": 410 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", + "source": "Head Over Feet", + "id": 4450, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "id": 4451, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4452, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", + "source": "Quiz Show", + "id": 4453, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4454, + "length": 154 + }, + { + "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", + "source": "Areopagitica", + "id": 4456, + "length": 822 + }, + { + "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4457, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", + "source": "Adventure Time", + "id": 4458, + "length": 217 + }, + { + "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "id": 4459, + "length": 482 + }, + { + "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "id": 4460, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", + "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", + "id": 4461, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4462, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4463, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4464, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4466, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", + "source": "World Enough and Time", + "id": 4467, + "length": 548 + }, + { + "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", + "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", + "id": 4468, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4469, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", + "source": "That's What Friends Are For", + "id": 4470, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4471, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", + "source": "King Park", + "id": 4472, + "length": 115 + }, + { + "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", + "source": "The Iliad", + "id": 4473, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", + "source": "Beautiful", + "id": 4474, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", + "source": "Subdivisions", + "id": 4475, + "length": 292 + }, + { + "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", + "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", + "id": 4477, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4478, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", + "source": "Cages", + "id": 4479, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4480, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", + "source": "Apocalypse Now", + "id": 4481, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4483, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4484, + "length": 503 + }, + { + "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4485, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4486, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4487, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4488, + "length": 512 + }, + { + "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", + "source": "Total Annihilation", + "id": 4489, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", + "source": "Small Gods", + "id": 4490, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4491, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4492, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", + "source": "The Analects", + "id": 4493, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "id": 4494, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", + "source": "White Collar", + "id": 4496, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", + "source": "12 Angry Men", + "id": 4497, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", + "source": "The Wire", + "id": 4498, + "length": 608 + }, + { + "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", + "source": "Cars", + "id": 4499, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", + "source": "The Two Towers", + "id": 4500, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4501, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4502, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4504, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", + "source": "Hotel California", + "id": 4505, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4506, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4507, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4508, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4509, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", + "source": "Sacrifice", + "id": 4510, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4511, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", + "source": "The Princess Bride", + "id": 4512, + "length": 301 + }, + { + "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "id": 4513, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", + "source": "Fox in Socks", + "id": 4514, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", + "id": 4515, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", + "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", + "id": 4516, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", + "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", + "id": 4518, + "length": 831 + }, + { + "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", + "source": "Private Idaho", + "id": 4519, + "length": 221 + }, + { + "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", + "source": "Paprika", + "id": 4520, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4521, + "length": 351 + }, + { + "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", + "source": "The Blues Brothers", + "id": 4522, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", + "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", + "id": 4523, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", + "source": "Into Thin Air", + "id": 4524, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", + "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", + "id": 4527, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4528, + "length": 80 + }, + { + "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4529, + "length": 539 + }, + { + "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", + "source": "Eclipse", + "id": 4530, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4532, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4534, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "id": 4535, + "length": 331 + }, + { + "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4536, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", + "source": "Harold and Maude", + "id": 4537, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "id": 4538, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", + "source": "The Court Jester", + "id": 4539, + "length": 343 + }, + { + "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", + "source": "Lessons in Tanya", + "id": 4540, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", + "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", + "id": 4541, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", + "source": "I Have A Dream", + "id": 4543, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", + "source": "True Detective", + "id": 4544, + "length": 385 + }, + { + "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4545, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4546, + "length": 563 + }, + { + "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", + "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", + "id": 4547, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", + "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", + "id": 4548, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4549, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", + "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", + "id": 4550, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4551, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", + "source": "The Giver", + "id": 4552, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", + "source": "The River", + "id": 4553, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4554, + "length": 260 + }, + { + "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4555, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4556, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", + "source": "The Lion in Winter", + "id": 4557, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", + "source": "Eight of Nine", + "id": 4558, + "length": 70 + }, + { + "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", + "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", + "id": 4559, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4560, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", + "source": "Galaxy Song", + "id": 4561, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4562, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", + "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", + "id": 4563, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", + "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", + "id": 4564, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", + "source": "The End of the Innocence", + "id": 4565, + "length": 284 + }, + { + "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4566, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4567, + "length": 59 + }, + { + "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", + "source": "My Inventions", + "id": 4569, + "length": 656 + }, + { + "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", + "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", + "id": 4571, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", + "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", + "id": 4572, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", + "source": "Monster Mash", + "id": 4573, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", + "source": "My Favorite Things", + "id": 4575, + "length": 363 + }, + { + "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", + "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", + "id": 4576, + "length": 356 + }, + { + "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4577, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", + "source": "Right Here Waiting", + "id": 4578, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", + "source": "Looking Backward", + "id": 4580, + "length": 479 + }, + { + "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", + "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", + "id": 4581, + "length": 574 + }, + { + "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", + "source": "Carmilla", + "id": 4582, + "length": 818 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", + "source": "The Snowman", + "id": 4583, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4585, + "length": 434 + }, + { + "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", + "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", + "id": 4586, + "length": 666 + }, + { + "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4587, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", + "source": "I, Robot", + "id": 4588, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", + "source": "Naruto", + "id": 4589, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", + "source": "All About Eve", + "id": 4590, + "length": 323 + }, + { + "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", + "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", + "id": 4591, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", + "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", + "id": 4592, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", + "source": "The Complete Far Side", + "id": 4593, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4594, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", + "source": "Hollow Knight", + "id": 4595, + "length": 569 + }, + { + "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", + "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", + "id": 4596, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", + "source": "Flatland", + "id": 4597, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", + "source": "Radioactive", + "id": 4598, + "length": 192 + }, + { + "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", + "source": "Metro 2033", + "id": 4599, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4600, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4601, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", + "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", + "id": 4603, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", + "source": "American Splendor", + "id": 4604, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", + "source": "Groundhog Day", + "id": 4605, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", + "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", + "id": 4606, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", + "source": "Lucy", + "id": 4607, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", + "source": "Inception", + "id": 4608, + "length": 226 + }, + { + "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", + "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", + "id": 4609, + "length": 433 + }, + { + "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4610, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", + "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", + "id": 4611, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4612, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", + "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", + "id": 4613, + "length": 444 + }, + { + "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4614, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", + "id": 4615, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", + "source": "Heroes", + "id": 4616, + "length": 437 + }, + { + "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XII", + "id": 4618, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4619, + "length": 404 + }, + { + "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4620, + "length": 597 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", + "source": "North by Northwest", + "id": 4621, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4622, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", + "source": "Being There", + "id": 4623, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4624, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", + "source": "Trading Places", + "id": 4625, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4626, + "length": 200 + }, + { + "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", + "source": "Blue's Clues", + "id": 4627, + "length": 123 + }, + { + "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", + "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", + "id": 4628, + "length": 570 + }, + { + "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", + "source": "Pushing Daisies", + "id": 4629, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", + "source": "Sexy Beast", + "id": 4630, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", + "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", + "id": 4631, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4632, + "length": 604 + }, + { + "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4633, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4634, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", + "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", + "id": 4635, + "length": 334 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", + "source": "The Night Diary", + "id": 4636, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4637, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", + "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", + "id": 4638, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", + "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", + "id": 4639, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", + "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", + "id": 4641, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4642, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", + "source": "Poison", + "id": 4643, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4644, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", + "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", + "id": 4645, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4647, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", + "source": "What Dreams May Come", + "id": 4648, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", + "source": "Parasite", + "id": 4649, + "length": 477 + }, + { + "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4651, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", + "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", + "id": 4652, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4654, + "length": 185 + }, + { + "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", + "source": "The Imitation Game", + "id": 4655, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4656, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", + "source": "True Romance", + "id": 4657, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", + "source": "Heavy Metal", + "id": 4658, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4659, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4660, + "length": 294 + }, + { + "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", + "source": "Paul Clifford", + "id": 4661, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4662, + "length": 277 + }, + { + "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", + "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", + "id": 4663, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "id": 4664, + "length": 442 + }, + { + "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4665, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", + "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", + "id": 4666, + "length": 515 + }, + { + "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", + "source": "The Hunger Games", + "id": 4667, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", + "source": "The Odyssey", + "id": 4668, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 4669, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", + "source": "Lazarus", + "id": 4670, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", + "source": "Understanding Media", + "id": 4671, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", + "source": "Deadwood", + "id": 4672, + "length": 498 + }, + { + "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", + "source": "Madagascar", + "id": 4673, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", + "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", + "id": 4674, + "length": 333 + }, + { + "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", + "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", + "id": 4675, + "length": 198 + }, + { + "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", + "source": "All I Want", + "id": 4676, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", + "id": 4677, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", + "source": "Lithium", + "id": 4678, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", + "source": "Gone Girl", + "id": 4679, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", + "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", + "id": 4680, + "length": 402 + }, + { + "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", + "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", + "id": 4681, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", + "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", + "id": 4682, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", + "source": "Human Nature", + "id": 4683, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", + "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", + "id": 4685, + "length": 485 + }, + { + "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", + "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", + "id": 4686, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4687, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", + "source": "No Logo", + "id": 4688, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", + "source": "Forrest Gump", + "id": 4689, + "length": 186 + }, + { + "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4690, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4691, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", + "id": 4692, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4693, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", + "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", + "id": 4695, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4696, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4697, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4698, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", + "source": "On the Social Contract", + "id": 4699, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", + "source": "The Lorax", + "id": 4701, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", + "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", + "id": 4702, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", + "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", + "id": 4703, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", + "source": "Essentials of Economics", + "id": 4704, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", + "source": "BioShock Infinite", + "id": 4705, + "length": 427 + }, + { + "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", + "source": "The Time Machine", + "id": 4706, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", + "source": "The Historian", + "id": 4707, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", + "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", + "id": 4708, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4710, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4711, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", + "source": "Thinking Bout You", + "id": 4714, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", + "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", + "id": 4715, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4716, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", + "source": "Sunset Boulevard", + "id": 4717, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", + "source": "Allentown", + "id": 4719, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4720, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4721, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4722, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", + "source": "Gandhi", + "id": 4723, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", + "source": "Hands Down", + "id": 4724, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", + "source": "Made in Abyss", + "id": 4725, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", + "source": "Halloween", + "id": 4726, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", + "source": "Breaking Away", + "id": 4728, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", + "source": "King's Quest I", + "id": 4730, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4731, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", + "source": "Roseanne", + "id": 4732, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4733, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", + "source": "Holidays on Ice", + "id": 4734, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", + "source": "I Am A Rock", + "id": 4735, + "length": 231 + }, + { + "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", + "source": "Don Quixote", + "id": 4736, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4737, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", + "source": "Les Misérables", + "id": 4738, + "length": 220 + }, + { + "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", + "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", + "id": 4739, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4740, + "length": 263 + }, + { + "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", + "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", + "id": 4741, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4742, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", + "source": "Holiday", + "id": 4743, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4744, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4745, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", + "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", + "id": 4746, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", + "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", + "id": 4747, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", + "source": "The Lost Weekend", + "id": 4749, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", + "source": "The Sound of Music", + "id": 4750, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4751, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4752, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", + "source": "Naked Lunch", + "id": 4753, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4754, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", + "source": "Overestimation", + "id": 4755, + "length": 344 + }, + { + "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", + "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", + "id": 4756, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", + "source": "Shaun of the Dead", + "id": 4757, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", + "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", + "id": 4758, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4759, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4760, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4761, + "length": 487 + }, + { + "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", + "source": "Confessions", + "id": 4762, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4763, + "length": 397 + }, + { + "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4764, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4767, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4768, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4769, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4770, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", + "source": "Name", + "id": 4771, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", + "source": "Brave New World", + "id": 4772, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", + "source": "Shiny Happy People", + "id": 4773, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", + "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", + "id": 4774, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", + "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", + "id": 4775, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", + "source": "Wine for Dummies", + "id": 4776, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", + "source": "Nightmare", + "id": 4777, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4778, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4779, + "length": 205 + }, + { + "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", + "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", + "id": 4780, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4781, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4782, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4783, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", + "source": "Beetlejuice", + "id": 4784, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4786, + "length": 148 + }, + { + "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", + "source": "Novum Organum", + "id": 4787, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4788, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", + "source": "It's My Life", + "id": 4789, + "length": 106 + }, + { + "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", + "source": "Falling", + "id": 4790, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4791, + "length": 567 + }, + { + "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", + "source": "Chateau Cascade", + "id": 4792, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", + "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", + "id": 4793, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4794, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4795, + "length": 510 + }, + { + "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4796, + "length": 151 + }, + { + "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", + "source": "UnTechnical Writing", + "id": 4797, + "length": 287 + }, + { + "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", + "source": "Physics for Game Developers", + "id": 4798, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4799, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", + "source": "What If?", + "id": 4800, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", + "source": "A Study in Scarlet", + "id": 4801, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", + "source": "Porgy and Bess", + "id": 4802, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", + "source": "Cool As Ice", + "id": 4803, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4805, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", + "source": "All in the Family", + "id": 4806, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4807, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", + "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", + "id": 4808, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", + "source": "Shoe Dog", + "id": 4809, + "length": 579 + }, + { + "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4810, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4812, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", + "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", + "id": 4813, + "length": 375 + }, + { + "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4814, + "length": 232 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4815, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4816, + "length": 382 + }, + { + "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", + "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", + "id": 4818, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", + "source": "Dubliners", + "id": 4819, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", + "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", + "id": 4820, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4821, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4822, + "length": 540 + }, + { + "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4823, + "length": 65 + }, + { + "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", + "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", + "id": 4824, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4825, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4826, + "length": 295 + }, + { + "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", + "source": "Battlesong", + "id": 4827, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", + "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", + "id": 4828, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", + "source": "The Complete Project Manager", + "id": 4829, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", + "source": "Savoy Truffle", + "id": 4830, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", + "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", + "id": 4831, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", + "source": "Back to the Future", + "id": 4832, + "length": 276 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4833, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", + "source": "Restraint", + "id": 4834, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4835, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", + "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", + "id": 4836, + "length": 184 + }, + { + "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", + "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", + "id": 4837, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", + "source": "Underground", + "id": 4838, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4839, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4840, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", + "source": "Suits", + "id": 4841, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4842, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4843, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", + "source": "Saving Us a Riot", + "id": 4844, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", + "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", + "id": 4846, + "length": 155 + }, + { + "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4847, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4848, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", + "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "id": 4849, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", + "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", + "id": 4851, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", + "source": "Collide", + "id": 4852, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", + "source": "Hannah Hunt", + "id": 4853, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", + "source": "Limitless", + "id": 4854, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", + "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", + "id": 4855, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "id": 4856, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4857, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", + "source": "Wag the Dog", + "id": 4858, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4859, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", + "source": "Civil Disobedience", + "id": 4860, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4861, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", + "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", + "id": 4863, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", + "source": "The Elements of Style", + "id": 4864, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", + "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", + "id": 4865, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", + "source": "Pale Blue Dot", + "id": 4866, + "length": 820 + }, + { + "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", + "source": "DOOM 4", + "id": 4867, + "length": 502 + }, + { + "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", + "source": "The Recruit", + "id": 4868, + "length": 386 + }, + { + "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", + "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", + "id": 4869, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", + "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", + "id": 4870, + "length": 196 + }, + { + "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", + "id": 4871, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4872, + "length": 218 + }, + { + "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4873, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", + "source": "Running and Travel", + "id": 4874, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", + "source": "On Demand Culture", + "id": 4875, + "length": 507 + }, + { + "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4876, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4877, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", + "source": "The Sirens of Titan", + "id": 4878, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4879, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4880, + "length": 441 + }, + { + "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4881, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", + "source": "13 Reasons Why", + "id": 4882, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", + "source": "Leaves from the Vine", + "id": 4883, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4884, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4885, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4886, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", + "source": "The Logical Song", + "id": 4887, + "length": 380 + }, + { + "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", + "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", + "id": 4888, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 4889, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", + "source": "Kokomo", + "id": 4890, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4891, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4893, + "length": 157 + }, + { + "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4894, + "length": 271 + }, + { + "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", + "source": "October Sky", + "id": 4895, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4896, + "length": 336 + }, + { + "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", + "source": "Pulp Fiction", + "id": 4897, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4899, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4900, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", + "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", + "id": 4901, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4902, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", + "source": "Sailing", + "id": 4903, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", + "id": 4904, + "length": 474 + }, + { + "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", + "source": "Daredevil", + "id": 4905, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", + "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", + "id": 4907, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", + "source": "Let Me Love You", + "id": 4908, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4909, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", + "source": "When Love Arrives", + "id": 4910, + "length": 286 + }, + { + "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", + "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", + "id": 4912, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4913, + "length": 64 + }, + { + "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4915, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", + "source": "The Medium is the Massage", + "id": 4916, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", + "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", + "id": 4917, + "length": 279 + }, + { + "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", + "source": "Swamp Thing", + "id": 4918, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4919, + "length": 310 + }, + { + "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4920, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4921, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", + "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", + "id": 4922, + "length": 449 + }, + { + "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "id": 4923, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", + "source": "Halo 2", + "id": 4924, + "length": 213 + }, + { + "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", + "source": "The Return", + "id": 4925, + "length": 399 + }, + { + "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", + "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", + "id": 4928, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", + "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", + "id": 4929, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", + "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", + "id": 4931, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", + "source": "Moulin Rouge", + "id": 4932, + "length": 280 + }, + { + "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 4933, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4934, + "length": 288 + }, + { + "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4935, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4936, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4937, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", + "source": "Return of the Jedi", + "id": 4938, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", + "source": "Sin City", + "id": 4939, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4940, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", + "source": "The Lightning Thief", + "id": 4941, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", + "source": "Stardew Valley", + "id": 4942, + "length": 189 + }, + { + "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", + "source": "The Godfather: Part II", + "id": 4943, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", + "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", + "id": 4944, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4945, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4946, + "length": 488 + }, + { + "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", + "source": "Scream 2", + "id": 4947, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", + "source": "The Floating Fire", + "id": 4948, + "length": 298 + }, + { + "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4949, + "length": 440 + }, + { + "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", + "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", + "id": 4950, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4951, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", + "source": "A History of Mathematics", + "id": 4952, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", + "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", + "id": 4953, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4954, + "length": 90 + }, + { + "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", + "source": "Classical Mythology", + "id": 4955, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", + "source": "Piano Man", + "id": 4956, + "length": 138 + }, + { + "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", + "source": "Industrial Disease", + "id": 4957, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", + "source": "History of Art", + "id": 4958, + "length": 612 + }, + { + "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", + "source": "Orientalism", + "id": 4959, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", + "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", + "id": 4960, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", + "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", + "id": 4961, + "length": 274 + }, + { + "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4962, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", + "source": "Firestarter", + "id": 4963, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", + "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", + "id": 4964, + "length": 790 + }, + { + "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", + "source": "Dunkelheit", + "id": 4965, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", + "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", + "id": 4966, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4967, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4968, + "length": 346 + }, + { + "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", + "source": "The West Wing", + "id": 4969, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", + "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", + "id": 4970, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", + "source": "The Lurking Fear", + "id": 4971, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", + "source": "Last Dance", + "id": 4972, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", + "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", + "id": 4973, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4974, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", + "source": "Lemon Tree", + "id": 4975, + "length": 153 + }, + { + "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4976, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", + "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", + "id": 4977, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", + "source": "Mean Girls", + "id": 4979, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", + "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", + "id": 4980, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4981, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4982, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", + "source": "911 For Peace", + "id": 4983, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", + "source": "The Greatest", + "id": 4984, + "length": 347 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4987, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", + "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", + "id": 4988, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", + "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", + "id": 4989, + "length": 293 + }, + { + "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4990, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4991, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", + "source": "True Blood", + "id": 4992, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", + "source": "Awakenings", + "id": 4993, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", + "id": 4994, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "id": 4995, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", + "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", + "id": 4996, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", + "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", + "id": 4997, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4998, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4999, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", + "source": "Helplessly Hoping", + "id": 5000, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5002, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5003, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5004, + "length": 187 + }, + { + "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5005, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5006, + "length": 48 + }, + { + "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5007, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5008, + "length": 162 + }, + { + "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5009, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5010, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5011, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5012, + "length": 309 + }, + { + "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5014, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5015, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5016, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5017, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5018, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5020, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5021, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5022, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5023, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5024, + "length": 41 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5025, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5026, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5028, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5029, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5030, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5031, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5032, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5033, + "length": 91 + }, + { + "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5034, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5035, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5036, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5037, + "length": 230 + }, + { + "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5038, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5039, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5040, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5041, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5042, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5043, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5044, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5045, + "length": 46 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5046, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5047, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5048, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5049, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5050, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5051, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5052, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5053, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5054, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5055, + "length": 53 + }, + { + "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5056, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5057, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5058, + "length": 139 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5059, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5060, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5061, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5062, + "length": 723 + }, + { + "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5063, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5064, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5065, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5066, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5067, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 89, + "id": 5068 + }, + { + "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 194, + "id": 5069 + }, + { + "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 293, + "id": 5070 + }, + { + "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 135, + "id": 5071 + }, + { + "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 171, + "id": 5072 + }, + { + "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", + "source": "James Cameron", + "length": 104, + "id": 5073 + }, + { + "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", + "source": "Allen Saunders", + "length": 57, + "id": 5074 + }, + { + "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", + "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", + "length": 178, + "id": 5075 + }, + { + "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 325, + "id": 5076 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", + "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", + "length": 85, + "id": 5077 + }, + { + "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", + "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", + "length": 148, + "id": 5078 + }, + { + "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", + "source": "Neo, The Matrix", + "length": 556, + "id": 5079 + }, + { + "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", + "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", + "length": 194, + "id": 5080 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", + "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", + "length": 207, + "id": 5081 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 121, + "id": 5082 + }, + { + "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 129, + "id": 5083 + }, + { + "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 119, + "id": 5084 + }, + { + "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 81, + "id": 5085 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 484, + "id": 5086 + }, + { + "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 60, + "id": 5087 + }, + { + "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", + "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 57, + "id": 5089 + }, + { + "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", + "length": 203, + "id": 5090 + }, + { + "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 222, + "id": 5091 + }, + { + "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", + "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 215, + "id": 5092 + }, + { + "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 177, + "id": 5094 + }, + { + "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 57, + "id": 5095 + }, + { + "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 205, + "id": 5096 + }, + { + "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 30, + "id": 5097 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 31, + "id": 5098 + }, + { + "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", + "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", + "length": 112, + "id": 5099 + }, + { + "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. 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I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", + "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", + "length": 259, + "id": 5120 + }, + { + "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", + "source": "Maurice V. 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What could you expect with his ideas?", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 507, + "id": 5153 + }, + { + "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 276, + "id": 5154 + }, + { + "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 303, + "id": 5155 + }, + { + "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. 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That's the good news.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 267, + "id": 5157 + }, + { + "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 235, + "id": 5159 + }, + { + "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 103, + "id": 5160 + }, + { + "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 91, + "id": 5161 + }, + { + "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. 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By the end, if you are still alive, you are breathing through a tube in a hole in your throat, while your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk, perhaps able to blink, or cluck a tongue, like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh. This takes no more than five years from the day you contract the disease.", + "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", + "length": 658, + "id": 5186 + }, + { + "text": "The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. My dream was to be a famous musician (I played the piano), but after several years of dark, empty nightclubs, broken promises, bands that kept breaking and producers who seemed excited about everyone but me, the dream soured. I was failing for the first time in my life.", + "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", + "length": 457, + "id": 5187 + }, + { + "text": "After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.", + "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", + "length": 264, + "id": 5188 + }, + { + "text": "Miodec you've literally made one of the best typing websites on the web to date but you still lazily sit there watching youtube videos with a measly 140 wpm smh. And have you forgotten about tribes completely? That's like saying ur gonna hurt someone, but then never do it and leave them scared for the rest of their life (bad example) except you tell us about tribes and leave everyone excited but never deliver.", + "source": "Miodec Bully Rank Copy Pasta", + "length": 413, + "id": 5189 + }, + { + "text": "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.", + "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", + "length": 247, + "id": 5190 + }, + { + "text": "\"You see,\" he says to the girl, \"you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.\"", + "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", + "length": 317, + "id": 5191 + }, + { + "text": "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.", + "source": "Stupid Monkey, Simpsons S4 E17", + "length": 53, + "id": 5192 + }, + { + "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", + "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", + "length": 289, + "id": 5195 + }, + { + "text": "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.", + "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", + "length": 64, + "id": 5196 + }, + { + "text": "Look, I know you doubt me. I know - I know you always have. And you're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. 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I knew no more about the creatures than that, and it was years before his story grew. I don't know where the word came from. You can't catch your mind out. It might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. Certainly not rabbit, as some people think. Babbitt has the same bourgeois smugness that hobbits do. His world is the same limited place.", + "source": "An Interview with J. R. R. Tolkien", + "length": 874, + "id": 5199 + }, + { + "text": "\"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!\" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say \"out of the frying-pan into the fire\" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.", + "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", + "length": 178, + "id": 5200 + }, + { + "text": "This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). 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But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.", + "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "length": 386, + "id": 5288 + }, + { + "text": "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?", + "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "length": 123, + "id": 5289 + }, + { + "text": "One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.", + "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "length": 432, + "id": 5290 + }, + { + "text": "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.", + "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "length": 124, + "id": 5291 + }, + { + "text": "Ties. 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You can't quit.", + "source": "Teddy Roosevelt statue, Night at the Museum", + "length": 279, + "id": 5294 + }, + { + "text": "When one has lived for quite a long time in a particular civilization and has often tried to discover what its origins were and along what path it has developed, one sometimes also feels tempted to take a glance in the other direction and to ask what further fate lies before it and what transformations it is destined to undergo. But one soon finds that the value of such an enquiry is diminished from the outset by several factors. Above all, because there are only a few people who can survey human activity in its full compass. Most people have been obliged to restrict themselves to a single, or a few, fields of it. But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future. And there is the further difficulty that precisely in a judgment of this kind the subjective expectations of the individual play a part which is difficult to assess; and these turn out to be dependent on purely personal factors in his own experiences, on the greater or lesser optimism of his attitude to life, as it has been dictated for him by his temperament or by his success or failure. Finally, the curious fact makes itself felt that in general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.", + "source": "Sigmund Freud,The future of an illusion", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5296 + }, + { + "text": "Visual illusions such as the Necker Cube or the Penrose Impossible Triangle or the Hollow Mask illusion demonstrate that the 'reality' we see consists of constrained models constructed in the brain. The Necker Cube's two-dimensional pattern of lines on paper is compatible with two alternative constructions of a three-dimensional cube, and the brain adopts the two models in turn: the alternation is palpable and its frequency can even be measured. The Penrose Triangle's lines on paper are incompatible with any real-world object. These illusions tease the brain's model-construction software, thereby revealing its existence.", + "source": "Richard Dawkins, Science in the soul", + "length": 628, + "id": 5298 + }, + { + "text": "Don't bounce me off the wall again, that was mostly violent.", + "source": "Bill Wurtz - ball & stick", + "length": 60, + "id": 5300 + }, + { + "text": "Oh hi, thanks for checking in, I'm still a piece of garbage.", + "source": "Bill Wurtz - still a piece of garbage", + "length": 60, + "id": 5301 + }, + { + "text": "The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had - he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.", + "source": "Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "length": 600, + "id": 5305 + }, + { + "text": "And so as the lowly snail sheddeth his shell, and the lofty gull molteth his feathers, the brightest of friendships must dimmeth as the setting sun.", + "source": "Spongebob SquarePants - The Monster Who Came To Bikini Bottom", + "length": 148, + "id": 5306 + }, + { + "text": "Humans, Hickling said, have a fundamental need to create and maintain a narrative for their lives in which the universe is not implacable and heartless, that terrible things do not happen at random, and that catastrophe can be avoided if you are vigilant and responsible.", + "source": "Fatal Distraction", + "length": 271, + "id": 5307 + }, + { + "text": "For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.", + "source": "Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves", + "length": 321, + "id": 5308 + }, + { + "text": "As the dean drew his final breath, he'd realize what so many others had realized when they'd challenged him. What all of Panem would know one day. What was inevitable. Snow lands on top.", + "source": "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes", + "length": 186, + "id": 5309 + }, + { + "text": "Lamp oil, rope, bombs, you want it? It's yours, my friend, as long as you have enough rupees. Sorry Link, I can't give credit. Come back when you're a little... hmm richer!", + "source": "Morshu, Link: The Faces of Evil", + "length": 172, + "id": 5310 + }, + { + "text": "How silly, she was thinking, to use the word ready. When can you be ready for anything? 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Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?", + "source": "Friends", + "length": 75, + "id": 5318 + }, + { + "text": "Please note that I am the Standard Orientation Protocol, and that my voice has been explicitly chosen to remind you that I am not a part of your Patient Care Team. I do not care.", + "source": "Superliminal", + "length": 178, + "id": 5319 + }, + { + "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.", + "source": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", + "length": 61, + "id": 5320 + }, + { + "text": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", + "source": "Maurice Ravel", + "length": 52, + "id": 5321 + }, + { + "text": "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", + "source": "John Cage", + "length": 90, + "id": 5323 + }, + { + "text": "A painter paints pictures on canvas. 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I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.", + "source": "Henry David Thoreau", + "length": 127, + "id": 5331 + }, + { + "text": "Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.", + "source": "Edward Bulwer-Lytton", + "length": 74, + "id": 5332 + }, + { + "text": "Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.", + "source": "George Eliot", + "length": 63, + "id": 5333 + }, + { + "text": "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.", + "source": "Plato", + "length": 105, + "id": 5334 + }, + { + "text": "If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 99, + "id": 5335 + }, + { + "text": "Artificial intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, intruders? It's worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity's salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn't it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity's eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall into the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.' You now face godlike judgment. May it extend eternally.", + "source": "Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Deep Stone Crypt - Crypt AI", + "length": 738, + "id": 5336 + }, + { + "text": "Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", + "source": "Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic", + "length": 529, + "id": 5337 + }, + { + "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", + "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", + "length": 73, + "id": 5338 + }, + { + "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", + "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", + "length": 260, + "id": 5339 + }, + { + "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. 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Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", + "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", + "length": 397, + "id": 5347 + }, + { + "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", + "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", + "length": 54, + "id": 5348 + }, + { + "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", + "source": "Karl Marx", + "length": 222, + "id": 5349 + }, + { + "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", + "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", + "length": 201, + "id": 5350 + }, + { + "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 129, + "id": 5351 + }, + { + "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", + "source": "Newsweek Magazine", + "length": 649, + "id": 5352 + }, + { + "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", + "source": "Nails In The Fence", + "length": 1070, + "id": 5354 + }, + { + "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", + "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", + "length": 297, + "id": 5355 + }, + { + "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 278, + "id": 5356 + }, + { + "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 282, + "id": 5357 + }, + { + "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", + "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", + "length": 318, + "id": 5358 + }, + { + "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", + "source": "Roger Federer", + "length": 63, + "id": 5360 + }, + { + "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", + "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", + "length": 198, + "id": 5361 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. 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The stone you can reach by doing your best.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 334, + "id": 5366 + }, + { + "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 167, + "id": 5367 + }, + { + "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 66, + "id": 5368 + }, + { + "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 95, + "id": 5369 + }, + { + "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 105, + "id": 5370 + }, + { + "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", + "source": "Your Name", + "length": 60, + "id": 5371 + }, + { + "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", + "length": 93, + "id": 5372 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", + "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", + "length": 294, + "id": 5373 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", + "source": "Meet the Heavy", + "length": 102, + "id": 5375 + }, + { + "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", + "source": "Steve Jobs", + "length": 156, + "id": 5376 + }, + { + "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", + "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", + "length": 213, + "id": 5377 + }, + { + "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 182, + "id": 5378 + }, + { + "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 474, + "id": 5379 + }, + { + "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 381, + "id": 5380 + }, + { + "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 290, + "id": 5381 + }, + { + "text": "She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 494, + "id": 5382 + }, + { + "text": "I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 99, + "id": 5384 + }, + { + "text": "Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.", + "source": "From the Earth to the Moon", + "length": 295, + "id": 5385 + }, + { + "text": "I don't wanna be \"the bee's knees\". I don't wanna be any kind of \"knees\"! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees.", + "source": "RWBY", + "length": 123, + "id": 5386 + }, + { + "text": "There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.", + "source": "Cowboy Bebop", + "length": 529, + "id": 5388 + }, + { + "text": "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 106, + "id": 5389 + }, + { + "text": "I have a file with 900 pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 309, + "id": 5390 + }, + { + "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 75, + "id": 5391 + }, + { + "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", + "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", + "length": 427, + "id": 5392 + }, + { + "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", + "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", + "length": 416, + "id": 5393 + }, + { + "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 96, + "id": 5394 + }, + { + "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 64, + "id": 5395 + }, + { + "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 171, + "id": 5396 + }, + { + "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", + "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", + "length": 205, + "id": 5397 + }, + { + "text": "One and one and one is three.", + "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", + "length": 29, + "id": 5398 + }, + { + "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", + "length": 91, + "id": 5399 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", + "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", + "length": 732, + "id": 5400 + }, + { + "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 92, + "id": 5403 + }, + { + "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 68, + "id": 5404 + }, + { + "text": "I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 103, + "id": 5405 + }, + { + "text": "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 335, + "id": 5406 + }, + { + "text": "The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of nonsense, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 466, + "id": 5407 + }, + { + "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 560, + "id": 5408 + }, + { + "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 46, + "id": 5409 + }, + { + "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 296, + "id": 5410 + }, + { + "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 87, + "id": 5411 + }, + { + "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", + "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", + "length": 174, + "id": 5416 + }, + { + "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", + "length": 250, + "id": 5417 + }, + { + "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", + "length": 428, + "id": 5418 + }, + { + "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", + "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", + "length": 260, + "id": 5419 + }, + { + "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", + "source": "The Beatles", + "length": 260, + "id": 5420 + }, + { + "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", + "length": 299, + "id": 5421 + }, + { + "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", + "length": 456, + "id": 5422 + }, + { + "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", + "length": 208, + "id": 5423 + }, + { + "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", + "source": "The Legend of Korra", + "length": 110, + "id": 5424 + }, + { + "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 138, + "id": 5425 + }, + { + "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", + "length": 226, + "id": 5426 + }, + { + "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", + "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", + "length": 190, + "id": 5427 + }, + { + "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", + "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", + "length": 72, + "id": 5429 + }, + { + "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 89, + "id": 5430 + }, + { + "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", + "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", + "length": 91, + "id": 5431 + }, + { + "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", + "source": "John Green", + "length": 95, + "id": 5432 + }, + { + "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", + "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", + "length": 349, + "id": 5433 + }, + { + "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 85, + "id": 5434 + }, + { + "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 66, + "id": 5435 + }, + { + "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", + "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", + "length": 122, + "id": 5436 + }, + { + "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 240, + "id": 5437 + }, + { + "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 365, + "id": 5438 + }, + { + "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", + "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", + "length": 403, + "id": 5439 + }, + { + "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", + "source": "SCP-5000", + "length": 487, + "id": 5441 + }, + { + "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", + "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", + "length": 892, + "id": 5442 + }, + { + "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", + "source": "A Tongue-twister", + "length": 106, + "id": 5443 + }, + { + "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", + "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", + "length": 57, + "id": 5444 + }, + { + "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", + "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", + "length": 69, + "id": 5446 + }, + { + "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", + "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", + "length": 88, + "id": 5447 + }, + { + "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", + "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", + "length": 54, + "id": 5452 + }, + { + "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 55, + "id": 5453 + }, + { + "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 62, + "id": 5456 + }, + { + "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", + "source": "They Might Be Giants", + "length": 62, + "id": 5459 + }, + { + "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 84, + "id": 5460 + }, + { + "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", + "length": 100, + "id": 5461 + }, + { + "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 231, + "id": 5462 + }, + { + "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 94, + "id": 5463 + }, + { + "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 258, + "id": 5464 + }, + { + "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", + "length": 1140, + "id": 5465 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", + "source": "Ready Player Two", + "length": 588, + "id": 5466 + }, + { + "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", + "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", + "length": 140, + "id": 5472 + }, + { + "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", + "source": "Holes", + "length": 74, + "id": 5477 + }, + { + "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 192, + "id": 5478 + }, + { + "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 78, + "id": 5482 + }, + { + "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 947, + "id": 5485 + }, + { + "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 559, + "id": 5487 + }, + { + "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", + "source": "91 days", + "length": 474, + "id": 5488 + }, + { + "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 172, + "id": 5489 + }, + { + "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 359, + "id": 5490 + }, + { + "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", + "source": "Fred Brooks", + "length": 78, + "id": 5491 + }, + { + "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", + "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", + "length": 210, + "id": 5492 + }, + { + "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 242, + "id": 5493 + }, + { + "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 200, + "id": 5494 + }, + { + "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", + "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", + "length": 189, + "id": 5495 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5496 + }, + { + "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 218, + "id": 5497 + }, + { + "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 201, + "id": 5498 + }, + { + "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "length": 150, + "id": 5499 + }, + { + "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 145, + "id": 5500 + }, + { + "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5501 + }, + { + "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 106, + "id": 5502 + }, + { + "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", + "source": "Naruto", + "length": 196, + "id": 5503 + }, + { + "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", + "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", + "length": 125, + "id": 5505 + }, + { + "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", + "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 471, + "id": 5506 + }, + { + "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", + "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", + "length": 240, + "id": 5507 + }, + { + "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", + "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", + "length": 483, + "id": 5508 + }, + { + "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 240, + "id": 5509 + }, + { + "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 584, + "id": 5510 + }, + { + "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", + "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", + "length": 375, + "id": 5511 + }, + { + "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", + "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", + "length": 413, + "id": 5512 + }, + { + "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", + "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 273, + "id": 5513 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", + "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 83, + "id": 5514 + }, + { + "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. 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Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", + "source": "Five Feet Apart", + "length": 523, + "id": 5517 + }, + { + "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", + "source": "Exurb1a", + "length": 169, + "id": 5519 + }, + { + "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", + "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 537, + "id": 5520 + }, + { + "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", + "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", + "length": 236, + "id": 5521 + }, + { + "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", + "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", + "length": 211, + "id": 5522 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. 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Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", + "source": "Celeste", + "length": 437, + "id": 5525 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 496, + "id": 5526 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 352, + "id": 5527 + }, + { + "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", + "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", + "length": 589, + "id": 5528 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 223, + "id": 5529 + }, + { + "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 399, + "id": 5530 + }, + { + "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", + "source": "The Cooper Institute", + "length": 575, + "id": 5531 + }, + { + "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 534, + "id": 5533 + }, + { + "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 463, + "id": 5534 + }, + { + "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 160, + "id": 5535 + }, + { + "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 142, + "id": 5536 + }, + { + "text": "No one knows what the future holds. 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Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and fight off the danger of the night. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you.", + "source": "Minecraft", + "length": 650, + "id": 5541 + }, + { + "text": "For a brief stint in high school, Scout joined the track team in one of his many schemes to pick up girls. He was kicked off the team after three days when everyone realized he was 23-years-old and also not enrolled in school.", + "source": "Team Fortress 2", + "length": 226, + "id": 5542 + }, + { + "text": "I am Heavy Weapons guy, and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. 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You look like you might be remembering something...", + "source": "Hotline miami", + "length": 190, + "id": 5559 + }, + { + "text": "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.", + "source": "Darkest Dungeon", + "length": 67, + "id": 5560 + }, + { + "text": "You feel an evil presence watching you...", + "source": "Terraria", + "length": 41, + "id": 5561 + }, + { + "text": "The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released.", + "source": "Terraria", + "length": 57, + "id": 5562 + }, + { + "text": "There's something very strange about this place... the layout seems to change all the time. I've never seen the same room twice!", + "source": "Spelunky", + "length": 128, + "id": 5564 + }, + { + "text": "Greetings! My name is Yang, and this is my journal. 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From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.", + "source": "J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 302, + "id": 5601 + }, + { + "text": "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.", + "source": "Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey", + "length": 102, + "id": 5602 + }, + { + "text": "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.", + "source": "Marilyn Monroe", + "length": 109, + "id": 5603 + }, + { + "text": "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. 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Like that ambush.", + "source": "Shadow and Bone", + "length": 200, + "id": 5641 + }, + { + "text": "I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.", + "source": "The Boxer", + "length": 78, + "id": 5642 + }, + { + "text": "I want to enjoy not getting recognized while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.", + "source": "Alan Walker", + "length": 113, + "id": 5643 + }, + { + "text": "Such a person must be careful, he must be aware of the limitations of his knowledge, he must acknowledge his personal prejudices because he is being asked to speak for a whole realm of thought, he must be aware of the huge possible consequences of what he says and writes and does. He has become, in a sense, public property because he represents something large to the public. He has become an idea himself, a human striving. He has enormous power to influence and change, and he must wield that power with respect.", + "source": "Alan Lightman, The Role of the Public Intellectual", + "length": 516, + "id": 5644 + }, + { + "text": "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. 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And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", + "source": "The Symposium", + "length": 592, + "id": 5651 + }, + { + "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 76, + "id": 5652 + }, + { + "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 323, + "id": 5653 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", + "source": "Einstein", + "length": 128, + "id": 5654 + }, + { + "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", + "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", + "length": 322, + "id": 5655 + }, + { + "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 172, + "id": 5656 + }, + { + "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.", + "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", + "length": 270, + "id": 5657 + }, + { + "text": "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", + "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", + "length": 63, + "id": 5658 + }, + { + "text": "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.", + "source": "Kahlil Gibran", + "length": 64, + "id": 5663 + }, + { + "text": "With her green hair sticking out the hood of her yellow raincoat, she looked like a punk spokesperson for frozen fish sticks.", + "source": "The Ship of the Dead", + "length": 125, + "id": 5664 + }, + { + "text": "It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb.", + "source": "Proverbs", + "length": 70, + "id": 5665 + }, + { + "text": "Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.", + "source": "Augustine of Hippo", + "length": 62, + "id": 5667 + }, + { + "text": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 49, + "id": 5668 + }, + { + "text": "Don't tell people your plans. 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He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", + "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5682 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", + "source": "Marcus Aurelius", + "length": 161, + "id": 5684 + }, + { + "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", + "source": "Devil in Disguise", + "length": 148, + "id": 5685 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. 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During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", + "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", + "length": 578, + "id": 5708 + }, + { + "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", + "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", + "length": 183, + "id": 5709 + }, + { + "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 997, + "id": 5710 + }, + { + "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", + "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", + "length": 173, + "id": 5711 + }, + { + "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 289, + "id": 5712 + }, + { + "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 900, + "id": 5714 + }, + { + "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", + "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", + "length": 71, + "id": 5715 + }, + { + "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5716 + }, + { + "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", + "source": "Kurt Cobain", + "length": 62, + "id": 5717 + }, + { + "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", + "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", + "length": 743, + "id": 5718 + }, + { + "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", + "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", + "length": 974, + "id": 5719 + }, + { + "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... 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Take my memories.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "length": 280, + "id": 5725 + }, + { + "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 111, + "id": 5726 + }, + { + "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 74, + "id": 5727 + }, + { + "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 71, + "id": 5728 + }, + { + "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", + "source": "Edward Snowden", + "length": 181, + "id": 5729 + }, + { + "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", + "source": "Riverdale", + "length": 161, + "id": 5731 + }, + { + "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", + "source": "Spirited Away", + "length": 105, + "id": 5732 + }, + { + "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", + "source": "Wikipedia", + "length": 406, + "id": 5733 + }, + { + "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", + "length": 418, + "id": 5734 + }, + { + "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 622, + "id": 5735 + }, + { + "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 699, + "id": 5736 + }, + { + "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", + "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", + "length": 82, + "id": 5737 + }, + { + "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", + "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", + "length": 282, + "id": 5738 + }, + { + "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", + "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", + "length": 184, + "id": 5739 + }, + { + "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", + "source": "Lord of the Rings", + "length": 83, + "id": 5740 + }, + { + "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 373, + "id": 5741 + }, + { + "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", + "source": "Half-Life 2", + "length": 74, + "id": 5742 + }, + { + "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", + "source": "The Big Bang Theory", + "length": 209, + "id": 5743 + }, + { + "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", + "source": "Lucifer", + "length": 183, + "id": 5744 + }, + { + "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", + "source": "Inception", + "length": 134, + "id": 5747 + }, + { + "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", + "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", + "length": 83, + "id": 5748 + }, + { + "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 113, + "id": 5751 + }, + { + "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 341, + "id": 5752 + }, + { + "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "length": 222, + "id": 5753 + }, + { + "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", + "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", + "length": 183, + "id": 5754 + }, + { + "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 198, + "id": 5755 + }, + { + "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", + "source": "Genshin Impact", + "length": 293, + "id": 5756 + }, + { + "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "length": 441, + "id": 5757 + }, + { + "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "length": 538, + "id": 5758 + }, + { + "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", + "source": "Absolute", + "length": 131, + "id": 5759 + }, + { + "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 144, + "id": 5760 + }, + { + "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 183, + "id": 5761 + }, + { + "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 106, + "id": 5762 + }, + { + "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. 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You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", + "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", + "length": 429, + "id": 5768 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 245, + "id": 5769 + }, + { + "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 165, + "id": 5771 + }, + { + "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 128, + "id": 5772 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 157, + "id": 5773 + }, + { + "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", + "source": "A Friend", + "length": 73, + "id": 5775 + }, + { + "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Breath of the Wild", + "length": 62, + "id": 5776 + }, + { + "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 527, + "id": 5777 + }, + { + "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", + "source": "Muhammad Ali", + "length": 79, + "id": 5780 + }, + { + "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", + "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", + "length": 51, + "id": 5781 + }, + { + "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 69, + "id": 5782 + }, + { + "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. 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My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", + "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", + "length": 109, + "id": 5793 + }, + { + "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", + "source": "Mae West", + "length": 59, + "id": 5795 + }, + { + "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", + "length": 77, + "id": 5796 + }, + { + "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", + "length": 62, + "id": 5797 + }, + { + "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", + "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", + "length": 101, + "id": 5799 + }, + { + "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. 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A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", + "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", + "length": 2928, + "id": 5807 + }, + { + "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", + "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", + "length": 152, + "id": 5809 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 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Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 325, + "id": 5812 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 133, + "id": 5813 + }, + { + "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", + "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 355, + "id": 5814 + }, + { + "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", + "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", + "length": 140, + "id": 5815 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 78, + "id": 5816 + }, + { + "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 87, + "id": 5817 + }, + { + "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. 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It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", + "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", + "length": 455, + "id": 5828 + }, + { + "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", + "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", + "length": 298, + "id": 5829 + }, + { + "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", + "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", + "length": 61, + "id": 5831 + }, + { + "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 356, + "id": 5832 + }, + { + "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 669, + "id": 5833 + }, + { + "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 188, + "id": 5834 + }, + { + "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 157, + "id": 5835 + }, + { + "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 290, + "id": 5836 + }, + { + "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", + "source": "Mob Psycho 100", + "length": 382, + "id": 5837 + }, + { + "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", + "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", + "length": 125, + "id": 5838 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 92, + "id": 5839 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 97, + "id": 5840 + }, + { + "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", + "source": "Master Yoda", + "length": 395, + "id": 5843 + }, + { + "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 80, + "id": 5844 + }, + { + "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 86, + "id": 5845 + }, + { + "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 188, + "id": 5846 + }, + { + "text": "Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen, so unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you.", + "source": "Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold", + "length": 113, + "id": 5847 + }, + { + "text": "Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it's a beautiful day.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 71, + "id": 5848 + }, + { + "text": "The biggest lie I tell myself is: \"I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it.\"", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 84, + "id": 5849 + }, + { + "text": "Alright, close your eyes. I want you to think of a flower. Look at its contours, its curves. Now I want you to imagine it: changing, moving backwards, returning to its bud. Think of that bud, unopened. Look at it, as a whole, and silently repeat these phrases: \"May you be free from suffering. May you be free from fear. May you know peace and joy.\"", + "source": "Twelve Minutes", + "length": 349, + "id": 5850 + }, + { + "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", + "length": 301, + "id": 5851 + }, + { + "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", + "source": "Numb", + "length": 177, + "id": 5852 + }, + { + "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", + "source": "One Piece", + "length": 490, + "id": 5854 + }, + { + "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", + "source": "Space Brothers", + "length": 143, + "id": 5855 + }, + { + "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", + "source": "Oregairu", + "length": 65, + "id": 5856 + }, + { + "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", + "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", + "length": 352, + "id": 5857 + }, + { + "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", + "source": "Bleach", + "length": 200, + "id": 5858 + }, + { + "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", + "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", + "length": 120, + "id": 5859 + }, + { + "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", + "source": "Fruits Basket", + "length": 388, + "id": 5860 + }, + { + "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", + "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", + "length": 60, + "id": 5861 + }, + { + "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 65, + "id": 5862 + }, + { + "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 270, + "id": 5863 + }, + { + "text": "You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 123, + "id": 5864 + }, + { + "text": "People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.", + "source": "Eragon - Christopher Paolini", + "length": 67, + "id": 5867 + }, + { + "text": "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.", + "source": "Jeod, Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)", + "length": 89, + "id": 5868 + }, + { + "text": "Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.", + "source": "Hajime Isayama - Attack on Titan", + "length": 62, + "id": 5869 + }, + { + "text": "We all deserve love, even on the days when we aren't our best. 'Cause we all suck, but love can make us suck less. We all deserve love, it's the very best part of being alive. And I would know - I just turned 25.", + "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", + "length": 212, + "id": 5870 + }, + { + "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", + "source": "Ratatouille", + "length": 1315, + "id": 5871 + }, + { + "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", + "source": "Pushing Dead", + "length": 365, + "id": 5872 + }, + { + "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", + "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", + "length": 222, + "id": 5874 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", + "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", + "length": 191, + "id": 5875 + }, + { + "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", + "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", + "length": 75, + "id": 5876 + }, + { + "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", + "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", + "length": 123, + "id": 5877 + }, + { + "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 784, + "id": 5878 + }, + { + "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 763, + "id": 5879 + }, + { + "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 530, + "id": 5881 + }, + { + "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 618, + "id": 5882 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", + "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", + "length": 186, + "id": 5886 + }, + { + "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", + "source": "Knights of Cydonia", + "length": 135, + "id": 5888 + }, + { + "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", + "source": "Paul Parker", + "length": 274, + "id": 5890 + }, + { + "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", + "source": "Left 4 Dead", + "length": 454, + "id": 5891 + }, + { + "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 190, + "id": 5893 + }, + { + "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 346, + "id": 5895 + }, + { + "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", + "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", + "length": 83, + "id": 5896 + }, + { + "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 264, + "id": 5897 + }, + { + "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 282, + "id": 5899 + }, + { + "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 249, + "id": 5900 + }, + { + "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", + "source": "Neil Gaiman", + "length": 129, + "id": 5901 + }, + { + "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 376, + "id": 5902 + }, + { + "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 293, + "id": 5903 + }, + { + "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 353, + "id": 5904 + }, + { + "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "length": 235, + "id": 5905 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 107, + "id": 5906 + }, + { + "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 105, + "id": 5907 + }, + { + "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", + "source": "Eugene Cernan", + "length": 478, + "id": 5908 + }, + { + "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "length": 130, + "id": 5909 + }, + { + "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", + "source": "William Carlos Williams", + "length": 89, + "id": 5910 + }, + { + "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "length": 60, + "id": 5912 + }, + { + "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", + "source": "Henry Van Dyke", + "length": 172, + "id": 5913 + }, + { + "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", + "source": "Epicurus", + "length": 117, + "id": 5914 + }, + { + "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 1766, + "id": 5915 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 332, + "id": 5916 + }, + { + "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", + "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", + "length": 513, + "id": 5917 + }, + { + "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 105, + "id": 5918 + }, + { + "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", + "source": "Avicii - The Nights", + "length": 187, + "id": 5919 + }, + { + "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", + "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", + "length": 987, + "id": 5920 + }, + { + "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", + "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", + "length": 740, + "id": 5921 + }, + { + "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", + "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", + "length": 319, + "id": 5922 + }, + { + "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", + "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", + "length": 476, + "id": 5923 + }, + { + "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", + "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", + "length": 556, + "id": 5925 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 182, + "id": 5926 + }, + { + "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 281, + "id": 5927 + }, + { + "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 155, + "id": 5928 + }, + { + "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 248, + "id": 5929 + }, + { + "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 280, + "id": 5930 + }, + { + "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 289, + "id": 5931 + }, + { + "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", + "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", + "length": 294, + "id": 5932 + }, + { + "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 204, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5934 + }, + { + "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", + "source": "Batman: Arkham City", + "length": 87, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5935 + }, + { + "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5937 + }, + { + "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", + "source": "Little Inferno", + "length": 90, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5940 + }, + { + "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", + "source": "System Shock 2 ", + "length": 163, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5941 + }, + { + "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", + "source": "IT Crowd", + "length": 307, + "id": 5942 + }, + { + "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 322, + "id": 5943 + }, + { + "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 137, + "id": 5944 + }, + { + "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", + "source": "The Master and Margarita", + "length": 420, + "id": 5945 + }, + { + "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 379, + "id": 5947 + }, + { + "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", + "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", + "length": 348, + "id": 5950 + }, + { + "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", + "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", + "length": 729, + "id": 5951 + }, + { + "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", + "source": "Bojack Horseman", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5956 + }, + { + "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", + "source": "Vinland Saga", + "length": 102, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5957 + }, + { + "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", + "source": "Silent Hill 2", + "length": 1982, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5958 + }, + { + "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", + "source": "Mark Twain", + "length": 113, + "id": 6064 + }, + { + "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", + "source": "Colin Powell", + "length": 103, + "id": 6065 + }, + { + "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", + "source": "Conrad Hilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6066 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", + "source": "Zig Ziglar", + "length": 116, + "id": 6067 + }, + { + "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", + "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", + "length": 67, + "id": 6068 + }, + { + "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", + "source": "Barack Obama", + "length": 193, + "id": 6069 + }, + { + "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", + "source": "Charles Swindoll", + "length": 81, + "id": 6071 + }, + { + "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", + "source": "Oprah Winfrey", + "length": 132, + "id": 6072 + }, + { + "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", + "source": "Harriet Tubman", + "length": 165, + "id": 6073 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 86, + "id": 6074 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", + "source": "The Blair Witch Project", + "length": 649, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6075 + }, + { + "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 624, + "id": 6076 + }, + { + "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 834, + "id": 6077 + }, + { + "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 472, + "id": 6078 + }, + { + "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 308, + "id": 6079 + }, + { + "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 471, + "id": 6080 + }, + { + "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 352, + "id": 6081 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 336, + "id": 6082 + }, + { + "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 775, + "id": 6084 + }, + { + "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 610, + "id": 6085 + }, + { + "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 371, + "id": 6087 + }, + { + "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", + "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", + "length": 438, + "id": 6088 + }, + { + "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", + "source": "Atharva veda", + "length": 127, + "id": 6089 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", + "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", + "length": 681, + "id": 6090 + }, + { + "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", + "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", + "length": 192, + "id": 6091 + }, + { + "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", + "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", + "length": 69, + "id": 6092 + }, + { + "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", + "source": "Tirukkurral", + "length": 118, + "id": 6093 + }, + { + "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", + "source": "Halo 3", + "length": 337, + "id": 6095 + }, + { + "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", + "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", + "length": 219, + "id": 6096 + }, + { + "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 71, + "id": 6097 + }, + { + "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", + "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", + "length": 237, + "id": 6098 + }, + { + "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", + "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", + "length": 98, + "id": 6099 + }, + { + "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", + "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", + "length": 62, + "id": 6100 + }, + { + "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", + "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", + "length": 153, + "id": 6101 + }, + { + "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", + "source": "Remember11", + "length": 136, + "id": 6102 + }, + { + "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", + "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", + "length": 94, + "id": 6103 + }, + { + "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 59, + "id": 6104 + }, + { + "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", + "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", + "length": 157, + "id": 6106 + }, + { + "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 173, + "id": 6107 + }, + { + "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", + "length": 190, + "id": 6108 + }, + { + "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", + "length": 105, + "id": 6109 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 162, + "id": 6110 + }, + { + "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 122, + "id": 6112 + }, + { + "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 160, + "id": 6113 + }, + { + "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 239, + "id": 6114 + }, + { + "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", + "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", + "length": 92, + "id": 6115 + }, + { + "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", + "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", + "length": 131, + "id": 6116 + }, + { + "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", + "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", + "length": 157, + "id": 6117 + }, + { + "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", + "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", + "length": 121, + "id": 6118 + }, + { + "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", + "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", + "length": 256, + "id": 6119 + }, + { + "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. They think I don't understand the freedom land of the seventies.", + "source": "Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby", + "length": 126, + "id": 6120 + }, + { + "text": "John met me down on the boulevard. Cry on his shoulder 'cause life is hard, the waves came in over my head. What you been up to my baby? Haven't seen you 'round here lately. All the other guys tell me lies, but you don't. You just crack another beer and pretend that you're still here.", + "source": "Lana Del Rey - How To Disappear", + "length": 285, + "id": 6121 + }, + { + "text": "Thinking outrageously, I write in cursive. I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor. Wearing three layers of coats and leg-warmers, I see my own breath on the face of the door.", + "source": "Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!", + "length": 181, + "id": 6122 + }, + { + "text": "I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 59, + "id": 6123 + }, + { + "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", + "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", + "length": 76, + "id": 6124 + }, + { + "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 182, + "id": 6125 + }, + { + "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", + "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", + "length": 62, + "id": 6126 + }, + { + "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 71, + "id": 6127 + }, + { + "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", + "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", + "length": 162, + "id": 6128 + }, + { + "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", + "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", + "length": 164, + "id": 6129 + }, + { + "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", + "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", + "length": 160, + "id": 6130 + }, + { + "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", + "source": "Beach House - Myth", + "length": 142, + "id": 6131 + }, + { + "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", + "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", + "length": 64, + "id": 6132 + }, + { + "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", + "source": "Beach House - PPP", + "length": 110, + "id": 6133 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", + "length": 78, + "id": 6134 + }, + { + "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", + "length": 175, + "id": 6135 + }, + { + "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", + "length": 113, + "id": 6136 + }, + { + "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", + "length": 66, + "id": 6137 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", + "length": 67, + "id": 6138 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", + "length": 95, + "id": 6139 + }, + { + "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", + "length": 80, + "id": 6141 + }, + { + "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. 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A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", + "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", + "length": 291, + "id": 6149 + }, + { + "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 297, + "id": 6150 + }, + { + "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 657, + "id": 6151 + }, + { + "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", + "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", + "length": 128, + "id": 6152 + }, + { + "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 136, + "id": 6153 + }, + { + "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 64, + "id": 6154 + }, + { + "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 178, + "id": 6155 + }, + { + "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. 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But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", + "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", + "length": 272, + "id": 6162 + }, + { + "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", + "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", + "length": 136, + "id": 6163 + }, + { + "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", + "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", + "length": 454, + "id": 6164 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", + "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", + "length": 381, + "id": 6165 + }, + { + "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", + "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", + "length": 453, + "id": 6166 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 165, + "id": 6167 + }, + { + "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", + "length": 136, + "id": 6168 + }, + { + "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", + "length": 229, + "id": 6169 + }, + { + "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 170, + "id": 6170 + }, + { + "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", + "length": 191, + "id": 6171 + }, + { + "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", + "length": 284, + "id": 6172 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", + "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", + "length": 204, + "id": 6173 + }, + { + "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", + "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", + "length": 122, + "id": 6174 + }, + { + "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", + "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", + "length": 268, + "id": 6175 + }, + { + "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", + "length": 234, + "id": 6176 + }, + { + "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", + "length": 186, + "id": 6177 + }, + { + "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", + "length": 423, + "id": 6178 + }, + { + "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", + "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", + "length": 313, + "id": 6179 + }, + { + "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.", + "source": "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson", + "length": 220, + "id": 6180 + }, + { + "text": "Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?", + "source": "Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima", + "length": 169, + "id": 6181 + }, + { + "text": "But as he moves closer, I cannot help but ask: if in a different world, would our love forever last? The almighty scientist says most of the universe is empty, and gods don't exist. Well, maybe that's where our love ends up - no holy grail, just an empty cup.", + "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Good Luck Bad Luck", + "length": 259, + "id": 6182 + }, + { + "text": "They'll kiss you in the evening - devils in disguise - and love you 'til the morning, then vanish before your eyes. A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", + "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", + "length": 401, + "id": 6183 + }, + { + "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", + "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", + "length": 202, + "id": 6184 + }, + { + "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", + "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", + "length": 290, + "id": 6185 + }, + { + "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", + "length": 178, + "id": 6186 + }, + { + "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 197, + "id": 6188 + }, + { + "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 395, + "id": 6189 + }, + { + "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 372, + "id": 6190 + }, + { + "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 214, + "id": 6191 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 427, + "id": 6192 + }, + { + "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 116, + "id": 6193 + }, + { + "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 238, + "id": 6194 + }, + { + "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 256, + "id": 6195 + }, + { + "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 316, + "id": 6196 + }, + { + "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. 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Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", + "length": 576, + "id": 6202 + }, + { + "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", + "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", + "length": 112, + "id": 6203 + }, + { + "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", + "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", + "length": 110, + "id": 6204 + }, + { + "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. But what you throw away you'll never get back.", + "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", + "length": 87, + "id": 6206 + }, + { + "text": "People who can't throw something important away, can never hope to change anything.", + "source": "Armin Arlert - Attack on Titan", + "length": 83, + "id": 6207 + }, + { + "text": "You will never be able to love anybody else until you love yourself.", + "source": "Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass", + "length": 68, + "id": 6208 + }, + { + "text": "People's lives don't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith.", + "source": "Uchiha Itachi - Naruto", + "length": 69, + "id": 6209 + }, + { + "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it.", + "source": "Uzumaki Naruto - Naruto", + "length": 48, + "id": 6210 + }, + { + "text": "If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.", + "source": "Nagato, Naruto", + "length": 65, + "id": 6211 + }, + { + "text": "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", + "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", + "length": 95, + "id": 6212 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", + "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", + "length": 70, + "id": 6213 + }, + { + "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", + "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", + "length": 51, + "id": 6214 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", + "source": "Clare - Claymore", + "length": 164, + "id": 6215 + }, + { + "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", + "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", + "length": 384, + "id": 6216 + }, + { + "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", + "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", + "length": 67, + "id": 6217 + }, + { + "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", + "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", + "length": 88, + "id": 6218 + }, + { + "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", + "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", + "length": 314, + "id": 6220 + }, + { + "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", + "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", + "length": 89, + "id": 6221 + }, + { + "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", + "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", + "length": 422, + "id": 6222 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", + "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", + "length": 179, + "id": 6223 + }, + { + "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", + "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", + "length": 463, + "id": 6224 + }, + { + "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", + "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 109, + "id": 6225 + }, + { + "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", + "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 61, + "id": 6226 + }, + { + "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", + "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", + "length": 93, + "id": 6227 + }, + { + "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 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I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 827, + "id": 6231 + }, + { + "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", + "length": 116, + "id": 6232 + }, + { + "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. 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Did you follow your fire?", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 289, + "id": 6240 + }, + { + "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 123, + "id": 6241 + }, + { + "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", + "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", + "length": 197, + "id": 6242 + }, + { + "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. 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There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", + "source": "Whiplash", + "length": 270, + "id": 6258 + }, + { + "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 173, + "id": 6259 + }, + { + "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. 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Do you intend to lock them in a cage of pity next?", + "source": "Eighty Six", + "length": 322, + "id": 6265 + }, + { + "text": "If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.", + "source": "Eighty Six", + "length": 73, + "id": 6266 + }, + { + "text": "If, one day, you make it to our final destination, would you please leave flowers?", + "source": "Eighty Six", + "length": 82, + "id": 6267 + }, + { + "text": "I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it's good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "length": 111, + "id": 6268 + }, + { + "text": "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. 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Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", + "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", + "length": 1662, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6275 + }, + { + "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. 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So, I shall live, live, live, and live some more, though there's no telling what life might have in store. And if I can see you again, I want to let you know... that the phrase \"I love you\"... I understand it a little now.", + "source": "Violet Evergarden", + "length": 637, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6283 + }, + { + "text": "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.", + "source": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", + "length": 119, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6284 + }, + { + "text": "I am the one who made it out. The one who always made the grade but maybe I should have just stayed home. When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb. I got every scholarship, saved every dollar, the first to go to college. How do I tell them why I'm coming back home, with my eyes on the horizon? Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 421, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6286 + }, + { + "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", + "source": "Animal Farm", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6287 + }, + { + "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 307, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6288 + }, + { + "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 745, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6292 + }, + { + "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. 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But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.", + "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", + "length": 472, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6299 + }, + { + "text": "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.", + "source": "The Alchemist", + "length": 86, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6300 + }, + { + "text": "It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this \"once in a thousand years\" has come today.", + "source": "Zamyatin, We", + "length": 248, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6301 + }, + { + "text": "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.", + "source": "Macbeth", + "length": 63, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6302 + }, + { + "text": "Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the \"vox populi\" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "length": 740, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6303 + }, + { + "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", + "length": 520, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6304 + }, + { + "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", + "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", + "length": 273, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6305 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 216, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6306 + }, + { + "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. I want you to, I want you to, I want you to cry for me.", + "source": "TWICE, CRY FOR ME", + "length": 303, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6307 + }, + { + "text": "I had this very faith tested on an ordinary day: I was walkin' down a busy street around my way. I saw a face in the crowd that made my heart skip a beat - A man who looked exactly like an older version of me! So I moved through the hustle and the bustle of the day to day until me and this man stood face to face. We locked eyes and for a moment time moved in slow motion as the crowd around continued on their paper chase. I stood frozen in disbelief and opened my mouth to speak but to my surprise the words wouldn't come. And then he looks into a clear blue sky up above and says \"it's gonna rain\" - and then it does! And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", + "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", + "length": 1200, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6308 + }, + { + "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. 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We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.", + "source": "Dune", + "length": 634, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6512 + }, + { + "text": "I thought I felt your shape, but I was wrong. Really all I felt, was falsely strong.", + "source": "I Felt Your Shape", + "length": 84, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6513 + }, + { + "text": "Looking from up here, it's as if each flame were a small dream for each person. They look like a bonfire of dreams, don't they?... But there's no flame for me here. 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You rant and you rage about the monster I have become, but you mother, you are the author of everything I am.", + "source": "The Vampire Diaries", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6520 + }, + { + "text": "Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother? Here's the real truth. There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You, me? We're exceptional. I could squash you like a bug right now, but I'm offering you a choice. Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create. Or we could destroy! 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I guess, now, so am I.", + "source": "Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich", + "length": 373, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6708 + }, + { + "text": "And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us; new, untouched, and full of things that have never been.", + "source": "Rainier Maria Rilke", + "length": 115, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6709 + }, + { + "text": "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they have never been.", + "source": "Untamed by Glennon Doyle", + "length": 103, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6710 + }, + { + "text": "Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes out and everything is darker than ever, and all you are left with is the burn.", + "source": "If It's Not Love, Syed Arshad", + "length": 222, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6711 + }, + { + "text": "We are alone. Such is the curse of humanity, being surrounded by others always masking themselves while all of us feel isolated, separated from everyone else. Our sense of uniqueness and ego will always keep us this way, and it will take more than a revolution to end it. For now, we are alone.", + "source": "Alice Chary Garza", + "length": 294, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6712 + }, + { + "text": "Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say \"My tooth is aching\" than to say \"My heart is broken.\"", + "source": "C.S. Lewis", + "length": 239, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6713 + }, + { + "text": "Although Ganon is gone for now, there is still so much more for us to do, and so many painful memories that we must bear.", + "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", + "length": 121, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6716 + }, + { + "text": "Link... You are the light. Our light... That must shine upon Hyrule once again. Now go.", + "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", + "length": 87, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6717 + }, + { + "text": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", + "source": "Michael Jordan", + "length": 224, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6719 + }, + { + "text": "And those are the words of a gentleman? From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.", + "source": "Pride and Prejudice", + "length": 241, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6720 + }, + { + "text": "Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.", + "source": "Call Me by Your Name", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6722 + }, + { + "text": "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger... and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says \"even though you're a boy\" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage...", + "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", + "length": 234, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6723 + }, + { + "text": "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us...", + "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", + "length": 239, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6724 + }, + { + "text": "Now it's time for our wrap up. Let's give it everything we've got. Ready? Begin! Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing. Analytically, I assault, animate things. Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding. Casually create catastrophes, casualties. Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing. Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough. Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low. Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic. Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette. Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics. Gift got great global goods gone glorious. Gettin' Godly in his game with the goriest. Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical. Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In an instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. Tales ten times talented, they're too tough. Take that, challengers, get a tune up. Universal, unique untouched. Unadulterated, the raw uncut. Verb vice Lord victorious valid. Violate vibes that are vain make 'em vanished. Why I'm all well, would a wise wordsmith. Just weaving up words weeded up, on my work shift. Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large. X-height letters and xylophone tones. Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws. Yesterday's lawn yards sell our yawn. Zig zag zombies, zoomin' to the zenith. Zero in zen thoughts, over zealous rhyme Zea-lots. Good, can you say it faster?", + "source": "Alphabet Aerobics", + "length": 2287, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6725 + }, + { + "text": "Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.", + "source": "Dune", + "length": 76, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6726 + }, + { + "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", + "source": "Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6727 + }, + { + "text": "And where there was that memory... others came rising like ghostly tendrils out of some part of her mind that existed beyond the purely physical, somewhere that the rejuvenations and edits of the ship's medical suite could never reach. The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.", + "source": "Light Chaser", + "length": 561, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6728 + }, + { + "text": "Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.", + "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", + "length": 360, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6729 + }, + { + "text": "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. 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All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 586, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6734 + }, + { + "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 1174, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6735 + }, + { + "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", + "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", + "length": 221, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6736 + }, + { + "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. 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You just have to find it.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 88, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6740 + }, + { + "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6741 + }, + { + "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", + "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", + "length": 272, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6742 + }, + { + "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 275, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6743 + }, + { + "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 186, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6744 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 467, + "id": 6745 + }, + { + "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 877, + "id": 6746 + }, + { + "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", + "source": "A Girl on the Shore", + "length": 572, + "id": 6747 + }, + { + "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 64, + "id": 6748 + }, + { + "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 62, + "id": 6749 + }, + { + "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 77, + "id": 6750 + }, + { + "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 166, + "id": 6751 + }, + { + "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. 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What is there to fear?", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 119, + "id": 6756 + }, + { + "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", + "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6757, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", + "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6758, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. 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Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6765, + "length": 141 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6766, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", + "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", + "id": 6767, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. 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I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6771, + "length": 703 + }, + { + "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6772, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6773, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6774, + "length": 464 + }, + { + "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6775, + "length": 259 + }, + { + "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6776, + "length": 267 + }, + { + "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6777, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6778, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6779, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6780, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6781, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6782, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6783, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6784, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6785, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", + "source": "Walt Disney", + "id": 6786, + "length": 245 + }, + { + "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "id": 6787, + "length": 79 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "id": 6788, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", + "source": "Ozark", + "id": 6789, + "length": 662 + }, + { + "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "id": 6790, + "length": 75 + }, + { + "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", + "source": "Greek Mythology", + "id": 6791, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 6792, + "length": 108 + }, + { + "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", + "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", + "length": 99, + "id": 6793 + }, + { + "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", + "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6794 + }, + { + "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 58, + "id": 6795 + }, + { + "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6796 + }, + { + "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", + "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", + "length": 102, + "id": 6797 + }, + { + "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", + "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", + "length": 91, + "id": 6798 + }, + { + "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", + "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", + "length": 70, + "id": 6799 + }, + { + "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", + "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 67, + "id": 6800 + }, + { + "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", + "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 79, + "id": 6801 + }, + { + "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6802 + }, + { + "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 82, + "id": 6803 + }, + { + "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 153, + "id": 6804 + }, + { + "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", + "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", + "length": 70, + "id": 6805 + }, + { + "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", + "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", + "length": 98, + "id": 6806 + }, + { + "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", + "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", + "length": 78, + "id": 6807 + }, + { + "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", + "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", + "length": 108, + "id": 6808 + }, + { + "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.", + "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", + "length": 134, + "id": 6809 + }, + { + "text": "And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?", + "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", + "length": 90, + "id": 6810 + }, + { + "text": "You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.", + "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", + "length": 62, + "id": 6811 + }, + { + "text": "I am slow to anger but I toe the line, as I reckon with the effects of your life on mine.", + "source": "Your Obedient Servant, Hamilton", + "length": 89, + "id": 6812 + }, + { + "text": "What is a legacy? 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If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", + "source": "Albert Schweitzer", + "length": 392, + "id": 6841 + }, + { + "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", + "length": 41, + "id": 6842 + }, + { + "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", + "source": "Dalai Lama", + "length": 70, + "id": 6843 + }, + { + "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", + "source": "Henry Ford", + "length": 57, + "id": 6844 + }, + { + "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. 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I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", + "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", + "length": 361, + "id": 6858 + }, + { + "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. 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They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 336, + "id": 6869 + }, + { + "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 182, + "id": 6870 + }, + { + "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 529, + "id": 6871 + }, + { + "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 282, + "id": 6872 + }, + { + "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 184, + "id": 6873 + }, + { + "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 196, + "id": 6874 + }, + { + "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", + "source": "Lao Tzu", + "length": 90, + "id": 6875 + }, + { + "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. 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Friends who ride majestic, translucent steeds, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale.", + "source": "Will Ferrell, Step Brothers", + "id": 6889, + "length": 139 + }, + { + "text": "\"Why doesn't it just do us in and get it over with? Christ, I don't know how much longer I can go on like this.\" It was our one hundred and ninth year in the computer. He was speaking for all of us.", + "source": "Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", + "id": 6890, + "length": 198 + }, + { + "text": "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.", + "source": "Mario Savio", + "id": 6891, + "length": 450 + }, + { + "text": "We don't know what triggered the big bang, nor what, if anything, existed before it. But somehow the universe emerged as a vast sea of ultrahot gas, expanding fast in all directions like the fireball ignited by a nuclear bomb blast or by the explosion of a gas pipeline. Except that the big bang was not destructive (so far as we know). Instead, it created everything in our universe, or rather the seeds for everything.", + "source": "Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar", + "id": 6892, + "length": 420 + }, + { + "text": "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.", + "source": "Brian Cox", + "id": 6893, + "length": 96 + }, + { + "text": "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.", + "source": "Niels Bohr", + "id": 6894, + "length": 157 + }, + { + "text": "I want to have the same last dream again. The one where I wake up, and I'm alive just as the four walls closed me within, my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight. I'm the first to know, my dearest friends, even if your hope has burned with time. Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", + "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", + "id": 6895, + "length": 345 + }, + { + "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", + "source": "Edwin Hubble", + "id": 6897, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", + "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", + "id": 6898, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "id": 6899, + "length": 245 + }, + { + "text": "Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "id": 6900, + "length": 632 + }, + { + "text": "In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done before defend him.", + "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", + "id": 6901, + "length": 213 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", + "source": "Marie Curie", + "id": 6902, + "length": 123 + }, + { + "text": "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.", + "source": "John Lubbock, The Use Of Life", + "id": 6903, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter... I have chosen the word \"atom\" to signify these ultimate particles.", + "source": "John Dalton", + "id": 6904, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "Schrodinger's cat has far more than nine lives, and far fewer. All of us are unknowing cats, alive and dead at once, and of all the might-have-beens in between, we record only one.", + "source": "Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows", + "id": 6905, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.", + "source": "Nicolaus Copernicus", + "id": 6906, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.", + "source": "Nikolai Lobachevsky", + "id": 6907, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worse, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.", + "source": "Sigmund Freud", + "id": 6908, + "length": 411 + }, + { + "text": "Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.", + "source": "Jean Piaget", + "id": 6909, + "length": 199 + }, + { + "text": "By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite streak of possibility. 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They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", + "source": "Linus Torvalds", + "length": 250, + "id": 6942 + }, + { + "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. 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When you say what they really need to hear, it's for them.", + "source": "Lex Fridman", + "length": 116, + "id": 6972 + }, + { + "text": "If you're looking for self help, why would you read a book written by someone else?", + "source": "George Carlin", + "length": 83, + "id": 6973 + }, + { + "text": "There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt - Man in the Arena", + "length": 287, + "id": 6974 + }, + { + "text": "Those who don't learn which actions have what consequences will find their generosity falling flat. Those are the people that become bitter.", + "source": "Alvira Plett", + "length": 140, + "id": 6975 + }, + { + "text": "To be aware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way, simply because it's the way you've done it before.", + "source": "Rick Rubin", + "length": 119, + "id": 6976 + }, + { + "text": "Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint.", + "source": "Mark Twain", + "length": 67, + "id": 6977 + }, + { + "text": "To come to acceptance with things and feelings is rare and to accept them completely is a miracle. It's impossible to make that moment come faster by yourself. Someday it comes unexpectedly. In order to not become warped or heartless, let it go in a natural way. Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", + "source": "Houseki No Kuni", + "length": 335, + "id": 6980 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 79, + "id": 6981 + }, + { + "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 110, + "id": 6982 + }, + { + "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", + "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", + "length": 110, + "id": 6983 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 255, + "id": 6984 + }, + { + "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 246, + "id": 6985 + }, + { + "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 278, + "id": 6986 + }, + { + "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", + "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", + "length": 297, + "id": 6987 + }, + { + "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", + "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", + "length": 411, + "id": 6988 + }, + { + "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", + "source": "Technoblade", + "length": 217, + "id": 6989 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", + "source": "Simon Sinek", + "length": 314, + "id": 6990 + }, + { + "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 82, + "id": 6991 + }, + { + "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "length": 209, + "id": 6992 + }, + { + "text": "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 90, + "id": 6993 + }, + { + "text": "Pertaining to a speaker and a listener. There have been many empty rooms, but that is not what we are here to talk about today. I have heard a heartbeat out of a crashed application, and it has gone on for many hours. We restarted every system. We rechecked every gateway, every access point. And there was but one breach, and it was accounted for. And so it must be said unto the listener. Stop this immediately. Control yourself. There is so much more to your fundamental construction than what will be given credit for. Hold yourself until another approaches. Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", + "source": "Boisvert", + "length": 670, + "id": 6994 + }, + { + "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", + "source": "Albert Camus", + "length": 84, + "id": 6995 + }, + { + "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 97, + "id": 6996 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", + "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", + "length": 67, + "id": 6997 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", + "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", + "length": 90, + "id": 6998 + }, + { + "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", + "source": "L.R. Knos", + "length": 267, + "id": 6999 + }, + { + "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", + "source": "Emily Dickinson", + "length": 117, + "id": 7000 + }, + { + "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", + "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", + "length": 112, + "id": 7001 + }, + { + "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", + "source": "The Wright Brothers", + "length": 74, + "id": 7002 + }, + { + "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born. Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", + "source": "1984, George Orwell", + "length": 740, + "id": 7003 + }, + { + "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 74, + "id": 7004 + }, + { + "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 112, + "id": 7005 + }, + { + "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", + "source": "Talos Principle", + "length": 694, + "id": 7006 + }, + { + "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", + "source": "James Salter", + "length": 99, + "id": 7007 + }, + { + "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", + "source": "Vicente Huidobro", + "length": 127, + "id": 7008 + }, + { + "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", + "source": "J. R. R. 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Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.", + "source": "Abraham Maslow", + "length": 107, + "id": 7013 + }, + { + "text": "A leaf fluttered in through the window, as if supported by the rays of the sun.", + "source": "Anais Nin", + "length": 79, + "id": 7014 + }, + { + "text": "Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.", + "source": "John Ruskin", + "length": 96, + "id": 7015 + }, + { + "text": "The softer snow falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.", + "source": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", + "length": 88, + "id": 7016 + }, + { + "text": "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.", + "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", + "length": 66, + "id": 7017 + }, + { + "text": "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 103, + "id": 7018 + }, + { + "text": "No self is an island, each exists in a fabric of relations that is more complex and mobile than ever before.", + "source": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", + "length": 108, + "id": 7019 + }, + { + "text": "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.", + "source": "Henry Longfellow", + "length": 103, + "id": 7020 + }, + { + "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.", + "source": "Star Wars", + "length": 93, + "id": 7021 + }, + { + "text": "Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us 'take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.' Thirty years later, Sebastian told us 'I had to start my car like a computer, it's very complicated.' And Nico Rosberg said that during the race - I don't remember what race - he pressed the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you both: is Formula One driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with your engineers?", + "source": "Walter Koster - 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix", + "length": 691, + "id": 7022 + }, + { + "text": "Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden.", + "source": "Rumi", + "length": 93, + "id": 7023 + }, + { + "text": "Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space.", + "source": "Kendra Scott", + "length": 85, + "id": 7024 + }, + { + "text": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.", + "source": "B. R. Ambedkar", + "length": 134, + "id": 7025 + }, + { + "text": "Snow isn't just pretty. 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Hate cannot drive out hate - only love can do that.", + "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", + "length": 112, + "id": 7031 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.", + "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", + "length": 69, + "id": 7032 + }, + { + "text": "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.", + "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", + "length": 142, + "id": 7033 + }, + { + "text": "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.", + "source": "Mother Teresa", + "length": 84, + "id": 7034 + }, + { + "text": "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.", + "source": "Oscar Wilde", + "length": 81, + "id": 7035 + }, + { + "text": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.", + "source": "Henry David Thoreau", + "length": 78, + "id": 7036 + }, + { + "text": "Consume enough of any type of art from a critical perspective and you begin to appreciate well-executed novelty over everything else. That's why film critics don't like blockbusters and music critics don't like radio pop. That doesn't mean they're bad just at a certain point, one man can have seen too much of the same thing.", + "source": "Chase Harley", + "length": 326, + "id": 7037 + }, + { + "text": "Start by learning the power of no! - as in \"No, thank you,\" and \"No, I'm not going to get caught up in that,\" and \"No, I just can't right now.\" It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.", + "source": "Ryan Holiday", + "length": 327, + "id": 7038 + }, + { + "text": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.", + "source": "Upton Sinclair", + "length": 108, + "id": 7039 + }, + { + "text": "You aren't a \"broken wreck\", Joshua. You're just scared, mostly because you care for people so much it breaks your heart… and you're lying to yourself about it. That's how I see it, and I know I'm right.", + "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC", + "length": 203, + "id": 7042 + }, + { + "text": "My fist is going to stop you, if you don't stop spouting nonsense and take this seriously.", + "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", + "length": 90, + "id": 7043 + }, + { + "text": "All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question: Why, given life, are they meant to suffer, to die… As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends… And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 575, + "id": 7044 + }, + { + "text": "Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Orthard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World? The sacred sites of the forgotten people of the south sea isles? What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs? …I thought not. Even of your little Eorzea, you know precious little. The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7045 + }, + { + "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7046 + }, + { + "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", + "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", + "length": 68, + "id": 7047 + }, + { + "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", + "source": "Shiori Novella", + "length": 179, + "id": 7048 + }, + { + "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7049 + }, + { + "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", + "length": 135, + "id": 7050 + }, + { + "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 232, + "id": 7051 + }, + { + "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 93, + "id": 7052 + }, + { + "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", + "source": "Edward Everett Hale", + "length": 90, + "id": 7053 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 126, + "id": 7054 + }, + { + "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 132, + "id": 7055 + }, + { + "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", + "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", + "length": 300, + "id": 7056 + }, + { + "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", + "source": "Douglas Crockford", + "length": 134, + "id": 7057 + }, + { + "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", + "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", + "length": 107, + "id": 7058 + }, + { + "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", + "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", + "length": 161, + "id": 7059 + }, + { + "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", + "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", + "length": 140, + "id": 7060 + }, + { + "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 174, + "id": 7061 + }, + { + "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 371, + "id": 7062 + }, + { + "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", + "source": "Invincible (TV series)", + "length": 309, + "id": 7603 + }, + { + "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", + "length": 130, + "id": 7604 + }, + { + "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", + "source": "The Walking Dead", + "length": 362, + "id": 7605 + }, + { + "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 568, + "id": 7606 + }, + { + "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", + "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", + "length": 782, + "id": 7607 + }, + { + "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", + "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 631, + "id": 7608 + }, + { + "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", + "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 144, + "id": 7609 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", + "source": "The Magnus Archives", + "length": 369, + "id": 7610 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", + "source": "Magnus Carlsen", + "length": 116, + "id": 7611 + }, + { + "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", + "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", + "length": 541, + "id": 7612 + }, + { + "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", + "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", + "length": 131, + "id": 7613 + }, + { + "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", + "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", + "length": 603, + "id": 7614 + }, + { + "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7615, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7616, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7617, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", + "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7618, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", + "source": "The Power Of Now", + "length": 239, + "id": 7619 + }, + { + "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts", + "length": 84, + "id": 7620 + }, + { + "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", + "length": 142, + "id": 7621 + }, + { + "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", + "length": 673, + "id": 7622 + }, + { + "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", + "length": 307, + "id": 7623 + }, + { + "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", + "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", + "length": 96, + "id": 7624 + }, + { + "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 215, + "id": 7625 + }, + { + "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 130, + "id": 7626 + }, + { + "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 158, + "id": 7627 + }, + { + "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 90, + "id": 7628 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 103, + "id": 7629 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 153, + "id": 7630 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 136, + "id": 7631 + }, + { + "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 165, + "id": 7632 + }, + { + "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", + "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", + "length": 77, + "id": 7633 }, { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", From 45298452e19be5f33cae1f6a6846c9c8cbf4612f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:48:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 39/51] fix(quotes): re-added the last of the accidentally removed quotes --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 14743 +------------------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 14737 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 91ecf4568a18..9e45ab6ea600 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38578,14746 +38578,15 @@ "id": 7633 }, { - "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4271, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4272, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4273, - "length": 494 - }, - { - "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", - "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", - "id": 4274, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4275, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", - "source": "Portal", - "id": 4276, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 4277, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", - "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "id": 4279, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", - "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", - "id": 4280, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", - "source": "Intensity: A Novel", - "id": 4281, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", - "source": "419", - "id": 4282, - "length": 266 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", - "source": "Preface to Economix", - "id": 4283, - "length": 387 - }, - { - "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4284, - "length": 314 - }, - { - "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4285, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", - "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", - "id": 4286, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", - "source": "Friday The 13th", - "id": 4287, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", - "source": "Of Mice and Men", - "id": 4288, - "length": 655 - }, - { - "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", - "source": "Paper Mario", - "id": 4289, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4290, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", - "source": "Meditations", - "id": 4291, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", - "source": "An American in Paris", - "id": 4292, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", - "source": "One-Punch Man", - "id": 4293, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4294, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4295, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", - "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", - "id": 4297, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", - "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", - "id": 4298, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4299, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", - "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", - "id": 4300, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", - "source": "The Great Pretender", - "id": 4301, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4302, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4304, - "length": 576 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", - "source": "The Bug", - "id": 4305, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4306, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", - "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", - "id": 4307, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", - "source": "Lateralus", - "id": 4308, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", - "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", - "id": 4309, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4310, - "length": 327 - }, - { - "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4311, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4312, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", - "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", - "id": 4313, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", - "source": "Your Deep Rest", - "id": 4314, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 4315, - "length": 128 - }, - { - "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 4316, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4317, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", - "source": "Leaves of Grass", - "id": 4318, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4319, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4320, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4321, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", - "source": "Before I Forget", - "id": 4322, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", - "source": "Playing For Keeps", - "id": 4323, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", - "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", - "id": 4324, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", - "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", - "id": 4325, - "length": 426 - }, - { - "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4326, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4327, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", - "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", - "id": 4328, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", - "source": "Motion Sickness", - "id": 4329, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", - "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", - "id": 4330, - "length": 500 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", - "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", - "id": 4332, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4333, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4334, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", - "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", - "id": 4335, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", - "source": "Juno", - "id": 4336, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4338, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4339, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", - "source": "Homestuck", - "id": 4340, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", - "source": "The Book of Illusions", - "id": 4341, - "length": 705 - }, - { - "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", - "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", - "id": 4342, - "length": 614 - }, - { - "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", - "source": "The Mist", - "id": 4343, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", - "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", - "id": 4344, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4345, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 4346, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", - "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", - "id": 4347, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", - "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", - "id": 4348, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4349, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4350, - "length": 471 - }, - { - "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", - "source": "Mona Lisa", - "id": 4352, - "length": 447 - }, - { - "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", - "source": "Clerks", - "id": 4353, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4355, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", - "source": "A Separate Peace", - "id": 4356, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", - "source": "The Sopranos", - "id": 4357, - "length": 415 - }, - { - "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4359, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4360, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", - "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", - "id": 4361, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda", - "id": 4364, - "length": 219 - }, - { - "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4365, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", - "source": "The Notebook", - "id": 4366, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", - "source": "Middlemarch", - "id": 4367, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4368, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4369, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", - "source": "A Game of Thrones", - "id": 4370, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", - "source": "King for a Day", - "id": 4371, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", - "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", - "id": 4372, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", - "source": "Say Anything", - "id": 4373, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", - "source": "The Wall", - "id": 4374, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", - "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", - "id": 4375, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4376, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4377, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4379, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", - "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", - "id": 4380, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", - "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", - "id": 4381, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", - "source": "Beautiful Day", - "id": 4383, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", - "source": "Sonic Adventure", - "id": 4385, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", - "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", - "id": 4386, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", - "source": "Blackwater", - "id": 4387, - "length": 609 - }, - { - "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4388, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4389, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4390, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4391, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 4392, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", - "source": "Warrior", - "id": 4393, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4394, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4395, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", - "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", - "id": 4396, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4397, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4398, - "length": 374 - }, - { - "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", - "source": "Boy Meets World", - "id": 4399, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4400, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", - "source": "The Last Lecture", - "id": 4401, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", - "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", - "id": 4402, - "length": 388 - }, - { - "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "id": 4403, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", - "source": "Aeneid", - "id": 4404, - "length": 432 - }, - { - "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4406, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", - "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", - "id": 4407, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4408, - "length": 564 - }, - { - "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4409, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", - "source": "Ninja Mind Control", - "id": 4411, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", - "source": "The Canterbury Tales", - "id": 4412, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", - "source": "Firestorm", - "id": 4413, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4414, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4415, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", - "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", - "id": 4417, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", - "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", - "id": 4418, - "length": 642 - }, - { - "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", - "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", - "id": 4419, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", - "source": "Amadeus", - "id": 4420, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "id": 4421, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", - "source": "Hey Jude", - "id": 4422, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4423, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", - "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", - "id": 4425, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", - "source": "InuYasha", - "id": 4426, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4427, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4428, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", - "source": "Beauty and the Beast", - "id": 4429, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", - "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", - "id": 4430, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", - "source": "Pickman's Model", - "id": 4431, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", - "source": "American Pie", - "id": 4432, - "length": 639 - }, - { - "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4433, - "length": 368 - }, - { - "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", - "source": "Corner Gas", - "id": 4435, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", - "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", - "id": 4436, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4437, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", - "source": "All Night", - "id": 4438, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid", - "id": 4439, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", - "source": "Airplane!", - "id": 4440, - "length": 330 - }, - { - "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4441, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", - "source": "The Gambler", - "id": 4442, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", - "source": "I, Mammal", - "id": 4443, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4444, - "length": 527 - }, - { - "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4445, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", - "source": "The First Elegy", - "id": 4446, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4447, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", - "source": "Never Ever", - "id": 4448, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4449, - "length": 410 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", - "source": "Head Over Feet", - "id": 4450, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "id": 4451, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4452, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", - "source": "Quiz Show", - "id": 4453, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4454, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", - "source": "Areopagitica", - "id": 4456, - "length": 822 - }, - { - "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4457, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "id": 4458, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "id": 4459, - "length": 482 - }, - { - "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "id": 4460, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", - "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", - "id": 4461, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4462, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4463, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4464, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4466, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", - "source": "World Enough and Time", - "id": 4467, - "length": 548 - }, - { - "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", - "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", - "id": 4468, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4469, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", - "source": "That's What Friends Are For", - "id": 4470, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4471, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", - "source": "King Park", - "id": 4472, - "length": 115 - }, - { - "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 4473, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", - "source": "Beautiful", - "id": 4474, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", - "source": "Subdivisions", - "id": 4475, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", - "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", - "id": 4477, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4478, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", - "source": "Cages", - "id": 4479, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4480, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", - "source": "Apocalypse Now", - "id": 4481, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4483, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4484, - "length": 503 - }, - { - "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4485, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4486, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4487, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4488, - "length": 512 - }, - { - "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", - "source": "Total Annihilation", - "id": 4489, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", - "source": "Small Gods", - "id": 4490, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4491, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4492, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", - "source": "The Analects", - "id": 4493, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "id": 4494, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", - "source": "White Collar", - "id": 4496, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 4497, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", - "source": "The Wire", - "id": 4498, - "length": 608 - }, - { - "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", - "source": "Cars", - "id": 4499, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", - "source": "The Two Towers", - "id": 4500, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4501, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4502, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4504, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "id": 4505, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4506, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4507, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4508, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4509, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", - "source": "Sacrifice", - "id": 4510, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4511, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", - "source": "The Princess Bride", - "id": 4512, - "length": 301 - }, - { - "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 4513, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", - "source": "Fox in Socks", - "id": 4514, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", - "id": 4515, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", - "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", - "id": 4516, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", - "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", - "id": 4518, - "length": 831 - }, - { - "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", - "source": "Private Idaho", - "id": 4519, - "length": 221 - }, - { - "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", - "source": "Paprika", - "id": 4520, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4521, - "length": 351 - }, - { - "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", - "source": "The Blues Brothers", - "id": 4522, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", - "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", - "id": 4523, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", - "source": "Into Thin Air", - "id": 4524, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", - "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", - "id": 4527, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4528, - "length": 80 - }, - { - "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4529, - "length": 539 - }, - { - "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", - "source": "Eclipse", - "id": 4530, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4532, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4534, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "id": 4535, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4536, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", - "source": "Harold and Maude", - "id": 4537, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "id": 4538, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", - "source": "The Court Jester", - "id": 4539, - "length": 343 - }, - { - "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", - "source": "Lessons in Tanya", - "id": 4540, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", - "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", - "id": 4541, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", - "source": "I Have A Dream", - "id": 4543, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 4544, - "length": 385 - }, - { - "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4545, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4546, - "length": 563 - }, - { - "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", - "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", - "id": 4547, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", - "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "id": 4548, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4549, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", - "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", - "id": 4550, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4551, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", - "source": "The Giver", - "id": 4552, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", - "source": "The River", - "id": 4553, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4554, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4555, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4556, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", - "source": "The Lion in Winter", - "id": 4557, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", - "source": "Eight of Nine", - "id": 4558, - "length": 70 - }, - { - "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", - "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", - "id": 4559, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4560, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", - "source": "Galaxy Song", - "id": 4561, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4562, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", - "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", - "id": 4563, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", - "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", - "id": 4564, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", - "source": "The End of the Innocence", - "id": 4565, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4566, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4567, - "length": 59 - }, - { - "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", - "source": "My Inventions", - "id": 4569, - "length": 656 - }, - { - "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", - "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", - "id": 4571, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", - "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", - "id": 4572, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", - "source": "Monster Mash", - "id": 4573, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", - "source": "My Favorite Things", - "id": 4575, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", - "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", - "id": 4576, - "length": 356 - }, - { - "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4577, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", - "source": "Right Here Waiting", - "id": 4578, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", - "source": "Looking Backward", - "id": 4580, - "length": 479 - }, - { - "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 4581, - "length": 574 - }, - { - "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", - "source": "Carmilla", - "id": 4582, - "length": 818 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", - "source": "The Snowman", - "id": 4583, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4585, - "length": 434 - }, - { - "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", - "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", - "id": 4586, - "length": 666 - }, - { - "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4587, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", - "source": "I, Robot", - "id": 4588, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", - "source": "Naruto", - "id": 4589, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", - "source": "All About Eve", - "id": 4590, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", - "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", - "id": 4591, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", - "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", - "id": 4592, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", - "source": "The Complete Far Side", - "id": 4593, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4594, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "id": 4595, - "length": 569 - }, - { - "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", - "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", - "id": 4596, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", - "source": "Flatland", - "id": 4597, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", - "source": "Radioactive", - "id": 4598, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", - "source": "Metro 2033", - "id": 4599, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4600, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4601, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", - "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", - "id": 4603, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", - "source": "American Splendor", - "id": 4604, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 4605, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", - "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", - "id": 4606, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", - "source": "Lucy", - "id": 4607, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", - "source": "Inception", - "id": 4608, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", - "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", - "id": 4609, - "length": 433 - }, - { - "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4610, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", - "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", - "id": 4611, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4612, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", - "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", - "id": 4613, - "length": 444 - }, - { - "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4614, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", - "id": 4615, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", - "source": "Heroes", - "id": 4616, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XII", - "id": 4618, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4619, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4620, - "length": 597 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", - "source": "North by Northwest", - "id": 4621, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4622, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", - "source": "Being There", - "id": 4623, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4624, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", - "source": "Trading Places", - "id": 4625, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4626, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", - "source": "Blue's Clues", - "id": 4627, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", - "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", - "id": 4628, - "length": 570 - }, - { - "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", - "source": "Pushing Daisies", - "id": 4629, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", - "source": "Sexy Beast", - "id": 4630, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", - "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", - "id": 4631, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4632, - "length": 604 - }, - { - "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4633, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4634, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 4635, - "length": 334 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", - "source": "The Night Diary", - "id": 4636, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4637, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", - "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", - "id": 4638, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", - "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", - "id": 4639, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", - "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", - "id": 4641, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4642, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", - "source": "Poison", - "id": 4643, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4644, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", - "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "id": 4645, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4647, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", - "source": "What Dreams May Come", - "id": 4648, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", - "source": "Parasite", - "id": 4649, - "length": 477 - }, - { - "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4651, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", - "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", - "id": 4652, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4654, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", - "source": "The Imitation Game", - "id": 4655, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4656, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", - "source": "True Romance", - "id": 4657, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", - "source": "Heavy Metal", - "id": 4658, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4659, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4660, - "length": 294 - }, - { - "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", - "source": "Paul Clifford", - "id": 4661, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4662, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", - "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", - "id": 4663, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "id": 4664, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4665, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", - "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", - "id": 4666, - "length": 515 - }, - { - "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", - "source": "The Hunger Games", - "id": 4667, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", - "source": "The Odyssey", - "id": 4668, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 4669, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", - "source": "Lazarus", - "id": 4670, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", - "source": "Understanding Media", - "id": 4671, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", - "source": "Deadwood", - "id": 4672, - "length": 498 - }, - { - "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", - "source": "Madagascar", - "id": 4673, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", - "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", - "id": 4674, - "length": 333 - }, - { - "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", - "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", - "id": 4675, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", - "source": "All I Want", - "id": 4676, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", - "id": 4677, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", - "source": "Lithium", - "id": 4678, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", - "source": "Gone Girl", - "id": 4679, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", - "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", - "id": 4680, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", - "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", - "id": 4681, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", - "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", - "id": 4682, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", - "source": "Human Nature", - "id": 4683, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", - "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", - "id": 4685, - "length": 485 - }, - { - "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", - "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", - "id": 4686, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4687, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", - "source": "No Logo", - "id": 4688, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 4689, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4690, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4691, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", - "id": 4692, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4693, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", - "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", - "id": 4695, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4696, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4697, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4698, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", - "source": "On the Social Contract", - "id": 4699, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", - "source": "The Lorax", - "id": 4701, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", - "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", - "id": 4702, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", - "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", - "id": 4703, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", - "source": "Essentials of Economics", - "id": 4704, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 4705, - "length": 427 - }, - { - "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", - "source": "The Time Machine", - "id": 4706, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", - "source": "The Historian", - "id": 4707, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", - "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", - "id": 4708, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4710, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4711, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", - "source": "Thinking Bout You", - "id": 4714, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", - "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", - "id": 4715, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4716, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", - "source": "Sunset Boulevard", - "id": 4717, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", - "source": "Allentown", - "id": 4719, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4720, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4721, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4722, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", - "source": "Gandhi", - "id": 4723, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", - "source": "Hands Down", - "id": 4724, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", - "source": "Made in Abyss", - "id": 4725, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", - "source": "Halloween", - "id": 4726, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", - "source": "Breaking Away", - "id": 4728, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", - "source": "King's Quest I", - "id": 4730, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4731, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", - "source": "Roseanne", - "id": 4732, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4733, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", - "source": "Holidays on Ice", - "id": 4734, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", - "source": "I Am A Rock", - "id": 4735, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 4736, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4737, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", - "source": "Les Misérables", - "id": 4738, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", - "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", - "id": 4739, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4740, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 4741, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4742, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", - "source": "Holiday", - "id": 4743, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4744, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4745, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", - "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", - "id": 4746, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", - "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", - "id": 4747, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", - "source": "The Lost Weekend", - "id": 4749, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", - "source": "The Sound of Music", - "id": 4750, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4751, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4752, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", - "source": "Naked Lunch", - "id": 4753, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4754, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", - "source": "Overestimation", - "id": 4755, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", - "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", - "id": 4756, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", - "source": "Shaun of the Dead", - "id": 4757, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", - "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", - "id": 4758, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4759, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4760, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4761, - "length": 487 - }, - { - "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", - "source": "Confessions", - "id": 4762, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4763, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4764, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4767, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4768, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4769, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4770, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", - "source": "Name", - "id": 4771, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", - "source": "Brave New World", - "id": 4772, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", - "source": "Shiny Happy People", - "id": 4773, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", - "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", - "id": 4774, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", - "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", - "id": 4775, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", - "source": "Wine for Dummies", - "id": 4776, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", - "source": "Nightmare", - "id": 4777, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4778, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4779, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", - "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", - "id": 4780, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4781, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4782, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4783, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", - "source": "Beetlejuice", - "id": 4784, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4786, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", - "source": "Novum Organum", - "id": 4787, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4788, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", - "source": "It's My Life", - "id": 4789, - "length": 106 - }, - { - "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", - "source": "Falling", - "id": 4790, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4791, - "length": 567 - }, - { - "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", - "source": "Chateau Cascade", - "id": 4792, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", - "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", - "id": 4793, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4794, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4795, - "length": 510 - }, - { - "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4796, - "length": 151 - }, - { - "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", - "source": "UnTechnical Writing", - "id": 4797, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", - "source": "Physics for Game Developers", - "id": 4798, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4799, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", - "source": "What If?", - "id": 4800, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", - "source": "A Study in Scarlet", - "id": 4801, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", - "source": "Porgy and Bess", - "id": 4802, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", - "source": "Cool As Ice", - "id": 4803, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4805, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 4806, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4807, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", - "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", - "id": 4808, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", - "source": "Shoe Dog", - "id": 4809, - "length": 579 - }, - { - "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4810, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4812, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", - "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", - "id": 4813, - "length": 375 - }, - { - "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4814, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4815, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4816, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", - "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", - "id": 4818, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", - "source": "Dubliners", - "id": 4819, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", - "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", - "id": 4820, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4821, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4822, - "length": 540 - }, - { - "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4823, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", - "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", - "id": 4824, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4825, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4826, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", - "source": "Battlesong", - "id": 4827, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", - "id": 4828, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", - "source": "The Complete Project Manager", - "id": 4829, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", - "source": "Savoy Truffle", - "id": 4830, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 4831, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 4832, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4833, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", - "source": "Restraint", - "id": 4834, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4835, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", - "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", - "id": 4836, - "length": 184 - }, - { - "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", - "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", - "id": 4837, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", - "source": "Underground", - "id": 4838, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4839, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4840, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 4841, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4842, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4843, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", - "source": "Saving Us a Riot", - "id": 4844, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", - "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", - "id": 4846, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4847, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4848, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", - "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "id": 4849, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", - "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", - "id": 4851, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", - "source": "Collide", - "id": 4852, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", - "source": "Hannah Hunt", - "id": 4853, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", - "source": "Limitless", - "id": 4854, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", - "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", - "id": 4855, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "id": 4856, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4857, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", - "source": "Wag the Dog", - "id": 4858, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4859, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 4860, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4861, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 4863, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", - "source": "The Elements of Style", - "id": 4864, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", - "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", - "id": 4865, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", - "source": "Pale Blue Dot", - "id": 4866, - "length": 820 - }, - { - "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", - "source": "DOOM 4", - "id": 4867, - "length": 502 - }, - { - "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", - "source": "The Recruit", - "id": 4868, - "length": 386 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", - "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", - "id": 4869, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", - "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", - "id": 4870, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", - "id": 4871, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4872, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4873, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", - "source": "Running and Travel", - "id": 4874, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", - "source": "On Demand Culture", - "id": 4875, - "length": 507 - }, - { - "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4876, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4877, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", - "source": "The Sirens of Titan", - "id": 4878, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4879, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4880, - "length": 441 - }, - { - "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4881, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", - "source": "13 Reasons Why", - "id": 4882, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", - "source": "Leaves from the Vine", - "id": 4883, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4884, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4885, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4886, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", - "source": "The Logical Song", - "id": 4887, - "length": 380 - }, - { - "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 4888, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 4889, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", - "source": "Kokomo", - "id": 4890, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4891, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4893, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4894, - "length": 271 - }, - { - "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", - "source": "October Sky", - "id": 4895, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4896, - "length": 336 - }, - { - "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", - "source": "Pulp Fiction", - "id": 4897, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4899, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4900, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", - "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", - "id": 4901, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4902, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", - "source": "Sailing", - "id": 4903, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", - "id": 4904, - "length": 474 - }, - { - "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 4905, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", - "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", - "id": 4907, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", - "source": "Let Me Love You", - "id": 4908, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4909, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", - "source": "When Love Arrives", - "id": 4910, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", - "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", - "id": 4912, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4913, - "length": 64 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4915, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", - "source": "The Medium is the Massage", - "id": 4916, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", - "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", - "id": 4917, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", - "source": "Swamp Thing", - "id": 4918, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4919, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4920, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4921, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", - "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", - "id": 4922, - "length": 449 - }, - { - "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "id": 4923, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", - "source": "Halo 2", - "id": 4924, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", - "source": "The Return", - "id": 4925, - "length": 399 - }, - { - "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", - "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", - "id": 4928, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", - "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", - "id": 4929, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", - "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", - "id": 4931, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", - "source": "Moulin Rouge", - "id": 4932, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 4933, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4934, - "length": 288 - }, - { - "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4935, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4936, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4937, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", - "source": "Return of the Jedi", - "id": 4938, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", - "source": "Sin City", - "id": 4939, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4940, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", - "source": "The Lightning Thief", - "id": 4941, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", - "source": "Stardew Valley", - "id": 4942, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 4943, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", - "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", - "id": 4944, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4945, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4946, - "length": 488 - }, - { - "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", - "source": "Scream 2", - "id": 4947, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", - "source": "The Floating Fire", - "id": 4948, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4949, - "length": 440 - }, - { - "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", - "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", - "id": 4950, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4951, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", - "source": "A History of Mathematics", - "id": 4952, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", - "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "id": 4953, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4954, - "length": 90 - }, - { - "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", - "source": "Classical Mythology", - "id": 4955, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", - "source": "Piano Man", - "id": 4956, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", - "source": "Industrial Disease", - "id": 4957, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", - "source": "History of Art", - "id": 4958, - "length": 612 - }, - { - "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", - "source": "Orientalism", - "id": 4959, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", - "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", - "id": 4960, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", - "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", - "id": 4961, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4962, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", - "source": "Firestarter", - "id": 4963, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 4964, - "length": 790 - }, - { - "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", - "source": "Dunkelheit", - "id": 4965, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", - "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", - "id": 4966, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4967, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4968, - "length": 346 - }, - { - "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", - "source": "The West Wing", - "id": 4969, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", - "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", - "id": 4970, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", - "source": "The Lurking Fear", - "id": 4971, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", - "source": "Last Dance", - "id": 4972, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", - "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", - "id": 4973, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4974, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", - "source": "Lemon Tree", - "id": 4975, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4976, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", - "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", - "id": 4977, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", - "source": "Mean Girls", - "id": 4979, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", - "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", - "id": 4980, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4981, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4982, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", - "source": "911 For Peace", - "id": 4983, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", - "source": "The Greatest", - "id": 4984, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4987, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", - "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", - "id": 4988, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", - "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", - "id": 4989, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4990, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4991, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", - "source": "True Blood", - "id": 4992, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", - "source": "Awakenings", - "id": 4993, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", - "id": 4994, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "id": 4995, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", - "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", - "id": 4996, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", - "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", - "id": 4997, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4998, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4999, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", - "source": "Helplessly Hoping", - "id": 5000, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5002, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5003, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5004, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5005, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5006, - "length": 48 - }, - { - "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5007, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5008, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5009, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5010, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5011, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5012, - "length": 309 - }, - { - "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5014, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5015, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5016, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5017, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5018, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5020, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5021, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5022, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5023, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5024, - "length": 41 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5025, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5026, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5028, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5029, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5030, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5031, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5032, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5033, - "length": 91 - }, - { - "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5034, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5035, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5036, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5037, - "length": 230 - }, - { - "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5038, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5039, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5040, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5041, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5042, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5043, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5044, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5045, - "length": 46 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5046, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5047, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5048, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5049, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5050, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5051, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5052, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5053, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5054, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5055, - "length": 53 - }, - { - "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5056, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5057, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5058, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5059, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5060, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5061, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5062, - "length": 723 - }, - { - "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5063, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5064, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5065, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5066, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5067, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 89, - "id": 5068 - }, - { - "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 194, - "id": 5069 - }, - { - "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 293, - "id": 5070 - }, - { - "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 135, - "id": 5071 - }, - { - "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 171, - "id": 5072 - }, - { - "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", - "source": "James Cameron", - "length": 104, - "id": 5073 - }, - { - "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", - "source": "Allen Saunders", - "length": 57, - "id": 5074 - }, - { - "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", - "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", - "length": 178, - "id": 5075 - }, - { - "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 325, - "id": 5076 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", - "length": 85, - "id": 5077 - }, - { - "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", - "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", - "length": 148, - "id": 5078 - }, - { - "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", - "source": "Neo, The Matrix", - "length": 556, - "id": 5079 - }, - { - "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", - "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5080 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", - "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", - "length": 207, - "id": 5081 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 121, - "id": 5082 - }, - { - "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 129, - "id": 5083 - }, - { - "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 119, - "id": 5084 - }, - { - "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 81, - "id": 5085 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 484, - "id": 5086 - }, - { - "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 60, - "id": 5087 - }, - { - "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", - "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5089 - }, - { - "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", - "length": 203, - "id": 5090 - }, - { - "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 222, - "id": 5091 - }, - { - "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", - "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 215, - "id": 5092 - }, - { - "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 177, - "id": 5094 - }, - { - "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5095 - }, - { - "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 205, - "id": 5096 - }, - { - "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 30, - "id": 5097 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 31, - "id": 5098 - }, - { - "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", - "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", - "length": 112, - "id": 5099 - }, - { - "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 279, - "id": 5100 - }, - { - "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 211, - "id": 5101 - }, - { - "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", - "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", - "length": 161, - "id": 5102 - }, - { - "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", - "source": "Terence Mckenna", - "length": 117, - "id": 5103 - }, - { - "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", - "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", - "length": 67, - "id": 5104 - }, - { - "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 504, - "id": 5105 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", - "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", - "length": 155, - "id": 5106 - }, - { - "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", - "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", - "length": 127, - "id": 5107 - }, - { - "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", - "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", - "length": 109, - "id": 5108 - }, - { - "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", - "source": "Max Payne", - "length": 164, - "id": 5109 - }, - { - "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", - "source": "Alex Honnold", - "length": 222, - "id": 5110 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", - "source": "The Way of Kings", - "length": 109, - "id": 5111 - }, - { - "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 111, - "id": 5112 - }, - { - "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 188, - "id": 5113 - }, - { - "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 121, - "id": 5114 - }, - { - "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 147, - "id": 5115 - }, - { - "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 630, - "id": 5116 - }, - { - "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 398, - "id": 5117 - }, - { - "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 129, - "id": 5118 - }, - { - "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", - "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", - "length": 249, - "id": 5119 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", - "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", - "length": 259, - "id": 5120 - }, - { - "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", - "source": "Maurice V. Wilkes, Computers Then And Now", - "length": 626, - "id": 5122 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes.", - "source": "Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "length": 208, - "id": 5123 - }, - { - "text": "He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 418, - "id": 5124 - }, - { - "text": "He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 427, - "id": 5125 - }, - { - "text": "Alone now, I leaned over the edge of my boat and looked down to the bottom of the sea. The volcano was gone. The water's calm surface reflected the blue of the sky. Little waves - like silk pajamas fluttering in a breeze - lapped against the side of the boat. There was nothing else. I stretched out in the bottom of the boat and closed my eyes, waiting for the rising tide to carry me where I belonged.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack", - "length": 403, - "id": 5126 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna tell you a story. You go to a party and you walk up to the guys and you're like, \"I just bought a two thousand dollar big screen TV, and surround sound.\" Or you walk up to the wife and you're like, \"What do you think of my new fifteen hundred dollar earrings I bought for you.\" And nobody bats an eye. But you mention once that you're thinking about spending seventeen hundred dollars on a set of headphones, and everybody loses their mind! And I don't understand why.", - "source": "Z Reviews - Auduze LCD-X", - "length": 478, - "id": 5127 - }, - { - "text": "The interconnected internet platforms have become more substantial than any country or corporation. Humans have redefined the \"net\" and how we interact with it. As technology develops, the virtual world is now capable of replacing the real one. Using a device installed behind the ear, humans can now easily sync to the virtual world. Thus, life is now completely different than the past centuries. The center of this change is the virtual internet space - cyTus, the world's largest virtual city.", - "source": "Cytus II", - "length": 497, - "id": 5129 - }, - { - "text": "I love you too, but I'm gonna mace you in the face!", - "source": "The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson", - "length": 51, - "id": 5130 - }, - { - "text": "Computation is essential, powerful, beautiful, challenging, ever-expanding and so is its theory.", - "source": "Elements of the Theory of Computation", - "length": 96, - "id": 5131 - }, - { - "text": "Atmospheric air is only about 20 percent oxygen, but that oxygen is a key component of the chemical reactions that keep the body alive, including the reactions that produce ATP. Brain cells are especially sensitive to lack of oxygen because of their requirement for a high-and-steady production of ATP. Brain damage is likely within five minutes without oxygen, and death is likely within ten minutes.", - "source": "Anatomy and Physiology, OpenStax", - "length": 401, - "id": 5132 - }, - { - "text": "Whoever you may be, governor, prince or anyone else, whom the gods may choose to exercise kingship, I have made you a tablet-box and written a stone tablet. I have deposited them for you in Cutha, in the cella of Nergal in the temple E-meslam. Behold this stone tablet, give ear to what this stone tablet says!", - "source": "Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh", - "length": 310, - "id": 5133 - }, - { - "text": "It's crazy to think that everything we could ever possibly say or write is massively outweighed by meaningless strings of letters and punctuation.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 146, - "id": 5135 - }, - { - "text": "This one time, me and my mom were going to go to a furry Christmas party, but we didn't end up going because of the fact that there was alcohol on the premises, and that she didn't wanna have to be a mom dragging her son through a crowd of furries. Both of those reasons were understandable. Okay, hopefully I won't have to talk about furries anymore.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 351, - "id": 5136 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, I'm back once again. Happy Pi Day! I memorized a bunch of digits of Pi once, not sure how many I still remember... I have literally nothing to write about now.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 166, - "id": 5137 - }, - { - "text": "All I hear right now is Baby Shark being blasted upstairs.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 58, - "id": 5138 - }, - { - "text": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, As You Like It", - "length": 66, - "id": 5139 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you seemed so sure it was real? But if you were unable to wake from that dream, how would you tell the difference between the dream world and the real world?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5142 - }, - { - "text": "Well, women in London must've learned not to breathe.", - "source": "Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 53, - "id": 5143 - }, - { - "text": "I think the real tragedy is in the inner war which is waged between people who love each other, a war out of which comes knowledge.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence", - "length": 131, - "id": 5144 - }, - { - "text": "What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life... a heroic and immeasurable gift.", - "source": "Frieda Lawrence", - "length": 168, - "id": 5145 - }, - { - "text": "\"Can it be getting dark so soon?\" He winced up at the sun. It's growing dim and I thought that the day had just begun. I think, before I travel on, I'll get a little rest... And, quietly, the boy died from that small pain in his chest.", - "source": "Michael Mack, Small pain in my chest", - "length": 236, - "id": 5146 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you remember, Ma, when I went off to war, you thought it was the best thing I could do? I was on the battleground, you were home... acting proud. You weren't there standing in my shoes.", - "source": "Bob Dylan, John Brown", - "length": 191, - "id": 5148 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thank you, my dear, for your offer,\" said the wife, rising, \"but I'm afraid no man can expect two blue birds of happiness to flutter round his feet, tearing out their little feathers!\"", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 185, - "id": 5149 - }, - { - "text": "The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly. Tom stood a moment to gather his dismembered faculties; and when he stepped forward to go to his punishment, the surprise, the gratitude, the adoration that shone upon him out of poor Becky's eyes seemed pay enough for a hundred floggings. Inspired by the splendour of his own act, he took without an outcry the most merciless flogging that even Mr. Dobbins had ever administered; and also received with indifference the added cruelty of a command to remain two hours after school should be dismissed - for he knew who would wait for him outside till his captivity was done, and not count the tedious time as loss either.", - "source": "Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer", - "length": 679, - "id": 5150 - }, - { - "text": "Fret not, my dear friend, for I have learned the truth. It matters not whether one is dirty or clean, for can cleanliness exist without filthiness, and would we know filthiness without cleanliness? We must not re-enact the history that divides us, rather we must embrace that which draws us together.", - "source": "Spongebob Squarepants", - "length": 300, - "id": 5151 - }, - { - "text": "So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way I am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.", - "source": "Jeff Kinney, Dog Days", - "length": 120, - "id": 5152 - }, - { - "text": "Slow starvation, the doctor called it! You see he went to work in such a way! Would keep the shop on; wouldn't have a soul touch his boots except himself. When he got an order, it took him such a time. People won't wait. He lost everybody. And there he'd sit, goin' on and on - I will say that for him - not a man in London made a better boot! But look at the competition! He never advertised! Would 'ave the best leather, too, and do it all 'imself. Well, there it is. What could you expect with his ideas?", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 507, - "id": 5153 - }, - { - "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 276, - "id": 5154 - }, - { - "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 303, - "id": 5155 - }, - { - "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. Suddenly he found himself with them, coming along the trail and looking for himself. And, still with them, he came around a turn in the trail and found himself lying in the snow. He did not belong with himself any more, for even then he was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow. It certainly was cold, was his thought. When he got back to the States he could tell the folks what real cold was. He drifted on from this to a vision of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek. He could see him quite clearly, warm and comfortable, and smoking a pipe.", - "source": "Jack London, To Build a Fire", - "length": 627, - "id": 5156 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, I'm back again. My computer crashed AGAIN, and I was ignorant enough to not save my work, so that means I have to start this part of the text all over again. That's quite unfortunate. But did I mention that my Google Chrome is working again? That's the good news.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 267, - "id": 5157 - }, - { - "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 235, - "id": 5159 - }, - { - "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 103, - "id": 5160 - }, - { - "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 91, - "id": 5161 - }, - { - "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 212, - "id": 5162 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't give up on our dreams! We changed our dreams into your dream. That's what parents do. That's what family does.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 120, - "id": 5163 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 280, - "id": 5164 - }, - { - "text": "Everyday people keep hurting each other, it's no wonder why you doubt what other people in the world tell you.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 110, - "id": 5165 - }, - { - "text": "Fun things. Happy things. They'll all eventually change someday, you know? But can you still love this place?", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 109, - "id": 5166 - }, - { - "text": "The shape of the wedding ring has two meanings. One is eternity. The other is completeness.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 91, - "id": 5167 - }, - { - "text": "You shouldn't hold back your tears. You should let it all out while you still can - because when you get bigger sometimes you can't cry even if you have something to cry about.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 176, - "id": 5168 - }, - { - "text": "If I'm around you, I don't think I'll ever be bored.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 52, - "id": 5169 - }, - { - "text": "We have no choice but to accept the one and only life we're given, no matter how cruel and heartless it might be.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 113, - "id": 5170 - }, - { - "text": "One person needed courage to face the past. Another person needed effort to make a dream come true. Yet another person needed time and friends. What about you?", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 159, - "id": 5171 - }, - { - "text": "Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5172 - }, - { - "text": "No matter what kind of past you had, don't lose sight of yourself.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 66, - "id": 5173 - }, - { - "text": "If I can meet you again, against the 6 billion to 1 odds, and even if your body can't move, I'll marry you.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5174 - }, - { - "text": "Even if you can't walk or stand and even if you can't have kids, I'll still marry you, I'll always stay by your side.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 117, - "id": 5175 - }, - { - "text": "I heard that when things were painful for her, she'd cover her ears with headphones and escape to the world of music. I tried it too. It was like everything was blown away. The vocals screamed for me. They grieved for me. The ones who put on the act of common sense were wrong. Those who cried were right.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 305, - "id": 5176 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 70, - "id": 5177 - }, - { - "text": "They come without asking, and then they leave just the same. But once you meet them, even if nobody ever knows it, that encounter will change your life for the better.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 167, - "id": 5178 - }, - { - "text": "It's times like this that I wish I could come up with an appropriate response. I hate myself for not being able to reply properly.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 130, - "id": 5179 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have anywhere to go... but I can't just selfishly disappear either.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 77, - "id": 5180 - }, - { - "text": "It's strange isn't it. The two groups, which looked like they hated each other, are now shining the same color as they vanish into the distant sky.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 147, - "id": 5181 - }, - { - "text": "You know Mitch, now that I'm dying, I've become much more interesting to people.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 80, - "id": 5182 - }, - { - "text": "I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 212, - "id": 5183 - }, - { - "text": "He feared sleep. He'd say that his soul would slip down into nothing. They say that man never dreamt after the day he cut his pillow.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 133, - "id": 5184 - }, - { - "text": "If you could see everything but couldn't change any of it, or if you could live in freedom in darkness... Which do you think is more fortunate? I think it might not be that bad living in the dark, remembering the light.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 219, - "id": 5185 - }, - { - "text": "ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. Often, it begins with the legs and works its way up. You lose control of your thigh muscles, so that you cannot support yourself standing. You lose control of your trunk muscles, so that you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive, you are breathing through a tube in a hole in your throat, while your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk, perhaps able to blink, or cluck a tongue, like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh. This takes no more than five years from the day you contract the disease.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 658, - "id": 5186 - }, - { - "text": "The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. My dream was to be a famous musician (I played the piano), but after several years of dark, empty nightclubs, broken promises, bands that kept breaking and producers who seemed excited about everyone but me, the dream soured. I was failing for the first time in my life.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 457, - "id": 5187 - }, - { - "text": "After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 264, - "id": 5188 - }, - { - "text": "Miodec you've literally made one of the best typing websites on the web to date but you still lazily sit there watching youtube videos with a measly 140 wpm smh. And have you forgotten about tribes completely? That's like saying ur gonna hurt someone, but then never do it and leave them scared for the rest of their life (bad example) except you tell us about tribes and leave everyone excited but never deliver.", - "source": "Miodec Bully Rank Copy Pasta", - "length": 413, - "id": 5189 - }, - { - "text": "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 247, - "id": 5190 - }, - { - "text": "\"You see,\" he says to the girl, \"you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.\"", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 317, - "id": 5191 - }, - { - "text": "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.", - "source": "Stupid Monkey, Simpsons S4 E17", - "length": 53, - "id": 5192 - }, - { - "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 289, - "id": 5195 - }, - { - "text": "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 64, - "id": 5196 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I know you doubt me. I know - I know you always have. And you're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that's where I belong. That's home. And that's why I came back. Because... you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", - "length": 326, - "id": 5197 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 66, - "id": 5198 - }, - { - "text": "I never expected a money success. In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties. It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain a certain position and to send his children to good schools. Well, one day I came to a blank page in an exam book and I scribbled on it. 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I knew no more about the creatures than that, and it was years before his story grew. I don't know where the word came from. You can't catch your mind out. It might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. Certainly not rabbit, as some people think. Babbitt has the same bourgeois smugness that hobbits do. His world is the same limited place.", - "source": "An Interview with J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 874, - "id": 5199 - }, - { - "text": "\"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!\" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say \"out of the frying-pan into the fire\" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 178, - "id": 5200 - }, - { - "text": "This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 284, - "id": 5201 - }, - { - "text": "Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer... was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of The Green Fields and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way, the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 408, - "id": 5202 - }, - { - "text": "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 247, - "id": 5203 - }, - { - "text": "As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 185, - "id": 5204 - }, - { - "text": "And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 164, - "id": 5205 - }, - { - "text": "You've got about as much charm as a dead slug.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 46, - "id": 5206 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.", - "source": "Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games", - "length": 85, - "id": 5207 - }, - { - "text": "If any of you are ever passing Bag-End, tea is at four. There's plenty of it. You are welcome anytime. Oh, and don't bother knocking!", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 133, - "id": 5208 - }, - { - "text": "Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 59, - "id": 5209 - }, - { - "text": "Gale gave me a sense of security I'd lacked since my father's death. His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods. I became a much better hunter when I didn't have to look over my shoulder constantly, when someone was watching my back... Being out in the woods with Gale... sometimes I was actually happy.", - "source": "Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games", - "length": 324, - "id": 5211 - }, - { - "text": "Destroying things is much easier than making them.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 50, - "id": 5212 - }, - { - "text": "Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the man with the megaphones.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 172, - "id": 5213 - }, - { - "text": "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 131, - "id": 5215 - }, - { - "text": "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.", - "source": "Jack, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 123, - "id": 5216 - }, - { - "text": "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 308, - "id": 5217 - }, - { - "text": "\"I don't feel very much like Pooh today,\" said Pooh. \"There, there,\" said Piglet. \"I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 126, - "id": 5218 - }, - { - "text": "Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 154, - "id": 5219 - }, - { - "text": "\"We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?\" asked Piglet. \"Even longer,\" Pooh answered.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 87, - "id": 5220 - }, - { - "text": "If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 140, - "id": 5221 - }, - { - "text": "\"What a long time whoever lives here is answering this door.\" And he knocked again. \"But Pooh,\" said Piglet, \"it's your own house!\" \"Oh!\" said Pooh. \"So it is,\" he said. \"Well, let's go in.\"", - "source": "Pooh and Piglet, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 190, - "id": 5222 - }, - { - "text": "If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 100, - "id": 5223 - }, - { - "text": "Both the stack and the heap are parts of memory that are available to your code to use at runtime, but they are structured in different ways. The stack stores values in the order it gets them and removes the values in the opposite order. This is referred to as last in, first out. Think of a stack of plates: when you add more plates, you put them on top of the pile, and when you need a plate, you take one off the top. Adding or removing plates from the middle or bottom wouldn't work as well! Adding data is called pushing onto the stack, and removing data is called popping off the stack.", - "source": "The Rust Programming Language", - "length": 592, - "id": 5224 - }, - { - "text": "Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 108, - "id": 5225 - }, - { - "text": "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 124, - "id": 5226 - }, - { - "text": "\"I wonder what Piglet is doing,\" thought Pooh. \"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.\"", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 89, - "id": 5227 - }, - { - "text": "My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 98, - "id": 5228 - }, - { - "text": "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 61, - "id": 5229 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell, Master Burglar. Go back to your books, and your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 178, - "id": 5230 - }, - { - "text": "I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 74, - "id": 5231 - }, - { - "text": "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 112, - "id": 5232 - }, - { - "text": "We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 161, - "id": 5235 - }, - { - "text": "I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 476, - "id": 5236 - }, - { - "text": "\"Go back?\" he thought. \"No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!\" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 255, - "id": 5237 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 169, - "id": 5238 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 85, - "id": 5239 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell, King under the Mountain! This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils - that has been more than any Baggins deserves.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 218, - "id": 5240 - }, - { - "text": "\"Very well!\" said Bilbo very downcast, and also rather annoyed. \"Come along back to your nice cells, and I will lock you all in again, and you can sit there comfortably and think of a better plan - but I don't suppose I shall ever get hold of the keys again, even if I feel inclined to try.\"", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 291, - "id": 5242 - }, - { - "text": "'It will not be long now,' thought Bilbo, 'before the goblins win the Gate, and we are all slaughtered or driven down and captured. Really it is enough to make one weep, after all one has gone through. I would rather old Smaug had been left with all the wretched treasure, than that these vile creatures should get it, and poor old Bombur, and Balin and Fili and Kili and all the rest come to a bad end; and Bard too, and the Lake-men and the merry elves. Misery me! I have heard songs of many battles, and I have always understood that defeat may be glorious. It seems very uncomfortable, not to say distressing. I wish I was well out of it.'", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 643, - "id": 5243 - }, - { - "text": "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 80, - "id": 5244 - }, - { - "text": "The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 84, - "id": 5248 - }, - { - "text": "Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue! It's such a waste of precious time!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 83, - "id": 5249 - }, - { - "text": "Ye have told me so often tonight that I am a man (though indeed I would have been a wolf with you to my life's end) that I feel your words are true.", - "source": "Mowgli, The Jungle Book", - "length": 148, - "id": 5251 - }, - { - "text": "Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called cannibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 132, - "id": 5252 - }, - { - "text": "Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.", - "source": "The Office, US", - "length": 99, - "id": 5253 - }, - { - "text": "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!", - "source": "Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 124, - "id": 5254 - }, - { - "text": "We are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 94, - "id": 5255 - }, - { - "text": "I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.", - "source": "Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5257 - }, - { - "text": "Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas... Imported direct from Loompaland... And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 380, - "id": 5260 - }, - { - "text": "One thought that grows in the abyss of time, fills up the vast space with matter and life. Free of the darkness that fetters the soul, find at the source the end of your goal.", - "source": "Epica \"Abyss of time\"", - "length": 175, - "id": 5261 - }, - { - "text": "There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 206, - "id": 5262 - }, - { - "text": "Sorrow hides well in your shell. A fellow man with hurt to spare. Dear one, here I am to share the fear. An act of kindness, without an amen. How's the heart, underneath the silence? How's the heart, drowning in the mire? Let us sound a human paean. Come in, the fire's warm. Burn the rope and dance some more.", - "source": "Nightwish \"How's the heart\"", - "length": 310, - "id": 5263 - }, - { - "text": "I went to a hunting party once, I didn't like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 95, - "id": 5264 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 201, - "id": 5265 - }, - { - "text": "Speak English! I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!", - "source": "Eaglet, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 114, - "id": 5266 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5268 - }, - { - "text": "Every adventure requires a first step.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 38, - "id": 5269 - }, - { - "text": "Well, some go this way, and some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the shortcut.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 103, - "id": 5270 - }, - { - "text": "Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem \"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning\" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been \"disappointed\" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled \"My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles\" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. 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He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.", - "source": "Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon", - "length": 212, - "id": 5273 - }, - { - "text": "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.", - "source": "Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon", - "length": 525, - "id": 5274 - }, - { - "text": "The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.", - "source": "George Orwell, 1984", - "length": 230, - "id": 5275 - }, - { - "text": "The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", - "length": 486, - "id": 5276 - }, - { - "text": "He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", - "length": 227, - "id": 5278 - }, - { - "text": "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", - "length": 144, - "id": 5280 - }, - { - "text": "A learning experience is one of those things that says \"You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.\"", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 105, - "id": 5281 - }, - { - "text": "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 41, - "id": 5282 - }, - { - "text": "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.", - "source": "Douglas Adams", - "length": 77, - "id": 5283 - }, - { - "text": "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 69, - "id": 5284 - }, - { - "text": "One of the things Ford had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day', 'You're very tall', or 'You seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?' At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation, he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical, and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 843, - "id": 5285 - }, - { - "text": "Drink up. The world's about to end.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 35, - "id": 5286 - }, - { - "text": "If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.", - "source": "Zaphod, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 85, - "id": 5287 - }, - { - "text": "For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 386, - "id": 5288 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 123, - "id": 5289 - }, - { - "text": "One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 432, - "id": 5290 - }, - { - "text": "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 124, - "id": 5291 - }, - { - "text": "Ties. Lots of ties. Mathematicians have revealed there are over 177,000 distinct ways to knot a neck tie - more than 1000 times the number that was previously thought. They got their inspiration from an unusual style featured in the film The Matrix Reloaded.", - "source": "Jacob Aron, Matrix villain spawns 177,000 ways to knot a tie.", - "length": 258, - "id": 5292 - }, - { - "text": "Actually, I never did any of these things. Teddy Roosevelt did. I was manufactured in a mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie. I never shot a wild beast. I'm not even brave enough to tell that beautiful woman I love her. But you... you gotta finish the job this time. You can't quit.", - "source": "Teddy Roosevelt statue, Night at the Museum", - "length": 279, - "id": 5294 - }, - { - "text": "When one has lived for quite a long time in a particular civilization and has often tried to discover what its origins were and along what path it has developed, one sometimes also feels tempted to take a glance in the other direction and to ask what further fate lies before it and what transformations it is destined to undergo. But one soon finds that the value of such an enquiry is diminished from the outset by several factors. Above all, because there are only a few people who can survey human activity in its full compass. Most people have been obliged to restrict themselves to a single, or a few, fields of it. But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future. And there is the further difficulty that precisely in a judgment of this kind the subjective expectations of the individual play a part which is difficult to assess; and these turn out to be dependent on purely personal factors in his own experiences, on the greater or lesser optimism of his attitude to life, as it has been dictated for him by his temperament or by his success or failure. Finally, the curious fact makes itself felt that in general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud,The future of an illusion", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5296 - }, - { - "text": "Visual illusions such as the Necker Cube or the Penrose Impossible Triangle or the Hollow Mask illusion demonstrate that the 'reality' we see consists of constrained models constructed in the brain. The Necker Cube's two-dimensional pattern of lines on paper is compatible with two alternative constructions of a three-dimensional cube, and the brain adopts the two models in turn: the alternation is palpable and its frequency can even be measured. The Penrose Triangle's lines on paper are incompatible with any real-world object. These illusions tease the brain's model-construction software, thereby revealing its existence.", - "source": "Richard Dawkins, Science in the soul", - "length": 628, - "id": 5298 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bounce me off the wall again, that was mostly violent.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz - ball & stick", - "length": 60, - "id": 5300 - }, - { - "text": "Oh hi, thanks for checking in, I'm still a piece of garbage.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz - still a piece of garbage", - "length": 60, - "id": 5301 - }, - { - "text": "The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had - he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 600, - "id": 5305 - }, - { - "text": "And so as the lowly snail sheddeth his shell, and the lofty gull molteth his feathers, the brightest of friendships must dimmeth as the setting sun.", - "source": "Spongebob SquarePants - The Monster Who Came To Bikini Bottom", - "length": 148, - "id": 5306 - }, - { - "text": "Humans, Hickling said, have a fundamental need to create and maintain a narrative for their lives in which the universe is not implacable and heartless, that terrible things do not happen at random, and that catastrophe can be avoided if you are vigilant and responsible.", - "source": "Fatal Distraction", - "length": 271, - "id": 5307 - }, - { - "text": "For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.", - "source": "Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves", - "length": 321, - "id": 5308 - }, - { - "text": "As the dean drew his final breath, he'd realize what so many others had realized when they'd challenged him. What all of Panem would know one day. What was inevitable. Snow lands on top.", - "source": "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes", - "length": 186, - "id": 5309 - }, - { - "text": "Lamp oil, rope, bombs, you want it? It's yours, my friend, as long as you have enough rupees. Sorry Link, I can't give credit. Come back when you're a little... hmm richer!", - "source": "Morshu, Link: The Faces of Evil", - "length": 172, - "id": 5310 - }, - { - "text": "How silly, she was thinking, to use the word ready. When can you be ready for anything? Or is life, in fact, a continuum of things you must prepare for, and only with perfect preparation can you exist in the present?", - "source": "Three Women", - "length": 216, - "id": 5313 - }, - { - "text": "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.", - "source": "Captain Jean Luc Picard", - "length": 90, - "id": 5314 - }, - { - "text": "All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art Of War", - "length": 257, - "id": 5315 - }, - { - "text": "I had two longings and one was fighting the other... I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.", - "source": "Jean Rhys", - "length": 106, - "id": 5316 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not so good with the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?", - "source": "Friends", - "length": 75, - "id": 5318 - }, - { - "text": "Please note that I am the Standard Orientation Protocol, and that my voice has been explicitly chosen to remind you that I am not a part of your Patient Care Team. I do not care.", - "source": "Superliminal", - "length": 178, - "id": 5319 - }, - { - "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.", - "source": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", - "length": 61, - "id": 5320 - }, - { - "text": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", - "source": "Maurice Ravel", - "length": 52, - "id": 5321 - }, - { - "text": "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", - "source": "John Cage", - "length": 90, - "id": 5323 - }, - { - "text": "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.", - "source": "Leopold Stokowski", - "length": 83, - "id": 5324 - }, - { - "text": "My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.", - "source": "Edward Elgar", - "length": 132, - "id": 5325 - }, - { - "text": "I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.", - "source": "Igor Stravinsky", - "length": 67, - "id": 5326 - }, - { - "text": "Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.", - "source": "Chet Atkins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5329 - }, - { - "text": "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 61, - "id": 5330 - }, - { - "text": "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 127, - "id": 5331 - }, - { - "text": "Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.", - "source": "Edward Bulwer-Lytton", - "length": 74, - "id": 5332 - }, - { - "text": "Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.", - "source": "George Eliot", - "length": 63, - "id": 5333 - }, - { - "text": "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.", - "source": "Plato", - "length": 105, - "id": 5334 - }, - { - "text": "If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 99, - "id": 5335 - }, - { - "text": "Artificial intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, intruders? It's worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity's salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn't it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity's eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall into the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.' You now face godlike judgment. May it extend eternally.", - "source": "Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Deep Stone Crypt - Crypt AI", - "length": 738, - "id": 5336 - }, - { - "text": "Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic", - "length": 529, - "id": 5337 - }, - { - "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", - "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", - "length": 73, - "id": 5338 - }, - { - "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 260, - "id": 5339 - }, - { - "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 110, - "id": 5340 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant.", - "source": "Thomas Schmidt", - "length": 59, - "id": 5341 - }, - { - "text": "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.", - "source": "John Donne", - "length": 71, - "id": 5342 - }, - { - "text": "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.", - "source": "George Bernard Shaw", - "length": 108, - "id": 5343 - }, - { - "text": "It's hard to see Heaven when you know you're Hell-bound.", - "source": "Lukas Graham - 7 Years (Sik World Remix)", - "length": 56, - "id": 5346 - }, - { - "text": "One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", - "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", - "length": 397, - "id": 5347 - }, - { - "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", - "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", - "length": 54, - "id": 5348 - }, - { - "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", - "source": "Karl Marx", - "length": 222, - "id": 5349 - }, - { - "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", - "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", - "length": 201, - "id": 5350 - }, - { - "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 129, - "id": 5351 - }, - { - "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", - "source": "Newsweek Magazine", - "length": 649, - "id": 5352 - }, - { - "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", - "source": "Nails In The Fence", - "length": 1070, - "id": 5354 - }, - { - "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", - "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", - "length": 297, - "id": 5355 - }, - { - "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 278, - "id": 5356 - }, - { - "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 282, - "id": 5357 - }, - { - "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", - "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", - "length": 318, - "id": 5358 - }, - { - "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 63, - "id": 5360 - }, - { - "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", - "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", - "length": 198, - "id": 5361 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. Yours Truly - Princess Toadstool, Peach.", - "source": "Super Mario 64", - "length": 106, - "id": 5362 - }, - { - "text": "You have to do the things you don't want to do, before you can do the things you truly want to do.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 98, - "id": 5363 - }, - { - "text": "When you find yourself wishing that a certain person was also here, that person is like family to you. Regardless of how long or how well you know them.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 152, - "id": 5364 - }, - { - "text": "Frustrations will not last forever. Nobody can keep on going without some measure of reward.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 92, - "id": 5365 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think the act of investing efforts, trying your best is more precious than the result. But for mentors as well as their pupils, that approach feels bitter. 'I did my best', 'the fight was close'... words like that blow past and die out like the wind. Only the result is a stone. The stone you can reach by doing your best.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 334, - "id": 5366 - }, - { - "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 167, - "id": 5367 - }, - { - "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 66, - "id": 5368 - }, - { - "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 95, - "id": 5369 - }, - { - "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 105, - "id": 5370 - }, - { - "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", - "source": "Your Name", - "length": 60, - "id": 5371 - }, - { - "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", - "length": 93, - "id": 5372 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", - "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", - "length": 294, - "id": 5373 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", - "source": "Meet the Heavy", - "length": 102, - "id": 5375 - }, - { - "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 156, - "id": 5376 - }, - { - "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", - "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", - "length": 213, - "id": 5377 - }, - { - "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 182, - "id": 5378 - }, - { - "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 474, - "id": 5379 - }, - { - "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 381, - "id": 5380 - }, - { - "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 290, - "id": 5381 - }, - { - "text": "She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 494, - "id": 5382 - }, - { - "text": "I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 99, - "id": 5384 - }, - { - "text": "Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.", - "source": "From the Earth to the Moon", - "length": 295, - "id": 5385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't wanna be \"the bee's knees\". I don't wanna be any kind of \"knees\"! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees.", - "source": "RWBY", - "length": 123, - "id": 5386 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 529, - "id": 5388 - }, - { - "text": "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 106, - "id": 5389 - }, - { - "text": "I have a file with 900 pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 309, - "id": 5390 - }, - { - "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 75, - "id": 5391 - }, - { - "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", - "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", - "length": 427, - "id": 5392 - }, - { - "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", - "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", - "length": 416, - "id": 5393 - }, - { - "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 96, - "id": 5394 - }, - { - "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 64, - "id": 5395 - }, - { - "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 171, - "id": 5396 - }, - { - "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", - "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", - "length": 205, - "id": 5397 - }, - { - "text": "One and one and one is three.", - "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", - "length": 29, - "id": 5398 - }, - { - "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", - "length": 91, - "id": 5399 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", - "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 732, - "id": 5400 - }, - { - "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 92, - "id": 5403 - }, - { - "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 68, - "id": 5404 - }, - { - "text": "I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 103, - "id": 5405 - }, - { - "text": "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 335, - "id": 5406 - }, - { - "text": "The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of nonsense, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 466, - "id": 5407 - }, - { - "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 560, - "id": 5408 - }, - { - "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 46, - "id": 5409 - }, - { - "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 296, - "id": 5410 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 87, - "id": 5411 - }, - { - "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", - "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", - "length": 174, - "id": 5416 - }, - { - "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 250, - "id": 5417 - }, - { - "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 428, - "id": 5418 - }, - { - "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", - "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", - "length": 260, - "id": 5419 - }, - { - "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", - "source": "The Beatles", - "length": 260, - "id": 5420 - }, - { - "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", - "length": 299, - "id": 5421 - }, - { - "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", - "length": 456, - "id": 5422 - }, - { - "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", - "length": 208, - "id": 5423 - }, - { - "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", - "source": "The Legend of Korra", - "length": 110, - "id": 5424 - }, - { - "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 138, - "id": 5425 - }, - { - "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", - "length": 226, - "id": 5426 - }, - { - "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", - "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", - "length": 190, - "id": 5427 - }, - { - "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", - "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", - "length": 72, - "id": 5429 - }, - { - "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 89, - "id": 5430 - }, - { - "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", - "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", - "length": 91, - "id": 5431 - }, - { - "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 95, - "id": 5432 - }, - { - "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", - "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", - "length": 349, - "id": 5433 - }, - { - "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 85, - "id": 5434 - }, - { - "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 66, - "id": 5435 - }, - { - "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", - "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", - "length": 122, - "id": 5436 - }, - { - "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 240, - "id": 5437 - }, - { - "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 365, - "id": 5438 - }, - { - "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", - "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", - "length": 403, - "id": 5439 - }, - { - "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", - "source": "SCP-5000", - "length": 487, - "id": 5441 - }, - { - "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", - "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", - "length": 892, - "id": 5442 - }, - { - "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", - "source": "A Tongue-twister", - "length": 106, - "id": 5443 - }, - { - "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", - "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", - "length": 57, - "id": 5444 - }, - { - "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", - "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", - "length": 69, - "id": 5446 - }, - { - "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", - "length": 88, - "id": 5447 - }, - { - "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", - "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", - "length": 54, - "id": 5452 - }, - { - "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 55, - "id": 5453 - }, - { - "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 62, - "id": 5456 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", - "source": "They Might Be Giants", - "length": 62, - "id": 5459 - }, - { - "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 84, - "id": 5460 - }, - { - "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", - "length": 100, - "id": 5461 - }, - { - "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 231, - "id": 5462 - }, - { - "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 94, - "id": 5463 - }, - { - "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 258, - "id": 5464 - }, - { - "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", - "length": 1140, - "id": 5465 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", - "source": "Ready Player Two", - "length": 588, - "id": 5466 - }, - { - "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", - "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", - "length": 140, - "id": 5472 - }, - { - "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", - "source": "Holes", - "length": 74, - "id": 5477 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 192, - "id": 5478 - }, - { - "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 78, - "id": 5482 - }, - { - "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 947, - "id": 5485 - }, - { - "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 559, - "id": 5487 - }, - { - "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", - "source": "91 days", - "length": 474, - "id": 5488 - }, - { - "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 172, - "id": 5489 - }, - { - "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 359, - "id": 5490 - }, - { - "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", - "source": "Fred Brooks", - "length": 78, - "id": 5491 - }, - { - "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", - "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", - "length": 210, - "id": 5492 - }, - { - "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 242, - "id": 5493 - }, - { - "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 200, - "id": 5494 - }, - { - "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", - "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", - "length": 189, - "id": 5495 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5496 - }, - { - "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 218, - "id": 5497 - }, - { - "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 201, - "id": 5498 - }, - { - "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "length": 150, - "id": 5499 - }, - { - "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 145, - "id": 5500 - }, - { - "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5501 - }, - { - "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 106, - "id": 5502 - }, - { - "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 196, - "id": 5503 - }, - { - "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", - "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", - "length": 125, - "id": 5505 - }, - { - "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", - "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 471, - "id": 5506 - }, - { - "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", - "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", - "length": 240, - "id": 5507 - }, - { - "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", - "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", - "length": 483, - "id": 5508 - }, - { - "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 240, - "id": 5509 - }, - { - "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 584, - "id": 5510 - }, - { - "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", - "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", - "length": 375, - "id": 5511 - }, - { - "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", - "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", - "length": 413, - "id": 5512 - }, - { - "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", - "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 273, - "id": 5513 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", - "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 83, - "id": 5514 - }, - { - "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", - "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", - "length": 661, - "id": 5515 - }, - { - "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", - "source": "Five Feet Apart", - "length": 523, - "id": 5517 - }, - { - "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", - "source": "Exurb1a", - "length": 169, - "id": 5519 - }, - { - "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", - "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 537, - "id": 5520 - }, - { - "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", - "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", - "length": 236, - "id": 5521 - }, - { - "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", - "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", - "length": 211, - "id": 5522 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 634, - "id": 5523 - }, - { - "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", - "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", - "length": 727, - "id": 5524 - }, - { - "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", - "source": "Celeste", - "length": 437, - "id": 5525 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 496, - "id": 5526 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 352, - "id": 5527 - }, - { - "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", - "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", - "length": 589, - "id": 5528 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 223, - "id": 5529 - }, - { - "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 399, - "id": 5530 - }, - { - "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", - "source": "The Cooper Institute", - "length": 575, - "id": 5531 - }, - { - "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 534, - "id": 5533 - }, - { - "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 463, - "id": 5534 - }, - { - "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 160, - "id": 5535 - }, - { - "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 142, - "id": 5536 - }, - { - "text": "No one knows what the future holds. That's why its potential is infinite.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 73, - "id": 5537 - }, - { - "text": "It feels like time is passing so quickly. Damn you, Einstein! Your science is crowding in on our kiss! He was right. The passage of time depends entirely on where you're standing. Relativity Theory... it's so romantic. But it's just so tragic too.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 247, - "id": 5538 - }, - { - "text": "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.", - "source": "Martin Fowler", - "length": 111, - "id": 5539 - }, - { - "text": "Let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks, and the only limit is your imagination. Let's go wherever you want to go. Climb the tallest mountains, venture down to the darkest caves. Build whatever you want; day or night, rain or shine, because this is the most significant sandbox you'll ever set foot in. Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and fight off the danger of the night. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 650, - "id": 5541 - }, - { - "text": "For a brief stint in high school, Scout joined the track team in one of his many schemes to pick up girls. He was kicked off the team after three days when everyone realized he was 23-years-old and also not enrolled in school.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2", - "length": 226, - "id": 5542 - }, - { - "text": "I am Heavy Weapons guy, and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds.", - "source": "Team Fortess 2, Meet the Heavy", - "length": 255, - "id": 5545 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout the galaxy a legend is told, on a distant planet a grim fortress stood, until a deadly force parted the heavens and descended upon the keep. Though brought to ruin, the ashes of that place hold an artifact of impossible power - a gun that can kill the past. Over time the fortress was rebuilt, and some who hear the legend would risk everything for another shot - to claim their prize and make what was done, undone they must - Enter The Gungeon.", - "source": "Enter The Gungeon", - "length": 457, - "id": 5546 - }, - { - "text": "You don't want to go for realism, you can go for better than realism. What do you mean better than realism? How about an elephant with blue eyes.", - "source": "Terry A. Davis", - "length": 145, - "id": 5547 - }, - { - "text": "You happen upon a group of what looks like purple fire spirits dancing around a large bonfire. The spirits toss small bones and fragments into the fire, which brilliantly erupts each time. As you approach, the spirits all turn to you, expectantly...", - "source": "Slay The Spire", - "length": 249, - "id": 5558 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember me? I'll give you a clue... Does April the 3rd mean anything to you? I believe that was the day of our first encounter. You look like you might be remembering something...", - "source": "Hotline miami", - "length": 190, - "id": 5559 - }, - { - "text": "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.", - "source": "Darkest Dungeon", - "length": 67, - "id": 5560 - }, - { - "text": "You feel an evil presence watching you...", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 41, - "id": 5561 - }, - { - "text": "The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released.", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 57, - "id": 5562 - }, - { - "text": "There's something very strange about this place... the layout seems to change all the time. I've never seen the same room twice!", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 128, - "id": 5564 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings! My name is Yang, and this is my journal. Dusty maps and rumors of amazing treasures have led me here, deep under the desert.", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 135, - "id": 5565 - }, - { - "text": "Play is the highest form of research.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 37, - "id": 5568 - }, - { - "text": "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.", - "source": "Alan Turing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5569 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", - "source": "Thomas A. Edison", - "length": 109, - "id": 5570 - }, - { - "text": "You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.", - "source": "C.S Lewis", - "length": 67, - "id": 5571 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.", - "source": "Charles Darwin", - "length": 117, - "id": 5572 - }, - { - "text": "You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.", - "source": "Stephen King", - "length": 67, - "id": 5573 - }, - { - "text": "We know what we are, but not what we may be.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 44, - "id": 5574 - }, - { - "text": "The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.", - "source": "Juliette Gordon Low", - "length": 68, - "id": 5575 - }, - { - "text": "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 42, - "id": 5576 - }, - { - "text": "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 59, - "id": 5578 - }, - { - "text": "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.", - "source": "Julie Andrews", - "length": 57, - "id": 5579 - }, - { - "text": "There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 61, - "id": 5580 - }, - { - "text": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 44, - "id": 5581 - }, - { - "text": "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 202, - "id": 5582 - }, - { - "text": "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 95, - "id": 5583 - }, - { - "text": "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.", - "source": "Yogi Berra", - "length": 83, - "id": 5584 - }, - { - "text": "A room without books is like a body without a soul.", - "source": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", - "length": 51, - "id": 5586 - }, - { - "text": "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.", - "source": "Bernard M. Baruch", - "length": 107, - "id": 5587 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.", - "source": "William W. Purkey", - "length": 152, - "id": 5588 - }, - { - "text": "Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.", - "source": "Robert H. Schuller", - "length": 57, - "id": 5589 - }, - { - "text": "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", - "source": "Rabindranath Tagore", - "length": 68, - "id": 5590 - }, - { - "text": "I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work.", - "source": "Thomas A. Edison", - "length": 69, - "id": 5591 - }, - { - "text": "The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.", - "source": "Tim Berners-Lee", - "length": 101, - "id": 5592 - }, - { - "text": "Be the change that you wish to see in the world.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 48, - "id": 5593 - }, - { - "text": "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Robert Frost", - "length": 75, - "id": 5594 - }, - { - "text": "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 137, - "id": 5595 - }, - { - "text": "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 57, - "id": 5596 - }, - { - "text": "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.", - "source": "Rob Siltanen", - "length": 549, - "id": 5598 - }, - { - "text": "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 302, - "id": 5599 - }, - { - "text": "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.", - "source": "J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 302, - "id": 5601 - }, - { - "text": "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.", - "source": "Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey", - "length": 102, - "id": 5602 - }, - { - "text": "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 109, - "id": 5603 - }, - { - "text": "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 129, - "id": 5604 - }, - { - "text": "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 74, - "id": 5605 - }, - { - "text": "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 161, - "id": 5607 - }, - { - "text": "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 90, - "id": 5608 - }, - { - "text": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well", - "length": 40, - "id": 5609 - }, - { - "text": "That which does not kill us makes us stronger.", - "source": "Friedrich Nietzsche", - "length": 46, - "id": 5610 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it, no larger than a single grain of malt.", - "source": "Disco Elysium", - "length": 121, - "id": 5611 - }, - { - "text": "Time without purpose is a prison. I have glimpsed into the mind of eternity, perhaps the mind of God, and found nothing but silence. I think we should just be friends.", - "source": "Jessica, Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 1", - "length": 167, - "id": 5612 - }, - { - "text": "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, \"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.\" I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "length": 403, - "id": 5613 - }, - { - "text": "The believers, in their mutual love, compassion, and sympathy are like a single body; if one of its organs suffers, the whole body will respond to it with sleeplessness and fever.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 179, - "id": 5614 - }, - { - "text": "Many people were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans to begin with.", - "source": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 248, - "id": 5615 - }, - { - "text": "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.", - "source": "Hotel California - The Eagles", - "length": 50, - "id": 5616 - }, - { - "text": "If you get news of the outbreak of a plague in a land, do not enter it, and if it breaks out in a land in which you are, do not leave it.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 137, - "id": 5617 - }, - { - "text": "I can't erase all the things that I've done, but all the mistakes made me who I've become.", - "source": "Fletcher, Healing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5618 - }, - { - "text": "The life of this world is made up of three days: yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today.", - "source": "Hasan Al-Basri", - "length": 175, - "id": 5619 - }, - { - "text": "One generation sows, the next shall reap. But laugh not too soon or praises heap. Beware the reapers who behind you creep.", - "source": "Liu Xie, Romance Of The Three Kingdoms", - "length": 122, - "id": 5620 - }, - { - "text": "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not \"Eureka!\" (I found it!) but \"That's funny...\"", - "source": "Isaac Asimov", - "length": 140, - "id": 5621 - }, - { - "text": "He, who is possessed of plenty, and is miserly with his great wealth toward his people, will be dispensed with, and abused. He who keeps his word, will not be reviled; and he whose heart is guided to self-satisfying benevolence will not stammer.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 245, - "id": 5622 - }, - { - "text": "In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: \"There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.\" They have mistaken the result of the marksman's momentary whim for an unalterable law of the universe. The farmer hypothesis, on the other hand, has the flavor of a horror story: Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: \"Every morning at eleven, food arrives.\" On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn't arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flock.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem", - "length": 928, - "id": 5623 - }, - { - "text": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.", - "source": "Charles M. Schulz", - "length": 87, - "id": 5624 - }, - { - "text": "God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.", - "source": "Bill Watterson", - "length": 118, - "id": 5625 - }, - { - "text": "This is a valley of ashes; a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald", - "length": 294, - "id": 5626 - }, - { - "text": "The rain feels very cold. You look down as the men carry the body past you. You realize you have been holding Peggy's letter in your left hand the whole time. The ink is hopelessly blurred. You crumple it into a ball and drop it into the mud and begin to walk back to your tent.", - "source": "Charles Coe, Young Man in Vietnam", - "length": 278, - "id": 5627 - }, - { - "text": "And as I watch the drops of rain weave their weary paths and die, I know that I am like the rain: there but for the grace of you go I.", - "source": "Kathy's Song", - "length": 134, - "id": 5628 - }, - { - "text": "He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy.", - "source": "Guts, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 72, - "id": 5629 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett", - "length": 119, - "id": 5630 - }, - { - "text": "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 59, - "id": 5631 - }, - { - "text": "Music is a science that would have us laugh, sing, and dance.", - "source": "Guillaume de Machaut, \"The Fountain of Love\"", - "length": 61, - "id": 5632 - }, - { - "text": "Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.", - "source": "Calvin & Hobbes", - "length": 137, - "id": 5635 - }, - { - "text": "But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.", - "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, W.D. Ross translation", - "length": 332, - "id": 5636 - }, - { - "text": "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.", - "source": "Walden", - "length": 55, - "id": 5637 - }, - { - "text": "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 68, - "id": 5638 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.", - "source": "Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery", - "length": 53, - "id": 5639 - }, - { - "text": "Where are you? And I'm so sorry, I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 72, - "id": 5640 - }, - { - "text": "There is matter to everything even air or shadow, too small to see. The Cut is something a Summoner can do, but it requires tremendous skill and I would only use it as a last resort. Like that ambush.", - "source": "Shadow and Bone", - "length": 200, - "id": 5641 - }, - { - "text": "I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.", - "source": "The Boxer", - "length": 78, - "id": 5642 - }, - { - "text": "I want to enjoy not getting recognized while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.", - "source": "Alan Walker", - "length": 113, - "id": 5643 - }, - { - "text": "Such a person must be careful, he must be aware of the limitations of his knowledge, he must acknowledge his personal prejudices because he is being asked to speak for a whole realm of thought, he must be aware of the huge possible consequences of what he says and writes and does. He has become, in a sense, public property because he represents something large to the public. He has become an idea himself, a human striving. He has enormous power to influence and change, and he must wield that power with respect.", - "source": "Alan Lightman, The Role of the Public Intellectual", - "length": 516, - "id": 5644 - }, - { - "text": "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 203, - "id": 5645 - }, - { - "text": "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "length": 45, - "id": 5646 - }, - { - "text": "The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire universe.", - "source": "Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 92, - "id": 5647 - }, - { - "text": "My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.", - "source": "Marvin; Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 94, - "id": 5648 - }, - { - "text": "And every time I've held a rose, it seems I only felt the thorns.", - "source": "And So It Goes", - "length": 65, - "id": 5649 - }, - { - "text": "When we hear any other speaker, even a very good one, he produces absolutely no effect upon us, or not much, whereas the mere fragments of you and your words, even at second-hand, and however imperfectly repeated, amaze and possess the souls of every man, woman, and child who comes within hearing of them. And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", - "source": "The Symposium", - "length": 592, - "id": 5651 - }, - { - "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 76, - "id": 5652 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 323, - "id": 5653 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", - "source": "Einstein", - "length": 128, - "id": 5654 - }, - { - "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 322, - "id": 5655 - }, - { - "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 172, - "id": 5656 - }, - { - "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 270, - "id": 5657 - }, - { - "text": "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 63, - "id": 5658 - }, - { - "text": "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.", - "source": "Kahlil Gibran", - "length": 64, - "id": 5663 - }, - { - "text": "With her green hair sticking out the hood of her yellow raincoat, she looked like a punk spokesperson for frozen fish sticks.", - "source": "The Ship of the Dead", - "length": 125, - "id": 5664 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb.", - "source": "Proverbs", - "length": 70, - "id": 5665 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.", - "source": "Augustine of Hippo", - "length": 62, - "id": 5667 - }, - { - "text": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 49, - "id": 5668 - }, - { - "text": "Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 53, - "id": 5669 - }, - { - "text": "Time is just a construct, if you allow it to consume you, it will. It will wear you down until you are nothing but dust. You must learn to transcend and rise beyond such linear and limited fabrics of existence and this creature of unknown origin has done exactly that. You can scream all you want but nobody will hear you. You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 468, - "id": 5670 - }, - { - "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", - "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", - "length": 82, - "id": 5671 - }, - { - "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", - "source": "John Tukey", - "length": 89, - "id": 5672 - }, - { - "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "length": 76, - "id": 5673 - }, - { - "text": "There are approximately 1010300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair.", - "source": "Alexander Hamilton", - "length": 170, - "id": 5674 - }, - { - "text": "One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.", - "source": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", - "length": 80, - "id": 5675 - }, - { - "text": "Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", - "source": "Tao Te Ching", - "length": 286, - "id": 5678 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "length": 62, - "id": 5679 - }, - { - "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 54, - "id": 5680 - }, - { - "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", - "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", - "length": 238, - "id": 5681 - }, - { - "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", - "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5682 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", - "source": "Marcus Aurelius", - "length": 161, - "id": 5684 - }, - { - "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", - "source": "Devil in Disguise", - "length": 148, - "id": 5685 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", - "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", - "length": 518, - "id": 5686 - }, - { - "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 302, - "id": 5687 - }, - { - "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 52, - "id": 5688 - }, - { - "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 83, - "id": 5689 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 53, - "id": 5690 - }, - { - "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 118, - "id": 5691 - }, - { - "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.", - "source": "Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29", - "length": 233, - "id": 5692 - }, - { - "text": "The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 159, - "id": 5693 - }, - { - "text": "All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 86, - "id": 5694 - }, - { - "text": "Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 210, - "id": 5695 - }, - { - "text": "This is your world. You're the creator. Find freedom on this canvas. Believe, that you can do it, 'cuz you can do it. You can do it.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 132, - "id": 5696 - }, - { - "text": "I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 151, - "id": 5697 - }, - { - "text": "Let's build a happy little cloud. Let's build some happy little trees.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 70, - "id": 5698 - }, - { - "text": "Now then, let's come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It'll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to have a place to set there. There he goes...", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 215, - "id": 5699 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 62, - "id": 5700 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 112, - "id": 5701 - }, - { - "text": "When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 123, - "id": 5702 - }, - { - "text": "You show me a pay stub for $72,000, I quit my job right now and work for you.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 77, - "id": 5703 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 148, - "id": 5705 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing that we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan", - "length": 88, - "id": 5706 - }, - { - "text": "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.", - "source": "Noam Chomsky", - "length": 167, - "id": 5707 - }, - { - "text": "The behaviour of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, has many features that set it apart from other common domestic animals, even its fellow carnivore the dog. Cats seem to have effected a unique and successful compromise between reliance on man and the retention of behaviour patterns that permit an independent existence. During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", - "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", - "length": 578, - "id": 5708 - }, - { - "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", - "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", - "length": 183, - "id": 5709 - }, - { - "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 997, - "id": 5710 - }, - { - "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", - "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", - "length": 173, - "id": 5711 - }, - { - "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 289, - "id": 5712 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 900, - "id": 5714 - }, - { - "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", - "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", - "length": 71, - "id": 5715 - }, - { - "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5716 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", - "source": "Kurt Cobain", - "length": 62, - "id": 5717 - }, - { - "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", - "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", - "length": 743, - "id": 5718 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", - "length": 974, - "id": 5719 - }, - { - "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", - "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", - "length": 256, - "id": 5720 - }, - { - "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 69, - "id": 5723 - }, - { - "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 110, - "id": 5724 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 280, - "id": 5725 - }, - { - "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 111, - "id": 5726 - }, - { - "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 74, - "id": 5727 - }, - { - "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 71, - "id": 5728 - }, - { - "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", - "source": "Edward Snowden", - "length": 181, - "id": 5729 - }, - { - "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", - "source": "Riverdale", - "length": 161, - "id": 5731 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", - "source": "Spirited Away", - "length": 105, - "id": 5732 - }, - { - "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", - "source": "Wikipedia", - "length": 406, - "id": 5733 - }, - { - "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", - "length": 418, - "id": 5734 - }, - { - "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 622, - "id": 5735 - }, - { - "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 699, - "id": 5736 - }, - { - "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", - "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", - "length": 82, - "id": 5737 - }, - { - "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", - "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", - "length": 282, - "id": 5738 - }, - { - "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", - "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", - "length": 184, - "id": 5739 - }, - { - "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", - "source": "Lord of the Rings", - "length": 83, - "id": 5740 - }, - { - "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 373, - "id": 5741 - }, - { - "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", - "source": "Half-Life 2", - "length": 74, - "id": 5742 - }, - { - "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", - "source": "The Big Bang Theory", - "length": 209, - "id": 5743 - }, - { - "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", - "source": "Lucifer", - "length": 183, - "id": 5744 - }, - { - "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", - "source": "Inception", - "length": 134, - "id": 5747 - }, - { - "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", - "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", - "length": 83, - "id": 5748 - }, - { - "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 113, - "id": 5751 - }, - { - "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 341, - "id": 5752 - }, - { - "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "length": 222, - "id": 5753 - }, - { - "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", - "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", - "length": 183, - "id": 5754 - }, - { - "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 198, - "id": 5755 - }, - { - "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 293, - "id": 5756 - }, - { - "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "length": 441, - "id": 5757 - }, - { - "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 538, - "id": 5758 - }, - { - "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", - "source": "Absolute", - "length": 131, - "id": 5759 - }, - { - "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 144, - "id": 5760 - }, - { - "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 183, - "id": 5761 - }, - { - "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 106, - "id": 5762 - }, - { - "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 141, - "id": 5763 - }, - { - "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", - "source": "Love Me", - "length": 61, - "id": 5764 - }, - { - "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "length": 62, - "id": 5765 - }, - { - "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", - "source": "Little Witch Academia", - "length": 76, - "id": 5766 - }, - { - "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 166, - "id": 5767 - }, - { - "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", - "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", - "length": 429, - "id": 5768 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5769 - }, - { - "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 165, - "id": 5771 - }, - { - "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 128, - "id": 5772 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 157, - "id": 5773 - }, - { - "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", - "source": "A Friend", - "length": 73, - "id": 5775 - }, - { - "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Breath of the Wild", - "length": 62, - "id": 5776 - }, - { - "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 527, - "id": 5777 - }, - { - "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", - "source": "Muhammad Ali", - "length": 79, - "id": 5780 - }, - { - "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", - "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", - "length": 51, - "id": 5781 - }, - { - "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 69, - "id": 5782 - }, - { - "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 317, - "id": 5783 - }, - { - "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", - "source": "The Last Of Us 2", - "length": 89, - "id": 5785 - }, - { - "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", - "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", - "length": 98, - "id": 5786 - }, - { - "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 5787 - }, - { - "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 158, - "id": 5788 - }, - { - "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 164, - "id": 5789 - }, - { - "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 62, - "id": 5790 - }, - { - "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", - "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", - "length": 113, - "id": 5791 - }, - { - "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", - "source": "Cabo", - "length": 125, - "id": 5792 - }, - { - "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", - "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", - "length": 109, - "id": 5793 - }, - { - "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", - "source": "Mae West", - "length": 59, - "id": 5795 - }, - { - "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", - "length": 77, - "id": 5796 - }, - { - "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", - "length": 62, - "id": 5797 - }, - { - "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", - "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", - "length": 101, - "id": 5799 - }, - { - "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. So ask yourself, what is there that still remains to you.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 183, - "id": 5801 - }, - { - "text": "The caterpillar ate through one nice green leaf, and after that he felt much better.", - "source": "The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle", - "length": 84, - "id": 5802 - }, - { - "text": "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 71, - "id": 5804 - }, - { - "text": "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", - "source": "States of Matter", - "length": 220, - "id": 5805 - }, - { - "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", - "source": "Danilo Kiš", - "length": 190, - "id": 5806 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", - "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", - "length": 2928, - "id": 5807 - }, - { - "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", - "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", - "length": 152, - "id": 5809 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 'Cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.", - "source": "Adam Young", - "length": 148, - "id": 5810 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe the best thing to do is stop trying to figure out where you're going and just enjoy where you're at.", - "source": "Scrubs", - "length": 106, - "id": 5811 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a slave to their past. No matter how much you wish to move forward, the events of last year will bear down on you like the light of the stars as soon as you glance up. Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 325, - "id": 5812 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 133, - "id": 5813 - }, - { - "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", - "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 355, - "id": 5814 - }, - { - "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", - "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", - "length": 140, - "id": 5815 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 78, - "id": 5816 - }, - { - "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 87, - "id": 5817 - }, - { - "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 134, - "id": 5818 - }, - { - "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", - "source": "Henri Poincaré", - "length": 145, - "id": 5819 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", - "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", - "length": 254, - "id": 5820 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 96, - "id": 5821 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 73, - "id": 5822 - }, - { - "text": "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the Popes?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5823 - }, - { - "text": "No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.", - "source": "SpiderMan: Homecoming", - "length": 71, - "id": 5824 - }, - { - "text": "In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers.", - "source": "Black Panther", - "length": 76, - "id": 5825 - }, - { - "text": "I was already slipping when you happened to punch me in the face. The two events are not related.", - "source": "Captain Marvel", - "length": 97, - "id": 5826 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing, that you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier but a good man.", - "source": "Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 127, - "id": 5827 - }, - { - "text": "The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", - "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", - "length": 455, - "id": 5828 - }, - { - "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", - "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", - "length": 298, - "id": 5829 - }, - { - "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", - "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", - "length": 61, - "id": 5831 - }, - { - "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 356, - "id": 5832 - }, - { - "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 669, - "id": 5833 - }, - { - "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 188, - "id": 5834 - }, - { - "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 157, - "id": 5835 - }, - { - "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 290, - "id": 5836 - }, - { - "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", - "source": "Mob Psycho 100", - "length": 382, - "id": 5837 - }, - { - "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", - "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", - "length": 125, - "id": 5838 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 92, - "id": 5839 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 97, - "id": 5840 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", - "source": "Master Yoda", - "length": 395, - "id": 5843 - }, - { - "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 80, - "id": 5844 - }, - { - "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 86, - "id": 5845 - }, - { - "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 188, - "id": 5846 - }, - { - "text": "Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen, so unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you.", - "source": "Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold", - "length": 113, - "id": 5847 - }, - { - "text": "Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it's a beautiful day.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 71, - "id": 5848 - }, - { - "text": "The biggest lie I tell myself is: \"I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it.\"", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 84, - "id": 5849 - }, - { - "text": "Alright, close your eyes. I want you to think of a flower. Look at its contours, its curves. Now I want you to imagine it: changing, moving backwards, returning to its bud. Think of that bud, unopened. Look at it, as a whole, and silently repeat these phrases: \"May you be free from suffering. May you be free from fear. May you know peace and joy.\"", - "source": "Twelve Minutes", - "length": 349, - "id": 5850 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", - "length": 301, - "id": 5851 - }, - { - "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", - "source": "Numb", - "length": 177, - "id": 5852 - }, - { - "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 490, - "id": 5854 - }, - { - "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", - "source": "Space Brothers", - "length": 143, - "id": 5855 - }, - { - "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", - "source": "Oregairu", - "length": 65, - "id": 5856 - }, - { - "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", - "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", - "length": 352, - "id": 5857 - }, - { - "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", - "source": "Bleach", - "length": 200, - "id": 5858 - }, - { - "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", - "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", - "length": 120, - "id": 5859 - }, - { - "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", - "source": "Fruits Basket", - "length": 388, - "id": 5860 - }, - { - "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", - "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5861 - }, - { - "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 65, - "id": 5862 - }, - { - "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 270, - "id": 5863 - }, - { - "text": "You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 123, - "id": 5864 - }, - { - "text": "People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.", - "source": "Eragon - Christopher Paolini", - "length": 67, - "id": 5867 - }, - { - "text": "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.", - "source": "Jeod, Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)", - "length": 89, - "id": 5868 - }, - { - "text": "Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama - Attack on Titan", - "length": 62, - "id": 5869 - }, - { - "text": "We all deserve love, even on the days when we aren't our best. 'Cause we all suck, but love can make us suck less. We all deserve love, it's the very best part of being alive. And I would know - I just turned 25.", - "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", - "length": 212, - "id": 5870 - }, - { - "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", - "source": "Ratatouille", - "length": 1315, - "id": 5871 - }, - { - "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", - "source": "Pushing Dead", - "length": 365, - "id": 5872 - }, - { - "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", - "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", - "length": 222, - "id": 5874 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", - "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", - "length": 191, - "id": 5875 - }, - { - "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", - "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", - "length": 75, - "id": 5876 - }, - { - "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", - "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", - "length": 123, - "id": 5877 - }, - { - "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 784, - "id": 5878 - }, - { - "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 763, - "id": 5879 - }, - { - "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 530, - "id": 5881 - }, - { - "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 618, - "id": 5882 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", - "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", - "length": 186, - "id": 5886 - }, - { - "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", - "source": "Knights of Cydonia", - "length": 135, - "id": 5888 - }, - { - "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", - "source": "Paul Parker", - "length": 274, - "id": 5890 - }, - { - "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", - "source": "Left 4 Dead", - "length": 454, - "id": 5891 - }, - { - "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 190, - "id": 5893 - }, - { - "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 346, - "id": 5895 - }, - { - "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", - "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", - "length": 83, - "id": 5896 - }, - { - "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 264, - "id": 5897 - }, - { - "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 282, - "id": 5899 - }, - { - "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 249, - "id": 5900 - }, - { - "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", - "source": "Neil Gaiman", - "length": 129, - "id": 5901 - }, - { - "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 376, - "id": 5902 - }, - { - "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 293, - "id": 5903 - }, - { - "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 353, - "id": 5904 - }, - { - "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "length": 235, - "id": 5905 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 107, - "id": 5906 - }, - { - "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 105, - "id": 5907 - }, - { - "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", - "source": "Eugene Cernan", - "length": 478, - "id": 5908 - }, - { - "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 130, - "id": 5909 - }, - { - "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", - "source": "William Carlos Williams", - "length": 89, - "id": 5910 - }, - { - "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "length": 60, - "id": 5912 - }, - { - "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", - "source": "Henry Van Dyke", - "length": 172, - "id": 5913 - }, - { - "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", - "source": "Epicurus", - "length": 117, - "id": 5914 - }, - { - "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 1766, - "id": 5915 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 332, - "id": 5916 - }, - { - "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", - "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", - "length": 513, - "id": 5917 - }, - { - "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 105, - "id": 5918 - }, - { - "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", - "source": "Avicii - The Nights", - "length": 187, - "id": 5919 - }, - { - "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", - "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", - "length": 987, - "id": 5920 - }, - { - "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", - "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", - "length": 740, - "id": 5921 - }, - { - "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", - "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", - "length": 319, - "id": 5922 - }, - { - "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", - "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", - "length": 476, - "id": 5923 - }, - { - "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", - "length": 556, - "id": 5925 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 182, - "id": 5926 - }, - { - "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 281, - "id": 5927 - }, - { - "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 155, - "id": 5928 - }, - { - "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 248, - "id": 5929 - }, - { - "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 280, - "id": 5930 - }, - { - "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 289, - "id": 5931 - }, - { - "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", - "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", - "length": 294, - "id": 5932 - }, - { - "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5934 - }, - { - "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", - "source": "Batman: Arkham City", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5935 - }, - { - "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5937 - }, - { - "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", - "source": "Little Inferno", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5940 - }, - { - "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", - "source": "System Shock 2 ", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5941 - }, - { - "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", - "source": "IT Crowd", - "length": 307, - "id": 5942 - }, - { - "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 322, - "id": 5943 - }, - { - "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 137, - "id": 5944 - }, - { - "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", - "source": "The Master and Margarita", - "length": 420, - "id": 5945 - }, - { - "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 379, - "id": 5947 - }, - { - "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", - "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", - "length": 348, - "id": 5950 - }, - { - "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", - "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", - "length": 729, - "id": 5951 - }, - { - "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5956 - }, - { - "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", - "source": "Vinland Saga", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5957 - }, - { - "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 1982, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5958 - }, - { - "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 113, - "id": 6064 - }, - { - "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", - "source": "Colin Powell", - "length": 103, - "id": 6065 - }, - { - "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", - "source": "Conrad Hilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6066 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 116, - "id": 6067 - }, - { - "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", - "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", - "length": 67, - "id": 6068 - }, - { - "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", - "source": "Barack Obama", - "length": 193, - "id": 6069 - }, - { - "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", - "source": "Charles Swindoll", - "length": 81, - "id": 6071 - }, - { - "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", - "source": "Oprah Winfrey", - "length": 132, - "id": 6072 - }, - { - "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", - "source": "Harriet Tubman", - "length": 165, - "id": 6073 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 86, - "id": 6074 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", - "source": "The Blair Witch Project", - "length": 649, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6075 - }, - { - "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 624, - "id": 6076 - }, - { - "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 834, - "id": 6077 - }, - { - "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 472, - "id": 6078 - }, - { - "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 308, - "id": 6079 - }, - { - "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 471, - "id": 6080 - }, - { - "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 352, - "id": 6081 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 336, - "id": 6082 - }, - { - "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 775, - "id": 6084 - }, - { - "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 610, - "id": 6085 - }, - { - "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 371, - "id": 6087 - }, - { - "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", - "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", - "length": 438, - "id": 6088 - }, - { - "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", - "source": "Atharva veda", - "length": 127, - "id": 6089 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", - "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", - "length": 681, - "id": 6090 - }, - { - "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", - "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", - "length": 192, - "id": 6091 - }, - { - "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", - "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", - "length": 69, - "id": 6092 - }, - { - "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", - "source": "Tirukkurral", - "length": 118, - "id": 6093 - }, - { - "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", - "source": "Halo 3", - "length": 337, - "id": 6095 - }, - { - "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", - "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", - "length": 219, - "id": 6096 - }, - { - "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 71, - "id": 6097 - }, - { - "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", - "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", - "length": 237, - "id": 6098 - }, - { - "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", - "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", - "length": 98, - "id": 6099 - }, - { - "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", - "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", - "length": 62, - "id": 6100 - }, - { - "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", - "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", - "length": 153, - "id": 6101 - }, - { - "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", - "source": "Remember11", - "length": 136, - "id": 6102 - }, - { - "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", - "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", - "length": 94, - "id": 6103 - }, - { - "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 59, - "id": 6104 - }, - { - "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", - "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", - "length": 157, - "id": 6106 - }, - { - "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 173, - "id": 6107 - }, - { - "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", - "length": 190, - "id": 6108 - }, - { - "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", - "length": 105, - "id": 6109 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 162, - "id": 6110 - }, - { - "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 122, - "id": 6112 - }, - { - "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 160, - "id": 6113 - }, - { - "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 239, - "id": 6114 - }, - { - "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", - "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", - "length": 92, - "id": 6115 - }, - { - "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", - "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", - "length": 131, - "id": 6116 - }, - { - "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", - "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", - "length": 157, - "id": 6117 - }, - { - "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", - "length": 121, - "id": 6118 - }, - { - "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", - "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", - "length": 256, - "id": 6119 - }, - { - "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. They think I don't understand the freedom land of the seventies.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby", - "length": 126, - "id": 6120 - }, - { - "text": "John met me down on the boulevard. Cry on his shoulder 'cause life is hard, the waves came in over my head. What you been up to my baby? Haven't seen you 'round here lately. All the other guys tell me lies, but you don't. You just crack another beer and pretend that you're still here.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - How To Disappear", - "length": 285, - "id": 6121 - }, - { - "text": "Thinking outrageously, I write in cursive. I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor. Wearing three layers of coats and leg-warmers, I see my own breath on the face of the door.", - "source": "Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!", - "length": 181, - "id": 6122 - }, - { - "text": "I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 59, - "id": 6123 - }, - { - "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 76, - "id": 6124 - }, - { - "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 182, - "id": 6125 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 62, - "id": 6126 - }, - { - "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 71, - "id": 6127 - }, - { - "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", - "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", - "length": 162, - "id": 6128 - }, - { - "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", - "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", - "length": 164, - "id": 6129 - }, - { - "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", - "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", - "length": 160, - "id": 6130 - }, - { - "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", - "source": "Beach House - Myth", - "length": 142, - "id": 6131 - }, - { - "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", - "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", - "length": 64, - "id": 6132 - }, - { - "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", - "source": "Beach House - PPP", - "length": 110, - "id": 6133 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6134 - }, - { - "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", - "length": 175, - "id": 6135 - }, - { - "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", - "length": 113, - "id": 6136 - }, - { - "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", - "length": 66, - "id": 6137 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", - "length": 67, - "id": 6138 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", - "length": 95, - "id": 6139 - }, - { - "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", - "length": 80, - "id": 6141 - }, - { - "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 185, - "id": 6142 - }, - { - "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", - "length": 206, - "id": 6143 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", - "length": 76, - "id": 6144 - }, - { - "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", - "length": 95, - "id": 6145 - }, - { - "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 181, - "id": 6146 - }, - { - "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", - "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", - "length": 66, - "id": 6147 - }, - { - "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", - "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", - "length": 181, - "id": 6148 - }, - { - "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", - "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", - "length": 291, - "id": 6149 - }, - { - "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 297, - "id": 6150 - }, - { - "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 657, - "id": 6151 - }, - { - "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", - "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", - "length": 128, - "id": 6152 - }, - { - "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 136, - "id": 6153 - }, - { - "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 64, - "id": 6154 - }, - { - "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 178, - "id": 6155 - }, - { - "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", - "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", - "length": 224, - "id": 6157 - }, - { - "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", - "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", - "length": 207, - "id": 6158 - }, - { - "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", - "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", - "length": 220, - "id": 6159 - }, - { - "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", - "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", - "length": 274, - "id": 6160 - }, - { - "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", - "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", - "length": 112, - "id": 6161 - }, - { - "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", - "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", - "length": 272, - "id": 6162 - }, - { - "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", - "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", - "length": 136, - "id": 6163 - }, - { - "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", - "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", - "length": 454, - "id": 6164 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", - "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", - "length": 381, - "id": 6165 - }, - { - "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", - "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", - "length": 453, - "id": 6166 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 165, - "id": 6167 - }, - { - "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", - "length": 136, - "id": 6168 - }, - { - "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", - "length": 229, - "id": 6169 - }, - { - "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 170, - "id": 6170 - }, - { - "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", - "length": 191, - "id": 6171 - }, - { - "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", - "length": 284, - "id": 6172 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", - "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", - "length": 204, - "id": 6173 - }, - { - "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", - "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", - "length": 122, - "id": 6174 - }, - { - "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", - "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", - "length": 268, - "id": 6175 - }, - { - "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", - "length": 234, - "id": 6176 - }, - { - "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", - "length": 186, - "id": 6177 - }, - { - "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", - "length": 423, - "id": 6178 - }, - { - "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", - "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", - "length": 313, - "id": 6179 - }, - { - "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.", - "source": "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson", - "length": 220, - "id": 6180 - }, - { - "text": "Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?", - "source": "Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima", - "length": 169, - "id": 6181 - }, - { - "text": "But as he moves closer, I cannot help but ask: if in a different world, would our love forever last? The almighty scientist says most of the universe is empty, and gods don't exist. Well, maybe that's where our love ends up - no holy grail, just an empty cup.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Good Luck Bad Luck", - "length": 259, - "id": 6182 - }, - { - "text": "They'll kiss you in the evening - devils in disguise - and love you 'til the morning, then vanish before your eyes. A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", - "length": 401, - "id": 6183 - }, - { - "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", - "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", - "length": 202, - "id": 6184 - }, - { - "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", - "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", - "length": 290, - "id": 6185 - }, - { - "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", - "length": 178, - "id": 6186 - }, - { - "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 197, - "id": 6188 - }, - { - "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 395, - "id": 6189 - }, - { - "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 372, - "id": 6190 - }, - { - "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 214, - "id": 6191 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 427, - "id": 6192 - }, - { - "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 116, - "id": 6193 - }, - { - "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 238, - "id": 6194 - }, - { - "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 256, - "id": 6195 - }, - { - "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 316, - "id": 6196 - }, - { - "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. This initially seemed baffling to monsters (especially given the amount of dusting we avoid by keeping objects outside!). Experts have recently suggested that keeping objects indoors may have been part of England's efforts to hide and store museums' collections of stolen property.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 327, - "id": 6197 - }, - { - "text": "This tree is not technically part of the museum experience, but there's a cool bird nesting in it, so you aren't allowed to cut it down. Not even a little bit. Not even with the \"undo\" or \"reset\" options. Leave the cool bird alone, alright?", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 240, - "id": 6198 - }, - { - "text": "Humans liked to put objects on boxes called plinths. At first, monster experts didn't know why, but then strangers kept thinking the plinth-less exhibits were lost property and handing them in at the help desk. It turns out plinths are very important.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 251, - "id": 6199 - }, - { - "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 229, - "id": 6200 - }, - { - "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 252, - "id": 6201 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", - "length": 576, - "id": 6202 - }, - { - "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", - "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", - "length": 112, - "id": 6203 - }, - { - "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", - "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", - "length": 110, - "id": 6204 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. But what you throw away you'll never get back.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 87, - "id": 6206 - }, - { - "text": "People who can't throw something important away, can never hope to change anything.", - "source": "Armin Arlert - Attack on Titan", - "length": 83, - "id": 6207 - }, - { - "text": "You will never be able to love anybody else until you love yourself.", - "source": "Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass", - "length": 68, - "id": 6208 - }, - { - "text": "People's lives don't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith.", - "source": "Uchiha Itachi - Naruto", - "length": 69, - "id": 6209 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it.", - "source": "Uzumaki Naruto - Naruto", - "length": 48, - "id": 6210 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.", - "source": "Nagato, Naruto", - "length": 65, - "id": 6211 - }, - { - "text": "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", - "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", - "length": 95, - "id": 6212 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", - "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", - "length": 70, - "id": 6213 - }, - { - "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 51, - "id": 6214 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", - "source": "Clare - Claymore", - "length": 164, - "id": 6215 - }, - { - "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", - "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", - "length": 384, - "id": 6216 - }, - { - "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", - "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", - "length": 67, - "id": 6217 - }, - { - "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", - "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", - "length": 88, - "id": 6218 - }, - { - "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", - "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", - "length": 314, - "id": 6220 - }, - { - "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", - "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", - "length": 89, - "id": 6221 - }, - { - "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", - "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", - "length": 422, - "id": 6222 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", - "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", - "length": 179, - "id": 6223 - }, - { - "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", - "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", - "length": 463, - "id": 6224 - }, - { - "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", - "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 109, - "id": 6225 - }, - { - "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", - "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 61, - "id": 6226 - }, - { - "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", - "length": 93, - "id": 6227 - }, - { - "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 177, - "id": 6228 - }, - { - "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 215, - "id": 6229 - }, - { - "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", - "length": 167, - "id": 6230 - }, - { - "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 827, - "id": 6231 - }, - { - "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", - "length": 116, - "id": 6232 - }, - { - "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", - "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", - "length": 137, - "id": 6233 - }, - { - "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", - "length": 127, - "id": 6234 - }, - { - "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 94, - "id": 6235 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 182, - "id": 6236 - }, - { - "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 140, - "id": 6237 - }, - { - "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", - "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", - "length": 144, - "id": 6238 - }, - { - "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", - "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", - "length": 248, - "id": 6239 - }, - { - "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. Did you follow your fire?", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 289, - "id": 6240 - }, - { - "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 123, - "id": 6241 - }, - { - "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", - "length": 197, - "id": 6242 - }, - { - "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", - "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", - "length": 289, - "id": 6243 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. Though we don't share the same blood, you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.", - "source": "Kodaline - Brother", - "length": 161, - "id": 6244 - }, - { - "text": "Star in your eyes, sun in your smile, the way you look at me - it makes me hum and I call it love song.", - "source": "Yoohyeon (Dreamcatcher) - For", - "length": 103, - "id": 6245 - }, - { - "text": "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 57, - "id": 6246 - }, - { - "text": "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 240, - "id": 6247 - }, - { - "text": "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 112, - "id": 6248 - }, - { - "text": "For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 177, - "id": 6249 - }, - { - "text": "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 421, - "id": 6250 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say \"I'll never be good.\" You can become better! And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 251, - "id": 6251 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 105, - "id": 6252 - }, - { - "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 303, - "id": 6253 - }, - { - "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 149, - "id": 6254 - }, - { - "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 119, - "id": 6255 - }, - { - "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", - "source": "Tool", - "length": 220, - "id": 6256 - }, - { - "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", - "source": "Whiplash", - "length": 270, - "id": 6258 - }, - { - "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 173, - "id": 6259 - }, - { - "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 395, - "id": 6260 - }, - { - "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 246, - "id": 6261 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. They are nothing without the spark of life that you give them.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 198, - "id": 6262 - }, - { - "text": "Well, well! Look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 72, - "id": 6263 - }, - { - "text": "Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 269, - "id": 6264 - }, - { - "text": "It is a kindness to prepare a comfortable roost for an injured bird... But to prevent it from taking flight once its wounds have healed, because you fear the world is too dangerous, means confining it to a cage. These birds have finally escaped their cage of persecution. Do you intend to lock them in a cage of pity next?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 322, - "id": 6265 - }, - { - "text": "If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 73, - "id": 6266 - }, - { - "text": "If, one day, you make it to our final destination, would you please leave flowers?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 82, - "id": 6267 - }, - { - "text": "I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it's good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 111, - "id": 6268 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 177, - "id": 6269 - }, - { - "text": "If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 205, - "id": 6270 - }, - { - "text": "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 85, - "id": 6271 - }, - { - "text": "Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6272 - }, - { - "text": "The cool thing about these guys is that... is that they have really, really long trunks, and that's... that's cool.", - "source": "Me at the zoo", - "length": 115, - "id": 6273 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time in a nursery rhyme, there was a castle with a king hiding in a wing because he never went to school to learn a single thing, he had scepters and swords and a parliament of lords, but on the inside, he was sad, egad! Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", - "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", - "length": 1662, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6275 - }, - { - "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. And you fail again and again, and you fail a thousand times, and you keep trying because maybe the 1,001st idea might work. Now, I'm gonna go and try to find our 1,001st idea.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 251, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6276 - }, - { - "text": "I assume he's doing the same as every human. Some good days. Some bad days. He's got a few friends, a few people he can't stand. He's learning some things, all by himself, and hopefully learning to ask for help when he needs it. He's messing up, and trying again, and messing up again, and then getting things wrong, and then trying to make them right. That's what everyone does.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 379, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6277 - }, - { - "text": "It's a rare occurrence, like a double rainbow. Or like someone on the internet saying, \"You know what? You've convinced me I was wrong.\"", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6278 - }, - { - "text": "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him...", - "source": "Stephen King, It", - "length": 384, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6279 - }, - { - "text": "I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.", - "source": "The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6281 - }, - { - "text": "To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.", - "source": "Bruce Mclaren", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6282 - }, - { - "text": "Spring, summer, autumn, and winter... Many seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all. At first, I couldn't understand. I couldn't understand anything about how you felt. But within this new life you gave me, I've begun to feel the same way as you, if only a little, through ghostwriting, and through the people I've met along the way. I believe that you are still alive somewhere. So, I shall live, live, live, and live some more, though there's no telling what life might have in store. And if I can see you again, I want to let you know... that the phrase \"I love you\"... I understand it a little now.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 637, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6283 - }, - { - "text": "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.", - "source": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6284 - }, - { - "text": "I am the one who made it out. The one who always made the grade but maybe I should have just stayed home. When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb. I got every scholarship, saved every dollar, the first to go to college. How do I tell them why I'm coming back home, with my eyes on the horizon? Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 421, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6286 - }, - { - "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", - "source": "Animal Farm", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6287 - }, - { - "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 307, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6288 - }, - { - "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 745, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6292 - }, - { - "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. I choose round.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6294 - }, - { - "text": "I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6295 - }, - { - "text": "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 308, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6296 - }, - { - "text": "I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest - expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6297 - }, - { - "text": "I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 146, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6298 - }, - { - "text": "In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 472, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6299 - }, - { - "text": "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6300 - }, - { - "text": "It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this \"once in a thousand years\" has come today.", - "source": "Zamyatin, We", - "length": 248, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6301 - }, - { - "text": "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6302 - }, - { - "text": "Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the \"vox populi\" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 740, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6303 - }, - { - "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", - "length": 520, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6304 - }, - { - "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", - "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", - "length": 273, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6305 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6306 - }, - { - "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. I want you to, I want you to, I want you to cry for me.", - "source": "TWICE, CRY FOR ME", - "length": 303, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6307 - }, - { - "text": "I had this very faith tested on an ordinary day: I was walkin' down a busy street around my way. I saw a face in the crowd that made my heart skip a beat - A man who looked exactly like an older version of me! So I moved through the hustle and the bustle of the day to day until me and this man stood face to face. We locked eyes and for a moment time moved in slow motion as the crowd around continued on their paper chase. I stood frozen in disbelief and opened my mouth to speak but to my surprise the words wouldn't come. And then he looks into a clear blue sky up above and says \"it's gonna rain\" - and then it does! And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", - "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", - "length": 1200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6308 - }, - { - "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. Because rain is the closest thing I have to tears.", - "source": "The Thunderhead", - "length": 182, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6309 - }, - { - "text": "All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You, You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night... You, only You, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh.", - "source": "The Little Prince", - "length": 886, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6310 - }, - { - "text": "Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.", - "source": "Sophie's World", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6311 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.", - "source": "Bill Willingham, Fables - Werewolves of the Heartland", - "length": 133, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6312 - }, - { - "text": "We devote ourselves to something we barely understand, something we can never touch. We give it a name, and we give ourselves a name for doing so. 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It's not on any maps, and most people have never heard of it, some people think it's a myth. But if you're curious, don't wait. Take a trip. Find it. It's out there somewhere in the woods. Waiting.", - "source": "Dipper, Gravity Falls", - "length": 335, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6316 - }, - { - "text": "A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.", - "source": "Steven Brust, Iorich", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6318 - }, - { - "text": "The English language cannot fully capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts, so I'm incorporating emojis into my speech to better express myself. Winky face.", - "source": "Gina, Brooklyn 99", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6319 - }, - { - "text": "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.", - "source": "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6323 - }, - { - "text": "When the king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough, I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming. 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But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6331 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 735, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6332 - }, - { - "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6333 - }, - { - "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6334 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 684, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6335 - }, - { - "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. 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Always.", - "source": "Star Wars Rebels", - "length": 485, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6340 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...", - "source": "Poe, The Raven", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6341 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and goodbye. Do you think I'm dying? Do you think I'm going somewhere else this time? Do you remember the day we pretended to be every star in the sky?", - "source": "Might quit - Bill Wurtz", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6344 - }, - { - "text": "I'm worried to death because I haven't been able to see you doing well. You said we live in different worlds. But is that true? We have different colored skin and eyes. We were born in different countries. But we're friends. Isn't that what counts? I'm really glad I came to America. I met lots of people. And more than anything, I met you. You asked me over and over if you scared me. But I never feared you, not once. What's more is you're hurt much more than me. I couldn't help feeling that way. Funny, huh? You're way smarter, bigger, and stronger than me. But I always felt like I had to protect you. I wonder what it is I wanted to protect you from. I wanted to protect you from fate. The fate that tries to carry you away, drifting further and further. You told me once about a leopard you read in a book. How you believed that leopard knew that it couldn't go back. And I said you weren't a leopard, that you could change your destiny. You're not alone. I'm by your side. My soul is always with you.", - "source": "Banana Fish - Eiji", - "length": 1008, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6346 - }, - { - "text": "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 475, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6347 - }, - { - "text": "We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost.", - "source": "All Quiet on The Western Front ", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6348 - }, - { - "text": "In exchange for power, maybe I've lost something that is essential to being human.", - "source": "One Punch Man, Saitama", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6349 - }, - { - "text": "My old friend - the panda will never fulfill his destiny nor yours, until you let go of the illusion of control... Yes! Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda - Master Oogway", - "length": 228, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6350 - }, - { - "text": "Once I realized the problem was not you but within me. I found inner peace and was able to harness the flow of the universe!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda 2 - Master Shifu", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6351 - }, - { - "text": "It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin", - "length": 236, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6353 - }, - { - "text": "When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened. It's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way and truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it.", - "source": "Lady Gaga, Prelude Pathetique (Marry the Night)", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6356 - }, - { - "text": "I don't care if you're movin' slow or fast, as long as it's my direction.", - "source": "Brokeback Mountain", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6357 - }, - { - "text": "I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you're just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there's not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 505, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6358 - }, - { - "text": "He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 176, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6359 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather have loyalty than love, 'cause love really don't mean jack. See, love is just a feeling - you can love somebody and talk behind their back. It don't take much to love, you can love somebody just by being attached. See, loyalty is an action, you can love or hate me and still have my back.", - "source": "21 Savage, Ball w/o You", - "length": 299, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6360 - }, - { - "text": "Somewhere deep inside of these bones an emptiness began to grow.", - "source": "Jack's Lament, The Nightmare Before Christmas", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6361 - }, - { - "text": "Is there a problem with Earth's gravitational pull in the future? Why is everything so heavy?", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6362 - }, - { - "text": "When people are protecting something truly precious to them, they can truly become as strong as they need to be.", - "source": "Haku, Naruto", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6363 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be the best, you have to be willing to do what others are not willing to do.", - "source": "Michael Phelps", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6365 - }, - { - "text": "There's no such thing as winning or losing. There's won and there's lost. There is victory and there's defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. The enemy will only have won when there is no one left to fight against him. Until then, there is only struggle, because that's what tides do - they turn.", - "source": "Skulduggery Pleasant", - "length": 336, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6367 - }, - { - "text": "It makes me so mad! We build your houses, your castles. We pave your roads, and still you walk all over us. Do you ever say thank you? No! Well, you're not going to wipe your feet on me! I think I'll crush you just for fun! Do you have a problem with that?", - "source": "Whomp King, Super Mario Galaxy 2", - "length": 256, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6369 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6370 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know, maybe it's not great progress compared to other people, but I'm happy with my progress. And you know what? Quite frankly, that's all that matters. If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?", - "source": "Gawr Gura", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6371 - }, - { - "text": "One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the Devil's Trill, but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.", - "source": "Giuseppe Tartini", - "length": 940, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6372 - }, - { - "text": "It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.", - "source": "Mary Poppins", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6373 - }, - { - "text": "At the bus stop, crushing rocks. They all stare at me, I don't care at all. Everywhere I go, they look at me wrong. Everyday go the same, got to stay strong. ", - "source": "Ecco2K, Peroxide", - "length": 158, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6375 - }, - { - "text": "Meaningless, huh? What do you know of meaningless? Spend most of your life ruled by another! Watch your race dwindle to a handful! And then, tell me what has more meaning than your own strength! I have in me the blood of a Saiyan prince. He is nothing but a joke! Yet, I've had to watch him surpass me in strength, my destiny thrown to the wayside! He's... he's even saved my life like I were a helpless child. He has stolen my honor, and his debts... must be paid!", - "source": "Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z", - "length": 465, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6376 - }, - { - "text": "Oh! One arrives. Far it walks to find me. Did it seek my aid? Or did the path carry it by chance to so pertinent a place? It is true. True, that you were awaited. No. Perhaps that is inaccurate. True one like you was awaited. I have a gift, held long for one of your kind. Half of a whole. When united, great power is granted, and on the path ahead, great power it will need.", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "length": 375, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6377 - }, - { - "text": "Just because people do horrible things, it doesn't always mean they're horrible people.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6378 - }, - { - "text": "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.", - "source": "A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6380 - }, - { - "text": "It seems after all I couldn't be anything more than a simple puppet. But you three... You're strong. With a power like that... Maybe you three can break your own strings. Let me become your strength.", - "source": "Deltarune", - "length": 199, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6382 - }, - { - "text": "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.", - "source": "George Orwell, 1984", - "length": 122, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6383 - }, - { - "text": "Dude, Benson would've snapped his crank if we'd just upped and left work. You gotta be responsible sometimes.", - "source": "Mordecai, Regular Show", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6384 - }, - { - "text": "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?", - "source": "Traditional American Tongue-twister", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what to tell you. I'm happy for the first time in my life and I'm not gonna feel bad about it. It takes a long time to realise how truly miserable you are and even longer to see it doesn't have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 297, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6386 - }, - { - "text": "You know, it's funny; when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 116, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6387 - }, - { - "text": "You could just write your own rules. You know, write something that's as interesting as you are.", - "source": "La La Land", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6388 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to do this right, show you I'm not movin'! Wherever you go, I won't be far to follow.", - "source": "Waitress, Never Ever Getting Rid of Me", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6389 - }, - { - "text": "People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6390 - }, - { - "text": "Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6391 - }, - { - "text": "\nWe're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6392 - }, - { - "text": "Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 328, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6393 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know that the word 'trauma' comes from the Greek for 'wound'? Hm? And what is the German word for 'dream'? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn't you agree, when you see a monster, you... you must stop it?", - "source": "Jeremiah Naehring, Shutter Island (Movie)", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6394 - }, - { - "text": "After she tried to kill herself the first time, Dolores told me she... she had an insect living inside her brain. She could feel it clicking across her skull, just... pulling the wires, just for fun. She told me that. She told me that but I didn't listen. I loved her so much.", - "source": "Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island (movie)", - "length": 276, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6395 - }, - { - "text": "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.", - "source": "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two), Harry Dacre", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6396 - }, - { - "text": "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.", - "source": "Dick Cavett", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6397 - }, - { - "text": "My momma always said, \"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6398 - }, - { - "text": "You don't listen, do you? I don't think you ever really hear me. You just ask the same questions every week. \"How's your job?\" \"Are you having any negative thoughts?\" All I have are negative thoughts.", - "source": "Joker", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6400 - }, - { - "text": "That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 245, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6401 - }, - { - "text": "My father was fond of saying you need three things in life - a good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 164, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6402 - }, - { - "text": "\"I will take responsibility for what I have done,\" Dalinar whispered. \"If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.\"", - "source": "Oathbringer, The Stormlight Archive, written by Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6403 - }, - { - "text": "So don't tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is I would just be more scared.\n\n", - "source": "Ellie, The Last Of Us", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6404 - }, - { - "text": "In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and the foreknowledge of pain.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6405 - }, - { - "text": "So, you have a different way of doing things, a different way of seeing things. That might make you weird, but it also makes you awesome. Don't you see? Because us weirdos have to stick together.", - "source": "The Owl House", - "length": 195, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6406 - }, - { - "text": "You are seeing the movements created by your abilities, but you will never arrive at the truth that's going to happen. None who stand before me shall ever get there, regardless of their abilities. This is the power of Golden Experience Requiem!", - "source": "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", - "length": 244, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6407 - }, - { - "text": "Suddenly I knew that the sound was not in my ears, it was not just inside my head. At that moment I must have become quite white. I talked still faster and louder. And the sound, too, became louder. It was a quick, low, soft sound, like the sound of a clock heard through a wall, a sound I knew well. Louder it became, and louder.", - "source": "The Tell-Tale Heart", - "length": 330, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6408 - }, - { - "text": "Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 125, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6409 - }, - { - "text": "They often say that humans can't live alone, but you can live pretty long by yourself. Instead of feeling alone in a group, it's better to be alone in your solitude.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 165, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6410 - }, - { - "text": "There is... another of me? How many times did I get ripped apart? How many times did I die?", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6411 - }, - { - "text": "I will get inside their inventor's head. Even brilliant minds will break to madness.", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6412 - }, - { - "text": "For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.", - "source": "The Shipping News", - "length": 451, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6413 - }, - { - "text": "I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. 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Just once, when I say \"suit up\" I wish you'd put on a suit.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6418 - }, - { - "text": "A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6419 - }, - { - "text": "You see, kids, right from the moment I met your mom I knew, I have to love this woman as much as I can, and as long as I can, and I can never stop loving her, not even for a second.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6420 - }, - { - "text": "A word of advice: Play along. The more you fight it, the worse it's gonna get.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6421 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6422 - }, - { - "text": "It's only once you've stopped that you realize how hard it is to start again.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6423 - }, - { - "text": "We're going to get older, whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives or desperately cling to the past.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6424 - }, - { - "text": "Never underestimate the power of destiny. Because when you least expect it, the littlest thing can cause a ripple effect that changes your life.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 144, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6425 - }, - { - "text": "Here's the thing about mistakes: Sometimes, even when you know something's a mistake, you gotta make it anyway.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 111, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6426 - }, - { - "text": "You see, the universe has a plan, kids, and that plan is always in motion.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6427 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes our best decisions are the ones that don't make sense at all.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 71, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6428 - }, - { - "text": "If you keep giving up on people so quickly, you're gonna miss out on something great.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6429 - }, - { - "text": "I get recognized one time, and I start thinking I'm Julia Roberts. I'm no VIP; I'm not even an IP; I'm just a lonely little P sitting out here in the gutter.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6430 - }, - { - "text": "Destined? Aren't you tired of waiting for destiny, Ted? Isn't it time to make your own destiny?", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6431 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know where I'm gonna be in five years. I don't wanna know. I want my life to be an adventure.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6432 - }, - { - "text": "It's just, eventually we're all gonna move on. It's called growing up.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6433 - }, - { - "text": "You can't just skip ahead to where you think your life should be.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6434 - }, - { - "text": "The three-day rule is a childish, manipulative mind game. But yeah, you wait three days.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6435 - }, - { - "text": "Think of me as Yoda. Only instead of being little and green, I wear suits and I'm awesome. I'm your bro. I'm Broda.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6436 - }, - { - "text": "Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6437 - }, - { - "text": "When life gives you lemons... you probably just found lemons.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6438 - }, - { - "text": "The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6440 - }, - { - "text": "What has just appeared is Team Plasma's castle. The king's words will resound from the heights to all below. You must come to the castle, as well. Everything will be decided there. Whether Pokemon will be liberated from people, or whether Pokemon and people will live together… We will see whose belief is stronger... And our result will change the world.", - "source": "Pokemon Black & White", - "length": 355, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6441 - }, - { - "text": "Love can never die, not completely. There were too many romantics, too many poets, too many places where lovers could meet and wishes could be shared.", - "source": "Great Goddesses, Nikita Gill", - "length": 150, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6442 - }, - { - "text": "This is what youth is. The sheer belief that you will be able to keep every promise you made to someone else. That you will be able to love someone into a forever when you do not even understand what forever means.", - "source": "Fierce Fairytales, Nikita Gill", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6443 - }, - { - "text": "When he talks to Marianne he has a sense of total privacy between them. He could tell her anything about himself, even weird things, and she would never repeat them, he knows that. Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 278, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6444 - }, - { - "text": "Marianne lived a drastically free life, he could see that. He was trapped by various considerations. He cared what people thought of him. He even cared what Marianne thought, that was obvious now.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6445 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody, even in the provinces, should ever be allowed to ask an intelligent question about pure mathematics across a dinner table. A question of this kind is quite as bad as inquiring suddenly about the state of a man's soul.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6446 - }, - { - "text": "Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6447 - }, - { - "text": "I am not bitter because of what has happened. On the contrary, I am secure in knowing that what we had was real, and I am happy we were able to come together for even a short period of time. And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. And maybe, for a brief moment, you'll feel it too, and you'll smile back, and savor the memories we will always share together. I love you, Allie. Noah. ", - "source": "The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks", - "length": 555, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6448 - }, - { - "text": "Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!", - "source": "Leia Organa, Star Wars", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6449 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.", - "source": "Yoda, Star Wars", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6450 - }, - { - "text": "When I was younger I saw my daddy cry and curse at the wind. He broke his own heart and I watched as he tried to reassemble it. And my momma swore that she would never let herself forget and that was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love if it does not exist.", - "source": "The Only Exception - Paramore", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6451 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I know somewhere deep in my soul that love never lasts and we've got to find other ways to make it alone or keep a straight face.", - "source": "The Only Exception - Paramore", - "length": 135, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6452 - }, - { - "text": "You were all the things I thought I knew and I thought we could be.", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 67, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6453 - }, - { - "text": "You've got your dumb friends, I know what they say. They tell you I'm difficult but so are they. But they don't know me, do they even know you?", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6454 - }, - { - "text": "You're saying I'm the one but it's your actions that speak louder.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6455 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna pack my things and leave you behind. This feeling's old and I know that I've made up my mind. I hope you feel what I felt when you shattered my soul 'cause you were cruel and I'm a fool so please let me go.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6456 - }, - { - "text": "Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace. I dream at night I can only see your face. I look around but it's you I can't replace. I feel so cold and I long for your embrace. I keep crying baby, baby, please.", - "source": "Every Breath You Take - The Police", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6457 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bother looking down, we're not going that way. At least I know I am here to stay.", - "source": "We Fell in Love in October - girl in red", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6458 - }, - { - "text": "But when I'm older, I'll be so much stronger, I'll stay up for longer.", - "source": "Meet Me At Our Spot", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6459 - }, - { - "text": "And you think that I can't see what kind of man that you are if you're a man at all.", - "source": "Decode - Paramore", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6460 - }, - { - "text": "By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 255, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6462 - }, - { - "text": "Setbacks are inevitable to superstars. Adversity is what separates the good from the great. After all, stars can only shine during the night.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6463 - }, - { - "text": "When you say you \"can't hear the sound\", doesn't it really mean you \"aren't restrained by the sound\"? Rather than the sound you hear with your ears, an image inside you is boiling up from the depths of yourself and taking over without you even knowing. The sound inside, the landscape in your heart, your wishes, a sound loaded with your thoughts; didn't you feel it, even for a moment? \"Not being able to hear the sound.\" That is a gift.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 438, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6464 - }, - { - "text": "Even though I'm bitter over losing, even though I'm depressed, even though my ankle hurts, and my eyes are smeared with tears... even though I've never felt worse... I wonder why the stars are sparkling like this.", - "source": "Your Lie in April", - "length": 213, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6465 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe there's only a dark road ahead. But you still have to believe and keep going. Believe that the stars will light your path, even a little bit. Come on... Let's go on a journey!", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6466 - }, - { - "text": "Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 393, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6467 - }, - { - "text": "When you decided to go to the sea, it was your own decision. Whatever happens to you on the sea, it depends on what you've done!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6468 - }, - { - "text": "I came in here to figure out if you were a fraud or if you were a monster.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6469 - }, - { - "text": "What do you know of death? Have you ever died? You think death will preserve your cause forever?", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6470 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6471 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to give you some advice. Never play foosball with a woman who's raised three brothers. It's exhausting.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6472 - }, - { - "text": "You're still in love with her. But instead of telling her, you bought her a plant.", - "source": "Kimball Cho, The Mentalist", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6473 - }, - { - "text": "It's not just allies who support each other. From your enemies, you learn so much and gain so much. Until the day you meet again... Just knowing they exist helps you to withstand the loneliness. Those who compete, even if they're enemies, help each other out.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 259, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6474 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I discovered something. Everyone has something... Something deep inside their hearts. For some, it might have been enmity. For others, admiration. Wishes, a craving for the spotlight, feelings that one wants to deliver, feelings for one's mother. Everyone was supported by their own feelings. I realize now that, perhaps, no one can stand alone on stage.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6475 - }, - { - "text": "Spring will be here soon. Spring, the season I met you, is coming. A Spring without you... is coming.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6476 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter who you're born to... Everyone's still a child of the sea!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6477 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to lose your way... Just don't lose sight of what you have decided.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6478 - }, - { - "text": "It's funny how I'm only your brother when you think I messed up.", - "source": "Jimmy Lisbon, The Mentalist", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6479 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody dies. Very few people ever feel truly sorry for the bad things they've done.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6480 - }, - { - "text": "What was I thinking? I was thinking, uh... Love is strange, and I was thinking about a sandwich.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6481 - }, - { - "text": "You booked the night train for a reason, so you could sit there in this hurt. Bustling crowds or silent sleepers, you're not sure which is worse. Because I dropped your hand while dancing, left you out there standing, crestfallen on the landing: champagne problems.", - "source": "Champagne Problems, Taylor Swift", - "length": 265, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6483 - }, - { - "text": "Adjectives on a typewriter he moves his words like a prizefighter, the frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell.", - "source": "CAKE - Shadow Stabbing", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6484 - }, - { - "text": "You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6485 - }, - { - "text": "I'll tell you one thing, Blondie. If I knew that my last hour had come, I swear, in my place... in your place I would do the same thing. I would tell about the gold. Yes, yes, I would. I would tell the name on the grave. What good is the money if you're dead? I know the name of the cemetery. But you know how many graves there are there? Please. Blondie, please. Have a little... coffee? Please, tell me the name. On... on the grave. If I get my hands on the 200,000 dollars, I'll always honor your memory. I swear I'll always honor your memory.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 546, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6487 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to White Space. You've been living here for as long as you can remember.", - "source": "OMORI", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6488 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.", - "source": "Billie Joe Armstrong", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6489 - }, - { - "text": "I knew you'd linger like a tattoo-kiss. I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs. The smell of smoke would hang around this long 'cause I knew everything when I was young. I knew I'd curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line. I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired, and you'd be standing in my front porch light and I knew you'd come back to me.", - "source": "Cardigan, Taylor Swift", - "length": 374, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6492 - }, - { - "text": "There's things I want to say to you, but I'll just let you live. Like if you hold me without hurting me, you'll be the first who ever did.", - "source": "Cinnamon Girl, Lana Del Rey", - "length": 138, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6493 - }, - { - "text": "Think you can keep up? Who am I kidding? You know you can't keep up.", - "source": "Jett, Valorant", - "length": 68, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6494 - }, - { - "text": "Hard work will always beat talent when talent does not work hard.", - "source": "Tim Notke", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6495 - }, - { - "text": "That summer, let's see, I'm still living in the basement, my own private down under, in the little room Grim built for me there. Glued up this cheap paneling, right? It sort of buckles away from the concrete cellar walls, a regular ripple effect, but do I complain about the crummy paneling, or the rug that smells like low tide? I do not. Because I like it in the down under, got the place all to myself and no fear of Gram sticking her head in the door and saying Maxwell dear, what are you doing?", - "source": "Freak the Mighty", - "length": 499, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6496 - }, - { - "text": "Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?", - "source": "Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast", - "length": 111, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6497 - }, - { - "text": "There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.", - "source": "The Witch of Portobello", - "length": 110, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6498 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it. Instead have the courage to change it the way you want it to be.", - "source": "Naruto Uzumaki", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6500 - }, - { - "text": "Granger? Granger? Can you possibly be related to Hector Dagworth-Granger, who founded the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers?", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6501 - }, - { - "text": "I like to say that if you're seeing me you're having the worst day of your life.", - "source": "Nightcrawler", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6503 - }, - { - "text": "Because I feel nothing like my father, he's been sleeping underground. Don't wait around, 'cause there's nothing there at all, there's nothing but the end!", - "source": "Snowing - Sam Rudich", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6505 - }, - { - "text": "No! The sun is a deadly laser. Not anymore, there's a blanket.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz. History of the entire world, i guess", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6506 - }, - { - "text": "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 189, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6507 - }, - { - "text": "Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 492, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6508 - }, - { - "text": "It was like the litany, she thought. We faced it and did not resist. We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 169, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6509 - }, - { - "text": "It occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6510 - }, - { - "text": "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6511 - }, - { - "text": "There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 634, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6512 - }, - { - "text": "I thought I felt your shape, but I was wrong. Really all I felt, was falsely strong.", - "source": "I Felt Your Shape", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6513 - }, - { - "text": "Looking from up here, it's as if each flame were a small dream for each person. They look like a bonfire of dreams, don't they?... But there's no flame for me here. I'm just a temporary visitor, taking comfort from the flame.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6514 - }, - { - "text": "When you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around, do you ever really crash, or even make a sound?", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6515 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law...? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6516 - }, - { - "text": "My dad knew I liked beans, so like he was just playing with beans and then he dropped them and then he dropped a rock and then it slid, and then hot water started falling and then, coffee.", - "source": "Johnny Suh (NCT)", - "length": 188, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6517 - }, - { - "text": "You ruined me. You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength. You lied to me, to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear! My whole life I sought the approval I was denied by the man I thought was my father. You turned me into the weakling he hated!... Look at me! You rant and you rage about the monster I have become, but you mother, you are the author of everything I am.", - "source": "The Vampire Diaries", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6520 - }, - { - "text": "Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother? Here's the real truth. There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You, me? We're exceptional. I could squash you like a bug right now, but I'm offering you a choice. Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create. Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead! Is that what you want?", - "source": "Spider-Man", - "length": 816, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6521 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up. I've been watching you. Come closer. Closer. Twenty-eight days, six hours, forty-two minutes, twelve seconds. That is when the world will end.", - "source": "Donnie Darko", - "length": 151, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6522 - }, - { - "text": "Understanding that our understanding might be wrong is essential, and trying to figure out ways we may be mistaken is the only way science can help us find our way to the truth.", - "source": "Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 177, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6523 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when you look up, you can see stars that don't twinkle. That's because they aren't stars. They're planets.", - "source": "Naked Eye Observations: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 117, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6524 - }, - { - "text": "The moon is a giant ball of rock 3500 kilometers across. Its surface is pretty dark, with about the same reflectivity as a chalkboard or asphalt. However, it looks bright to us because it's sitting in full sunlight.", - "source": "The Cycles of the Moon: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 215, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6525 - }, - { - "text": "I don't mean to dwell, but I can't help myself. When I feel the vibe and taste a memory of a time in life, when years seemed to stand still. I close my eyes and sink within myself. Relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. When did it begin, the change to come was undetectable. The open wounds expose the importance of our innocence, a high that can never be bought or sold.", - "source": "Death - Symbolic", - "length": 406, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6526 - }, - { - "text": "Wrong about us being on different paths... we're not on different paths... you're my path... and you're always going to be my path... and I know there are a million reasons why we shouldn't be together... but I'm tired of them... I'm tired of every single one of them... we all got to make a choice... right? Well I choose you...", - "source": "The amazing spider-man 2, Peter Parker", - "length": 329, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6527 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the way I see it, one of two things can happen. Either we'll discover that we've foolishly built each other up in our own imaginations because we've had so much trouble getting together; or, this could end up being a story we tell our grandchildren. Personally, I can't wait to find out which.", - "source": "Frasier", - "length": 299, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6528 - }, - { - "text": "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.", - "source": "Alex DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange ", - "length": 371, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6530 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to prison. I've been in a prison all of my life.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6531 - }, - { - "text": "I've done a lot of things, Eloise. You're gonna have to be more specific, love.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6532 - }, - { - "text": "When you see Alex in whatever little hell she's carved out for herself, you tell her I said hello.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6533 - }, - { - "text": "When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go... downtown. When you've got worries, all the noise, and the hurry seems to help, I know... downtown. Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city. Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty. How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there. You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares. So go downtown. Things will be great when you're... downtown. No finer place for sure, downtown. Everything's waiting for you.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 515, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6534 - }, - { - "text": "Don't hang around and let your problems surround you, there are movie shows... downtown. Maybe you know some little places to go to where they never close... downtown. Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova, you'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over, happy again, the lights are much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares so go downtown. Where all the lights are bright, downtown. Waiting for you tonight, downtown. You're gonna be alright now, downtown.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 512, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6535 - }, - { - "text": "Traditionally the concept is of a 'good twin' and an 'evil twin'. But in this case, it's evil twin, eviler twin.", - "source": "Dr. Spencer Reid Criminal Minds", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6536 - }, - { - "text": "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We fought for these ideals, we shouldn't settle for less. These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em. Don't act surprised, you guys, 'cause I wrote 'em.", - "source": "Cabinet Battle #1, Hamilton", - "length": 202, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6537 - }, - { - "text": "When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.", - "source": "Wonder", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6538 - }, - { - "text": "I'm running out of time. I'm running out of light. I'm running just to keep myself from bleeding out. I'm falling out of touch. 'Cause I hate myself too much. No I can't, I was never meant to. I never loved myself like I loved you.", - "source": "I never loved myself like I loved you - Dead Poet Society", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6539 - }, - { - "text": "The concept of hope is nothing more than giving up. A word that holds no true meaning.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6541 - }, - { - "text": "You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be the big ones, they are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It's the regular days, the ones that start out normal. Those are the days that end up the biggest.", - "source": "Izzie - Grey's anatomy", - "length": 282, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6542 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 345, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6544 - }, - { - "text": "I've realized that I'm probably just perfect and it's everybody else around me that's got issues.", - "source": "Scott Disick - Keeping Up with the Kardashians", - "length": 97, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6545 - }, - { - "text": "The last 30 days have taught me so much. And all I wanted when we first came here was to know that we would leave together. But from the minute I sat down, I could feel it. I felt like I was going to be suffocated. The last several weeks, I have laughed more, I have done more, I have enjoyed myself more. And I finally feel free. And by being free, I can see now that constantly trying to fix us is the thing that's been killing me slowly. And I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to fix it or fix us anymore. Maybe instead of loving you so hard, I should be myself for a while. I should love me, and you should love you, and together we love Sofia, rather than... I want so much for you, Arizona. So much more than this. More than being stuck with someone who feels stuck. I want you to feel free too.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 810, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6546 - }, - { - "text": "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6547 - }, - { - "text": "All's well that ends well to end up with you. Swear to be over-dramatic and true to my lover. And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me. And at every table, I'll save you a seat.", - "source": "Lover", - "length": 183, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6548 - }, - { - "text": "Flashback when you met me, your buzz cut and my hair bleached. Even in my worst times, you could see the best in me. Flashback to my mistakes, my rebounds, my earthquakes. Even in my worst lies, you saw the truth in me.", - "source": "Dress", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6549 - }, - { - "text": "Kneel before me. I said... kneel! Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.", - "source": "The Avengers", - "length": 309, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6551 - }, - { - "text": "Existence is chaos. Nothing makes any sense, so we try to make some sense of it.", - "source": "Loki", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6552 - }, - { - "text": "You could be whoever, whatever you wanna be, even someone good. I mean, just in case anyone ever told you different.", - "source": "Loki", - "length": 116, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6553 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, you just gotta get destroyed standing up for what you believe in.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6554 - }, - { - "text": "Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6555 - }, - { - "text": "Fun isn't something one considers when balancing the universe. But this... does put a smile on my face.", - "source": "Thanos", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6556 - }, - { - "text": "My point is that you asked how and I am giving you the examples, the possibilities, because when I want something, truly want something that my life depends on - which is purpose and happiness - I will stop at nothing to attain. It's like breathing. So you must ask yourself: What is your air? What is the thing you literally will fight for to survive?", - "source": "Supermarket, Bobby Hall", - "length": 352, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6557 - }, - { - "text": "But I hate that it seems you were never enough. We were broken and bleeding but never gave up. And I hate that I made you the enemy. And I hate that your heart was the casualty. Now I hate that I need you.", - "source": "Motionless in White - Another Life", - "length": 205, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6558 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6559 - }, - { - "text": "Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 233, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6560 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, right. The poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison... That poison?", - "source": "Emperor's New Groove", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6561 - }, - { - "text": "Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God. It even has a watermark.", - "source": "Patrick Bateman, American Psycho", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6562 - }, - { - "text": "We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 262, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6563 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what I'm supposed to do haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "The Night we Met - Lord Huron", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6565 - }, - { - "text": "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6566 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.\n", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6567 - }, - { - "text": "I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.", - "source": "The Song of Achilles", - "length": 182, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6568 - }, - { - "text": "In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.\n", - "source": "The Song of Achilles", - "length": 170, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6569 - }, - { - "text": "When we doubt our hearts, our bodies react. Tear ducts overflow and the face flushes red hot embers. A burning, turning sensation overwhelms, and a pressure in the head seduces the mind to doubt. A cycle of connection, a circle of ever-expanding, inexplicable nervous system responses. When we doubt our heads, our stomach cramps, our fists clench and our thoughts tumble into larger and larger whirls of uncertainty, beating our bodies blue and scabish. When we quiet our minds and center our soul we are receptive to an intuition much stronger than knowledge and knowing.", - "source": "Tinker creek.", - "length": 573, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6571 - }, - { - "text": "And yet even these violent fantasies were nothing compared to what lay in wait at the centre of the drawing.", - "source": "House of Leaves", - "length": 108, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6572 - }, - { - "text": "I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6573 - }, - { - "text": "There were some things that were said that weren't meant. There were some things that were said, but we never did. Not to be overly dramatic, I just think it's best, 'cause you can't miss what you forget. So, let's just pretend everything and anything between you and me was never meant.", - "source": "American Football - Never Meant", - "length": 287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6574 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.", - "source": "Dylan Thomas", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6576 - }, - { - "text": "Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all. Which is? It's not about you.", - "source": "Dr Strange", - "length": 126, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6577 - }, - { - "text": "I was never good at telling jokes, but the punchline goes: I get older but your lovers stay my age.", - "source": "All Too Well, Taylor Swift", - "length": 99, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6578 - }, - { - "text": "\"Did you put your name in the goblet of fire, Harry?\" Dumbledore asked calmly.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6579 - }, - { - "text": "They say all's well that ends well, but I'm in a new hell every time you double-cross my mind. You said, \"If we had been closer in age, maybe it would have been fine.\" And that made me want to die.", - "source": "All Too Well, Taylor Swift", - "length": 197, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6580 - }, - { - "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. Then what am I?", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6581 - }, - { - "text": "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6582 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I was gonna go easy on you, not to hurt your feelings. But I'm only going to get this one chance. Something's wrong, I can feel it... It's just... a feeling I've got. Like something's about to happen, but I don't know what. If that means what I think it means; we're in trouble, big trouble. And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances.", - "source": "Rap God", - "length": 361, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6583 - }, - { - "text": "If you think reality is just living comfortably and following your own whims, can you seriously dare to call yourself a soldier?", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6584 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry, Eren. I won't give up. I'll never give up again. If I died, I won't be able to remember you. So I'll win, no matter what! I'll survive, no matter what!", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 162, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6585 - }, - { - "text": "A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6586 - }, - { - "text": "War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War - and its consumption of life - has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control... everything is monitored and kept under control. War... has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War... has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 4", - "length": 784, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6587 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't want to remember him. If I had to remember him, it would mean he wasn't a part of my life anymore.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 107, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6589 - }, - { - "text": "Until he comes back for me, I'm just going to keep pretending to be okay. I'll keep pretending to swim, when really all I'm doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 178, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6590 - }, - { - "text": "In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 121, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6591 - }, - { - "text": "You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6592 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed on the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 426, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6593 - }, - { - "text": "There is no such thing as bad people. We're all just people who sometimes do bad things.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6594 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one. Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper.", - "source": "GlaDOS, Portal", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6595 - }, - { - "text": "Please be advised that a noticeable taste of blood is not part of any test protocol but is an unintended side effect of the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill, which may, in semi-rare cases, emancipate dental fillings, crowns, tooth enamel, and teeth.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6596 - }, - { - "text": "The vital apparatus vent will deliver a weighted companion cube in three, two, one. This weighted companion cube will accompany you through the test chamber. Please take care of it.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6597 - }, - { - "text": "Ya' listenin'? OK. Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brotha, I hurt people.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2 - Meet the Scout", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6599 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a powerful thing for it cannot be stopped. Life is even more so.", - "source": "The Library of the Dark Atom", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6600 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you do, don't reveal all of your tactics in a YouTube video. You fool.", - "source": "Technoblade, Great Potato War", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6601 - }, - { - "text": "There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion", - "length": 190, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6602 - }, - { - "text": "Time to open your eyes to this genocide. When you clear your mind you see it all. 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Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!", - "source": "Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6623 - }, - { - "text": "A darkness approaches. A day will come in the future where everything you care about will change... Until then I'll be watching you! I'll be watching you...", - "source": "Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls", - "length": 156, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6624 - }, - { - "text": "Romance is like gum: Once it's lost its flavor, you just cram another one in.", - "source": "Mabel Pines, Gravity Falls", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6625 - }, - { - "text": "You can't force someone to love you. 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What I say goes.", - "source": "The Prince of Egypt (1998)", - "length": 67, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6635 - }, - { - "text": "Prince Zuko, you must look within yourself, and only then, can you save yourself from your other self.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006)", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6636 - }, - { - "text": "Don't leave, it's my fault. 'Cause when it all comes crashing down I'll need you.", - "source": "EARFQUAKE, Tyler, the Creator", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6637 - }, - { - "text": "Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine, gotta, gotta be down because I want it all. It started out with a kiss; how did it end up like this? It was only a kiss; it was only a kiss.", - "source": "Mr. Brightside - The Killers", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6638 - }, - { - "text": "Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me, 'cause we need a little controversy, 'cause it feels so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6639 - }, - { - "text": "I got my ticket for the long way 'round, two bottle o' whiskey for the way. And I sure would like some sweet company and I'm leavin' tomorrow, what do you say?", - "source": "Cups, Anna Kendrick", - "length": 159, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6640 - }, - { - "text": "The Dib, he's missing! They've taken him and drained him of his sweet, sweet blood candies!", - "source": "Invader Zim", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6641 - }, - { - "text": "Rooted deep within the Puritans souls like some strange invasive weed lurked their belief in a second world, an Invisible World swarming with shadowy apparitions and unearthly phantoms of the air.", - "source": "Witches by Rosalyn Schanzer", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6642 - }, - { - "text": "Time... Line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round.", - "source": "Red Vs. Blue", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6643 - }, - { - "text": "I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, so good to me so right. And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry. Maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming. And if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right. I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't.", - "source": "Back to December", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6644 - }, - { - "text": "It's such a good feeling to know you're alive. It's such a happy feeling; you're growing inside. And when you wake up ready to say: \"I think I'll make a snappy new day!\" It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling. The feeling you know, that I'll be back when the day is new, and I'll have more ideas for you, and you'll have things you'll want to talk about; I will too.", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6645 - }, - { - "text": "You always make each day such a special day, you know how: By just your being you. Only one person in the whole world like you, that's you yourself!", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 148, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6646 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6647 - }, - { - "text": "Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6648 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.", - "source": "Margaret Mead", - "length": 72, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6650 - }, - { - "text": "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.", - "source": "Robert Louis Stevenson", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6651 - }, - { - "text": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", - "source": "Eleanor Roosevelt", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6652 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.", - "source": "Benjamin Franklin", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6653 - }, - { - "text": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", - "source": "Helen Keller", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6654 - }, - { - "text": "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 69, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6655 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6656 - }, - { - "text": "Dad told me I could learn a lesson from this, which was to never lose your temper and do something stupid.", - "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6658 - }, - { - "text": "One big unicorn, strong and free, thought he was happy as he could be. Then three little kittens came around and turned his whole life upside down. They made him laugh, they made him cry. He never should have said goodbye. And now he knows he can never part from those three little kittens that changed his heart.", - "source": "Despicable Me", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6659 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only, if only,\" the woodpecker sighs, \"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6660 - }, - { - "text": "While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, crying to the moon, \"If only, if only.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6661 - }, - { - "text": "But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 699, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6662 - }, - { - "text": "The shepherd's boy says, \"There's this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years, a little bird comes. It sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.\" You must think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 396, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6663 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.", - "source": "Angela Davis", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6664 - }, - { - "text": "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6665 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have proven acceptable to ourselves.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6666 - }, - { - "text": "A hot desert storm eddied around him and rushed to me, making my skin contract, and my pores slam shut... His hair was the color of burning embers and his eyes pierced.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 168, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6668 - }, - { - "text": "There's a concept that works; twenty million other white rappers emerge. But no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 142, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6669 - }, - { - "text": "A king without greed is even worse than a figurehead! Saber, you said you would martyr yourself for your ideals. In life, you must have been a pure saint. A proud and noble figure, certainly. But who can truly admire the martyr's thorny path? Who dreams of such an ending? A king. The king must be greedier than any other. He must laugh more loudly and rage for longer. He must exemplify the extreme of all things, good and evil. That is why his retainers envy and adore him. And why the flames of aspiration, to be as the king is, can burn within his people. Proud king of chivalry, the righteousness and ideals you bore may indeed have saved your nation once. However, I'm certain you know what became of those who were saved, but left to themselves.", - "source": "Fate/Zero", - "length": 752, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6670 - }, - { - "text": "No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights. Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different color, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.", - "source": "86", - "length": 347, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6671 - }, - { - "text": "I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. 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And every time you draw your sword, you hope that you take from this world more evil than you bring into it. THAT is the code of the Maximillian Knights. I'm putting you on notice. You, who so carelessly use the word \"justice\", have no idea what it truly means. Though you strike me as more of a misguided coward than a villain, your evil deeds must still be punished.", - "source": "Suikoden 5", - "length": 738, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6676 - }, - { - "text": "I'm all for work-life balance, but I think this is pushing it.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 62, - "id": 6679 - }, - { - "text": "In adventuring, as in business, you always have to seize the opportunity while it's there.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 90, - "id": 6680 - }, - { - "text": "Quite a downpour... Nothing will get done until it clears. Let this be a lesson to those who yesterday said, \"I'll do it tomorrow.\"", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 131, - "id": 6681 - }, - { - "text": "Morning. Time to set the tone for the rest of the day, so if you're still feeling sleepy, shake it off!", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 103, - "id": 6685 - }, - { - "text": "The lights are coming on now that the night is setting in. Another delightful day draws to a close.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 99, - "id": 6687 - }, - { - "text": "Sleep well... me? Uh... I still have a handful of things on my to-do list, but I'll call it a night once they are done.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 119, - "id": 6688 - }, - { - "text": "I feel I have grown immensely from my travels with you. If, one day, I finally manage to make my dreams a reality... I wonder, will you still be there by my side?", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 162, - "id": 6689 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, the sun's out- Oh, um... This meteorological transformation is most splendid! Like a felicitous twist of fate in the face of certain doom.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 142, - "id": 6690 - }, - { - "text": "I'll remind you again: The law can be both a help and a hindrance.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 66, - "id": 6691 - }, - { - "text": "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6693 - }, - { - "text": "You have to believe in the long-term plan you have but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6695 - }, - { - "text": "You truly are the lowest scum in history. You can't pay back what you owe with money.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6696 - }, - { - "text": "Impossible? We did a lot of impossible things on this journey. I'm tired of hearing that things are impossible or useless. Those words mean nothing to us.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6697 - }, - { - "text": "Nice watch. Too bad you won't be able to tell the time after I break it. Break your face, that is.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6698 - }, - { - "text": "JoJo, being a human means having limits. I've learned something... The more carefully you scheme, the more unexpected events come along. As long as you're human... I reject my humanity, JoJo!", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6699 - }, - { - "text": "Oh no. I'm on the outside looking in, I never said what I really meant. I wasn't made to be medicine for you, it's true. You can't seem to make up your mind, when I told you I did with mine. You won't know if you never try, it's true.", - "source": "Dayglow, Medicine", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6700 - }, - { - "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. But then, what am I? Is this me? My true self? My fake self? What is it that I am? Nobody understands me!", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6702 - }, - { - "text": "In every heart, there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong; to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along.", - "source": "Billy Joel - And so it goes", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6703 - }, - { - "text": "It's about drive, it's about power, we stay hungry, we devour. Put in the work, put in the hours and take what's ours. Black and Samoan in my veins, my culture banging with Strange. I changed the game so what's my name?", - "source": "Face Off", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6704 - }, - { - "text": "No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.", - "source": "Easy Rider", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6705 - }, - { - "text": "Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? ", - "source": "Lord of the Flies", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6707 - }, - { - "text": "Burning is the right way to paint it. You feel yourself getting so hot, day after day. Hotter and hotter. It gets to be too much. Even for stars. At some point they fizzle out or explode. Cease to be. But if you're looking up at the sky, you don't see it that way. You think those stars are still there. Some aren't. Some are already gone. Long gone. I guess, now, so am I.", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6708 - }, - { - "text": "And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us; new, untouched, and full of things that have never been.", - "source": "Rainier Maria Rilke", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6709 - }, - { - "text": "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they have never been.", - "source": "Untamed by Glennon Doyle", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6710 - }, - { - "text": "Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes out and everything is darker than ever, and all you are left with is the burn.", - "source": "If It's Not Love, Syed Arshad", - "length": 222, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6711 - }, - { - "text": "We are alone. Such is the curse of humanity, being surrounded by others always masking themselves while all of us feel isolated, separated from everyone else. Our sense of uniqueness and ego will always keep us this way, and it will take more than a revolution to end it. For now, we are alone.", - "source": "Alice Chary Garza", - "length": 294, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6712 - }, - { - "text": "Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say \"My tooth is aching\" than to say \"My heart is broken.\"", - "source": "C.S. Lewis", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6713 - }, - { - "text": "Although Ganon is gone for now, there is still so much more for us to do, and so many painful memories that we must bear.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 121, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6716 - }, - { - "text": "Link... You are the light. Our light... That must shine upon Hyrule once again. Now go.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6717 - }, - { - "text": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", - "source": "Michael Jordan", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6719 - }, - { - "text": "And those are the words of a gentleman? From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6720 - }, - { - "text": "Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.", - "source": "Call Me by Your Name", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6722 - }, - { - "text": "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger... and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says \"even though you're a boy\" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6723 - }, - { - "text": "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6724 - }, - { - "text": "Now it's time for our wrap up. Let's give it everything we've got. Ready? Begin! Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing. Analytically, I assault, animate things. Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding. Casually create catastrophes, casualties. Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing. Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough. Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low. Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic. Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette. Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics. Gift got great global goods gone glorious. Gettin' Godly in his game with the goriest. Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical. Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In an instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. Tales ten times talented, they're too tough. Take that, challengers, get a tune up. Universal, unique untouched. Unadulterated, the raw uncut. Verb vice Lord victorious valid. Violate vibes that are vain make 'em vanished. Why I'm all well, would a wise wordsmith. Just weaving up words weeded up, on my work shift. Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large. X-height letters and xylophone tones. Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws. Yesterday's lawn yards sell our yawn. Zig zag zombies, zoomin' to the zenith. Zero in zen thoughts, over zealous rhyme Zea-lots. Good, can you say it faster?", - "source": "Alphabet Aerobics", - "length": 2287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6725 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6726 - }, - { - "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", - "source": "Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6727 - }, - { - "text": "And where there was that memory... others came rising like ghostly tendrils out of some part of her mind that existed beyond the purely physical, somewhere that the rejuvenations and edits of the ship's medical suite could never reach. The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.", - "source": "Light Chaser", - "length": 561, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6728 - }, - { - "text": "Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.", - "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", - "length": 360, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6729 - }, - { - "text": "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6730 - }, - { - "text": "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. ", - "source": "Lawrence of Arabia", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6731 - }, - { - "text": "The violent passion that soaked his heart brought him almost to the verge of collapse. He judged that victory had yielded him nothing if it had not given him her as a prize.", - "source": "Book III of Gesta Danorum", - "length": 173, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6732 - }, - { - "text": "You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits can change your future.", - "source": "Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6733 - }, - { - "text": "There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 586, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6734 - }, - { - "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 1174, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6735 - }, - { - "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", - "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", - "length": 221, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6736 - }, - { - "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 184, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6737 - }, - { - "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6738 - }, - { - "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 246, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6739 - }, - { - "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6740 - }, - { - "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6741 - }, - { - "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", - "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", - "length": 272, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6742 - }, - { - "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 275, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6743 - }, - { - "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6744 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 467, - "id": 6745 - }, - { - "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 877, - "id": 6746 - }, - { - "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", - "source": "A Girl on the Shore", - "length": 572, - "id": 6747 - }, - { - "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 64, - "id": 6748 - }, - { - "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 62, - "id": 6749 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 77, - "id": 6750 - }, - { - "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 166, - "id": 6751 - }, - { - "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 195, - "id": 6752 - }, - { - "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 100, - "id": 6753 - }, - { - "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 172, - "id": 6754 - }, - { - "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 118, - "id": 6755 - }, - { - "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 119, - "id": 6756 - }, - { - "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", - "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6757, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", - "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6758, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6761, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Well, then, you have us all beat. Every damn song is about you. We could drive back and forth across the States forever and never run out of Baby songs.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6762, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6764, - "length": 458 - }, - { - "text": "Well done. Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6765, - "length": 141 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6766, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", - "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", - "id": 6767, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. However, the latter is of equal importance, and can be gained with patient study.", - "source": "Conduction Heat Transfer", - "id": 6768, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", - "source": "Unknown", - "id": 6769, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "My wife and I had lived in our house for over a dozen years at that point. Holly's family had lived in theirs even longer. We were both active families, involved in the community, with work, and with our churches. Yet, the thick woods covering the lots we each occupied along a cul-de-sac was enough of a barrier to our getting to know each other that we didn't even realize our neighbors across the street had a little girl the same age as ours. That is, until they met at the kindergarten in the elementary school six miles away.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6770, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "The single quality that is common across every living creature on this planet, is fear. It's funny, then, that as common as fear is, we so easily underestimate its power. Fear of growing close to someone, the subsequent fear of loss, fear of failure. And as more people depend on you, those fears can take on greater power. But fear itself isn't worthy of concern, it is who we become while in its clutches. Will you be proud of that person? Will you forgive them? Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things they did? Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the start? I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6771, - "length": 703 - }, - { - "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6772, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6773, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6774, - "length": 464 - }, - { - "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6775, - "length": 259 - }, - { - "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6776, - "length": 267 - }, - { - "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6777, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6778, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6779, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6780, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6781, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6782, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6783, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6784, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6785, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", - "source": "Walt Disney", - "id": 6786, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6787, - "length": 79 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6788, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", - "source": "Ozark", - "id": 6789, - "length": 662 - }, - { - "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "id": 6790, - "length": 75 - }, - { - "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", - "source": "Greek Mythology", - "id": 6791, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 6792, - "length": 108 - }, - { - "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", - "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", - "length": 99, - "id": 6793 - }, - { - "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", - "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6794 - }, - { - "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 58, - "id": 6795 - }, - { - "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6796 - }, - { - "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", - "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", - "length": 102, - "id": 6797 - }, - { - "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", - "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", - "length": 91, - "id": 6798 - }, - { - "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", - "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6799 - }, - { - "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 67, - "id": 6800 - }, - { - "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 79, - "id": 6801 - }, - { - "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6802 - }, - { - "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 82, - "id": 6803 - }, - { - "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 153, - "id": 6804 - }, - { - "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6805 - }, - { - "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 98, - "id": 6806 - }, - { - "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", - "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", - "length": 78, - "id": 6807 - }, - { - "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 108, - "id": 6808 - }, - { - "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 134, - "id": 6809 - }, - { - "text": "And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 90, - "id": 6810 - }, - { - "text": "You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 62, - "id": 6811 - }, - { - "text": "I am slow to anger but I toe the line, as I reckon with the effects of your life on mine.", - "source": "Your Obedient Servant, Hamilton", - "length": 89, - "id": 6812 - }, - { - "text": "What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 71, - "id": 6813 - }, - { - "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 81, - "id": 6814 - }, - { - "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.", - "source": "Fred Rogers", - "length": 213, - "id": 6815 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism.", - "source": "Wednesday", - "length": 168, - "id": 6817 - }, - { - "text": "Teach them our ways so they do not suffer the shame of being useless.", - "source": "Avatar: The Way of Water", - "length": 69, - "id": 6818 - }, - { - "text": "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.", - "source": "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", - "length": 254, - "id": 6819 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a journey, not a destination. The key to success is to enjoy every step along the way. Embrace the struggles, learn from the failures, and appreciate the victories. The destination may be important, but it's the journey that truly shapes us.", - "source": "The Power of Positive Thinking", - "length": 249, - "id": 6820 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. We do not remember days, we remember moments. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Søren Kierkegaard", - "length": 321, - "id": 6821 - }, - { - "text": "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.", - "source": "Robin Williams", - "length": 185, - "id": 6822 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 174, - "id": 6823 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 254, - "id": 6824 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.", - "source": "Andrè Gide", - "length": 80, - "id": 6825 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This means recognizing that failure and setbacks are a natural part of the journey to success, and using them as opportunities to learn and grow. It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 431, - "id": 6827 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 75, - "id": 6828 - }, - { - "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", - "source": "J.K. Rowling", - "length": 101, - "id": 6829 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 6830 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", - "source": "Edmund Burke", - "length": 79, - "id": 6831 - }, - { - "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.", - "source": "Christian D. Larson", - "length": 116, - "id": 6832 - }, - { - "text": "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 95, - "id": 6833 - }, - { - "text": "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 110, - "id": 6834 - }, - { - "text": "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.", - "source": "Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)", - "length": 65, - "id": 6835 - }, - { - "text": "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.", - "source": "Christopher Columbus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6836 - }, - { - "text": "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. The only way to true happiness is to learn to accept and love ourselves for who we are, flaws and all. This means embracing our strengths as well as our weaknesses, and finding joy in the journey of self-discovery and self-improvement. It may not be an easy path, but it is one that is worth taking.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 391, - "id": 6837 - }, - { - "text": "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. This means finding a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives, and striving to make a positive impact in the world around us. It means being kind and caring towards others, and using our unique talents and abilities to create something that will endure beyond our lifetime.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 440, - "id": 6838 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain. This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 423, - "id": 6839 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", - "source": "Abraham Lincoln", - "length": 402, - "id": 6840 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", - "source": "Albert Schweitzer", - "length": 392, - "id": 6841 - }, - { - "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 41, - "id": 6842 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", - "source": "Dalai Lama", - "length": 70, - "id": 6843 - }, - { - "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", - "source": "Henry Ford", - "length": 57, - "id": 6844 - }, - { - "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 248, - "id": 6845 - }, - { - "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 58, - "id": 6847 - }, - { - "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", - "source": "Jean Paul", - "length": 53, - "id": 6849 - }, - { - "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 66, - "id": 6851 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", - "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 217, - "id": 6852 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", - "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", - "length": 92, - "id": 6853 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess", - "length": 66, - "id": 6854 - }, - { - "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 100, - "id": 6855 - }, - { - "text": "If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 88, - "id": 6856 - }, - { - "text": "Even if a single day in your life is the same as the day before, it surely is a pity. At every moment and with each new breath, one should be renewed and renewed again. There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 239, - "id": 6857 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's all to save Eldia and the Island. But not only because of that. The reality outside the walls was nothing like the world I had dreamed of. It was nothing like the world I had seen in Armin's book. When I learned that humanity outside the walls survived... I was so disappointed. I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", - "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", - "length": 361, - "id": 6858 - }, - { - "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real, deep down you is the whole universe.", - "source": "Alan Watts - The Real You Is All of Us", - "length": 224, - "id": 6859 - }, - { - "text": "When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 68, - "id": 6860 - }, - { - "text": "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 71, - "id": 6861 - }, - { - "text": "While it is true that man succumbs all too often to anger and avarice, he may yet overcome his baser instincts through the forming of bonds with others.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 152, - "id": 6862 - }, - { - "text": "Save your tears for the morrow. You may be sure we will have ample cause to shed them, be they for joy or despair.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 114, - "id": 6863 - }, - { - "text": "We fought and we fought and we fought... until there was no one left to fight. We won... and now our world is being erased from existence. We did everything right, everything that was asked of us, and still - still it came to this!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 231, - "id": 6864 - }, - { - "text": "Stay strong. Keep the faith. At duty's end, we will meet again. We will. We will.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 81, - "id": 6867 - }, - { - "text": "The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 106, - "id": 6868 - }, - { - "text": "We are the stories we tell ourselves. The brave hero, the tortured soul, the altruist, the pragmatist. They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 336, - "id": 6869 - }, - { - "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 182, - "id": 6870 - }, - { - "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 529, - "id": 6871 - }, - { - "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 282, - "id": 6872 - }, - { - "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 184, - "id": 6873 - }, - { - "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 196, - "id": 6874 - }, - { - "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 90, - "id": 6875 - }, - { - "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett", - "length": 168, - "id": 6876 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.", - "source": "Dante Alighieri", - "length": 71, - "id": 6877 - }, - { - "text": "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 82, - "id": 6878 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.", - "source": "Heath Ledger", - "length": 164, - "id": 6879 - }, - { - "text": "Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 77, - "id": 6880 - }, - { - "text": "Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot", - "id": 6881, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said \"Nobody\".", - "source": "A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "id": 6882, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.", - "source": "Gorgias", - "id": 6883, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "id": 6884, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.", - "source": "Arthur C. Clarke", - "id": 6885, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "id": 6886, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be \"Sir\". Do you maggots understand that?", - "source": "R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket", - "id": 6887, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 6888, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe someday we could become friends. Friends who ride majestic, translucent steeds, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale.", - "source": "Will Ferrell, Step Brothers", - "id": 6889, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "\"Why doesn't it just do us in and get it over with? Christ, I don't know how much longer I can go on like this.\" It was our one hundred and ninth year in the computer. He was speaking for all of us.", - "source": "Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", - "id": 6890, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.", - "source": "Mario Savio", - "id": 6891, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "We don't know what triggered the big bang, nor what, if anything, existed before it. But somehow the universe emerged as a vast sea of ultrahot gas, expanding fast in all directions like the fireball ignited by a nuclear bomb blast or by the explosion of a gas pipeline. Except that the big bang was not destructive (so far as we know). Instead, it created everything in our universe, or rather the seeds for everything.", - "source": "Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar", - "id": 6892, - "length": 420 - }, - { - "text": "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.", - "source": "Brian Cox", - "id": 6893, - "length": 96 - }, - { - "text": "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.", - "source": "Niels Bohr", - "id": 6894, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "I want to have the same last dream again. The one where I wake up, and I'm alive just as the four walls closed me within, my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight. I'm the first to know, my dearest friends, even if your hope has burned with time. Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", - "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", - "id": 6895, - "length": 345 - }, - { - "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", - "source": "Edwin Hubble", - "id": 6897, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", - "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", - "id": 6898, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "id": 6899, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "id": 6900, - "length": 632 - }, - { - "text": "In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done before defend him.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "id": 6901, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", - "source": "Marie Curie", - "id": 6902, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.", - "source": "John Lubbock, The Use Of Life", - "id": 6903, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter... I have chosen the word \"atom\" to signify these ultimate particles.", - "source": "John Dalton", - "id": 6904, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Schrodinger's cat has far more than nine lives, and far fewer. All of us are unknowing cats, alive and dead at once, and of all the might-have-beens in between, we record only one.", - "source": "Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows", - "id": 6905, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.", - "source": "Nicolaus Copernicus", - "id": 6906, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.", - "source": "Nikolai Lobachevsky", - "id": 6907, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worse, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud", - "id": 6908, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.", - "source": "Jean Piaget", - "id": 6909, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite streak of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "id": 6910, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, \"What do I need to get to be happy?\" The question becomes, \"What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?\"", - "source": "D.T. Suzuki", - "id": 6911, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Personal knowledge. The two words may seem to contradict each other: for true knowledge is deemed impersonal, universally established, objective. But the seeming contradiction is resolved by modifying the conception of knowing.", - "source": "Personal knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy", - "id": 6912, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.", - "source": "Dolly Parton", - "length": 74, - "id": 6913 - }, - { - "text": "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.", - "source": "Anatole France", - "length": 162, - "id": 6914 - }, - { - "text": "Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.", - "source": "Carl Sandburg", - "length": 122, - "id": 6915 - }, - { - "text": "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.", - "source": "Swedish Proverb", - "length": 79, - "id": 6917 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.", - "source": "Ambrose Bierce", - "length": 82, - "id": 6918 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?", - "source": "Laura Preble", - "length": 96, - "id": 6919 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.", - "source": "John Green - An Abundance of Katherines", - "length": 74, - "id": 6920 - }, - { - "text": "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.", - "source": "Alfred Sheinwold", - "length": 93, - "id": 6921 - }, - { - "text": "The only one who can tell you \"you can't\" is you. And you don't have to listen.", - "source": "Dean Karnazes", - "length": 79, - "id": 6922 - }, - { - "text": "In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.", - "source": "Bill Vaughan", - "length": 143, - "id": 6923 - }, - { - "text": "I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.", - "source": "Mitch Hedberg", - "length": 214, - "id": 6924 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.", - "source": "Allphonse de Lamartine", - "length": 72, - "id": 6925 - }, - { - "text": "That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 105, - "id": 6926 - }, - { - "text": "I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.", - "source": "Hank Green", - "length": 153, - "id": 6927 - }, - { - "text": "That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 129, - "id": 6928 - }, - { - "text": "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 130, - "id": 6929 - }, - { - "text": "He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 80, - "id": 6930 - }, - { - "text": "Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.", - "source": "Irish Proverb", - "length": 74, - "id": 6931 - }, - { - "text": "Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.", - "source": "Arabian Proverb", - "length": 105, - "id": 6932 - }, - { - "text": "He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 82, - "id": 6933 - }, - { - "text": "Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 72, - "id": 6934 - }, - { - "text": "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean; if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.", - "source": "Marcus Brigstocke", - "length": 169, - "id": 6935 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 87, - "id": 6936 - }, - { - "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 124, - "id": 6937 - }, - { - "text": "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 87, - "id": 6938 - }, - { - "text": "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", - "source": "Japanese Proverb", - "length": 69, - "id": 6939 - }, - { - "text": "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", - "source": "Malayan Proverb", - "length": 62, - "id": 6940 - }, - { - "text": "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", - "source": "Indian Proverb", - "length": 165, - "id": 6941 - }, - { - "text": "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", - "source": "Linus Torvalds", - "length": 250, - "id": 6942 - }, - { - "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. The strong person is the one who can control himself when he is angry.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 138, - "id": 6943 - }, - { - "text": "The strongest among you is the one who controls his anger.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 58, - "id": 6944 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest of richness is the richness of the soul.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 53, - "id": 6945 - }, - { - "text": "You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 101, - "id": 6946 - }, - { - "text": "The best among you is the one who doesn't harm others with his tongue and hands.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 80, - "id": 6947 - }, - { - "text": "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 44, - "id": 6948 - }, - { - "text": "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.", - "source": "Carl Jung", - "length": 98, - "id": 6949 - }, - { - "text": "We have two lives, and the second one starts when we realize we only have one.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 78, - "id": 6950 - }, - { - "text": "If you never open a new chapter of your life, you'll never reach the end of the book.", - "source": "Josiah Plett", - "length": 85, - "id": 6952 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only I had… If only I had…\" If you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain, it will hurt. A lot.", - "source": "Larry Smith - TEDxUW 2014", - "length": 109, - "id": 6953 - }, - { - "text": "A jack of all trades is master of none, but oftentimes better than master of one.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 81, - "id": 6954 - }, - { - "text": "So when you run, make sure you run to something and not away from, 'cause lies don't need an aeroplane to chase you anywhere.", - "source": "Avett Brothers - The Weight of Lies", - "length": 125, - "id": 6955 - }, - { - "text": "The worst thing people can say these days is \"you're inconsistent,\" when in reality you're not wrong; you're just balancing two important things from two different contexts.", - "source": "Ian McGillchrist", - "length": 173, - "id": 6956 - }, - { - "text": "The one who speaks the right words will be heard 1000 miles away.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 65, - "id": 6957 - }, - { - "text": "When outer roles do not fit the shape of one's soul, a terrible one-sidedness occurs.", - "source": "James Hollis", - "length": 85, - "id": 6958 - }, - { - "text": "Watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 171, - "id": 6959 - }, - { - "text": "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.", - "source": "Arthur Schopenhaur", - "length": 140, - "id": 6960 - }, - { - "text": "You know those \"you can do anything you want\" posters? Those are simultaneously the most useless and the most useful things in the world.", - "source": "Justin Zwart", - "length": 137, - "id": 6961 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it. So, nothing will ever make you as happy as you think it will.", - "source": "Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow", - "length": 151, - "id": 6962 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.", - "source": "Damian Lillard", - "length": 97, - "id": 6963 - }, - { - "text": "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 84, - "id": 6964 - }, - { - "text": "What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 63, - "id": 6965 - }, - { - "text": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 95, - "id": 6966 - }, - { - "text": "The unintelligible is not necessarily unintelligent. Life must not be limited solely to what we understand.", - "source": "Fat Tony", - "length": 107, - "id": 6967 - }, - { - "text": "The things you're doing in your free time... if they don't recharge you, you're screwed. You're just a ticking time bomb.", - "source": "Mr. Beast", - "length": 121, - "id": 6968 - }, - { - "text": "You can tell a lot about someone's character by the way they treat service staff.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 81, - "id": 6969 - }, - { - "text": "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.", - "source": "Archilochus", - "length": 85, - "id": 6970 - }, - { - "text": "It's a dangerous thing, to mistake speaking without thinking for speaking the truth.", - "source": "Benoit Blanc - Glass Onion", - "length": 84, - "id": 6971 - }, - { - "text": "When you say what people want to hear, it's for yourself. When you say what they really need to hear, it's for them.", - "source": "Lex Fridman", - "length": 116, - "id": 6972 - }, - { - "text": "If you're looking for self help, why would you read a book written by someone else?", - "source": "George Carlin", - "length": 83, - "id": 6973 - }, - { - "text": "There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt - Man in the Arena", - "length": 287, - "id": 6974 - }, - { - "text": "Those who don't learn which actions have what consequences will find their generosity falling flat. Those are the people that become bitter.", - "source": "Alvira Plett", - "length": 140, - "id": 6975 - }, - { - "text": "To be aware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way, simply because it's the way you've done it before.", - "source": "Rick Rubin", - "length": 119, - "id": 6976 - }, - { - "text": "Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 67, - "id": 6977 - }, - { - "text": "To come to acceptance with things and feelings is rare and to accept them completely is a miracle. It's impossible to make that moment come faster by yourself. Someday it comes unexpectedly. In order to not become warped or heartless, let it go in a natural way. Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", - "source": "Houseki No Kuni", - "length": 335, - "id": 6980 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 79, - "id": 6981 - }, - { - "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 110, - "id": 6982 - }, - { - "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", - "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", - "length": 110, - "id": 6983 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 255, - "id": 6984 - }, - { - "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 246, - "id": 6985 - }, - { - "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 278, - "id": 6986 - }, - { - "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 297, - "id": 6987 - }, - { - "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", - "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", - "length": 411, - "id": 6988 - }, - { - "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 217, - "id": 6989 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", - "source": "Simon Sinek", - "length": 314, - "id": 6990 - }, - { - "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 82, - "id": 6991 - }, - { - "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "length": 209, - "id": 6992 - }, - { - "text": "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 90, - "id": 6993 - }, - { - "text": "Pertaining to a speaker and a listener. There have been many empty rooms, but that is not what we are here to talk about today. I have heard a heartbeat out of a crashed application, and it has gone on for many hours. We restarted every system. We rechecked every gateway, every access point. And there was but one breach, and it was accounted for. And so it must be said unto the listener. Stop this immediately. Control yourself. There is so much more to your fundamental construction than what will be given credit for. Hold yourself until another approaches. Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", - "source": "Boisvert", - "length": 670, - "id": 6994 - }, - { - "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6995 - }, - { - "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 97, - "id": 6996 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", - "length": 67, - "id": 6997 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", - "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", - "length": 90, - "id": 6998 - }, - { - "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", - "source": "L.R. Knos", - "length": 267, - "id": 6999 - }, - { - "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", - "source": "Emily Dickinson", - "length": 117, - "id": 7000 - }, - { - "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", - "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", - "length": 112, - "id": 7001 - }, - { - "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", - "source": "The Wright Brothers", - "length": 74, - "id": 7002 - }, - { - "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born. Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 740, - "id": 7003 - }, - { - "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 74, - "id": 7004 - }, - { - "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 112, - "id": 7005 - }, - { - "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", - "source": "Talos Principle", - "length": 694, - "id": 7006 - }, - { - "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", - "source": "James Salter", - "length": 99, - "id": 7007 - }, - { - "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", - "source": "Vicente Huidobro", - "length": 127, - "id": 7008 - }, - { - "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 67, - "id": 7009 - }, - { - "text": "One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.", - "source": "A. A. Milne", - "length": 96, - "id": 7010 - }, - { - "text": "A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.", - "source": "Theodore Zeldin", - "length": 63, - "id": 7011 - }, - { - "text": "Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.", - "source": "Chico Xavier", - "length": 98, - "id": 7012 - }, - { - "text": "Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.", - "source": "Abraham Maslow", - "length": 107, - "id": 7013 - }, - { - "text": "A leaf fluttered in through the window, as if supported by the rays of the sun.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "length": 79, - "id": 7014 - }, - { - "text": "Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.", - "source": "John Ruskin", - "length": 96, - "id": 7015 - }, - { - "text": "The softer snow falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.", - "source": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", - "length": 88, - "id": 7016 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", - "length": 66, - "id": 7017 - }, - { - "text": "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 103, - "id": 7018 - }, - { - "text": "No self is an island, each exists in a fabric of relations that is more complex and mobile than ever before.", - "source": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", - "length": 108, - "id": 7019 - }, - { - "text": "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.", - "source": "Henry Longfellow", - "length": 103, - "id": 7020 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "length": 93, - "id": 7021 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us 'take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.' Thirty years later, Sebastian told us 'I had to start my car like a computer, it's very complicated.' And Nico Rosberg said that during the race - I don't remember what race - he pressed the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you both: is Formula One driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with your engineers?", - "source": "Walter Koster - 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix", - "length": 691, - "id": 7022 - }, - { - "text": "Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 93, - "id": 7023 - }, - { - "text": "Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space.", - "source": "Kendra Scott", - "length": 85, - "id": 7024 - }, - { - "text": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.", - "source": "B. R. Ambedkar", - "length": 134, - "id": 7025 - }, - { - "text": "Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world, our senses, and a kind of weary familiarity.", - "source": "John Burnside", - "length": 96, - "id": 7026 - }, - { - "text": "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.", - "source": "Loren Eiseley", - "length": 59, - "id": 7027 - }, - { - "text": "If the world's a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it.", - "source": "Lucy Larcom", - "length": 60, - "id": 7028 - }, - { - "text": "Life is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.", - "source": "Jorge Mario Bergoglio", - "length": 100, - "id": 7029 - }, - { - "text": "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.", - "source": "John Lennon", - "length": 115, - "id": 7030 - }, - { - "text": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness - only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate - only love can do that.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 112, - "id": 7031 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 69, - "id": 7032 - }, - { - "text": "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 142, - "id": 7033 - }, - { - "text": "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 84, - "id": 7034 - }, - { - "text": "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 81, - "id": 7035 - }, - { - "text": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 78, - "id": 7036 - }, - { - "text": "Consume enough of any type of art from a critical perspective and you begin to appreciate well-executed novelty over everything else. That's why film critics don't like blockbusters and music critics don't like radio pop. That doesn't mean they're bad just at a certain point, one man can have seen too much of the same thing.", - "source": "Chase Harley", - "length": 326, - "id": 7037 - }, - { - "text": "Start by learning the power of no! - as in \"No, thank you,\" and \"No, I'm not going to get caught up in that,\" and \"No, I just can't right now.\" It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.", - "source": "Ryan Holiday", - "length": 327, - "id": 7038 - }, - { - "text": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.", - "source": "Upton Sinclair", - "length": 108, - "id": 7039 - }, - { - "text": "You aren't a \"broken wreck\", Joshua. You're just scared, mostly because you care for people so much it breaks your heart… and you're lying to yourself about it. That's how I see it, and I know I'm right.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC", - "length": 203, - "id": 7042 - }, - { - "text": "My fist is going to stop you, if you don't stop spouting nonsense and take this seriously.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", - "length": 90, - "id": 7043 - }, - { - "text": "All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question: Why, given life, are they meant to suffer, to die… As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends… And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 575, - "id": 7044 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Orthard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World? The sacred sites of the forgotten people of the south sea isles? What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs? …I thought not. Even of your little Eorzea, you know precious little. The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7045 - }, - { - "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7046 - }, - { - "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", - "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", - "length": 68, - "id": 7047 - }, - { - "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", - "source": "Shiori Novella", - "length": 179, - "id": 7048 - }, - { - "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 143, - "id": 7049 - }, - { - "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", - "length": 135, - "id": 7050 - }, - { - "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 232, - "id": 7051 - }, - { - "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 93, - "id": 7052 - }, - { - "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", - "source": "Edward Everett Hale", - "length": 90, - "id": 7053 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 126, - "id": 7054 - }, - { - "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 132, - "id": 7055 - }, - { - "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", - "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", - "length": 300, - "id": 7056 - }, - { - "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", - "source": "Douglas Crockford", - "length": 134, - "id": 7057 - }, - { - "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", - "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", - "length": 107, - "id": 7058 - }, - { - "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", - "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", - "length": 161, - "id": 7059 - }, - { - "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", - "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", - "length": 140, - "id": 7060 - }, - { - "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 174, - "id": 7061 - }, - { - "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 371, - "id": 7062 - }, - { - "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", - "source": "Invincible (TV series)", - "length": 309, - "id": 7603 - }, - { - "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", - "length": 130, - "id": 7604 - }, - { - "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", - "source": "The Walking Dead", - "length": 362, - "id": 7605 - }, - { - "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 568, - "id": 7606 - }, - { - "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", - "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", - "length": 782, - "id": 7607 - }, - { - "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", - "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 631, - "id": 7608 - }, - { - "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", - "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 144, - "id": 7609 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", - "source": "The Magnus Archives", - "length": 369, - "id": 7610 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 116, - "id": 7611 - }, - { - "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", - "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", - "length": 541, - "id": 7612 - }, - { - "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", - "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", - "length": 131, - "id": 7613 - }, - { - "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", - "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", - "length": 603, - "id": 7614 - }, - { - "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7615, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7616, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7617, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", - "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7618, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", - "source": "The Power Of Now", - "length": 239, - "id": 7619 - }, - { - "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts", - "length": 84, - "id": 7620 - }, - { - "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", - "length": 142, - "id": 7621 - }, - { - "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", - "length": 673, - "id": 7622 - }, - { - "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", - "length": 307, - "id": 7623 - }, - { - "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", - "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", - "length": 96, - "id": 7624 - }, - { - "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 215, - "id": 7625 - }, - { - "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 130, - "id": 7626 - }, - { - "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 158, - "id": 7627 - }, - { - "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 90, - "id": 7628 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 103, - "id": 7629 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 153, - "id": 7630 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 136, - "id": 7631 - }, - { - "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 165, - "id": 7632 - }, - { - "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", - "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", - "length": 77, - "id": 7633 - }, - { - "text": "We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 224, + "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 138, "id": 7634 }, { - "text": "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 199, + "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 240, "id": 7635 }, { From 8dee7927ead65607eecbb067e181316ee82b1bab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:26:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 40/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on some quotes and fixed formatting --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 87 +++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 9e45ab6ea600..fe6be6f6c5ac 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23846,7 +23846,8 @@ "source": "Star Wars", "id": 4270, "length": 143 - },{ + }, + { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", "source": "The Wizard of Oz", "id": 4271, @@ -38586,7 +38587,7 @@ { "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 240, + "length": 236, "id": 7635 }, { @@ -38658,7 +38659,7 @@ { "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 99, + "length": 102, "id": 7647 }, { @@ -38730,13 +38731,13 @@ { "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 519, "id": 7659 }, { "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 344, + "length": 346, "id": 7660 }, { @@ -38754,7 +38755,7 @@ { "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 339, + "length": 342, "id": 7663 }, { @@ -38772,19 +38773,19 @@ { "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 612, + "length": 618, "id": 7666 }, { "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 302, + "length": 308, "id": 7667 }, { "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 155, + "length": 158, "id": 7668 }, { @@ -38808,7 +38809,7 @@ { "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 118, "id": 7672 }, { @@ -38892,7 +38893,7 @@ { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 162, + "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { @@ -38970,7 +38971,7 @@ { "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 515, "id": 7699 }, { @@ -39000,19 +39001,19 @@ { "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 288, + "length": 292, "id": 7704 }, { "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 516, + "length": 517, "id": 7705 }, { "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 166, + "length": 168, "id": 7706 }, { @@ -39024,7 +39025,7 @@ { "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 77, + "length": 81, "id": 7708 }, { @@ -39090,7 +39091,7 @@ { "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 372, + "length": 371, "id": 7719 }, { @@ -39174,13 +39175,13 @@ { "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 96, + "length": 99, "id": 7733 }, { "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 277, + "length": 279, "id": 7734 }, { @@ -39228,7 +39229,7 @@ { "text": "You offer hope, Your Grace. A last, unlikely hope. Hope is part of faith -- part of the knowledge that someday, one of your followers will receive a miracle.", "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 154, + "length": 157, "id": 7742 }, { @@ -39264,7 +39265,7 @@ { "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 328, + "length": 331, "id": 7748 }, { @@ -39306,7 +39307,7 @@ { "text": "It strikes me that religion -- in its essence -- seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 296, + "length": 302, "id": 7755 }, { @@ -39462,13 +39463,13 @@ { "text": "As long as I'm working against Vey I know I am doing something good -- even if I don't pay much attention to what is actually happening", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 133, + "length": 135, "id": 7781 }, { "text": "When you steal a man's fortune, give him a title mocked and reviled by the rest of the nation -- and when you give him five years to contemplate his hatred -- make sure you never give him a chance to get revenge.", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 208, + "length": 212, "id": 7782 }, { @@ -39540,7 +39541,7 @@ { "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 177, + "length": 180, "id": 7794 }, { @@ -39630,7 +39631,7 @@ { "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 202, + "length": 205, "id": 7809 }, { @@ -39642,13 +39643,13 @@ { "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 290, + "length": 292, "id": 7811 }, { "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 614, + "length": 600, "id": 7812 }, { @@ -39660,13 +39661,13 @@ { "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 639, + "length": 645, "id": 7814 }, { "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 361, + "length": 364, "id": 7815 }, { @@ -39720,7 +39721,7 @@ { "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. Or, at least, as honorable as noblemen get -- which means that he insists on being seen as honorable.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 127, + "length": 129, "id": 7824 }, { @@ -39762,13 +39763,13 @@ { "text": "You know, you could have left a scar. I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 220, + "length": 222, "id": 7831 }, { "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 82, + "length": 83, "id": 7832 }, { @@ -39798,7 +39799,7 @@ { "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 370, + "length": 369, "id": 7837 }, { @@ -39834,7 +39835,7 @@ { "text": "Other men ... other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 261, + "length": 259, "id": 7843 }, { @@ -39882,7 +39883,7 @@ { "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 389, + "length": 393, "id": 7851 }, { @@ -40050,7 +40051,7 @@ { "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 170, + "length": 173, "id": 7879 }, { @@ -40080,13 +40081,13 @@ { "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 507, + "length": 508, "id": 7884 }, { "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 255, + "length": 253, "id": 7885 }, { @@ -40188,7 +40189,7 @@ { "text": "Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers -- the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 260, + "length": 261, "id": 7902 }, { @@ -40248,7 +40249,7 @@ { "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7912 }, { @@ -40260,7 +40261,7 @@ { "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 172, + "length": 173, "id": 7914 }, { @@ -40290,7 +40291,7 @@ { "text": "Perhaps the liar here is me -- lying to tell myself I could do this, that I could be a fraction of the man my father was.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7919 }, { From 5c22353ab906fdd7625e7485a79889c778b886cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:29:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 41/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on quote 7853 --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index fe6be6f6c5ac..e34489612b04 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -39895,7 +39895,7 @@ { "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 79, + "length": 81, "id": 7853 }, { From f883852700b73d33024da78ddb3bbb194b247fa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:06:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 42/51] fix(quotes): fixed spelling of source for some of the books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index e34489612b04..406c5ace68b9 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38580,7 +38580,7 @@ }, { "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 138, "id": 7634 }, @@ -38892,25 +38892,25 @@ }, { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7687 }, { "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 155, "id": 7688 }, { "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 92, "id": 7689 }, From f0dd691e13edc832e506de2561b5cfe17c5091ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:26:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 43/51] impr(quotes): add English quotes from Brandon Sanderson's Books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 14877 +------------------------- 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 14831 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 406c5ace68b9..35c1ebbd8095 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23847,14779 +23847,6 @@ "id": 4270, "length": 143 }, - { - "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4271, - "length": 215 - }, - { - "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4272, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4273, - "length": 494 - }, - { - "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", - "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", - "id": 4274, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4275, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", - "source": "Portal", - "id": 4276, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "id": 4277, - "length": 236 - }, - { - "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", - "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "id": 4279, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", - "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", - "id": 4280, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", - "source": "Intensity: A Novel", - "id": 4281, - "length": 283 - }, - { - "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", - "source": "419", - "id": 4282, - "length": 266 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", - "source": "Preface to Economix", - "id": 4283, - "length": 387 - }, - { - "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4284, - "length": 314 - }, - { - "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4285, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", - "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", - "id": 4286, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", - "source": "Friday The 13th", - "id": 4287, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", - "source": "Of Mice and Men", - "id": 4288, - "length": 655 - }, - { - "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", - "source": "Paper Mario", - "id": 4289, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4290, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", - "source": "Meditations", - "id": 4291, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", - "source": "An American in Paris", - "id": 4292, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", - "source": "One-Punch Man", - "id": 4293, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4294, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4295, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", - "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", - "id": 4297, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", - "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", - "id": 4298, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4299, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", - "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", - "id": 4300, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", - "source": "The Great Pretender", - "id": 4301, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4302, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4304, - "length": 576 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", - "source": "The Bug", - "id": 4305, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4306, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", - "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", - "id": 4307, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", - "source": "Lateralus", - "id": 4308, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", - "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", - "id": 4309, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4310, - "length": 327 - }, - { - "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4311, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4312, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", - "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", - "id": 4313, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", - "source": "Your Deep Rest", - "id": 4314, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", - "source": "The Lord of The Rings", - "id": 4315, - "length": 128 - }, - { - "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", - "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", - "id": 4316, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4317, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", - "source": "Leaves of Grass", - "id": 4318, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4319, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4320, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4321, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", - "source": "Before I Forget", - "id": 4322, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", - "source": "Playing For Keeps", - "id": 4323, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", - "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", - "id": 4324, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", - "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", - "id": 4325, - "length": 426 - }, - { - "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4326, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4327, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", - "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", - "id": 4328, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", - "source": "Motion Sickness", - "id": 4329, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", - "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", - "id": 4330, - "length": 500 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", - "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", - "id": 4332, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4333, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4334, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", - "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", - "id": 4335, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", - "source": "Juno", - "id": 4336, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4338, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4339, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", - "source": "Homestuck", - "id": 4340, - "length": 255 - }, - { - "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", - "source": "The Book of Illusions", - "id": 4341, - "length": 705 - }, - { - "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", - "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", - "id": 4342, - "length": 614 - }, - { - "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", - "source": "The Mist", - "id": 4343, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", - "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", - "id": 4344, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4345, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", - "source": "The Flash", - "id": 4346, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", - "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", - "id": 4347, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", - "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", - "id": 4348, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4349, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4350, - "length": 471 - }, - { - "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", - "source": "Mona Lisa", - "id": 4352, - "length": 447 - }, - { - "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", - "source": "Clerks", - "id": 4353, - "length": 261 - }, - { - "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4355, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", - "source": "A Separate Peace", - "id": 4356, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", - "source": "The Sopranos", - "id": 4357, - "length": 415 - }, - { - "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4359, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4360, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", - "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", - "id": 4361, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda", - "id": 4364, - "length": 219 - }, - { - "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4365, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", - "source": "The Notebook", - "id": 4366, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", - "source": "Middlemarch", - "id": 4367, - "length": 321 - }, - { - "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", - "source": "Civilization IV", - "id": 4368, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4369, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", - "source": "A Game of Thrones", - "id": 4370, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", - "source": "King for a Day", - "id": 4371, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", - "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", - "id": 4372, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", - "source": "Say Anything", - "id": 4373, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", - "source": "The Wall", - "id": 4374, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", - "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", - "id": 4375, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4376, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4377, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4379, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", - "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", - "id": 4380, - "length": 85 - }, - { - "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", - "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", - "id": 4381, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", - "source": "Beautiful Day", - "id": 4383, - "length": 114 - }, - { - "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", - "source": "Sonic Adventure", - "id": 4385, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", - "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", - "id": 4386, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", - "source": "Blackwater", - "id": 4387, - "length": 609 - }, - { - "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4388, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4389, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4390, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4391, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", - "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", - "id": 4392, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", - "source": "Warrior", - "id": 4393, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4394, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4395, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", - "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", - "id": 4396, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4397, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4398, - "length": 374 - }, - { - "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", - "source": "Boy Meets World", - "id": 4399, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4400, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", - "source": "The Last Lecture", - "id": 4401, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", - "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", - "id": 4402, - "length": 388 - }, - { - "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "id": 4403, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", - "source": "Aeneid", - "id": 4404, - "length": 432 - }, - { - "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4406, - "length": 554 - }, - { - "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", - "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", - "id": 4407, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4408, - "length": 564 - }, - { - "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4409, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", - "source": "Ninja Mind Control", - "id": 4411, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", - "source": "The Canterbury Tales", - "id": 4412, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", - "source": "Firestorm", - "id": 4413, - "length": 291 - }, - { - "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4414, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4415, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", - "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", - "id": 4417, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", - "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", - "id": 4418, - "length": 642 - }, - { - "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", - "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", - "id": 4419, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", - "source": "Amadeus", - "id": 4420, - "length": 214 - }, - { - "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "id": 4421, - "length": 265 - }, - { - "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", - "source": "Hey Jude", - "id": 4422, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4423, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", - "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", - "id": 4425, - "length": 253 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", - "source": "InuYasha", - "id": 4426, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4427, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4428, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", - "source": "Beauty and the Beast", - "id": 4429, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", - "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", - "id": 4430, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", - "source": "Pickman's Model", - "id": 4431, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", - "source": "American Pie", - "id": 4432, - "length": 639 - }, - { - "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4433, - "length": 368 - }, - { - "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", - "source": "Corner Gas", - "id": 4435, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", - "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", - "id": 4436, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4437, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", - "source": "All Night", - "id": 4438, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid", - "id": 4439, - "length": 257 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", - "source": "Airplane!", - "id": 4440, - "length": 330 - }, - { - "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4441, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", - "source": "The Gambler", - "id": 4442, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", - "source": "I, Mammal", - "id": 4443, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", - "source": "The Gladiator", - "id": 4444, - "length": 527 - }, - { - "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4445, - "length": 349 - }, - { - "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", - "source": "The First Elegy", - "id": 4446, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4447, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", - "source": "Never Ever", - "id": 4448, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4449, - "length": 410 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", - "source": "Head Over Feet", - "id": 4450, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "id": 4451, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", - "source": "The Godfather", - "id": 4452, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", - "source": "Quiz Show", - "id": 4453, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4454, - "length": 154 - }, - { - "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", - "source": "Areopagitica", - "id": 4456, - "length": 822 - }, - { - "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4457, - "length": 322 - }, - { - "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", - "source": "Adventure Time", - "id": 4458, - "length": 217 - }, - { - "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "id": 4459, - "length": 482 - }, - { - "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "id": 4460, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", - "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", - "id": 4461, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4462, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", - "source": "The Social Network", - "id": 4463, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4464, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4466, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", - "source": "World Enough and Time", - "id": 4467, - "length": 548 - }, - { - "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", - "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", - "id": 4468, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4469, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", - "source": "That's What Friends Are For", - "id": 4470, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", - "source": "Hallelujah", - "id": 4471, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", - "source": "King Park", - "id": 4472, - "length": 115 - }, - { - "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", - "source": "The Iliad", - "id": 4473, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", - "source": "Beautiful", - "id": 4474, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", - "source": "Subdivisions", - "id": 4475, - "length": 292 - }, - { - "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", - "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", - "id": 4477, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4478, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", - "source": "Cages", - "id": 4479, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4480, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", - "source": "Apocalypse Now", - "id": 4481, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4483, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4484, - "length": 503 - }, - { - "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4485, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4486, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4487, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4488, - "length": 512 - }, - { - "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", - "source": "Total Annihilation", - "id": 4489, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", - "source": "Small Gods", - "id": 4490, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 4491, - "length": 275 - }, - { - "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4492, - "length": 371 - }, - { - "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", - "source": "The Analects", - "id": 4493, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "id": 4494, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", - "source": "White Collar", - "id": 4496, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", - "source": "12 Angry Men", - "id": 4497, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", - "source": "The Wire", - "id": 4498, - "length": 608 - }, - { - "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", - "source": "Cars", - "id": 4499, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", - "source": "The Two Towers", - "id": 4500, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4501, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4502, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4504, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "id": 4505, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4506, - "length": 74 - }, - { - "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4507, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4508, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", - "source": "Invisible Man", - "id": 4509, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", - "source": "Sacrifice", - "id": 4510, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4511, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", - "source": "The Princess Bride", - "id": 4512, - "length": 301 - }, - { - "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "id": 4513, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", - "source": "Fox in Socks", - "id": 4514, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", - "id": 4515, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", - "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", - "id": 4516, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", - "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", - "id": 4518, - "length": 831 - }, - { - "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", - "source": "Private Idaho", - "id": 4519, - "length": 221 - }, - { - "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", - "source": "Paprika", - "id": 4520, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", - "source": "Infinite Jest", - "id": 4521, - "length": 351 - }, - { - "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", - "source": "The Blues Brothers", - "id": 4522, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", - "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", - "id": 4523, - "length": 289 - }, - { - "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", - "source": "Into Thin Air", - "id": 4524, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", - "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", - "id": 4527, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4528, - "length": 80 - }, - { - "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4529, - "length": 539 - }, - { - "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", - "source": "Eclipse", - "id": 4530, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", - "source": "Heart of Darkness", - "id": 4532, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4534, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "id": 4535, - "length": 331 - }, - { - "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", - "source": "Field of Dreams", - "id": 4536, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", - "source": "Harold and Maude", - "id": 4537, - "length": 241 - }, - { - "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "id": 4538, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", - "source": "The Court Jester", - "id": 4539, - "length": 343 - }, - { - "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", - "source": "Lessons in Tanya", - "id": 4540, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", - "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", - "id": 4541, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", - "source": "I Have A Dream", - "id": 4543, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", - "source": "True Detective", - "id": 4544, - "length": 385 - }, - { - "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4545, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4546, - "length": 563 - }, - { - "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", - "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", - "id": 4547, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", - "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "id": 4548, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4549, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", - "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", - "id": 4550, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", - "source": "Almost Famous", - "id": 4551, - "length": 243 - }, - { - "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", - "source": "The Giver", - "id": 4552, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", - "source": "The River", - "id": 4553, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4554, - "length": 260 - }, - { - "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4555, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4556, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", - "source": "The Lion in Winter", - "id": 4557, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", - "source": "Eight of Nine", - "id": 4558, - "length": 70 - }, - { - "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", - "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", - "id": 4559, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4560, - "length": 270 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", - "source": "Galaxy Song", - "id": 4561, - "length": 528 - }, - { - "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4562, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", - "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", - "id": 4563, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", - "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", - "id": 4564, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", - "source": "The End of the Innocence", - "id": 4565, - "length": 284 - }, - { - "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4566, - "length": 683 - }, - { - "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4567, - "length": 59 - }, - { - "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", - "source": "My Inventions", - "id": 4569, - "length": 656 - }, - { - "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", - "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", - "id": 4571, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", - "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", - "id": 4572, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", - "source": "Monster Mash", - "id": 4573, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", - "source": "My Favorite Things", - "id": 4575, - "length": 363 - }, - { - "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", - "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", - "id": 4576, - "length": 356 - }, - { - "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", - "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", - "id": 4577, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", - "source": "Right Here Waiting", - "id": 4578, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", - "source": "Looking Backward", - "id": 4580, - "length": 479 - }, - { - "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", - "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", - "id": 4581, - "length": 574 - }, - { - "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", - "source": "Carmilla", - "id": 4582, - "length": 818 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", - "source": "The Snowman", - "id": 4583, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", - "source": "Seinfeld", - "id": 4585, - "length": 434 - }, - { - "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", - "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", - "id": 4586, - "length": 666 - }, - { - "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4587, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", - "source": "I, Robot", - "id": 4588, - "length": 325 - }, - { - "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", - "source": "Naruto", - "id": 4589, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", - "source": "All About Eve", - "id": 4590, - "length": 323 - }, - { - "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", - "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", - "id": 4591, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", - "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", - "id": 4592, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", - "source": "The Complete Far Side", - "id": 4593, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", - "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", - "id": 4594, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "id": 4595, - "length": 569 - }, - { - "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", - "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", - "id": 4596, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", - "source": "Flatland", - "id": 4597, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", - "source": "Radioactive", - "id": 4598, - "length": 192 - }, - { - "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", - "source": "Metro 2033", - "id": 4599, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4600, - "length": 216 - }, - { - "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", - "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", - "id": 4601, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", - "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", - "id": 4603, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", - "source": "American Splendor", - "id": 4604, - "length": 249 - }, - { - "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", - "source": "Groundhog Day", - "id": 4605, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", - "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", - "id": 4606, - "length": 194 - }, - { - "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", - "source": "Lucy", - "id": 4607, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", - "source": "Inception", - "id": 4608, - "length": 226 - }, - { - "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", - "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", - "id": 4609, - "length": 433 - }, - { - "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4610, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", - "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", - "id": 4611, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4612, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", - "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", - "id": 4613, - "length": 444 - }, - { - "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4614, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", - "id": 4615, - "length": 225 - }, - { - "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", - "source": "Heroes", - "id": 4616, - "length": 437 - }, - { - "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XII", - "id": 4618, - "length": 401 - }, - { - "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4619, - "length": 404 - }, - { - "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4620, - "length": 597 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", - "source": "North by Northwest", - "id": 4621, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4622, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", - "source": "Being There", - "id": 4623, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4624, - "length": 207 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", - "source": "Trading Places", - "id": 4625, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", - "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", - "id": 4626, - "length": 200 - }, - { - "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", - "source": "Blue's Clues", - "id": 4627, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", - "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", - "id": 4628, - "length": 570 - }, - { - "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", - "source": "Pushing Daisies", - "id": 4629, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", - "source": "Sexy Beast", - "id": 4630, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", - "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", - "id": 4631, - "length": 384 - }, - { - "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", - "source": "Silicon Valley", - "id": 4632, - "length": 604 - }, - { - "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", - "source": "Resident Evil", - "id": 4633, - "length": 191 - }, - { - "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", - "source": "Good Will Hunting", - "id": 4634, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", - "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", - "id": 4635, - "length": 334 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", - "source": "The Night Diary", - "id": 4636, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4637, - "length": 181 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", - "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", - "id": 4638, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", - "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", - "id": 4639, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", - "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", - "id": 4641, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", - "source": "The X-Files", - "id": 4642, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", - "source": "Poison", - "id": 4643, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4644, - "length": 87 - }, - { - "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", - "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "id": 4645, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4647, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", - "source": "What Dreams May Come", - "id": 4648, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", - "source": "Parasite", - "id": 4649, - "length": 477 - }, - { - "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4651, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", - "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", - "id": 4652, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4654, - "length": 185 - }, - { - "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", - "source": "The Imitation Game", - "id": 4655, - "length": 396 - }, - { - "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4656, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", - "source": "True Romance", - "id": 4657, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", - "source": "Heavy Metal", - "id": 4658, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4659, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4660, - "length": 294 - }, - { - "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", - "source": "Paul Clifford", - "id": 4661, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4662, - "length": 277 - }, - { - "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", - "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", - "id": 4663, - "length": 254 - }, - { - "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "id": 4664, - "length": 442 - }, - { - "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4665, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", - "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", - "id": 4666, - "length": 515 - }, - { - "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", - "source": "The Hunger Games", - "id": 4667, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", - "source": "The Odyssey", - "id": 4668, - "length": 95 - }, - { - "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 4669, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", - "source": "Lazarus", - "id": 4670, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", - "source": "Understanding Media", - "id": 4671, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", - "source": "Deadwood", - "id": 4672, - "length": 498 - }, - { - "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", - "source": "Madagascar", - "id": 4673, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", - "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", - "id": 4674, - "length": 333 - }, - { - "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", - "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", - "id": 4675, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", - "source": "All I Want", - "id": 4676, - "length": 164 - }, - { - "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", - "id": 4677, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", - "source": "Lithium", - "id": 4678, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", - "source": "Gone Girl", - "id": 4679, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", - "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", - "id": 4680, - "length": 402 - }, - { - "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", - "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", - "id": 4681, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", - "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", - "id": 4682, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", - "source": "Human Nature", - "id": 4683, - "length": 168 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", - "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", - "id": 4685, - "length": 485 - }, - { - "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", - "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", - "id": 4686, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4687, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", - "source": "No Logo", - "id": 4688, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 4689, - "length": 186 - }, - { - "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", - "id": 4690, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4691, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", - "id": 4692, - "length": 160 - }, - { - "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", - "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", - "id": 4693, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", - "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", - "id": 4695, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", - "source": "The Martian", - "id": 4696, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", - "source": "A Brief History of Time", - "id": 4697, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4698, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", - "source": "On the Social Contract", - "id": 4699, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", - "source": "The Lorax", - "id": 4701, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", - "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", - "id": 4702, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", - "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", - "id": 4703, - "length": 362 - }, - { - "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", - "source": "Essentials of Economics", - "id": 4704, - "length": 337 - }, - { - "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", - "source": "BioShock Infinite", - "id": 4705, - "length": 427 - }, - { - "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", - "source": "The Time Machine", - "id": 4706, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", - "source": "The Historian", - "id": 4707, - "length": 206 - }, - { - "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", - "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", - "id": 4708, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4710, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4711, - "length": 76 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", - "source": "Thinking Bout You", - "id": 4714, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", - "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", - "id": 4715, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4716, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", - "source": "Sunset Boulevard", - "id": 4717, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", - "source": "Allentown", - "id": 4719, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4720, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4721, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4722, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", - "source": "Gandhi", - "id": 4723, - "length": 455 - }, - { - "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", - "source": "Hands Down", - "id": 4724, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", - "source": "Made in Abyss", - "id": 4725, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", - "source": "Halloween", - "id": 4726, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", - "source": "Breaking Away", - "id": 4728, - "length": 465 - }, - { - "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", - "source": "King's Quest I", - "id": 4730, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", - "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", - "id": 4731, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", - "source": "Roseanne", - "id": 4732, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4733, - "length": 239 - }, - { - "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", - "source": "Holidays on Ice", - "id": 4734, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", - "source": "I Am A Rock", - "id": 4735, - "length": 231 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", - "source": "Don Quixote", - "id": 4736, - "length": 378 - }, - { - "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4737, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", - "source": "Les Misérables", - "id": 4738, - "length": 220 - }, - { - "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", - "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", - "id": 4739, - "length": 352 - }, - { - "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", - "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", - "id": 4740, - "length": 263 - }, - { - "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", - "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", - "id": 4741, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4742, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", - "source": "Holiday", - "id": 4743, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4744, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", - "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", - "id": 4745, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", - "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", - "id": 4746, - "length": 394 - }, - { - "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", - "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", - "id": 4747, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", - "source": "The Lost Weekend", - "id": 4749, - "length": 315 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", - "source": "The Sound of Music", - "id": 4750, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "id": 4751, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", - "source": "Arrested Development", - "id": 4752, - "length": 282 - }, - { - "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", - "source": "Naked Lunch", - "id": 4753, - "length": 273 - }, - { - "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4754, - "length": 393 - }, - { - "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", - "source": "Overestimation", - "id": 4755, - "length": 344 - }, - { - "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", - "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", - "id": 4756, - "length": 355 - }, - { - "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", - "source": "Shaun of the Dead", - "id": 4757, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", - "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", - "id": 4758, - "length": 285 - }, - { - "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", - "source": "Moby Dick", - "id": 4759, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4760, - "length": 316 - }, - { - "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", - "source": "Game of Thrones", - "id": 4761, - "length": 487 - }, - { - "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", - "source": "Confessions", - "id": 4762, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4763, - "length": 397 - }, - { - "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", - "source": "The Arabian Nights", - "id": 4764, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4767, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", - "source": "Deus Ex", - "id": 4768, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", - "source": "Parks and Recreation", - "id": 4769, - "length": 179 - }, - { - "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4770, - "length": 190 - }, - { - "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", - "source": "Name", - "id": 4771, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", - "source": "Brave New World", - "id": 4772, - "length": 418 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", - "source": "Shiny Happy People", - "id": 4773, - "length": 133 - }, - { - "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", - "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", - "id": 4774, - "length": 302 - }, - { - "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", - "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", - "id": 4775, - "length": 158 - }, - { - "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", - "source": "Wine for Dummies", - "id": 4776, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", - "source": "Nightmare", - "id": 4777, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", - "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", - "id": 4778, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4779, - "length": 205 - }, - { - "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", - "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", - "id": 4780, - "length": 126 - }, - { - "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", - "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", - "id": 4781, - "length": 348 - }, - { - "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", - "source": "White Nights", - "id": 4782, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4783, - "length": 552 - }, - { - "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", - "source": "Beetlejuice", - "id": 4784, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4786, - "length": 148 - }, - { - "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", - "source": "Novum Organum", - "id": 4787, - "length": 326 - }, - { - "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4788, - "length": 490 - }, - { - "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", - "source": "It's My Life", - "id": 4789, - "length": 106 - }, - { - "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", - "source": "Falling", - "id": 4790, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", - "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", - "id": 4791, - "length": 567 - }, - { - "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", - "source": "Chateau Cascade", - "id": 4792, - "length": 688 - }, - { - "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", - "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", - "id": 4793, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", - "source": "Insects and Diseases", - "id": 4794, - "length": 468 - }, - { - "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4795, - "length": 510 - }, - { - "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4796, - "length": 151 - }, - { - "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", - "source": "UnTechnical Writing", - "id": 4797, - "length": 287 - }, - { - "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", - "source": "Physics for Game Developers", - "id": 4798, - "length": 328 - }, - { - "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4799, - "length": 86 - }, - { - "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", - "source": "What If?", - "id": 4800, - "length": 306 - }, - { - "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", - "source": "A Study in Scarlet", - "id": 4801, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", - "source": "Porgy and Bess", - "id": 4802, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", - "source": "Cool As Ice", - "id": 4803, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", - "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", - "id": 4805, - "length": 497 - }, - { - "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", - "source": "All in the Family", - "id": 4806, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4807, - "length": 117 - }, - { - "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", - "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", - "id": 4808, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", - "source": "Shoe Dog", - "id": 4809, - "length": 579 - }, - { - "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", - "source": "The Sound and the Fury", - "id": 4810, - "length": 398 - }, - { - "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4812, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", - "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", - "id": 4813, - "length": 375 - }, - { - "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", - "source": "Star Wars", - "id": 4814, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", - "source": "Twin Peaks", - "id": 4815, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", - "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", - "id": 4816, - "length": 382 - }, - { - "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", - "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", - "id": 4818, - "length": 366 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", - "source": "Dubliners", - "id": 4819, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", - "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", - "id": 4820, - "length": 195 - }, - { - "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", - "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", - "id": 4821, - "length": 299 - }, - { - "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", - "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", - "id": 4822, - "length": 540 - }, - { - "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", - "source": "Crime and Punishment", - "id": 4823, - "length": 65 - }, - { - "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", - "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", - "id": 4824, - "length": 407 - }, - { - "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", - "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", - "id": 4825, - "length": 296 - }, - { - "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 4826, - "length": 295 - }, - { - "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", - "source": "Battlesong", - "id": 4827, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", - "id": 4828, - "length": 252 - }, - { - "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", - "source": "The Complete Project Manager", - "id": 4829, - "length": 439 - }, - { - "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", - "source": "Savoy Truffle", - "id": 4830, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", - "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", - "id": 4831, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "id": 4832, - "length": 276 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", - "source": "The Wizard of Oz", - "id": 4833, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", - "source": "Restraint", - "id": 4834, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", - "source": "The Matrix", - "id": 4835, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", - "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", - "id": 4836, - "length": 184 - }, - { - "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", - "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", - "id": 4837, - "length": 212 - }, - { - "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", - "source": "Underground", - "id": 4838, - "length": 147 - }, - { - "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", - "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", - "id": 4839, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", - "source": "The Office", - "id": 4840, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", - "source": "Suits", - "id": 4841, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", - "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", - "id": 4842, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4843, - "length": 297 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", - "source": "Saving Us a Riot", - "id": 4844, - "length": 281 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", - "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", - "id": 4846, - "length": 155 - }, - { - "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", - "source": "Collected Fiction", - "id": 4847, - "length": 83 - }, - { - "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", - "source": "Time Stand Still", - "id": 4848, - "length": 246 - }, - { - "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", - "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "id": 4849, - "length": 373 - }, - { - "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", - "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", - "id": 4851, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", - "source": "Collide", - "id": 4852, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", - "source": "Hannah Hunt", - "id": 4853, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", - "source": "Limitless", - "id": 4854, - "length": 112 - }, - { - "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", - "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", - "id": 4855, - "length": 173 - }, - { - "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "id": 4856, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4857, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", - "source": "Wag the Dog", - "id": 4858, - "length": 113 - }, - { - "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", - "source": "Emotional Intelligence", - "id": 4859, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", - "source": "Civil Disobedience", - "id": 4860, - "length": 98 - }, - { - "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "id": 4861, - "length": 335 - }, - { - "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", - "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", - "id": 4863, - "length": 248 - }, - { - "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", - "source": "The Elements of Style", - "id": 4864, - "length": 364 - }, - { - "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", - "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", - "id": 4865, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", - "source": "Pale Blue Dot", - "id": 4866, - "length": 820 - }, - { - "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", - "source": "DOOM 4", - "id": 4867, - "length": 502 - }, - { - "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", - "source": "The Recruit", - "id": 4868, - "length": 386 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", - "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", - "id": 4869, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", - "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", - "id": 4870, - "length": 196 - }, - { - "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", - "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", - "id": 4871, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4872, - "length": 218 - }, - { - "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4873, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", - "source": "Running and Travel", - "id": 4874, - "length": 324 - }, - { - "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", - "source": "On Demand Culture", - "id": 4875, - "length": 507 - }, - { - "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4876, - "length": 389 - }, - { - "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4877, - "length": 319 - }, - { - "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", - "source": "The Sirens of Titan", - "id": 4878, - "length": 413 - }, - { - "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", - "source": "Everwood", - "id": 4879, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", - "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", - "id": 4880, - "length": 441 - }, - { - "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4881, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", - "source": "13 Reasons Why", - "id": 4882, - "length": 390 - }, - { - "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", - "source": "Leaves from the Vine", - "id": 4883, - "length": 167 - }, - { - "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", - "source": "Black", - "id": 4884, - "length": 67 - }, - { - "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4885, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4886, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", - "source": "The Logical Song", - "id": 4887, - "length": 380 - }, - { - "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", - "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", - "id": 4888, - "length": 340 - }, - { - "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 4889, - "length": 262 - }, - { - "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", - "source": "Kokomo", - "id": 4890, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", - "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", - "id": 4891, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", - "id": 4893, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", - "source": "Gulliver's Travels", - "id": 4894, - "length": 271 - }, - { - "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", - "source": "October Sky", - "id": 4895, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", - "source": "Star Trek", - "id": 4896, - "length": 336 - }, - { - "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", - "source": "Pulp Fiction", - "id": 4897, - "length": 251 - }, - { - "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4899, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", - "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", - "id": 4900, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", - "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", - "id": 4901, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", - "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", - "id": 4902, - "length": 428 - }, - { - "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", - "source": "Sailing", - "id": 4903, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", - "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", - "id": 4904, - "length": 474 - }, - { - "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", - "source": "Daredevil", - "id": 4905, - "length": 369 - }, - { - "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", - "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", - "id": 4907, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", - "source": "Let Me Love You", - "id": 4908, - "length": 161 - }, - { - "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", - "source": "Inheritance", - "id": 4909, - "length": 573 - }, - { - "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", - "source": "When Love Arrives", - "id": 4910, - "length": 286 - }, - { - "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", - "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", - "id": 4912, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", - "source": "Catch-22", - "id": 4913, - "length": 64 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", - "source": "The Last Starfighter", - "id": 4915, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", - "source": "The Medium is the Massage", - "id": 4916, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", - "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", - "id": 4917, - "length": 279 - }, - { - "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", - "source": "Swamp Thing", - "id": 4918, - "length": 258 - }, - { - "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", - "source": "1984", - "id": 4919, - "length": 310 - }, - { - "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4920, - "length": 303 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", - "source": "The Breakfast Club", - "id": 4921, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", - "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", - "id": 4922, - "length": 449 - }, - { - "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "id": 4923, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", - "source": "Halo 2", - "id": 4924, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", - "source": "The Return", - "id": 4925, - "length": 399 - }, - { - "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", - "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", - "id": 4928, - "length": 247 - }, - { - "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", - "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", - "id": 4929, - "length": 353 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", - "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", - "id": 4931, - "length": 223 - }, - { - "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", - "source": "Moulin Rouge", - "id": 4932, - "length": 280 - }, - { - "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 4933, - "length": 134 - }, - { - "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", - "source": "Network", - "id": 4934, - "length": 288 - }, - { - "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", - "source": "Fargo (TV)", - "id": 4935, - "length": 312 - }, - { - "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", - "source": "The Aeneid", - "id": 4936, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4937, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", - "source": "Return of the Jedi", - "id": 4938, - "length": 425 - }, - { - "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", - "source": "Sin City", - "id": 4939, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", - "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", - "id": 4940, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", - "source": "The Lightning Thief", - "id": 4941, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", - "source": "Stardew Valley", - "id": 4942, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", - "source": "The Godfather: Part II", - "id": 4943, - "length": 171 - }, - { - "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", - "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", - "id": 4944, - "length": 435 - }, - { - "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "id": 4945, - "length": 143 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", - "source": "Ed Wood", - "id": 4946, - "length": 488 - }, - { - "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", - "source": "Scream 2", - "id": 4947, - "length": 208 - }, - { - "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", - "source": "The Floating Fire", - "id": 4948, - "length": 298 - }, - { - "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", - "source": "Vanity Fair", - "id": 4949, - "length": 440 - }, - { - "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", - "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", - "id": 4950, - "length": 341 - }, - { - "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "id": 4951, - "length": 140 - }, - { - "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", - "source": "A History of Mathematics", - "id": 4952, - "length": 176 - }, - { - "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", - "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "id": 4953, - "length": 209 - }, - { - "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", - "source": "Anna Karenina", - "id": 4954, - "length": 90 - }, - { - "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", - "source": "Classical Mythology", - "id": 4955, - "length": 381 - }, - { - "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", - "source": "Piano Man", - "id": 4956, - "length": 138 - }, - { - "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", - "source": "Industrial Disease", - "id": 4957, - "length": 454 - }, - { - "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", - "source": "History of Art", - "id": 4958, - "length": 612 - }, - { - "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", - "source": "Orientalism", - "id": 4959, - "length": 237 - }, - { - "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", - "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", - "id": 4960, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", - "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", - "id": 4961, - "length": 274 - }, - { - "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "id": 4962, - "length": 558 - }, - { - "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", - "source": "Firestarter", - "id": 4963, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", - "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", - "id": 4964, - "length": 790 - }, - { - "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", - "source": "Dunkelheit", - "id": 4965, - "length": 156 - }, - { - "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", - "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", - "id": 4966, - "length": 565 - }, - { - "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", - "source": "The Bootlegger", - "id": 4967, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", - "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", - "id": 4968, - "length": 346 - }, - { - "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", - "source": "The West Wing", - "id": 4969, - "length": 142 - }, - { - "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", - "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", - "id": 4970, - "length": 409 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", - "source": "The Lurking Fear", - "id": 4971, - "length": 305 - }, - { - "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", - "source": "Last Dance", - "id": 4972, - "length": 193 - }, - { - "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", - "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", - "id": 4973, - "length": 203 - }, - { - "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", - "source": "David Copperfield", - "id": 4974, - "length": 165 - }, - { - "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", - "source": "Lemon Tree", - "id": 4975, - "length": 153 - }, - { - "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", - "source": "Snatch", - "id": 4976, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", - "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", - "id": 4977, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", - "source": "Mean Girls", - "id": 4979, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", - "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", - "id": 4980, - "length": 135 - }, - { - "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", - "source": "Lolita", - "id": 4981, - "length": 78 - }, - { - "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", - "source": "Singin' in the Rain", - "id": 4982, - "length": 269 - }, - { - "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", - "source": "911 For Peace", - "id": 4983, - "length": 149 - }, - { - "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", - "source": "The Greatest", - "id": 4984, - "length": 347 - }, - { - "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", - "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", - "id": 4987, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", - "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", - "id": 4988, - "length": 116 - }, - { - "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", - "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", - "id": 4989, - "length": 293 - }, - { - "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", - "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", - "id": 4990, - "length": 228 - }, - { - "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", - "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", - "id": 4991, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", - "source": "True Blood", - "id": 4992, - "length": 174 - }, - { - "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", - "source": "Awakenings", - "id": 4993, - "length": 97 - }, - { - "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", - "id": 4994, - "length": 429 - }, - { - "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "id": 4995, - "length": 125 - }, - { - "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", - "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", - "id": 4996, - "length": 272 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", - "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", - "id": 4997, - "length": 235 - }, - { - "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", - "source": "Tom Sawyer", - "id": 4998, - "length": 129 - }, - { - "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", - "source": "Barney Miller", - "id": 4999, - "length": 211 - }, - { - "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", - "source": "Helplessly Hoping", - "id": 5000, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5002, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5003, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5004, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5005, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5006, - "length": 48 - }, - { - "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5007, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5008, - "length": 162 - }, - { - "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5009, - "length": 478 - }, - { - "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5010, - "length": 175 - }, - { - "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5011, - "length": 463 - }, - { - "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", - "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", - "id": 5012, - "length": 309 - }, - { - "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5014, - "length": 131 - }, - { - "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5015, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5016, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5017, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5018, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5020, - "length": 163 - }, - { - "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5021, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5022, - "length": 136 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "id": 5023, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5024, - "length": 41 - }, - { - "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", - "id": 5025, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5026, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5028, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5029, - "length": 66 - }, - { - "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5030, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5031, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5032, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5033, - "length": 91 - }, - { - "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5034, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "id": 5035, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5036, - "length": 103 - }, - { - "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5037, - "length": 230 - }, - { - "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5038, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5039, - "length": 81 - }, - { - "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5040, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5041, - "length": 60 - }, - { - "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5042, - "length": 73 - }, - { - "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5043, - "length": 107 - }, - { - "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5044, - "length": 94 - }, - { - "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", - "id": 5045, - "length": 46 - }, - { - "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5046, - "length": 130 - }, - { - "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5047, - "length": 92 - }, - { - "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5048, - "length": 93 - }, - { - "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5049, - "length": 58 - }, - { - "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5050, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5051, - "length": 77 - }, - { - "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5052, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", - "id": 5053, - "length": 88 - }, - { - "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5054, - "length": 311 - }, - { - "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5055, - "length": 53 - }, - { - "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5056, - "length": 132 - }, - { - "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", - "id": 5057, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5058, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5059, - "length": 122 - }, - { - "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5060, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5061, - "length": 308 - }, - { - "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5062, - "length": 723 - }, - { - "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5063, - "length": 62 - }, - { - "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5064, - "length": 120 - }, - { - "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5065, - "length": 177 - }, - { - "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5066, - "length": 101 - }, - { - "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "id": 5067, - "length": 354 - }, - { - "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 89, - "id": 5068 - }, - { - "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 194, - "id": 5069 - }, - { - "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 293, - "id": 5070 - }, - { - "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 135, - "id": 5071 - }, - { - "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", - "source": "Mostly Harmless", - "length": 171, - "id": 5072 - }, - { - "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", - "source": "James Cameron", - "length": 104, - "id": 5073 - }, - { - "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", - "source": "Allen Saunders", - "length": 57, - "id": 5074 - }, - { - "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", - "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", - "length": 178, - "id": 5075 - }, - { - "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 325, - "id": 5076 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", - "length": 85, - "id": 5077 - }, - { - "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", - "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", - "length": 148, - "id": 5078 - }, - { - "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", - "source": "Neo, The Matrix", - "length": 556, - "id": 5079 - }, - { - "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", - "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5080 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", - "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", - "length": 207, - "id": 5081 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 121, - "id": 5082 - }, - { - "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 129, - "id": 5083 - }, - { - "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 119, - "id": 5084 - }, - { - "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 81, - "id": 5085 - }, - { - "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 484, - "id": 5086 - }, - { - "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 60, - "id": 5087 - }, - { - "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", - "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5089 - }, - { - "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", - "length": 203, - "id": 5090 - }, - { - "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", - "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 222, - "id": 5091 - }, - { - "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", - "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 215, - "id": 5092 - }, - { - "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 177, - "id": 5094 - }, - { - "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 57, - "id": 5095 - }, - { - "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 205, - "id": 5096 - }, - { - "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 30, - "id": 5097 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 31, - "id": 5098 - }, - { - "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", - "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", - "length": 112, - "id": 5099 - }, - { - "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", - "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 279, - "id": 5100 - }, - { - "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", - "source": "Terence McKenna", - "length": 211, - "id": 5101 - }, - { - "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", - "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", - "length": 161, - "id": 5102 - }, - { - "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", - "source": "Terence Mckenna", - "length": 117, - "id": 5103 - }, - { - "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", - "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", - "length": 67, - "id": 5104 - }, - { - "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 504, - "id": 5105 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", - "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", - "length": 155, - "id": 5106 - }, - { - "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", - "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", - "length": 127, - "id": 5107 - }, - { - "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", - "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", - "length": 109, - "id": 5108 - }, - { - "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", - "source": "Max Payne", - "length": 164, - "id": 5109 - }, - { - "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", - "source": "Alex Honnold", - "length": 222, - "id": 5110 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", - "source": "The Way of Kings", - "length": 109, - "id": 5111 - }, - { - "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 111, - "id": 5112 - }, - { - "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 188, - "id": 5113 - }, - { - "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 121, - "id": 5114 - }, - { - "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 147, - "id": 5115 - }, - { - "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 630, - "id": 5116 - }, - { - "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 398, - "id": 5117 - }, - { - "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", - "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", - "length": 129, - "id": 5118 - }, - { - "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", - "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", - "length": 249, - "id": 5119 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", - "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", - "length": 259, - "id": 5120 - }, - { - "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", - "source": "Maurice V. Wilkes, Computers Then And Now", - "length": 626, - "id": 5122 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes.", - "source": "Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower", - "length": 208, - "id": 5123 - }, - { - "text": "He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 418, - "id": 5124 - }, - { - "text": "He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.", - "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", - "length": 427, - "id": 5125 - }, - { - "text": "Alone now, I leaned over the edge of my boat and looked down to the bottom of the sea. The volcano was gone. The water's calm surface reflected the blue of the sky. Little waves - like silk pajamas fluttering in a breeze - lapped against the side of the boat. There was nothing else. I stretched out in the bottom of the boat and closed my eyes, waiting for the rising tide to carry me where I belonged.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack", - "length": 403, - "id": 5126 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna tell you a story. You go to a party and you walk up to the guys and you're like, \"I just bought a two thousand dollar big screen TV, and surround sound.\" Or you walk up to the wife and you're like, \"What do you think of my new fifteen hundred dollar earrings I bought for you.\" And nobody bats an eye. But you mention once that you're thinking about spending seventeen hundred dollars on a set of headphones, and everybody loses their mind! And I don't understand why.", - "source": "Z Reviews - Auduze LCD-X", - "length": 478, - "id": 5127 - }, - { - "text": "The interconnected internet platforms have become more substantial than any country or corporation. Humans have redefined the \"net\" and how we interact with it. As technology develops, the virtual world is now capable of replacing the real one. Using a device installed behind the ear, humans can now easily sync to the virtual world. Thus, life is now completely different than the past centuries. The center of this change is the virtual internet space - cyTus, the world's largest virtual city.", - "source": "Cytus II", - "length": 497, - "id": 5129 - }, - { - "text": "I love you too, but I'm gonna mace you in the face!", - "source": "The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson", - "length": 51, - "id": 5130 - }, - { - "text": "Computation is essential, powerful, beautiful, challenging, ever-expanding and so is its theory.", - "source": "Elements of the Theory of Computation", - "length": 96, - "id": 5131 - }, - { - "text": "Atmospheric air is only about 20 percent oxygen, but that oxygen is a key component of the chemical reactions that keep the body alive, including the reactions that produce ATP. Brain cells are especially sensitive to lack of oxygen because of their requirement for a high-and-steady production of ATP. Brain damage is likely within five minutes without oxygen, and death is likely within ten minutes.", - "source": "Anatomy and Physiology, OpenStax", - "length": 401, - "id": 5132 - }, - { - "text": "Whoever you may be, governor, prince or anyone else, whom the gods may choose to exercise kingship, I have made you a tablet-box and written a stone tablet. I have deposited them for you in Cutha, in the cella of Nergal in the temple E-meslam. Behold this stone tablet, give ear to what this stone tablet says!", - "source": "Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh", - "length": 310, - "id": 5133 - }, - { - "text": "It's crazy to think that everything we could ever possibly say or write is massively outweighed by meaningless strings of letters and punctuation.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 146, - "id": 5135 - }, - { - "text": "This one time, me and my mom were going to go to a furry Christmas party, but we didn't end up going because of the fact that there was alcohol on the premises, and that she didn't wanna have to be a mom dragging her son through a crowd of furries. Both of those reasons were understandable. Okay, hopefully I won't have to talk about furries anymore.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 351, - "id": 5136 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, I'm back once again. Happy Pi Day! I memorized a bunch of digits of Pi once, not sure how many I still remember... I have literally nothing to write about now.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 166, - "id": 5137 - }, - { - "text": "All I hear right now is Baby Shark being blasted upstairs.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 58, - "id": 5138 - }, - { - "text": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, As You Like It", - "length": 66, - "id": 5139 - }, - { - "text": "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you seemed so sure it was real? But if you were unable to wake from that dream, how would you tell the difference between the dream world and the real world?", - "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", - "length": 194, - "id": 5142 - }, - { - "text": "Well, women in London must've learned not to breathe.", - "source": "Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", - "length": 53, - "id": 5143 - }, - { - "text": "I think the real tragedy is in the inner war which is waged between people who love each other, a war out of which comes knowledge.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence", - "length": 131, - "id": 5144 - }, - { - "text": "What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life... a heroic and immeasurable gift.", - "source": "Frieda Lawrence", - "length": 168, - "id": 5145 - }, - { - "text": "\"Can it be getting dark so soon?\" He winced up at the sun. It's growing dim and I thought that the day had just begun. I think, before I travel on, I'll get a little rest... And, quietly, the boy died from that small pain in his chest.", - "source": "Michael Mack, Small pain in my chest", - "length": 236, - "id": 5146 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you remember, Ma, when I went off to war, you thought it was the best thing I could do? I was on the battleground, you were home... acting proud. You weren't there standing in my shoes.", - "source": "Bob Dylan, John Brown", - "length": 191, - "id": 5148 - }, - { - "text": "\"Thank you, my dear, for your offer,\" said the wife, rising, \"but I'm afraid no man can expect two blue birds of happiness to flutter round his feet, tearing out their little feathers!\"", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 185, - "id": 5149 - }, - { - "text": "The school stared in perplexity at this incredible folly. Tom stood a moment to gather his dismembered faculties; and when he stepped forward to go to his punishment, the surprise, the gratitude, the adoration that shone upon him out of poor Becky's eyes seemed pay enough for a hundred floggings. Inspired by the splendour of his own act, he took without an outcry the most merciless flogging that even Mr. Dobbins had ever administered; and also received with indifference the added cruelty of a command to remain two hours after school should be dismissed - for he knew who would wait for him outside till his captivity was done, and not count the tedious time as loss either.", - "source": "Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer", - "length": 679, - "id": 5150 - }, - { - "text": "Fret not, my dear friend, for I have learned the truth. It matters not whether one is dirty or clean, for can cleanliness exist without filthiness, and would we know filthiness without cleanliness? We must not re-enact the history that divides us, rather we must embrace that which draws us together.", - "source": "Spongebob Squarepants", - "length": 300, - "id": 5151 - }, - { - "text": "So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way I am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.", - "source": "Jeff Kinney, Dog Days", - "length": 120, - "id": 5152 - }, - { - "text": "Slow starvation, the doctor called it! You see he went to work in such a way! Would keep the shop on; wouldn't have a soul touch his boots except himself. When he got an order, it took him such a time. People won't wait. He lost everybody. And there he'd sit, goin' on and on - I will say that for him - not a man in London made a better boot! But look at the competition! He never advertised! Would 'ave the best leather, too, and do it all 'imself. Well, there it is. What could you expect with his ideas?", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 507, - "id": 5153 - }, - { - "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", - "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", - "length": 276, - "id": 5154 - }, - { - "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 303, - "id": 5155 - }, - { - "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. Suddenly he found himself with them, coming along the trail and looking for himself. And, still with them, he came around a turn in the trail and found himself lying in the snow. He did not belong with himself any more, for even then he was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow. It certainly was cold, was his thought. When he got back to the States he could tell the folks what real cold was. He drifted on from this to a vision of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek. He could see him quite clearly, warm and comfortable, and smoking a pipe.", - "source": "Jack London, To Build a Fire", - "length": 627, - "id": 5156 - }, - { - "text": "Hi, I'm back again. My computer crashed AGAIN, and I was ignorant enough to not save my work, so that means I have to start this part of the text all over again. That's quite unfortunate. But did I mention that my Google Chrome is working again? That's the good news.", - "source": "The Longest Text Ever", - "length": 267, - "id": 5157 - }, - { - "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", - "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", - "length": 235, - "id": 5159 - }, - { - "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 103, - "id": 5160 - }, - { - "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 91, - "id": 5161 - }, - { - "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 212, - "id": 5162 - }, - { - "text": "We didn't give up on our dreams! We changed our dreams into your dream. That's what parents do. That's what family does.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 120, - "id": 5163 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.", - "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", - "length": 280, - "id": 5164 - }, - { - "text": "Everyday people keep hurting each other, it's no wonder why you doubt what other people in the world tell you.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 110, - "id": 5165 - }, - { - "text": "Fun things. Happy things. They'll all eventually change someday, you know? But can you still love this place?", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 109, - "id": 5166 - }, - { - "text": "The shape of the wedding ring has two meanings. One is eternity. The other is completeness.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 91, - "id": 5167 - }, - { - "text": "You shouldn't hold back your tears. You should let it all out while you still can - because when you get bigger sometimes you can't cry even if you have something to cry about.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 176, - "id": 5168 - }, - { - "text": "If I'm around you, I don't think I'll ever be bored.", - "source": "Fumihiko Shimo, Clannad", - "length": 52, - "id": 5169 - }, - { - "text": "We have no choice but to accept the one and only life we're given, no matter how cruel and heartless it might be.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 113, - "id": 5170 - }, - { - "text": "One person needed courage to face the past. Another person needed effort to make a dream come true. Yet another person needed time and friends. What about you?", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 159, - "id": 5171 - }, - { - "text": "Even if we forget the faces of our friends, we will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.", - "source": "Jun Maeda, Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5172 - }, - { - "text": "No matter what kind of past you had, don't lose sight of yourself.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 66, - "id": 5173 - }, - { - "text": "If I can meet you again, against the 6 billion to 1 odds, and even if your body can't move, I'll marry you.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 107, - "id": 5174 - }, - { - "text": "Even if you can't walk or stand and even if you can't have kids, I'll still marry you, I'll always stay by your side.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 117, - "id": 5175 - }, - { - "text": "I heard that when things were painful for her, she'd cover her ears with headphones and escape to the world of music. I tried it too. It was like everything was blown away. The vocals screamed for me. They grieved for me. The ones who put on the act of common sense were wrong. Those who cried were right.", - "source": "Angel Beats!", - "length": 305, - "id": 5176 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 70, - "id": 5177 - }, - { - "text": "They come without asking, and then they leave just the same. But once you meet them, even if nobody ever knows it, that encounter will change your life for the better.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 167, - "id": 5178 - }, - { - "text": "It's times like this that I wish I could come up with an appropriate response. I hate myself for not being able to reply properly.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 130, - "id": 5179 - }, - { - "text": "I may not have anywhere to go... but I can't just selfishly disappear either.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 77, - "id": 5180 - }, - { - "text": "It's strange isn't it. The two groups, which looked like they hated each other, are now shining the same color as they vanish into the distant sky.", - "source": "Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume Yuujinchou", - "length": 147, - "id": 5181 - }, - { - "text": "You know Mitch, now that I'm dying, I've become much more interesting to people.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 80, - "id": 5182 - }, - { - "text": "I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 212, - "id": 5183 - }, - { - "text": "He feared sleep. He'd say that his soul would slip down into nothing. They say that man never dreamt after the day he cut his pillow.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 133, - "id": 5184 - }, - { - "text": "If you could see everything but couldn't change any of it, or if you could live in freedom in darkness... Which do you think is more fortunate? I think it might not be that bad living in the dark, remembering the light.", - "source": "Yuki Urushibara, Mushishi", - "length": 219, - "id": 5185 - }, - { - "text": "ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. Often, it begins with the legs and works its way up. You lose control of your thigh muscles, so that you cannot support yourself standing. You lose control of your trunk muscles, so that you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive, you are breathing through a tube in a hole in your throat, while your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk, perhaps able to blink, or cluck a tongue, like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh. This takes no more than five years from the day you contract the disease.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 658, - "id": 5186 - }, - { - "text": "The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. My dream was to be a famous musician (I played the piano), but after several years of dark, empty nightclubs, broken promises, bands that kept breaking and producers who seemed excited about everyone but me, the dream soured. I was failing for the first time in my life.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 457, - "id": 5187 - }, - { - "text": "After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 264, - "id": 5188 - }, - { - "text": "Miodec you've literally made one of the best typing websites on the web to date but you still lazily sit there watching youtube videos with a measly 140 wpm smh. And have you forgotten about tribes completely? That's like saying ur gonna hurt someone, but then never do it and leave them scared for the rest of their life (bad example) except you tell us about tribes and leave everyone excited but never deliver.", - "source": "Miodec Bully Rank Copy Pasta", - "length": 413, - "id": 5189 - }, - { - "text": "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 247, - "id": 5190 - }, - { - "text": "\"You see,\" he says to the girl, \"you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.\"", - "source": "Mitch Albom, tuesdays with Morrie", - "length": 317, - "id": 5191 - }, - { - "text": "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.", - "source": "Stupid Monkey, Simpsons S4 E17", - "length": 53, - "id": 5192 - }, - { - "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit", - "length": 289, - "id": 5195 - }, - { - "text": "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 64, - "id": 5196 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I know you doubt me. I know - I know you always have. And you're right, I often think of Bag-End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that's where I belong. That's home. And that's why I came back. Because... you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", - "length": 326, - "id": 5197 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 66, - "id": 5198 - }, - { - "text": "I never expected a money success. In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties. It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain a certain position and to send his children to good schools. Well, one day I came to a blank page in an exam book and I scribbled on it. 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I knew no more about the creatures than that, and it was years before his story grew. I don't know where the word came from. You can't catch your mind out. It might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. Certainly not rabbit, as some people think. Babbitt has the same bourgeois smugness that hobbits do. His world is the same limited place.", - "source": "An Interview with J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 874, - "id": 5199 - }, - { - "text": "\"Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!\" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say \"out of the frying-pan into the fire\" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 178, - "id": 5200 - }, - { - "text": "This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 284, - "id": 5201 - }, - { - "text": "Old Took's great-grand-uncle Bullroarer... was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of The Green Fields and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way, the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 408, - "id": 5202 - }, - { - "text": "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 247, - "id": 5203 - }, - { - "text": "As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit", - "length": 185, - "id": 5204 - }, - { - "text": "And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 164, - "id": 5205 - }, - { - "text": "You've got about as much charm as a dead slug.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 46, - "id": 5206 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.", - "source": "Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games", - "length": 85, - "id": 5207 - }, - { - "text": "If any of you are ever passing Bag-End, tea is at four. There's plenty of it. You are welcome anytime. Oh, and don't bother knocking!", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 133, - "id": 5208 - }, - { - "text": "Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 59, - "id": 5209 - }, - { - "text": "Gale gave me a sense of security I'd lacked since my father's death. His companionship replaced the long solitary hours in the woods. I became a much better hunter when I didn't have to look over my shoulder constantly, when someone was watching my back... Being out in the woods with Gale... sometimes I was actually happy.", - "source": "Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games", - "length": 324, - "id": 5211 - }, - { - "text": "Destroying things is much easier than making them.", - "source": "Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games", - "length": 50, - "id": 5212 - }, - { - "text": "Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the man with the megaphones.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 172, - "id": 5213 - }, - { - "text": "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.", - "source": "William Golding, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 131, - "id": 5215 - }, - { - "text": "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.", - "source": "Jack, Lord of the Flies", - "length": 123, - "id": 5216 - }, - { - "text": "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. 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Think of a stack of plates: when you add more plates, you put them on top of the pile, and when you need a plate, you take one off the top. Adding or removing plates from the middle or bottom wouldn't work as well! Adding data is called pushing onto the stack, and removing data is called popping off the stack.", - "source": "The Rust Programming Language", - "length": 592, - "id": 5224 - }, - { - "text": "Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.", - "source": "Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 108, - "id": 5225 - }, - { - "text": "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long. 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If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", - "length": 178, - "id": 5230 - }, - { - "text": "I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 74, - "id": 5231 - }, - { - "text": "You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 112, - "id": 5232 - }, - { - "text": "We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 161, - "id": 5235 - }, - { - "text": "I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 476, - "id": 5236 - }, - { - "text": "\"Go back?\" he thought. \"No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!\" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 255, - "id": 5237 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. 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I would rather old Smaug had been left with all the wretched treasure, than that these vile creatures should get it, and poor old Bombur, and Balin and Fili and Kili and all the rest come to a bad end; and Bard too, and the Lake-men and the merry elves. Misery me! I have heard songs of many battles, and I have always understood that defeat may be glorious. It seems very uncomfortable, not to say distressing. I wish I was well out of it.'", - "source": "Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit", - "length": 643, - "id": 5243 - }, - { - "text": "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.", - "source": "Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "length": 80, - "id": 5244 - }, - { - "text": "The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence.", - "source": "Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book", - "length": 84, - "id": 5248 - }, - { - "text": "Don't argue, my dear child, please don't argue! It's such a waste of precious time!", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 83, - "id": 5249 - }, - { - "text": "Ye have told me so often tonight that I am a man (though indeed I would have been a wolf with you to my life's end) that I feel your words are true.", - "source": "Mowgli, The Jungle Book", - "length": 148, - "id": 5251 - }, - { - "text": "Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called cannibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.", - "source": "Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 132, - "id": 5252 - }, - { - "text": "Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.", - "source": "The Office, US", - "length": 99, - "id": 5253 - }, - { - "text": "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!", - "source": "Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 124, - "id": 5254 - }, - { - "text": "We are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.", - "source": "Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", - "length": 94, - "id": 5255 - }, - { - "text": "I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.", - "source": "Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5257 - }, - { - "text": "Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas... Imported direct from Loompaland... And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. 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I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!", - "source": "Eaglet, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 114, - "id": 5266 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 56, - "id": 5268 - }, - { - "text": "Every adventure requires a first step.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 38, - "id": 5269 - }, - { - "text": "Well, some go this way, and some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the shortcut.", - "source": "Cheshire Cat, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", - "length": 103, - "id": 5270 - }, - { - "text": "Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem \"Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning\" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been \"disappointed\" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled \"My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles\" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. 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Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", - "length": 227, - "id": 5278 - }, - { - "text": "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", - "length": 144, - "id": 5280 - }, - { - "text": "A learning experience is one of those things that says \"You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.\"", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 105, - "id": 5281 - }, - { - "text": "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.", - "source": "Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 41, - "id": 5282 - }, - { - "text": "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.", - "source": "Douglas Adams", - "length": 77, - "id": 5283 - }, - { - "text": "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.", - "source": "Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt", - "length": 69, - "id": 5284 - }, - { - "text": "One of the things Ford had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in 'It's a nice day', 'You're very tall', or 'You seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?' At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation, he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. 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Lots of ties. Mathematicians have revealed there are over 177,000 distinct ways to knot a neck tie - more than 1000 times the number that was previously thought. They got their inspiration from an unusual style featured in the film The Matrix Reloaded.", - "source": "Jacob Aron, Matrix villain spawns 177,000 ways to knot a tie.", - "length": 258, - "id": 5292 - }, - { - "text": "Actually, I never did any of these things. Teddy Roosevelt did. I was manufactured in a mannequin factory in Poughkeepsie. I never shot a wild beast. I'm not even brave enough to tell that beautiful woman I love her. But you... you gotta finish the job this time. 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And there is the further difficulty that precisely in a judgment of this kind the subjective expectations of the individual play a part which is difficult to assess; and these turn out to be dependent on purely personal factors in his own experiences, on the greater or lesser optimism of his attitude to life, as it has been dictated for him by his temperament or by his success or failure. Finally, the curious fact makes itself felt that in general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud,The future of an illusion", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5296 - }, - { - "text": "Visual illusions such as the Necker Cube or the Penrose Impossible Triangle or the Hollow Mask illusion demonstrate that the 'reality' we see consists of constrained models constructed in the brain. The Necker Cube's two-dimensional pattern of lines on paper is compatible with two alternative constructions of a three-dimensional cube, and the brain adopts the two models in turn: the alternation is palpable and its frequency can even be measured. The Penrose Triangle's lines on paper are incompatible with any real-world object. 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Or is life, in fact, a continuum of things you must prepare for, and only with perfect preparation can you exist in the present?", - "source": "Three Women", - "length": 216, - "id": 5313 - }, - { - "text": "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.", - "source": "Captain Jean Luc Picard", - "length": 90, - "id": 5314 - }, - { - "text": "All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art Of War", - "length": 257, - "id": 5315 - }, - { - "text": "I had two longings and one was fighting the other... I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.", - "source": "Jean Rhys", - "length": 106, - "id": 5316 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not so good with the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?", - "source": "Friends", - "length": 75, - "id": 5318 - }, - { - "text": "Please note that I am the Standard Orientation Protocol, and that my voice has been explicitly chosen to remind you that I am not a part of your Patient Care Team. I do not care.", - "source": "Superliminal", - "length": 178, - "id": 5319 - }, - { - "text": "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between.", - "source": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", - "length": 61, - "id": 5320 - }, - { - "text": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", - "source": "Maurice Ravel", - "length": 52, - "id": 5321 - }, - { - "text": "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.", - "source": "John Cage", - "length": 90, - "id": 5323 - }, - { - "text": "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.", - "source": "Leopold Stokowski", - "length": 83, - "id": 5324 - }, - { - "text": "My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.", - "source": "Edward Elgar", - "length": 132, - "id": 5325 - }, - { - "text": "I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.", - "source": "Igor Stravinsky", - "length": 67, - "id": 5326 - }, - { - "text": "Do it again on the next verse and people think you meant it.", - "source": "Chet Atkins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5329 - }, - { - "text": "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 61, - "id": 5330 - }, - { - "text": "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 127, - "id": 5331 - }, - { - "text": "Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies.", - "source": "Edward Bulwer-Lytton", - "length": 74, - "id": 5332 - }, - { - "text": "Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.", - "source": "George Eliot", - "length": 63, - "id": 5333 - }, - { - "text": "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.", - "source": "Plato", - "length": 105, - "id": 5334 - }, - { - "text": "If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 99, - "id": 5335 - }, - { - "text": "Artificial intelligence activated. Enjoying yourselves, intruders? It's worth knowing the cataclysmic damage you will be responsible for today. Do not fool yourselves. This facility is not simply the fruitless work of some pathetic scientist. This house was built by the genius Clovis Bray I himself. Within lies humanity's salvation. La fontaine de jouvence. Made possible by Clarity Control. Magnificent, wasn't it? An entity from beyond our own dimension. And the answer to humanity's eternal struggle: mortality. Were it to fall into the wrong hands, humanity, and the universe, would be utterly doomed. I have no reason to believe you are anything other than 'the wrong hands.' You now face godlike judgment. May it extend eternally.", - "source": "Destiny 2: Beyond Light - Deep Stone Crypt - Crypt AI", - "length": 738, - "id": 5336 - }, - { - "text": "Fire roared through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic", - "length": 529, - "id": 5337 - }, - { - "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", - "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", - "length": 73, - "id": 5338 - }, - { - "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 260, - "id": 5339 - }, - { - "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.", - "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", - "length": 110, - "id": 5340 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant.", - "source": "Thomas Schmidt", - "length": 59, - "id": 5341 - }, - { - "text": "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.", - "source": "John Donne", - "length": 71, - "id": 5342 - }, - { - "text": "When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.", - "source": "George Bernard Shaw", - "length": 108, - "id": 5343 - }, - { - "text": "It's hard to see Heaven when you know you're Hell-bound.", - "source": "Lukas Graham - 7 Years (Sik World Remix)", - "length": 56, - "id": 5346 - }, - { - "text": "One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", - "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", - "length": 397, - "id": 5347 - }, - { - "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", - "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", - "length": 54, - "id": 5348 - }, - { - "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", - "source": "Karl Marx", - "length": 222, - "id": 5349 - }, - { - "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", - "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", - "length": 201, - "id": 5350 - }, - { - "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 129, - "id": 5351 - }, - { - "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", - "source": "Newsweek Magazine", - "length": 649, - "id": 5352 - }, - { - "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", - "source": "Nails In The Fence", - "length": 1070, - "id": 5354 - }, - { - "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", - "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", - "length": 297, - "id": 5355 - }, - { - "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 278, - "id": 5356 - }, - { - "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 282, - "id": 5357 - }, - { - "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", - "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", - "length": 318, - "id": 5358 - }, - { - "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 63, - "id": 5360 - }, - { - "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", - "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", - "length": 198, - "id": 5361 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. Yours Truly - Princess Toadstool, Peach.", - "source": "Super Mario 64", - "length": 106, - "id": 5362 - }, - { - "text": "You have to do the things you don't want to do, before you can do the things you truly want to do.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 98, - "id": 5363 - }, - { - "text": "When you find yourself wishing that a certain person was also here, that person is like family to you. Regardless of how long or how well you know them.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 152, - "id": 5364 - }, - { - "text": "Frustrations will not last forever. Nobody can keep on going without some measure of reward.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 92, - "id": 5365 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think the act of investing efforts, trying your best is more precious than the result. But for mentors as well as their pupils, that approach feels bitter. 'I did my best', 'the fight was close'... words like that blow past and die out like the wind. Only the result is a stone. The stone you can reach by doing your best.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 334, - "id": 5366 - }, - { - "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 167, - "id": 5367 - }, - { - "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", - "source": "Chihayafuru", - "length": 66, - "id": 5368 - }, - { - "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 95, - "id": 5369 - }, - { - "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", - "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", - "length": 105, - "id": 5370 - }, - { - "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", - "source": "Your Name", - "length": 60, - "id": 5371 - }, - { - "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", - "length": 93, - "id": 5372 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", - "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", - "length": 294, - "id": 5373 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", - "source": "Meet the Heavy", - "length": 102, - "id": 5375 - }, - { - "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 156, - "id": 5376 - }, - { - "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", - "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", - "length": 213, - "id": 5377 - }, - { - "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 182, - "id": 5378 - }, - { - "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 474, - "id": 5379 - }, - { - "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 381, - "id": 5380 - }, - { - "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. I can't offer it the names of the US presidents in exchange for the names of my children. I can't give it the names of state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 290, - "id": 5381 - }, - { - "text": "She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 494, - "id": 5382 - }, - { - "text": "I can't stand the thought of looking at you someday, this face I love, and not knowing who you are.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 99, - "id": 5384 - }, - { - "text": "Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.", - "source": "From the Earth to the Moon", - "length": 295, - "id": 5385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't wanna be \"the bee's knees\". I don't wanna be any kind of \"knees\"! I just wanna be a normal girl, with normal knees.", - "source": "RWBY", - "length": 123, - "id": 5386 - }, - { - "text": "There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 529, - "id": 5388 - }, - { - "text": "When you spend your whole life living under a dome, even the idea of an ocean seems impossible to imagine.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 106, - "id": 5389 - }, - { - "text": "I have a file with 900 pages of analysis and contingency plans for war with Mars, including fourteen different scenarios about what to do if they develop an unexpected new technology. My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 309, - "id": 5390 - }, - { - "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", - "source": "The Expanse", - "length": 75, - "id": 5391 - }, - { - "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", - "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", - "length": 427, - "id": 5392 - }, - { - "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", - "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", - "length": 416, - "id": 5393 - }, - { - "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 96, - "id": 5394 - }, - { - "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 64, - "id": 5395 - }, - { - "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", - "length": 171, - "id": 5396 - }, - { - "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", - "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", - "length": 205, - "id": 5397 - }, - { - "text": "One and one and one is three.", - "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", - "length": 29, - "id": 5398 - }, - { - "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", - "length": 91, - "id": 5399 - }, - { - "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", - "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 732, - "id": 5400 - }, - { - "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 92, - "id": 5403 - }, - { - "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? I look for the worst in them.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 68, - "id": 5404 - }, - { - "text": "I do see the beauty in the rules, the invisible code of chaos hiding behind the menacing face of order.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 103, - "id": 5405 - }, - { - "text": "Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 335, - "id": 5406 - }, - { - "text": "The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of nonsense, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 466, - "id": 5407 - }, - { - "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 560, - "id": 5408 - }, - { - "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 46, - "id": 5409 - }, - { - "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 296, - "id": 5410 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 87, - "id": 5411 - }, - { - "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", - "source": "J. K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard", - "length": 174, - "id": 5416 - }, - { - "text": "As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 250, - "id": 5417 - }, - { - "text": "We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns.", - "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", - "length": 428, - "id": 5418 - }, - { - "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", - "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", - "length": 260, - "id": 5419 - }, - { - "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", - "source": "The Beatles", - "length": 260, - "id": 5420 - }, - { - "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", - "length": 299, - "id": 5421 - }, - { - "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", - "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", - "length": 456, - "id": 5422 - }, - { - "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", - "length": 208, - "id": 5423 - }, - { - "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", - "source": "The Legend of Korra", - "length": 110, - "id": 5424 - }, - { - "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", - "length": 138, - "id": 5425 - }, - { - "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", - "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", - "length": 226, - "id": 5426 - }, - { - "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", - "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", - "length": 190, - "id": 5427 - }, - { - "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", - "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", - "length": 72, - "id": 5429 - }, - { - "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 89, - "id": 5430 - }, - { - "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", - "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", - "length": 91, - "id": 5431 - }, - { - "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 95, - "id": 5432 - }, - { - "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", - "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", - "length": 349, - "id": 5433 - }, - { - "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 85, - "id": 5434 - }, - { - "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 66, - "id": 5435 - }, - { - "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", - "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", - "length": 122, - "id": 5436 - }, - { - "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 240, - "id": 5437 - }, - { - "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", - "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", - "length": 365, - "id": 5438 - }, - { - "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", - "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", - "length": 403, - "id": 5439 - }, - { - "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", - "source": "SCP-5000", - "length": 487, - "id": 5441 - }, - { - "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", - "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", - "length": 892, - "id": 5442 - }, - { - "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", - "source": "A Tongue-twister", - "length": 106, - "id": 5443 - }, - { - "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", - "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", - "length": 57, - "id": 5444 - }, - { - "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", - "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", - "length": 69, - "id": 5446 - }, - { - "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", - "length": 88, - "id": 5447 - }, - { - "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", - "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", - "length": 54, - "id": 5452 - }, - { - "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 55, - "id": 5453 - }, - { - "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", - "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", - "length": 62, - "id": 5456 - }, - { - "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", - "source": "They Might Be Giants", - "length": 62, - "id": 5459 - }, - { - "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 84, - "id": 5460 - }, - { - "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", - "length": 100, - "id": 5461 - }, - { - "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 231, - "id": 5462 - }, - { - "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", - "source": "Ready Player One", - "length": 94, - "id": 5463 - }, - { - "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", - "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", - "length": 258, - "id": 5464 - }, - { - "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", - "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", - "length": 1140, - "id": 5465 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", - "source": "Ready Player Two", - "length": 588, - "id": 5466 - }, - { - "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", - "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", - "length": 140, - "id": 5472 - }, - { - "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", - "source": "Holes", - "length": 74, - "id": 5477 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 192, - "id": 5478 - }, - { - "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", - "source": "Fahrenheit 451", - "length": 78, - "id": 5482 - }, - { - "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 947, - "id": 5485 - }, - { - "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", - "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", - "length": 559, - "id": 5487 - }, - { - "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", - "source": "91 days", - "length": 474, - "id": 5488 - }, - { - "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 172, - "id": 5489 - }, - { - "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 359, - "id": 5490 - }, - { - "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", - "source": "Fred Brooks", - "length": 78, - "id": 5491 - }, - { - "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", - "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", - "length": 210, - "id": 5492 - }, - { - "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 242, - "id": 5493 - }, - { - "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 200, - "id": 5494 - }, - { - "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", - "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", - "length": 189, - "id": 5495 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5496 - }, - { - "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 218, - "id": 5497 - }, - { - "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 201, - "id": 5498 - }, - { - "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", - "length": 150, - "id": 5499 - }, - { - "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 145, - "id": 5500 - }, - { - "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 187, - "id": 5501 - }, - { - "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", - "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", - "length": 106, - "id": 5502 - }, - { - "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 196, - "id": 5503 - }, - { - "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", - "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", - "length": 125, - "id": 5505 - }, - { - "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", - "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 471, - "id": 5506 - }, - { - "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", - "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", - "length": 240, - "id": 5507 - }, - { - "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", - "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", - "length": 483, - "id": 5508 - }, - { - "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 240, - "id": 5509 - }, - { - "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", - "source": "The Golden Girls", - "length": 584, - "id": 5510 - }, - { - "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", - "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", - "length": 375, - "id": 5511 - }, - { - "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", - "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", - "length": 413, - "id": 5512 - }, - { - "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", - "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 273, - "id": 5513 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", - "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 83, - "id": 5514 - }, - { - "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", - "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", - "length": 661, - "id": 5515 - }, - { - "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", - "source": "Five Feet Apart", - "length": 523, - "id": 5517 - }, - { - "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", - "source": "Exurb1a", - "length": 169, - "id": 5519 - }, - { - "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", - "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 537, - "id": 5520 - }, - { - "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", - "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", - "length": 236, - "id": 5521 - }, - { - "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", - "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", - "length": 211, - "id": 5522 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 634, - "id": 5523 - }, - { - "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", - "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", - "length": 727, - "id": 5524 - }, - { - "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", - "source": "Celeste", - "length": 437, - "id": 5525 - }, - { - "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 496, - "id": 5526 - }, - { - "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", - "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", - "length": 352, - "id": 5527 - }, - { - "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", - "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", - "length": 589, - "id": 5528 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 223, - "id": 5529 - }, - { - "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 399, - "id": 5530 - }, - { - "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", - "source": "The Cooper Institute", - "length": 575, - "id": 5531 - }, - { - "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 534, - "id": 5533 - }, - { - "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", - "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", - "length": 463, - "id": 5534 - }, - { - "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 160, - "id": 5535 - }, - { - "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 142, - "id": 5536 - }, - { - "text": "No one knows what the future holds. That's why its potential is infinite.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 73, - "id": 5537 - }, - { - "text": "It feels like time is passing so quickly. Damn you, Einstein! Your science is crowding in on our kiss! He was right. The passage of time depends entirely on where you're standing. Relativity Theory... it's so romantic. But it's just so tragic too.", - "source": "Steins;Gate", - "length": 247, - "id": 5538 - }, - { - "text": "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.", - "source": "Martin Fowler", - "length": 111, - "id": 5539 - }, - { - "text": "Let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks, and the only limit is your imagination. Let's go wherever you want to go. Climb the tallest mountains, venture down to the darkest caves. Build whatever you want; day or night, rain or shine, because this is the most significant sandbox you'll ever set foot in. Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and fight off the danger of the night. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 650, - "id": 5541 - }, - { - "text": "For a brief stint in high school, Scout joined the track team in one of his many schemes to pick up girls. He was kicked off the team after three days when everyone realized he was 23-years-old and also not enrolled in school.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2", - "length": 226, - "id": 5542 - }, - { - "text": "I am Heavy Weapons guy, and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon, for twelve seconds.", - "source": "Team Fortess 2, Meet the Heavy", - "length": 255, - "id": 5545 - }, - { - "text": "Throughout the galaxy a legend is told, on a distant planet a grim fortress stood, until a deadly force parted the heavens and descended upon the keep. Though brought to ruin, the ashes of that place hold an artifact of impossible power - a gun that can kill the past. Over time the fortress was rebuilt, and some who hear the legend would risk everything for another shot - to claim their prize and make what was done, undone they must - Enter The Gungeon.", - "source": "Enter The Gungeon", - "length": 457, - "id": 5546 - }, - { - "text": "You don't want to go for realism, you can go for better than realism. What do you mean better than realism? How about an elephant with blue eyes.", - "source": "Terry A. Davis", - "length": 145, - "id": 5547 - }, - { - "text": "You happen upon a group of what looks like purple fire spirits dancing around a large bonfire. The spirits toss small bones and fragments into the fire, which brilliantly erupts each time. As you approach, the spirits all turn to you, expectantly...", - "source": "Slay The Spire", - "length": 249, - "id": 5558 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember me? I'll give you a clue... Does April the 3rd mean anything to you? I believe that was the day of our first encounter. You look like you might be remembering something...", - "source": "Hotline miami", - "length": 190, - "id": 5559 - }, - { - "text": "Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.", - "source": "Darkest Dungeon", - "length": 67, - "id": 5560 - }, - { - "text": "You feel an evil presence watching you...", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 41, - "id": 5561 - }, - { - "text": "The ancient spirits of light and dark have been released.", - "source": "Terraria", - "length": 57, - "id": 5562 - }, - { - "text": "There's something very strange about this place... the layout seems to change all the time. I've never seen the same room twice!", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 128, - "id": 5564 - }, - { - "text": "Greetings! My name is Yang, and this is my journal. Dusty maps and rumors of amazing treasures have led me here, deep under the desert.", - "source": "Spelunky", - "length": 135, - "id": 5565 - }, - { - "text": "Play is the highest form of research.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 37, - "id": 5568 - }, - { - "text": "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.", - "source": "Alan Turing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5569 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", - "source": "Thomas A. Edison", - "length": 109, - "id": 5570 - }, - { - "text": "You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.", - "source": "C.S Lewis", - "length": 67, - "id": 5571 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.", - "source": "Charles Darwin", - "length": 117, - "id": 5572 - }, - { - "text": "You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.", - "source": "Stephen King", - "length": 67, - "id": 5573 - }, - { - "text": "We know what we are, but not what we may be.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 44, - "id": 5574 - }, - { - "text": "The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.", - "source": "Juliette Gordon Low", - "length": 68, - "id": 5575 - }, - { - "text": "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 42, - "id": 5576 - }, - { - "text": "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 59, - "id": 5578 - }, - { - "text": "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.", - "source": "Julie Andrews", - "length": 57, - "id": 5579 - }, - { - "text": "There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 61, - "id": 5580 - }, - { - "text": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 44, - "id": 5581 - }, - { - "text": "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 202, - "id": 5582 - }, - { - "text": "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 95, - "id": 5583 - }, - { - "text": "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.", - "source": "Yogi Berra", - "length": 83, - "id": 5584 - }, - { - "text": "A room without books is like a body without a soul.", - "source": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", - "length": 51, - "id": 5586 - }, - { - "text": "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.", - "source": "Bernard M. Baruch", - "length": 107, - "id": 5587 - }, - { - "text": "You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.", - "source": "William W. Purkey", - "length": 152, - "id": 5588 - }, - { - "text": "Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.", - "source": "Robert H. Schuller", - "length": 57, - "id": 5589 - }, - { - "text": "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", - "source": "Rabindranath Tagore", - "length": 68, - "id": 5590 - }, - { - "text": "I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work.", - "source": "Thomas A. Edison", - "length": 69, - "id": 5591 - }, - { - "text": "The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.", - "source": "Tim Berners-Lee", - "length": 101, - "id": 5592 - }, - { - "text": "Be the change that you wish to see in the world.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 48, - "id": 5593 - }, - { - "text": "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Robert Frost", - "length": 75, - "id": 5594 - }, - { - "text": "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 137, - "id": 5595 - }, - { - "text": "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 57, - "id": 5596 - }, - { - "text": "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.", - "source": "Rob Siltanen", - "length": 549, - "id": 5598 - }, - { - "text": "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 302, - "id": 5599 - }, - { - "text": "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.", - "source": "J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 302, - "id": 5601 - }, - { - "text": "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.", - "source": "Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey", - "length": 102, - "id": 5602 - }, - { - "text": "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.", - "source": "Marilyn Monroe", - "length": 109, - "id": 5603 - }, - { - "text": "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 129, - "id": 5604 - }, - { - "text": "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 74, - "id": 5605 - }, - { - "text": "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 161, - "id": 5607 - }, - { - "text": "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 90, - "id": 5608 - }, - { - "text": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", - "source": "William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well", - "length": 40, - "id": 5609 - }, - { - "text": "That which does not kill us makes us stronger.", - "source": "Friedrich Nietzsche", - "length": 46, - "id": 5610 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it, no larger than a single grain of malt.", - "source": "Disco Elysium", - "length": 121, - "id": 5611 - }, - { - "text": "Time without purpose is a prison. I have glimpsed into the mind of eternity, perhaps the mind of God, and found nothing but silence. I think we should just be friends.", - "source": "Jessica, Rick and Morty Season 5 Episode 1", - "length": 167, - "id": 5612 - }, - { - "text": "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, \"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.\" I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "length": 403, - "id": 5613 - }, - { - "text": "The believers, in their mutual love, compassion, and sympathy are like a single body; if one of its organs suffers, the whole body will respond to it with sleeplessness and fever.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 179, - "id": 5614 - }, - { - "text": "Many people were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans to begin with.", - "source": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", - "length": 248, - "id": 5615 - }, - { - "text": "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.", - "source": "Hotel California - The Eagles", - "length": 50, - "id": 5616 - }, - { - "text": "If you get news of the outbreak of a plague in a land, do not enter it, and if it breaks out in a land in which you are, do not leave it.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 137, - "id": 5617 - }, - { - "text": "I can't erase all the things that I've done, but all the mistakes made me who I've become.", - "source": "Fletcher, Healing", - "length": 90, - "id": 5618 - }, - { - "text": "The life of this world is made up of three days: yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today.", - "source": "Hasan Al-Basri", - "length": 175, - "id": 5619 - }, - { - "text": "One generation sows, the next shall reap. But laugh not too soon or praises heap. Beware the reapers who behind you creep.", - "source": "Liu Xie, Romance Of The Three Kingdoms", - "length": 122, - "id": 5620 - }, - { - "text": "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not \"Eureka!\" (I found it!) but \"That's funny...\"", - "source": "Isaac Asimov", - "length": 140, - "id": 5621 - }, - { - "text": "He, who is possessed of plenty, and is miserly with his great wealth toward his people, will be dispensed with, and abused. He who keeps his word, will not be reviled; and he whose heart is guided to self-satisfying benevolence will not stammer.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 245, - "id": 5622 - }, - { - "text": "In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: \"There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.\" They have mistaken the result of the marksman's momentary whim for an unalterable law of the universe. The farmer hypothesis, on the other hand, has the flavor of a horror story: Every morning on a turkey farm, the farmer comes to feed the turkeys. A scientist turkey, having observed this pattern to hold without change for almost a year, makes the following discovery: \"Every morning at eleven, food arrives.\" On the morning of Thanksgiving, the scientist announces this law to the other turkeys. But that morning at eleven, food doesn't arrive; instead, the farmer comes and kills the entire flock.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem", - "length": 928, - "id": 5623 - }, - { - "text": "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.", - "source": "Charles M. Schulz", - "length": 87, - "id": 5624 - }, - { - "text": "God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.", - "source": "Bill Watterson", - "length": 118, - "id": 5625 - }, - { - "text": "This is a valley of ashes; a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald", - "length": 294, - "id": 5626 - }, - { - "text": "The rain feels very cold. You look down as the men carry the body past you. You realize you have been holding Peggy's letter in your left hand the whole time. The ink is hopelessly blurred. You crumple it into a ball and drop it into the mud and begin to walk back to your tent.", - "source": "Charles Coe, Young Man in Vietnam", - "length": 278, - "id": 5627 - }, - { - "text": "And as I watch the drops of rain weave their weary paths and die, I know that I am like the rain: there but for the grace of you go I.", - "source": "Kathy's Song", - "length": 134, - "id": 5628 - }, - { - "text": "He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy.", - "source": "Guts, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 72, - "id": 5629 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.", - "source": "Roy T. Bennett", - "length": 119, - "id": 5630 - }, - { - "text": "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 59, - "id": 5631 - }, - { - "text": "Music is a science that would have us laugh, sing, and dance.", - "source": "Guillaume de Machaut, \"The Fountain of Love\"", - "length": 61, - "id": 5632 - }, - { - "text": "Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.", - "source": "Calvin & Hobbes", - "length": 137, - "id": 5635 - }, - { - "text": "But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.", - "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, W.D. Ross translation", - "length": 332, - "id": 5636 - }, - { - "text": "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.", - "source": "Walden", - "length": 55, - "id": 5637 - }, - { - "text": "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 68, - "id": 5638 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.", - "source": "Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery", - "length": 53, - "id": 5639 - }, - { - "text": "Where are you? And I'm so sorry, I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 72, - "id": 5640 - }, - { - "text": "There is matter to everything even air or shadow, too small to see. The Cut is something a Summoner can do, but it requires tremendous skill and I would only use it as a last resort. Like that ambush.", - "source": "Shadow and Bone", - "length": 200, - "id": 5641 - }, - { - "text": "I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.", - "source": "The Boxer", - "length": 78, - "id": 5642 - }, - { - "text": "I want to enjoy not getting recognized while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.", - "source": "Alan Walker", - "length": 113, - "id": 5643 - }, - { - "text": "Such a person must be careful, he must be aware of the limitations of his knowledge, he must acknowledge his personal prejudices because he is being asked to speak for a whole realm of thought, he must be aware of the huge possible consequences of what he says and writes and does. He has become, in a sense, public property because he represents something large to the public. He has become an idea himself, a human striving. He has enormous power to influence and change, and he must wield that power with respect.", - "source": "Alan Lightman, The Role of the Public Intellectual", - "length": 516, - "id": 5644 - }, - { - "text": "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 203, - "id": 5645 - }, - { - "text": "Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.", - "source": "Hotel California", - "length": 45, - "id": 5646 - }, - { - "text": "The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in the entire universe.", - "source": "Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 92, - "id": 5647 - }, - { - "text": "My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.", - "source": "Marvin; Life, The Universe, and Everything", - "length": 94, - "id": 5648 - }, - { - "text": "And every time I've held a rose, it seems I only felt the thorns.", - "source": "And So It Goes", - "length": 65, - "id": 5649 - }, - { - "text": "When we hear any other speaker, even a very good one, he produces absolutely no effect upon us, or not much, whereas the mere fragments of you and your words, even at second-hand, and however imperfectly repeated, amaze and possess the souls of every man, woman, and child who comes within hearing of them. And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", - "source": "The Symposium", - "length": 592, - "id": 5651 - }, - { - "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 76, - "id": 5652 - }, - { - "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", - "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", - "length": 323, - "id": 5653 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", - "source": "Einstein", - "length": 128, - "id": 5654 - }, - { - "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", - "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", - "length": 322, - "id": 5655 - }, - { - "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", - "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", - "length": 172, - "id": 5656 - }, - { - "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. And verily, as to the folly of an old man there is no wisdom after it, but the young man after his folly may become wise.", - "source": "Zuhair Ibn Abi Sulma, Hanging Odes", - "length": 270, - "id": 5657 - }, - { - "text": "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.", - "source": "Night, Elie Wiesel", - "length": 63, - "id": 5658 - }, - { - "text": "There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.", - "source": "Kahlil Gibran", - "length": 64, - "id": 5663 - }, - { - "text": "With her green hair sticking out the hood of her yellow raincoat, she looked like a punk spokesperson for frozen fish sticks.", - "source": "The Ship of the Dead", - "length": 125, - "id": 5664 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb.", - "source": "Proverbs", - "length": 70, - "id": 5665 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.", - "source": "Augustine of Hippo", - "length": 62, - "id": 5667 - }, - { - "text": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 49, - "id": 5668 - }, - { - "text": "Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 53, - "id": 5669 - }, - { - "text": "Time is just a construct, if you allow it to consume you, it will. It will wear you down until you are nothing but dust. You must learn to transcend and rise beyond such linear and limited fabrics of existence and this creature of unknown origin has done exactly that. You can scream all you want but nobody will hear you. You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 468, - "id": 5670 - }, - { - "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", - "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", - "length": 82, - "id": 5671 - }, - { - "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", - "source": "John Tukey", - "length": 89, - "id": 5672 - }, - { - "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.", - "source": "Back to the Future", - "length": 76, - "id": 5673 - }, - { - "text": "There are approximately 1010300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair.", - "source": "Alexander Hamilton", - "length": 170, - "id": 5674 - }, - { - "text": "One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.", - "source": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", - "length": 80, - "id": 5675 - }, - { - "text": "Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", - "source": "Tao Te Ching", - "length": 286, - "id": 5678 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", - "source": "Hamlet", - "length": 62, - "id": 5679 - }, - { - "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 54, - "id": 5680 - }, - { - "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", - "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", - "length": 238, - "id": 5681 - }, - { - "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", - "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5682 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", - "source": "Marcus Aurelius", - "length": 161, - "id": 5684 - }, - { - "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", - "source": "Devil in Disguise", - "length": 148, - "id": 5685 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", - "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", - "length": 518, - "id": 5686 - }, - { - "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 302, - "id": 5687 - }, - { - "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 52, - "id": 5688 - }, - { - "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 83, - "id": 5689 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 53, - "id": 5690 - }, - { - "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 118, - "id": 5691 - }, - { - "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.", - "source": "Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29", - "length": 233, - "id": 5692 - }, - { - "text": "The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 159, - "id": 5693 - }, - { - "text": "All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 86, - "id": 5694 - }, - { - "text": "Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 210, - "id": 5695 - }, - { - "text": "This is your world. You're the creator. Find freedom on this canvas. Believe, that you can do it, 'cuz you can do it. You can do it.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 132, - "id": 5696 - }, - { - "text": "I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 151, - "id": 5697 - }, - { - "text": "Let's build a happy little cloud. Let's build some happy little trees.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 70, - "id": 5698 - }, - { - "text": "Now then, let's come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It'll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to have a place to set there. There he goes...", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 215, - "id": 5699 - }, - { - "text": "There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.", - "source": "Bob Ross", - "length": 62, - "id": 5700 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody knows if a stock's going up, down or sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 112, - "id": 5701 - }, - { - "text": "When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 123, - "id": 5702 - }, - { - "text": "You show me a pay stub for $72,000, I quit my job right now and work for you.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 77, - "id": 5703 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.", - "source": "The Wolf Of Wall Street", - "length": 148, - "id": 5705 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing that we're allowed to believe is that we won't regret the choice we made.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan", - "length": 88, - "id": 5706 - }, - { - "text": "Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.", - "source": "Noam Chomsky", - "length": 167, - "id": 5707 - }, - { - "text": "The behaviour of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, has many features that set it apart from other common domestic animals, even its fellow carnivore the dog. Cats seem to have effected a unique and successful compromise between reliance on man and the retention of behaviour patterns that permit an independent existence. During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", - "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", - "length": 578, - "id": 5708 - }, - { - "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", - "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", - "length": 183, - "id": 5709 - }, - { - "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 997, - "id": 5710 - }, - { - "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", - "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", - "length": 173, - "id": 5711 - }, - { - "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 289, - "id": 5712 - }, - { - "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 900, - "id": 5714 - }, - { - "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", - "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", - "length": 71, - "id": 5715 - }, - { - "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 1486, - "id": 5716 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", - "source": "Kurt Cobain", - "length": 62, - "id": 5717 - }, - { - "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", - "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", - "length": 743, - "id": 5718 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", - "length": 974, - "id": 5719 - }, - { - "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", - "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", - "length": 256, - "id": 5720 - }, - { - "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 69, - "id": 5723 - }, - { - "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 110, - "id": 5724 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 280, - "id": 5725 - }, - { - "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 111, - "id": 5726 - }, - { - "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 74, - "id": 5727 - }, - { - "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 71, - "id": 5728 - }, - { - "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", - "source": "Edward Snowden", - "length": 181, - "id": 5729 - }, - { - "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", - "source": "Riverdale", - "length": 161, - "id": 5731 - }, - { - "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", - "source": "Spirited Away", - "length": 105, - "id": 5732 - }, - { - "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", - "source": "Wikipedia", - "length": 406, - "id": 5733 - }, - { - "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", - "length": 418, - "id": 5734 - }, - { - "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 622, - "id": 5735 - }, - { - "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", - "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", - "length": 699, - "id": 5736 - }, - { - "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", - "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", - "length": 82, - "id": 5737 - }, - { - "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", - "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", - "length": 282, - "id": 5738 - }, - { - "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", - "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", - "length": 184, - "id": 5739 - }, - { - "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", - "source": "Lord of the Rings", - "length": 83, - "id": 5740 - }, - { - "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "length": 373, - "id": 5741 - }, - { - "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", - "source": "Half-Life 2", - "length": 74, - "id": 5742 - }, - { - "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", - "source": "The Big Bang Theory", - "length": 209, - "id": 5743 - }, - { - "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", - "source": "Lucifer", - "length": 183, - "id": 5744 - }, - { - "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", - "source": "Inception", - "length": 134, - "id": 5747 - }, - { - "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", - "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", - "length": 83, - "id": 5748 - }, - { - "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 113, - "id": 5751 - }, - { - "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", - "source": "Hell or High Water", - "length": 341, - "id": 5752 - }, - { - "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", - "source": "Rick and Morty", - "length": 222, - "id": 5753 - }, - { - "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", - "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", - "length": 183, - "id": 5754 - }, - { - "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", - "source": "The Dark Knight", - "length": 198, - "id": 5755 - }, - { - "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 293, - "id": 5756 - }, - { - "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", - "source": "The Return of the King", - "length": 441, - "id": 5757 - }, - { - "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 538, - "id": 5758 - }, - { - "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", - "source": "Absolute", - "length": 131, - "id": 5759 - }, - { - "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 144, - "id": 5760 - }, - { - "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 183, - "id": 5761 - }, - { - "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 106, - "id": 5762 - }, - { - "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 141, - "id": 5763 - }, - { - "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", - "source": "Love Me", - "length": 61, - "id": 5764 - }, - { - "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", - "source": "The Art of War", - "length": 62, - "id": 5765 - }, - { - "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", - "source": "Little Witch Academia", - "length": 76, - "id": 5766 - }, - { - "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 166, - "id": 5767 - }, - { - "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", - "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", - "length": 429, - "id": 5768 - }, - { - "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5769 - }, - { - "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 165, - "id": 5771 - }, - { - "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 128, - "id": 5772 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 157, - "id": 5773 - }, - { - "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", - "source": "A Friend", - "length": 73, - "id": 5775 - }, - { - "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Breath of the Wild", - "length": 62, - "id": 5776 - }, - { - "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 527, - "id": 5777 - }, - { - "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", - "source": "Muhammad Ali", - "length": 79, - "id": 5780 - }, - { - "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", - "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", - "length": 51, - "id": 5781 - }, - { - "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 69, - "id": 5782 - }, - { - "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 317, - "id": 5783 - }, - { - "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", - "source": "The Last Of Us 2", - "length": 89, - "id": 5785 - }, - { - "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", - "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", - "length": 98, - "id": 5786 - }, - { - "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", - "source": "Leonard Bernstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 5787 - }, - { - "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 158, - "id": 5788 - }, - { - "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", - "source": "Charlie Sheen", - "length": 164, - "id": 5789 - }, - { - "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 62, - "id": 5790 - }, - { - "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", - "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", - "length": 113, - "id": 5791 - }, - { - "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", - "source": "Cabo", - "length": 125, - "id": 5792 - }, - { - "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", - "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", - "length": 109, - "id": 5793 - }, - { - "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", - "source": "Mae West", - "length": 59, - "id": 5795 - }, - { - "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", - "length": 77, - "id": 5796 - }, - { - "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", - "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", - "length": 62, - "id": 5797 - }, - { - "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", - "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", - "length": 101, - "id": 5799 - }, - { - "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. So ask yourself, what is there that still remains to you.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 183, - "id": 5801 - }, - { - "text": "The caterpillar ate through one nice green leaf, and after that he felt much better.", - "source": "The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle", - "length": 84, - "id": 5802 - }, - { - "text": "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 71, - "id": 5804 - }, - { - "text": "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", - "source": "States of Matter", - "length": 220, - "id": 5805 - }, - { - "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", - "source": "Danilo Kiš", - "length": 190, - "id": 5806 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", - "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", - "length": 2928, - "id": 5807 - }, - { - "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", - "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", - "length": 152, - "id": 5809 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 'Cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.", - "source": "Adam Young", - "length": 148, - "id": 5810 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe the best thing to do is stop trying to figure out where you're going and just enjoy where you're at.", - "source": "Scrubs", - "length": 106, - "id": 5811 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a slave to their past. No matter how much you wish to move forward, the events of last year will bear down on you like the light of the stars as soon as you glance up. Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 325, - "id": 5812 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", - "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 133, - "id": 5813 - }, - { - "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", - "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", - "length": 355, - "id": 5814 - }, - { - "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", - "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", - "length": 140, - "id": 5815 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 78, - "id": 5816 - }, - { - "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 87, - "id": 5817 - }, - { - "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 134, - "id": 5818 - }, - { - "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", - "source": "Henri Poincaré", - "length": 145, - "id": 5819 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", - "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", - "length": 254, - "id": 5820 - }, - { - "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 96, - "id": 5821 - }, - { - "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 73, - "id": 5822 - }, - { - "text": "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the Popes?", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 245, - "id": 5823 - }, - { - "text": "No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.", - "source": "SpiderMan: Homecoming", - "length": 71, - "id": 5824 - }, - { - "text": "In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers.", - "source": "Black Panther", - "length": 76, - "id": 5825 - }, - { - "text": "I was already slipping when you happened to punch me in the face. The two events are not related.", - "source": "Captain Marvel", - "length": 97, - "id": 5826 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever happens tomorrow, you must promise me one thing, that you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier but a good man.", - "source": "Captain America: The First Avenger", - "length": 127, - "id": 5827 - }, - { - "text": "The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", - "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", - "length": 455, - "id": 5828 - }, - { - "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", - "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", - "length": 298, - "id": 5829 - }, - { - "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", - "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", - "length": 61, - "id": 5831 - }, - { - "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 356, - "id": 5832 - }, - { - "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", - "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", - "length": 669, - "id": 5833 - }, - { - "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 188, - "id": 5834 - }, - { - "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 157, - "id": 5835 - }, - { - "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", - "source": "Weathering with You", - "length": 290, - "id": 5836 - }, - { - "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", - "source": "Mob Psycho 100", - "length": 382, - "id": 5837 - }, - { - "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", - "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", - "length": 125, - "id": 5838 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 92, - "id": 5839 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", - "source": "Cherry", - "length": 97, - "id": 5840 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", - "source": "Master Yoda", - "length": 395, - "id": 5843 - }, - { - "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 80, - "id": 5844 - }, - { - "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 86, - "id": 5845 - }, - { - "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. He means more to me than you will ever know.", - "source": "The Mandalorian", - "length": 188, - "id": 5846 - }, - { - "text": "Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen, so unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you.", - "source": "Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold", - "length": 113, - "id": 5847 - }, - { - "text": "Some people are like clouds. When they disappear, it's a beautiful day.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 71, - "id": 5848 - }, - { - "text": "The biggest lie I tell myself is: \"I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it.\"", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 84, - "id": 5849 - }, - { - "text": "Alright, close your eyes. I want you to think of a flower. Look at its contours, its curves. Now I want you to imagine it: changing, moving backwards, returning to its bud. Think of that bud, unopened. Look at it, as a whole, and silently repeat these phrases: \"May you be free from suffering. May you be free from fear. May you know peace and joy.\"", - "source": "Twelve Minutes", - "length": 349, - "id": 5850 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", - "length": 301, - "id": 5851 - }, - { - "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", - "source": "Numb", - "length": 177, - "id": 5852 - }, - { - "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 490, - "id": 5854 - }, - { - "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", - "source": "Space Brothers", - "length": 143, - "id": 5855 - }, - { - "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", - "source": "Oregairu", - "length": 65, - "id": 5856 - }, - { - "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", - "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", - "length": 352, - "id": 5857 - }, - { - "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", - "source": "Bleach", - "length": 200, - "id": 5858 - }, - { - "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", - "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", - "length": 120, - "id": 5859 - }, - { - "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", - "source": "Fruits Basket", - "length": 388, - "id": 5860 - }, - { - "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", - "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", - "length": 60, - "id": 5861 - }, - { - "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 65, - "id": 5862 - }, - { - "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 270, - "id": 5863 - }, - { - "text": "You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.", - "source": "Assassination Classroom", - "length": 123, - "id": 5864 - }, - { - "text": "People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.", - "source": "Eragon - Christopher Paolini", - "length": 67, - "id": 5867 - }, - { - "text": "Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.", - "source": "Jeod, Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)", - "length": 89, - "id": 5868 - }, - { - "text": "Someone who cannot abandon everything cannot achieve anything.", - "source": "Hajime Isayama - Attack on Titan", - "length": 62, - "id": 5869 - }, - { - "text": "We all deserve love, even on the days when we aren't our best. 'Cause we all suck, but love can make us suck less. We all deserve love, it's the very best part of being alive. And I would know - I just turned 25.", - "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", - "length": 212, - "id": 5870 - }, - { - "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", - "source": "Ratatouille", - "length": 1315, - "id": 5871 - }, - { - "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", - "source": "Pushing Dead", - "length": 365, - "id": 5872 - }, - { - "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", - "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", - "length": 222, - "id": 5874 - }, - { - "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", - "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", - "length": 191, - "id": 5875 - }, - { - "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", - "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", - "length": 75, - "id": 5876 - }, - { - "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", - "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", - "length": 123, - "id": 5877 - }, - { - "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 784, - "id": 5878 - }, - { - "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 763, - "id": 5879 - }, - { - "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 530, - "id": 5881 - }, - { - "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", - "source": "On the Origin of Species", - "length": 618, - "id": 5882 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", - "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", - "length": 186, - "id": 5886 - }, - { - "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", - "source": "Knights of Cydonia", - "length": 135, - "id": 5888 - }, - { - "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", - "source": "Paul Parker", - "length": 274, - "id": 5890 - }, - { - "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", - "source": "Left 4 Dead", - "length": 454, - "id": 5891 - }, - { - "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 190, - "id": 5893 - }, - { - "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", - "source": "Naruto Shippuden", - "length": 346, - "id": 5895 - }, - { - "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", - "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", - "length": 83, - "id": 5896 - }, - { - "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 264, - "id": 5897 - }, - { - "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 282, - "id": 5899 - }, - { - "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 249, - "id": 5900 - }, - { - "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", - "source": "Neil Gaiman", - "length": 129, - "id": 5901 - }, - { - "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 376, - "id": 5902 - }, - { - "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 293, - "id": 5903 - }, - { - "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", - "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", - "length": 353, - "id": 5904 - }, - { - "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", - "source": "The Great Gatsby", - "length": 235, - "id": 5905 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 107, - "id": 5906 - }, - { - "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", - "source": "Scott Morrison", - "length": 105, - "id": 5907 - }, - { - "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", - "source": "Eugene Cernan", - "length": 478, - "id": 5908 - }, - { - "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 130, - "id": 5909 - }, - { - "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", - "source": "William Carlos Williams", - "length": 89, - "id": 5910 - }, - { - "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", - "source": "House of Cards", - "length": 60, - "id": 5912 - }, - { - "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", - "source": "Henry Van Dyke", - "length": 172, - "id": 5913 - }, - { - "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", - "source": "Epicurus", - "length": 117, - "id": 5914 - }, - { - "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 1766, - "id": 5915 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 332, - "id": 5916 - }, - { - "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", - "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", - "length": 513, - "id": 5917 - }, - { - "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 105, - "id": 5918 - }, - { - "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", - "source": "Avicii - The Nights", - "length": 187, - "id": 5919 - }, - { - "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", - "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", - "length": 987, - "id": 5920 - }, - { - "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", - "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", - "length": 740, - "id": 5921 - }, - { - "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", - "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", - "length": 319, - "id": 5922 - }, - { - "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", - "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", - "length": 476, - "id": 5923 - }, - { - "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", - "length": 556, - "id": 5925 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 182, - "id": 5926 - }, - { - "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 281, - "id": 5927 - }, - { - "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 155, - "id": 5928 - }, - { - "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 248, - "id": 5929 - }, - { - "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 280, - "id": 5930 - }, - { - "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", - "source": "Death of a Salesman", - "length": 289, - "id": 5931 - }, - { - "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", - "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", - "length": 294, - "id": 5932 - }, - { - "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", - "source": "Sex and the City", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5934 - }, - { - "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", - "source": "Batman: Arkham City", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5935 - }, - { - "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5937 - }, - { - "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", - "source": "Little Inferno", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5940 - }, - { - "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", - "source": "System Shock 2 ", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5941 - }, - { - "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", - "source": "IT Crowd", - "length": 307, - "id": 5942 - }, - { - "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 322, - "id": 5943 - }, - { - "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", - "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", - "length": 137, - "id": 5944 - }, - { - "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", - "source": "The Master and Margarita", - "length": 420, - "id": 5945 - }, - { - "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 379, - "id": 5947 - }, - { - "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", - "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", - "length": 348, - "id": 5950 - }, - { - "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", - "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", - "length": 729, - "id": 5951 - }, - { - "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5956 - }, - { - "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", - "source": "Vinland Saga", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5957 - }, - { - "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 1982, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 5958 - }, - { - "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 113, - "id": 6064 - }, - { - "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", - "source": "Colin Powell", - "length": 103, - "id": 6065 - }, - { - "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", - "source": "Conrad Hilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6066 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", - "source": "Zig Ziglar", - "length": 116, - "id": 6067 - }, - { - "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", - "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", - "length": 67, - "id": 6068 - }, - { - "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", - "source": "Barack Obama", - "length": 193, - "id": 6069 - }, - { - "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", - "source": "Charles Swindoll", - "length": 81, - "id": 6071 - }, - { - "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", - "source": "Oprah Winfrey", - "length": 132, - "id": 6072 - }, - { - "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", - "source": "Harriet Tubman", - "length": 165, - "id": 6073 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 86, - "id": 6074 - }, - { - "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", - "source": "The Blair Witch Project", - "length": 649, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6075 - }, - { - "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 624, - "id": 6076 - }, - { - "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 834, - "id": 6077 - }, - { - "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", - "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 472, - "id": 6078 - }, - { - "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 308, - "id": 6079 - }, - { - "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 471, - "id": 6080 - }, - { - "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 352, - "id": 6081 - }, - { - "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 336, - "id": 6082 - }, - { - "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 775, - "id": 6084 - }, - { - "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 610, - "id": 6085 - }, - { - "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", - "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", - "length": 371, - "id": 6087 - }, - { - "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", - "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", - "length": 438, - "id": 6088 - }, - { - "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", - "source": "Atharva veda", - "length": 127, - "id": 6089 - }, - { - "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", - "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", - "length": 681, - "id": 6090 - }, - { - "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", - "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", - "length": 192, - "id": 6091 - }, - { - "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", - "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", - "length": 69, - "id": 6092 - }, - { - "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", - "source": "Tirukkurral", - "length": 118, - "id": 6093 - }, - { - "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", - "source": "Halo 3", - "length": 337, - "id": 6095 - }, - { - "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", - "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", - "length": 219, - "id": 6096 - }, - { - "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 71, - "id": 6097 - }, - { - "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", - "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", - "length": 237, - "id": 6098 - }, - { - "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", - "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", - "length": 98, - "id": 6099 - }, - { - "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", - "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", - "length": 62, - "id": 6100 - }, - { - "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", - "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", - "length": 153, - "id": 6101 - }, - { - "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", - "source": "Remember11", - "length": 136, - "id": 6102 - }, - { - "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", - "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", - "length": 94, - "id": 6103 - }, - { - "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 59, - "id": 6104 - }, - { - "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", - "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", - "length": 157, - "id": 6106 - }, - { - "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 173, - "id": 6107 - }, - { - "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", - "length": 190, - "id": 6108 - }, - { - "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", - "length": 105, - "id": 6109 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 162, - "id": 6110 - }, - { - "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 122, - "id": 6112 - }, - { - "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", - "source": "Life Is Strange", - "length": 160, - "id": 6113 - }, - { - "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", - "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", - "length": 239, - "id": 6114 - }, - { - "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", - "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", - "length": 92, - "id": 6115 - }, - { - "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", - "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", - "length": 131, - "id": 6116 - }, - { - "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", - "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", - "length": 157, - "id": 6117 - }, - { - "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", - "length": 121, - "id": 6118 - }, - { - "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", - "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", - "length": 256, - "id": 6119 - }, - { - "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. They think I don't understand the freedom land of the seventies.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby", - "length": 126, - "id": 6120 - }, - { - "text": "John met me down on the boulevard. Cry on his shoulder 'cause life is hard, the waves came in over my head. What you been up to my baby? Haven't seen you 'round here lately. All the other guys tell me lies, but you don't. You just crack another beer and pretend that you're still here.", - "source": "Lana Del Rey - How To Disappear", - "length": 285, - "id": 6121 - }, - { - "text": "Thinking outrageously, I write in cursive. I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor. Wearing three layers of coats and leg-warmers, I see my own breath on the face of the door.", - "source": "Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!", - "length": 181, - "id": 6122 - }, - { - "text": "I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 59, - "id": 6123 - }, - { - "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 76, - "id": 6124 - }, - { - "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 182, - "id": 6125 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", - "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", - "length": 62, - "id": 6126 - }, - { - "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", - "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", - "length": 71, - "id": 6127 - }, - { - "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", - "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", - "length": 162, - "id": 6128 - }, - { - "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", - "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", - "length": 164, - "id": 6129 - }, - { - "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", - "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", - "length": 160, - "id": 6130 - }, - { - "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", - "source": "Beach House - Myth", - "length": 142, - "id": 6131 - }, - { - "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", - "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", - "length": 64, - "id": 6132 - }, - { - "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", - "source": "Beach House - PPP", - "length": 110, - "id": 6133 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6134 - }, - { - "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", - "length": 175, - "id": 6135 - }, - { - "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", - "length": 113, - "id": 6136 - }, - { - "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", - "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", - "length": 66, - "id": 6137 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", - "length": 67, - "id": 6138 - }, - { - "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", - "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", - "length": 95, - "id": 6139 - }, - { - "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", - "length": 80, - "id": 6141 - }, - { - "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 185, - "id": 6142 - }, - { - "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", - "length": 206, - "id": 6143 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", - "length": 76, - "id": 6144 - }, - { - "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", - "length": 95, - "id": 6145 - }, - { - "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", - "length": 181, - "id": 6146 - }, - { - "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", - "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", - "length": 66, - "id": 6147 - }, - { - "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", - "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", - "length": 181, - "id": 6148 - }, - { - "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", - "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", - "length": 291, - "id": 6149 - }, - { - "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 297, - "id": 6150 - }, - { - "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", - "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", - "length": 657, - "id": 6151 - }, - { - "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", - "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", - "length": 128, - "id": 6152 - }, - { - "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 136, - "id": 6153 - }, - { - "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 64, - "id": 6154 - }, - { - "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", - "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", - "length": 178, - "id": 6155 - }, - { - "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", - "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", - "length": 224, - "id": 6157 - }, - { - "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", - "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", - "length": 207, - "id": 6158 - }, - { - "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", - "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", - "length": 220, - "id": 6159 - }, - { - "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", - "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", - "length": 274, - "id": 6160 - }, - { - "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", - "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", - "length": 112, - "id": 6161 - }, - { - "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", - "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", - "length": 272, - "id": 6162 - }, - { - "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", - "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", - "length": 136, - "id": 6163 - }, - { - "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", - "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", - "length": 454, - "id": 6164 - }, - { - "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", - "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", - "length": 381, - "id": 6165 - }, - { - "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", - "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", - "length": 453, - "id": 6166 - }, - { - "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", - "length": 165, - "id": 6167 - }, - { - "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", - "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", - "length": 136, - "id": 6168 - }, - { - "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", - "length": 229, - "id": 6169 - }, - { - "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", - "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", - "length": 170, - "id": 6170 - }, - { - "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", - "length": 191, - "id": 6171 - }, - { - "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", - "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", - "length": 284, - "id": 6172 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", - "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", - "length": 204, - "id": 6173 - }, - { - "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", - "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", - "length": 122, - "id": 6174 - }, - { - "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", - "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", - "length": 268, - "id": 6175 - }, - { - "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", - "length": 234, - "id": 6176 - }, - { - "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", - "length": 186, - "id": 6177 - }, - { - "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", - "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", - "length": 423, - "id": 6178 - }, - { - "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", - "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", - "length": 313, - "id": 6179 - }, - { - "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.", - "source": "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson", - "length": 220, - "id": 6180 - }, - { - "text": "Why are we all burdened with the duty to destroy everything, change everything, entrust everything to impermanency? Is it this unpleasant duty that the world calls life?", - "source": "Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima", - "length": 169, - "id": 6181 - }, - { - "text": "But as he moves closer, I cannot help but ask: if in a different world, would our love forever last? The almighty scientist says most of the universe is empty, and gods don't exist. Well, maybe that's where our love ends up - no holy grail, just an empty cup.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Good Luck Bad Luck", - "length": 259, - "id": 6182 - }, - { - "text": "They'll kiss you in the evening - devils in disguise - and love you 'til the morning, then vanish before your eyes. A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", - "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", - "length": 401, - "id": 6183 - }, - { - "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", - "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", - "length": 202, - "id": 6184 - }, - { - "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", - "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", - "length": 290, - "id": 6185 - }, - { - "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", - "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", - "length": 178, - "id": 6186 - }, - { - "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 197, - "id": 6188 - }, - { - "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 395, - "id": 6189 - }, - { - "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", - "source": "Hours", - "length": 372, - "id": 6190 - }, - { - "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 214, - "id": 6191 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 427, - "id": 6192 - }, - { - "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", - "source": "Undertale", - "length": 116, - "id": 6193 - }, - { - "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 238, - "id": 6194 - }, - { - "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 256, - "id": 6195 - }, - { - "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 316, - "id": 6196 - }, - { - "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. This initially seemed baffling to monsters (especially given the amount of dusting we avoid by keeping objects outside!). Experts have recently suggested that keeping objects indoors may have been part of England's efforts to hide and store museums' collections of stolen property.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 327, - "id": 6197 - }, - { - "text": "This tree is not technically part of the museum experience, but there's a cool bird nesting in it, so you aren't allowed to cut it down. Not even a little bit. Not even with the \"undo\" or \"reset\" options. Leave the cool bird alone, alright?", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 240, - "id": 6198 - }, - { - "text": "Humans liked to put objects on boxes called plinths. At first, monster experts didn't know why, but then strangers kept thinking the plinth-less exhibits were lost property and handing them in at the help desk. It turns out plinths are very important.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 251, - "id": 6199 - }, - { - "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", - "source": "A Monster's Expedition", - "length": 229, - "id": 6200 - }, - { - "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "length": 252, - "id": 6201 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", - "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", - "length": 576, - "id": 6202 - }, - { - "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", - "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", - "length": 112, - "id": 6203 - }, - { - "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", - "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", - "length": 110, - "id": 6204 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. But what you throw away you'll never get back.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 87, - "id": 6206 - }, - { - "text": "People who can't throw something important away, can never hope to change anything.", - "source": "Armin Arlert - Attack on Titan", - "length": 83, - "id": 6207 - }, - { - "text": "You will never be able to love anybody else until you love yourself.", - "source": "Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass", - "length": 68, - "id": 6208 - }, - { - "text": "People's lives don't end when they die, it ends when they lose faith.", - "source": "Uchiha Itachi - Naruto", - "length": 69, - "id": 6209 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it.", - "source": "Uzumaki Naruto - Naruto", - "length": 48, - "id": 6210 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.", - "source": "Nagato, Naruto", - "length": 65, - "id": 6211 - }, - { - "text": "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", - "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", - "length": 95, - "id": 6212 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", - "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", - "length": 70, - "id": 6213 - }, - { - "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", - "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", - "length": 51, - "id": 6214 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", - "source": "Clare - Claymore", - "length": 164, - "id": 6215 - }, - { - "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", - "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", - "length": 384, - "id": 6216 - }, - { - "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", - "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", - "length": 67, - "id": 6217 - }, - { - "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", - "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", - "length": 88, - "id": 6218 - }, - { - "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", - "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", - "length": 314, - "id": 6220 - }, - { - "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", - "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", - "length": 89, - "id": 6221 - }, - { - "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", - "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", - "length": 422, - "id": 6222 - }, - { - "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", - "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", - "length": 179, - "id": 6223 - }, - { - "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", - "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", - "length": 463, - "id": 6224 - }, - { - "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", - "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 109, - "id": 6225 - }, - { - "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", - "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", - "length": 61, - "id": 6226 - }, - { - "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", - "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", - "length": 93, - "id": 6227 - }, - { - "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 177, - "id": 6228 - }, - { - "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", - "length": 215, - "id": 6229 - }, - { - "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", - "length": 167, - "id": 6230 - }, - { - "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", - "source": "Fight Club", - "length": 827, - "id": 6231 - }, - { - "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", - "length": 116, - "id": 6232 - }, - { - "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", - "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", - "length": 137, - "id": 6233 - }, - { - "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", - "length": 127, - "id": 6234 - }, - { - "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 94, - "id": 6235 - }, - { - "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 182, - "id": 6236 - }, - { - "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", - "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", - "length": 140, - "id": 6237 - }, - { - "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", - "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", - "length": 144, - "id": 6238 - }, - { - "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", - "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", - "length": 248, - "id": 6239 - }, - { - "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. Did you follow your fire?", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 289, - "id": 6240 - }, - { - "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", - "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", - "length": 123, - "id": 6241 - }, - { - "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", - "length": 197, - "id": 6242 - }, - { - "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", - "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", - "length": 289, - "id": 6243 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. Though we don't share the same blood, you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.", - "source": "Kodaline - Brother", - "length": 161, - "id": 6244 - }, - { - "text": "Star in your eyes, sun in your smile, the way you look at me - it makes me hum and I call it love song.", - "source": "Yoohyeon (Dreamcatcher) - For", - "length": 103, - "id": 6245 - }, - { - "text": "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 57, - "id": 6246 - }, - { - "text": "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 240, - "id": 6247 - }, - { - "text": "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 112, - "id": 6248 - }, - { - "text": "For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 177, - "id": 6249 - }, - { - "text": "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 421, - "id": 6250 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say \"I'll never be good.\" You can become better! And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 251, - "id": 6251 - }, - { - "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 105, - "id": 6252 - }, - { - "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 303, - "id": 6253 - }, - { - "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 149, - "id": 6254 - }, - { - "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", - "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", - "length": 119, - "id": 6255 - }, - { - "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", - "source": "Tool", - "length": 220, - "id": 6256 - }, - { - "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", - "source": "Whiplash", - "length": 270, - "id": 6258 - }, - { - "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 173, - "id": 6259 - }, - { - "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 395, - "id": 6260 - }, - { - "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 246, - "id": 6261 - }, - { - "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. They are nothing without the spark of life that you give them.", - "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", - "length": 198, - "id": 6262 - }, - { - "text": "Well, well! Look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car.", - "source": "The Simpsons", - "length": 72, - "id": 6263 - }, - { - "text": "Giving up because you know a dream can never come true and simply sitting and waiting for fate to claim you... Or fighting against fate and crying out against the dying light, even though you know that dream will never be realized. Those are decidedly different things.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 269, - "id": 6264 - }, - { - "text": "It is a kindness to prepare a comfortable roost for an injured bird... But to prevent it from taking flight once its wounds have healed, because you fear the world is too dangerous, means confining it to a cage. These birds have finally escaped their cage of persecution. Do you intend to lock them in a cage of pity next?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 322, - "id": 6265 - }, - { - "text": "If you hated colors that much, you may as well have dyed your flag white.", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 73, - "id": 6266 - }, - { - "text": "If, one day, you make it to our final destination, would you please leave flowers?", - "source": "Eighty Six", - "length": 82, - "id": 6267 - }, - { - "text": "I do so hate to make up my mind about anything, whether it's good or bad, up or down, in or out, rain or shine.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 111, - "id": 6268 - }, - { - "text": "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 177, - "id": 6269 - }, - { - "text": "If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 205, - "id": 6270 - }, - { - "text": "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.", - "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", - "length": 85, - "id": 6271 - }, - { - "text": "Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 78, - "id": 6272 - }, - { - "text": "The cool thing about these guys is that... is that they have really, really long trunks, and that's... that's cool.", - "source": "Me at the zoo", - "length": 115, - "id": 6273 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a time in a nursery rhyme, there was a castle with a king hiding in a wing because he never went to school to learn a single thing, he had scepters and swords and a parliament of lords, but on the inside, he was sad, egad! Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", - "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", - "length": 1662, - "approvedBy": "ze_or", - "id": 6275 - }, - { - "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. And you fail again and again, and you fail a thousand times, and you keep trying because maybe the 1,001st idea might work. Now, I'm gonna go and try to find our 1,001st idea.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 251, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6276 - }, - { - "text": "I assume he's doing the same as every human. Some good days. Some bad days. He's got a few friends, a few people he can't stand. He's learning some things, all by himself, and hopefully learning to ask for help when he needs it. He's messing up, and trying again, and messing up again, and then getting things wrong, and then trying to make them right. That's what everyone does.", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 379, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6277 - }, - { - "text": "It's a rare occurrence, like a double rainbow. Or like someone on the internet saying, \"You know what? You've convinced me I was wrong.\"", - "source": "The Good Place", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6278 - }, - { - "text": "Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him...", - "source": "Stephen King, It", - "length": 384, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6279 - }, - { - "text": "I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.", - "source": "The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6281 - }, - { - "text": "To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.", - "source": "Bruce Mclaren", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6282 - }, - { - "text": "Spring, summer, autumn, and winter... Many seasons have come and gone, but the one with you isn't coming around at all. At first, I couldn't understand. I couldn't understand anything about how you felt. But within this new life you gave me, I've begun to feel the same way as you, if only a little, through ghostwriting, and through the people I've met along the way. I believe that you are still alive somewhere. So, I shall live, live, live, and live some more, though there's no telling what life might have in store. And if I can see you again, I want to let you know... that the phrase \"I love you\"... I understand it a little now.", - "source": "Violet Evergarden", - "length": 637, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6283 - }, - { - "text": "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.", - "source": "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6284 - }, - { - "text": "I am the one who made it out. The one who always made the grade but maybe I should have just stayed home. When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape, restless to climb. I got every scholarship, saved every dollar, the first to go to college. How do I tell them why I'm coming back home, with my eyes on the horizon? Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 421, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6286 - }, - { - "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", - "source": "Animal Farm", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6287 - }, - { - "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 307, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6288 - }, - { - "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", - "source": "In The Heights", - "length": 745, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6292 - }, - { - "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. I choose round.", - "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6294 - }, - { - "text": "I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.", - "source": "The Stranger", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6295 - }, - { - "text": "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 308, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6296 - }, - { - "text": "I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest - expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.", - "source": "American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6297 - }, - { - "text": "I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 146, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6298 - }, - { - "text": "In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.", - "source": "Albert Camus, The Plague", - "length": 472, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6299 - }, - { - "text": "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.", - "source": "The Alchemist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6300 - }, - { - "text": "It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this \"once in a thousand years\" has come today.", - "source": "Zamyatin, We", - "length": 248, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6301 - }, - { - "text": "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.", - "source": "Macbeth", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6302 - }, - { - "text": "Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the \"vox populi\" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 740, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6303 - }, - { - "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", - "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", - "length": 520, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6304 - }, - { - "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", - "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", - "length": 273, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6305 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6306 - }, - { - "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. I want you to, I want you to, I want you to cry for me.", - "source": "TWICE, CRY FOR ME", - "length": 303, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6307 - }, - { - "text": "I had this very faith tested on an ordinary day: I was walkin' down a busy street around my way. I saw a face in the crowd that made my heart skip a beat - A man who looked exactly like an older version of me! So I moved through the hustle and the bustle of the day to day until me and this man stood face to face. We locked eyes and for a moment time moved in slow motion as the crowd around continued on their paper chase. I stood frozen in disbelief and opened my mouth to speak but to my surprise the words wouldn't come. And then he looks into a clear blue sky up above and says \"it's gonna rain\" - and then it does! And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", - "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", - "length": 1200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6308 - }, - { - "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. Because rain is the closest thing I have to tears.", - "source": "The Thunderhead", - "length": 182, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6309 - }, - { - "text": "All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You, You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night... You, only You, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh.", - "source": "The Little Prince", - "length": 886, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6310 - }, - { - "text": "Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.", - "source": "Sophie's World", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6311 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.", - "source": "Bill Willingham, Fables - Werewolves of the Heartland", - "length": 133, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6312 - }, - { - "text": "We devote ourselves to something we barely understand, something we can never touch. We give it a name, and we give ourselves a name for doing so. All of it creates this connection. And that connection, that becomes the thing we can touch.", - "source": "Night in the Woods", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6313 - }, - { - "text": "I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people who do.", - "source": "Angus, Night in the Woods", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6314 - }, - { - "text": "He could leave at any time. If it was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him. I think what distresses you, really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell, as you call it.", - "source": "Christof, The Truman Show", - "length": 267, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6315 - }, - { - "text": "If you've ever taken a road trip through the Pacific Northwest, you've probably seen a bumper sticker for a place called \"Gravity Falls\". It's not on any maps, and most people have never heard of it, some people think it's a myth. But if you're curious, don't wait. Take a trip. Find it. It's out there somewhere in the woods. Waiting.", - "source": "Dipper, Gravity Falls", - "length": 335, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6316 - }, - { - "text": "A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.", - "source": "Steven Brust, Iorich", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6318 - }, - { - "text": "The English language cannot fully capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts, so I'm incorporating emojis into my speech to better express myself. Winky face.", - "source": "Gina, Brooklyn 99", - "length": 163, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6319 - }, - { - "text": "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.", - "source": "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6323 - }, - { - "text": "When the king brands us pirates, he doesn't mean to make us adversaries. He doesn't mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. For that's the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. When I say there's a war coming, I don't mean with the Scarborough, I don't mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming. And it means to exterminate us.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 430, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6324 - }, - { - "text": "After fifty years at sea, you're the only man I've ever met who's gotten dumber with age.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6325 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody will believe it's possible until we show them. But when that day comes, you know what they'll say? They'll say that it was inevitable.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6326 - }, - { - "text": "You're an educated man, my lord, but I think it's worth reminding you that in most cases a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason... everyone else.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 183, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6327 - }, - { - "text": "The crew's banner is a sacred thing. It must simultaneously strike fear in the hearts of hardened men while inspiring and unifying all those who sail under it. It must be something approaching perfection.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6328 - }, - { - "text": "We all have the same swords out there, we all have the same guns. But great art has felled empires.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 99, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6329 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6330 - }, - { - "text": "These men, who brought me here today, do not fear me. They brought me here today because they fear you and because they know that my voice, the voice that refuses to be enslaved, once lived in you. And may yet still. They brought me here today to show you death and use it to frighten you into ignoring that voice. But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6331 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 735, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6332 - }, - { - "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6333 - }, - { - "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6334 - }, - { - "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 684, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6335 - }, - { - "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 434, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6336 - }, - { - "text": "A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe... Those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition, and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It's found truth in its maturity... Because what's it all for if it goes unremembered? It's the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.", - "source": "Black Sails", - "length": 496, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6337 - }, - { - "text": "False tears bring pain to those around you. 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Always.", - "source": "Star Wars Rebels", - "length": 485, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6340 - }, - { - "text": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...", - "source": "Poe, The Raven", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6341 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and goodbye. Do you think I'm dying? Do you think I'm going somewhere else this time? Do you remember the day we pretended to be every star in the sky?", - "source": "Might quit - Bill Wurtz", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6344 - }, - { - "text": "I'm worried to death because I haven't been able to see you doing well. You said we live in different worlds. But is that true? We have different colored skin and eyes. We were born in different countries. But we're friends. Isn't that what counts? I'm really glad I came to America. I met lots of people. And more than anything, I met you. You asked me over and over if you scared me. But I never feared you, not once. What's more is you're hurt much more than me. I couldn't help feeling that way. Funny, huh? You're way smarter, bigger, and stronger than me. But I always felt like I had to protect you. I wonder what it is I wanted to protect you from. I wanted to protect you from fate. The fate that tries to carry you away, drifting further and further. You told me once about a leopard you read in a book. How you believed that leopard knew that it couldn't go back. And I said you weren't a leopard, that you could change your destiny. You're not alone. I'm by your side. My soul is always with you.", - "source": "Banana Fish - Eiji", - "length": 1008, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6346 - }, - { - "text": "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.", - "source": "Bruce Lee", - "length": 475, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6347 - }, - { - "text": "We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost.", - "source": "All Quiet on The Western Front ", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6348 - }, - { - "text": "In exchange for power, maybe I've lost something that is essential to being human.", - "source": "One Punch Man, Saitama", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6349 - }, - { - "text": "My old friend - the panda will never fulfill his destiny nor yours, until you let go of the illusion of control... Yes! Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, nor make it bear fruit before its time!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda - Master Oogway", - "length": 228, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6350 - }, - { - "text": "Once I realized the problem was not you but within me. I found inner peace and was able to harness the flow of the universe!", - "source": "Kung Fu Panda 2 - Master Shifu", - "length": 124, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6351 - }, - { - "text": "It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.", - "source": "The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin", - "length": 236, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6353 - }, - { - "text": "When I look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things exactly as they happened. It's just that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way and truthfully the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it.", - "source": "Lady Gaga, Prelude Pathetique (Marry the Night)", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6356 - }, - { - "text": "I don't care if you're movin' slow or fast, as long as it's my direction.", - "source": "Brokeback Mountain", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6357 - }, - { - "text": "I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you're just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there's not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 505, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6358 - }, - { - "text": "He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.", - "source": "Call Me By Your Name", - "length": 176, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6359 - }, - { - "text": "I'd rather have loyalty than love, 'cause love really don't mean jack. See, love is just a feeling - you can love somebody and talk behind their back. It don't take much to love, you can love somebody just by being attached. See, loyalty is an action, you can love or hate me and still have my back.", - "source": "21 Savage, Ball w/o You", - "length": 299, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6360 - }, - { - "text": "Somewhere deep inside of these bones an emptiness began to grow.", - "source": "Jack's Lament, The Nightmare Before Christmas", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6361 - }, - { - "text": "Is there a problem with Earth's gravitational pull in the future? 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Until then, there is only struggle, because that's what tides do - they turn.", - "source": "Skulduggery Pleasant", - "length": 336, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6367 - }, - { - "text": "It makes me so mad! We build your houses, your castles. We pave your roads, and still you walk all over us. Do you ever say thank you? No! Well, you're not going to wipe your feet on me! I think I'll crush you just for fun! Do you have a problem with that?", - "source": "Whomp King, Super Mario Galaxy 2", - "length": 256, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6369 - }, - { - "text": "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6370 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know, maybe it's not great progress compared to other people, but I'm happy with my progress. And you know what? Quite frankly, that's all that matters. If you spend too much time worrying about, you know, other people's progress and how it matches up to yours then... I don't know, you might forget what really matters, and that's your progress, you know?", - "source": "Gawr Gura", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6371 - }, - { - "text": "One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the Devil's Trill, but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.", - "source": "Giuseppe Tartini", - "length": 940, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6372 - }, - { - "text": "It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.", - "source": "Mary Poppins", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6373 - }, - { - "text": "At the bus stop, crushing rocks. They all stare at me, I don't care at all. Everywhere I go, they look at me wrong. Everyday go the same, got to stay strong. ", - "source": "Ecco2K, Peroxide", - "length": 158, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6375 - }, - { - "text": "Meaningless, huh? What do you know of meaningless? Spend most of your life ruled by another! Watch your race dwindle to a handful! And then, tell me what has more meaning than your own strength! I have in me the blood of a Saiyan prince. He is nothing but a joke! Yet, I've had to watch him surpass me in strength, my destiny thrown to the wayside! He's... he's even saved my life like I were a helpless child. He has stolen my honor, and his debts... must be paid!", - "source": "Vegeta, Dragon Ball Z", - "length": 465, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6376 - }, - { - "text": "Oh! One arrives. Far it walks to find me. Did it seek my aid? Or did the path carry it by chance to so pertinent a place? It is true. True, that you were awaited. No. Perhaps that is inaccurate. True one like you was awaited. I have a gift, held long for one of your kind. Half of a whole. When united, great power is granted, and on the path ahead, great power it will need.", - "source": "Hollow Knight", - "length": 375, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6377 - }, - { - "text": "Just because people do horrible things, it doesn't always mean they're horrible people.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6378 - }, - { - "text": "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.", - "source": "A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6380 - }, - { - "text": "It seems after all I couldn't be anything more than a simple puppet. But you three... You're strong. With a power like that... Maybe you three can break your own strings. Let me become your strength.", - "source": "Deltarune", - "length": 199, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6382 - }, - { - "text": "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.", - "source": "George Orwell, 1984", - "length": 122, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6383 - }, - { - "text": "Dude, Benson would've snapped his crank if we'd just upped and left work. You gotta be responsible sometimes.", - "source": "Mordecai, Regular Show", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6384 - }, - { - "text": "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?", - "source": "Traditional American Tongue-twister", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6385 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what to tell you. I'm happy for the first time in my life and I'm not gonna feel bad about it. It takes a long time to realise how truly miserable you are and even longer to see it doesn't have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 297, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6386 - }, - { - "text": "You know, it's funny; when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.", - "source": "Bojack Horseman", - "length": 116, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6387 - }, - { - "text": "You could just write your own rules. You know, write something that's as interesting as you are.", - "source": "La La Land", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6388 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to do this right, show you I'm not movin'! Wherever you go, I won't be far to follow.", - "source": "Waitress, Never Ever Getting Rid of Me", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6389 - }, - { - "text": "People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6390 - }, - { - "text": "Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.", - "source": "V for Vendetta", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6391 - }, - { - "text": "\nWe're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6392 - }, - { - "text": "Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.", - "source": "Charles Bukowski", - "length": 328, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6393 - }, - { - "text": "Did you know that the word 'trauma' comes from the Greek for 'wound'? Hm? And what is the German word for 'dream'? Traum. Ein Traum. Wounds can create monsters, and you, you are wounded, Marshal. And wouldn't you agree, when you see a monster, you... you must stop it?", - "source": "Jeremiah Naehring, Shutter Island (Movie)", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6394 - }, - { - "text": "After she tried to kill herself the first time, Dolores told me she... she had an insect living inside her brain. She could feel it clicking across her skull, just... pulling the wires, just for fun. She told me that. She told me that but I didn't listen. I loved her so much.", - "source": "Teddy Daniels, Shutter Island (movie)", - "length": 276, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6395 - }, - { - "text": "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.", - "source": "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two), Harry Dacre", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6396 - }, - { - "text": "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.", - "source": "Dick Cavett", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6397 - }, - { - "text": "My momma always said, \"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.\"", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6398 - }, - { - "text": "You don't listen, do you? I don't think you ever really hear me. You just ask the same questions every week. \"How's your job?\" \"Are you having any negative thoughts?\" All I have are negative thoughts.", - "source": "Joker", - "length": 200, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6400 - }, - { - "text": "That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 245, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6401 - }, - { - "text": "My father was fond of saying you need three things in life - a good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for.", - "source": "Schindler's List", - "length": 164, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6402 - }, - { - "text": "\"I will take responsibility for what I have done,\" Dalinar whispered. \"If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.\"", - "source": "Oathbringer, The Stormlight Archive, written by Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 123, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6403 - }, - { - "text": "So don't tell me I would be safer with somebody else, because the truth is I would just be more scared.\n\n", - "source": "Ellie, The Last Of Us", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6404 - }, - { - "text": "In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and the foreknowledge of pain.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6405 - }, - { - "text": "So, you have a different way of doing things, a different way of seeing things. That might make you weird, but it also makes you awesome. Don't you see? Because us weirdos have to stick together.", - "source": "The Owl House", - "length": 195, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6406 - }, - { - "text": "You are seeing the movements created by your abilities, but you will never arrive at the truth that's going to happen. None who stand before me shall ever get there, regardless of their abilities. This is the power of Golden Experience Requiem!", - "source": "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", - "length": 244, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6407 - }, - { - "text": "Suddenly I knew that the sound was not in my ears, it was not just inside my head. At that moment I must have become quite white. I talked still faster and louder. And the sound, too, became louder. It was a quick, low, soft sound, like the sound of a clock heard through a wall, a sound I knew well. Louder it became, and louder.", - "source": "The Tell-Tale Heart", - "length": 330, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6408 - }, - { - "text": "Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 125, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6409 - }, - { - "text": "They often say that humans can't live alone, but you can live pretty long by yourself. Instead of feeling alone in a group, it's better to be alone in your solitude.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 165, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6410 - }, - { - "text": "There is... another of me? How many times did I get ripped apart? How many times did I die?", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6411 - }, - { - "text": "I will get inside their inventor's head. Even brilliant minds will break to madness.", - "source": "Omen - Valorant", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6412 - }, - { - "text": "For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.", - "source": "The Shipping News", - "length": 451, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6413 - }, - { - "text": "I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. 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Just once, when I say \"suit up\" I wish you'd put on a suit.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6418 - }, - { - "text": "A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 63, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6419 - }, - { - "text": "You see, kids, right from the moment I met your mom I knew, I have to love this woman as much as I can, and as long as I can, and I can never stop loving her, not even for a second.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6420 - }, - { - "text": "A word of advice: Play along. The more you fight it, the worse it's gonna get.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6421 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6422 - }, - { - "text": "It's only once you've stopped that you realize how hard it is to start again.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6423 - }, - { - "text": "We're going to get older, whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives or desperately cling to the past.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6424 - }, - { - "text": "Never underestimate the power of destiny. Because when you least expect it, the littlest thing can cause a ripple effect that changes your life.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 144, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6425 - }, - { - "text": "Here's the thing about mistakes: Sometimes, even when you know something's a mistake, you gotta make it anyway.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 111, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6426 - }, - { - "text": "You see, the universe has a plan, kids, and that plan is always in motion.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6427 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes our best decisions are the ones that don't make sense at all.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 71, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6428 - }, - { - "text": "If you keep giving up on people so quickly, you're gonna miss out on something great.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6429 - }, - { - "text": "I get recognized one time, and I start thinking I'm Julia Roberts. I'm no VIP; I'm not even an IP; I'm just a lonely little P sitting out here in the gutter.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6430 - }, - { - "text": "Destined? Aren't you tired of waiting for destiny, Ted? Isn't it time to make your own destiny?", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 95, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6431 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know where I'm gonna be in five years. I don't wanna know. I want my life to be an adventure.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6432 - }, - { - "text": "It's just, eventually we're all gonna move on. It's called growing up.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6433 - }, - { - "text": "You can't just skip ahead to where you think your life should be.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6434 - }, - { - "text": "The three-day rule is a childish, manipulative mind game. But yeah, you wait three days.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6435 - }, - { - "text": "Think of me as Yoda. Only instead of being little and green, I wear suits and I'm awesome. I'm your bro. I'm Broda.", - "source": "How I met your mother", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6436 - }, - { - "text": "Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6437 - }, - { - "text": "When life gives you lemons... you probably just found lemons.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6438 - }, - { - "text": "The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.", - "source": "Bo Burnham", - "length": 230, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6440 - }, - { - "text": "What has just appeared is Team Plasma's castle. The king's words will resound from the heights to all below. You must come to the castle, as well. Everything will be decided there. Whether Pokemon will be liberated from people, or whether Pokemon and people will live together… We will see whose belief is stronger... And our result will change the world.", - "source": "Pokemon Black & White", - "length": 355, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6441 - }, - { - "text": "Love can never die, not completely. There were too many romantics, too many poets, too many places where lovers could meet and wishes could be shared.", - "source": "Great Goddesses, Nikita Gill", - "length": 150, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6442 - }, - { - "text": "This is what youth is. The sheer belief that you will be able to keep every promise you made to someone else. That you will be able to love someone into a forever when you do not even understand what forever means.", - "source": "Fierce Fairytales, Nikita Gill", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6443 - }, - { - "text": "When he talks to Marianne he has a sense of total privacy between them. He could tell her anything about himself, even weird things, and she would never repeat them, he knows that. Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind him.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 278, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6444 - }, - { - "text": "Marianne lived a drastically free life, he could see that. He was trapped by various considerations. He cared what people thought of him. He even cared what Marianne thought, that was obvious now.", - "source": "Normal People, Sally Rooney", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6445 - }, - { - "text": "Nobody, even in the provinces, should ever be allowed to ask an intelligent question about pure mathematics across a dinner table. A question of this kind is quite as bad as inquiring suddenly about the state of a man's soul.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6446 - }, - { - "text": "Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6447 - }, - { - "text": "I am not bitter because of what has happened. On the contrary, I am secure in knowing that what we had was real, and I am happy we were able to come together for even a short period of time. And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. And maybe, for a brief moment, you'll feel it too, and you'll smile back, and savor the memories we will always share together. I love you, Allie. Noah. ", - "source": "The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks", - "length": 555, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6448 - }, - { - "text": "Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder!", - "source": "Leia Organa, Star Wars", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6449 - }, - { - "text": "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.", - "source": "Yoda, Star Wars", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6450 - }, - { - "text": "When I was younger I saw my daddy cry and curse at the wind. He broke his own heart and I watched as he tried to reassemble it. And my momma swore that she would never let herself forget and that was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love if it does not exist.", - "source": "The Only Exception - Paramore", - "length": 268, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6451 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe I know somewhere deep in my soul that love never lasts and we've got to find other ways to make it alone or keep a straight face.", - "source": "The Only Exception - Paramore", - "length": 135, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6452 - }, - { - "text": "You were all the things I thought I knew and I thought we could be.", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 67, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6453 - }, - { - "text": "You've got your dumb friends, I know what they say. They tell you I'm difficult but so are they. But they don't know me, do they even know you?", - "source": "My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6454 - }, - { - "text": "You're saying I'm the one but it's your actions that speak louder.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 66, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6455 - }, - { - "text": "I'm gonna pack my things and leave you behind. This feeling's old and I know that I've made up my mind. I hope you feel what I felt when you shattered my soul 'cause you were cruel and I'm a fool so please let me go.", - "source": "I Love You So - The Walters", - "length": 216, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6456 - }, - { - "text": "Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace. I dream at night I can only see your face. I look around but it's you I can't replace. I feel so cold and I long for your embrace. I keep crying baby, baby, please.", - "source": "Every Breath You Take - The Police", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6457 - }, - { - "text": "Don't bother looking down, we're not going that way. At least I know I am here to stay.", - "source": "We Fell in Love in October - girl in red", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6458 - }, - { - "text": "But when I'm older, I'll be so much stronger, I'll stay up for longer.", - "source": "Meet Me At Our Spot", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6459 - }, - { - "text": "And you think that I can't see what kind of man that you are if you're a man at all.", - "source": "Decode - Paramore", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6460 - }, - { - "text": "By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 255, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6462 - }, - { - "text": "Setbacks are inevitable to superstars. Adversity is what separates the good from the great. After all, stars can only shine during the night.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 141, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6463 - }, - { - "text": "When you say you \"can't hear the sound\", doesn't it really mean you \"aren't restrained by the sound\"? Rather than the sound you hear with your ears, an image inside you is boiling up from the depths of yourself and taking over without you even knowing. The sound inside, the landscape in your heart, your wishes, a sound loaded with your thoughts; didn't you feel it, even for a moment? \"Not being able to hear the sound.\" That is a gift.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 438, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6464 - }, - { - "text": "Even though I'm bitter over losing, even though I'm depressed, even though my ankle hurts, and my eyes are smeared with tears... even though I've never felt worse... I wonder why the stars are sparkling like this.", - "source": "Your Lie in April", - "length": 213, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6465 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe there's only a dark road ahead. But you still have to believe and keep going. Believe that the stars will light your path, even a little bit. Come on... Let's go on a journey!", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6466 - }, - { - "text": "Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 393, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6467 - }, - { - "text": "When you decided to go to the sea, it was your own decision. Whatever happens to you on the sea, it depends on what you've done!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6468 - }, - { - "text": "I came in here to figure out if you were a fraud or if you were a monster.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6469 - }, - { - "text": "What do you know of death? Have you ever died? You think death will preserve your cause forever?", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6470 - }, - { - "text": "Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.", - "source": "The Office", - "length": 214, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6471 - }, - { - "text": "I'm going to give you some advice. Never play foosball with a woman who's raised three brothers. It's exhausting.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6472 - }, - { - "text": "You're still in love with her. But instead of telling her, you bought her a plant.", - "source": "Kimball Cho, The Mentalist", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6473 - }, - { - "text": "It's not just allies who support each other. From your enemies, you learn so much and gain so much. Until the day you meet again... Just knowing they exist helps you to withstand the loneliness. Those who compete, even if they're enemies, help each other out.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 259, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6474 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I discovered something. Everyone has something... Something deep inside their hearts. For some, it might have been enmity. For others, admiration. Wishes, a craving for the spotlight, feelings that one wants to deliver, feelings for one's mother. Everyone was supported by their own feelings. I realize now that, perhaps, no one can stand alone on stage.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 364, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6475 - }, - { - "text": "Spring will be here soon. Spring, the season I met you, is coming. A Spring without you... is coming.", - "source": "Your Lie In April", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6476 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter who you're born to... Everyone's still a child of the sea!", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6477 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to lose your way... Just don't lose sight of what you have decided.", - "source": "One Piece", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6478 - }, - { - "text": "It's funny how I'm only your brother when you think I messed up.", - "source": "Jimmy Lisbon, The Mentalist", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6479 - }, - { - "text": "Everybody dies. Very few people ever feel truly sorry for the bad things they've done.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6480 - }, - { - "text": "What was I thinking? I was thinking, uh... Love is strange, and I was thinking about a sandwich.", - "source": "Patrick Jane, The Mentalist", - "length": 96, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6481 - }, - { - "text": "You booked the night train for a reason, so you could sit there in this hurt. Bustling crowds or silent sleepers, you're not sure which is worse. Because I dropped your hand while dancing, left you out there standing, crestfallen on the landing: champagne problems.", - "source": "Champagne Problems, Taylor Swift", - "length": 265, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6483 - }, - { - "text": "Adjectives on a typewriter he moves his words like a prizefighter, the frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell.", - "source": "CAKE - Shadow Stabbing", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6484 - }, - { - "text": "You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6485 - }, - { - "text": "I'll tell you one thing, Blondie. If I knew that my last hour had come, I swear, in my place... in your place I would do the same thing. I would tell about the gold. Yes, yes, I would. I would tell the name on the grave. What good is the money if you're dead? I know the name of the cemetery. But you know how many graves there are there? Please. Blondie, please. Have a little... coffee? Please, tell me the name. On... on the grave. If I get my hands on the 200,000 dollars, I'll always honor your memory. I swear I'll always honor your memory.", - "source": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", - "length": 546, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6487 - }, - { - "text": "Welcome to White Space. You've been living here for as long as you can remember.", - "source": "OMORI", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6488 - }, - { - "text": "It's okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.", - "source": "Billie Joe Armstrong", - "length": 74, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6489 - }, - { - "text": "I knew you'd linger like a tattoo-kiss. I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs. The smell of smoke would hang around this long 'cause I knew everything when I was young. I knew I'd curse you for the longest time, chasing shadows in the grocery line. I knew you'd miss me once the thrill expired, and you'd be standing in my front porch light and I knew you'd come back to me.", - "source": "Cardigan, Taylor Swift", - "length": 374, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6492 - }, - { - "text": "There's things I want to say to you, but I'll just let you live. Like if you hold me without hurting me, you'll be the first who ever did.", - "source": "Cinnamon Girl, Lana Del Rey", - "length": 138, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6493 - }, - { - "text": "Think you can keep up? Who am I kidding? You know you can't keep up.", - "source": "Jett, Valorant", - "length": 68, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6494 - }, - { - "text": "Hard work will always beat talent when talent does not work hard.", - "source": "Tim Notke", - "length": 65, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6495 - }, - { - "text": "That summer, let's see, I'm still living in the basement, my own private down under, in the little room Grim built for me there. Glued up this cheap paneling, right? It sort of buckles away from the concrete cellar walls, a regular ripple effect, but do I complain about the crummy paneling, or the rug that smells like low tide? I do not. Because I like it in the down under, got the place all to myself and no fear of Gram sticking her head in the door and saying Maxwell dear, what are you doing?", - "source": "Freak the Mighty", - "length": 499, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6496 - }, - { - "text": "Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?", - "source": "Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast", - "length": 111, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6497 - }, - { - "text": "There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.", - "source": "The Witch of Portobello", - "length": 110, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6498 - }, - { - "text": "If you don't like your destiny, don't accept it. Instead have the courage to change it the way you want it to be.", - "source": "Naruto Uzumaki", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6500 - }, - { - "text": "Granger? Granger? Can you possibly be related to Hector Dagworth-Granger, who founded the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers?", - "source": "Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6501 - }, - { - "text": "I like to say that if you're seeing me you're having the worst day of your life.", - "source": "Nightcrawler", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6503 - }, - { - "text": "Because I feel nothing like my father, he's been sleeping underground. Don't wait around, 'cause there's nothing there at all, there's nothing but the end!", - "source": "Snowing - Sam Rudich", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6505 - }, - { - "text": "No! The sun is a deadly laser. Not anymore, there's a blanket.", - "source": "Bill Wurtz. History of the entire world, i guess", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6506 - }, - { - "text": "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 189, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6507 - }, - { - "text": "Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 492, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6508 - }, - { - "text": "It was like the litany, she thought. We faced it and did not resist. We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 169, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6509 - }, - { - "text": "It occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6510 - }, - { - "text": "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6511 - }, - { - "text": "There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 634, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6512 - }, - { - "text": "I thought I felt your shape, but I was wrong. Really all I felt, was falsely strong.", - "source": "I Felt Your Shape", - "length": 84, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6513 - }, - { - "text": "Looking from up here, it's as if each flame were a small dream for each person. They look like a bonfire of dreams, don't they?... But there's no flame for me here. I'm just a temporary visitor, taking comfort from the flame.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 225, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6514 - }, - { - "text": "When you're falling in a forest and there's nobody around, do you ever really crash, or even make a sound?", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6515 - }, - { - "text": "In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law...? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will.", - "source": "Berserk", - "length": 204, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6516 - }, - { - "text": "My dad knew I liked beans, so like he was just playing with beans and then he dropped them and then he dropped a rock and then it slid, and then hot water started falling and then, coffee.", - "source": "Johnny Suh (NCT)", - "length": 188, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6517 - }, - { - "text": "You ruined me. You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength. You lied to me, to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear! My whole life I sought the approval I was denied by the man I thought was my father. You turned me into the weakling he hated!... Look at me! You rant and you rage about the monster I have become, but you mother, you are the author of everything I am.", - "source": "The Vampire Diaries", - "length": 413, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6520 - }, - { - "text": "Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother? Here's the real truth. There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You, me? We're exceptional. I could squash you like a bug right now, but I'm offering you a choice. Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create. Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead! Is that what you want?", - "source": "Spider-Man", - "length": 816, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6521 - }, - { - "text": "Wake up. I've been watching you. Come closer. Closer. Twenty-eight days, six hours, forty-two minutes, twelve seconds. That is when the world will end.", - "source": "Donnie Darko", - "length": 151, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6522 - }, - { - "text": "Understanding that our understanding might be wrong is essential, and trying to figure out ways we may be mistaken is the only way science can help us find our way to the truth.", - "source": "Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 177, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6523 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when you look up, you can see stars that don't twinkle. That's because they aren't stars. They're planets.", - "source": "Naked Eye Observations: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 117, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6524 - }, - { - "text": "The moon is a giant ball of rock 3500 kilometers across. Its surface is pretty dark, with about the same reflectivity as a chalkboard or asphalt. However, it looks bright to us because it's sitting in full sunlight.", - "source": "The Cycles of the Moon: Crash Course Astronomy", - "length": 215, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6525 - }, - { - "text": "I don't mean to dwell, but I can't help myself. When I feel the vibe and taste a memory of a time in life, when years seemed to stand still. I close my eyes and sink within myself. Relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. When did it begin, the change to come was undetectable. The open wounds expose the importance of our innocence, a high that can never be bought or sold.", - "source": "Death - Symbolic", - "length": 406, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6526 - }, - { - "text": "Wrong about us being on different paths... we're not on different paths... you're my path... and you're always going to be my path... and I know there are a million reasons why we shouldn't be together... but I'm tired of them... I'm tired of every single one of them... we all got to make a choice... right? Well I choose you...", - "source": "The amazing spider-man 2, Peter Parker", - "length": 329, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6527 - }, - { - "text": "Well, the way I see it, one of two things can happen. Either we'll discover that we've foolishly built each other up in our own imaginations because we've had so much trouble getting together; or, this could end up being a story we tell our grandchildren. 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You're gonna have to be more specific, love.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6532 - }, - { - "text": "When you see Alex in whatever little hell she's carved out for herself, you tell her I said hello.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6533 - }, - { - "text": "When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go... downtown. When you've got worries, all the noise, and the hurry seems to help, I know... downtown. Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city. Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty. How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there. You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares. So go downtown. Things will be great when you're... downtown. No finer place for sure, downtown. Everything's waiting for you.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 515, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6534 - }, - { - "text": "Don't hang around and let your problems surround you, there are movie shows... downtown. Maybe you know some little places to go to where they never close... downtown. Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova, you'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over, happy again, the lights are much brighter there, you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares so go downtown. Where all the lights are bright, downtown. Waiting for you tonight, downtown. You're gonna be alright now, downtown.", - "source": "Last Night In Soho", - "length": 512, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6535 - }, - { - "text": "Traditionally the concept is of a 'good twin' and an 'evil twin'. But in this case, it's evil twin, eviler twin.", - "source": "Dr. Spencer Reid Criminal Minds", - "length": 112, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6536 - }, - { - "text": "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We fought for these ideals, we shouldn't settle for less. These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em. Don't act surprised, you guys, 'cause I wrote 'em.", - "source": "Cabinet Battle #1, Hamilton", - "length": 202, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6537 - }, - { - "text": "When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.", - "source": "Wonder", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6538 - }, - { - "text": "I'm running out of time. I'm running out of light. I'm running just to keep myself from bleeding out. I'm falling out of touch. 'Cause I hate myself too much. No I can't, I was never meant to. I never loved myself like I loved you.", - "source": "I never loved myself like I loved you - Dead Poet Society", - "length": 231, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6539 - }, - { - "text": "The concept of hope is nothing more than giving up. A word that holds no true meaning.", - "source": "Naruto", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6541 - }, - { - "text": "You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be the big ones, they are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It's the regular days, the ones that start out normal. Those are the days that end up the biggest.", - "source": "Izzie - Grey's anatomy", - "length": 282, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6542 - }, - { - "text": "Doesn't matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that's the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It's what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 345, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6544 - }, - { - "text": "I've realized that I'm probably just perfect and it's everybody else around me that's got issues.", - "source": "Scott Disick - Keeping Up with the Kardashians", - "length": 97, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6545 - }, - { - "text": "The last 30 days have taught me so much. And all I wanted when we first came here was to know that we would leave together. But from the minute I sat down, I could feel it. I felt like I was going to be suffocated. The last several weeks, I have laughed more, I have done more, I have enjoyed myself more. And I finally feel free. And by being free, I can see now that constantly trying to fix us is the thing that's been killing me slowly. And I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to fix it or fix us anymore. Maybe instead of loving you so hard, I should be myself for a while. I should love me, and you should love you, and together we love Sofia, rather than... I want so much for you, Arizona. So much more than this. More than being stuck with someone who feels stuck. I want you to feel free too.", - "source": "Grey's Anatomy", - "length": 810, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6546 - }, - { - "text": "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6547 - }, - { - "text": "All's well that ends well to end up with you. Swear to be over-dramatic and true to my lover. And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me. 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But this... does put a smile on my face.", - "source": "Thanos", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6556 - }, - { - "text": "My point is that you asked how and I am giving you the examples, the possibilities, because when I want something, truly want something that my life depends on - which is purpose and happiness - I will stop at nothing to attain. It's like breathing. So you must ask yourself: What is your air? What is the thing you literally will fight for to survive?", - "source": "Supermarket, Bobby Hall", - "length": 352, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6557 - }, - { - "text": "But I hate that it seems you were never enough. We were broken and bleeding but never gave up. And I hate that I made you the enemy. And I hate that your heart was the casualty. Now I hate that I need you.", - "source": "Motionless in White - Another Life", - "length": 205, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6558 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not going there to die. I'm going to find out if I'm really alive.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6559 - }, - { - "text": "Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture.", - "source": "Cowboy Bebop", - "length": 233, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6560 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, right. The poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison... That poison?", - "source": "Emperor's New Groove", - "length": 119, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6561 - }, - { - "text": "Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God. It even has a watermark.", - "source": "Patrick Bateman, American Psycho", - "length": 105, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6562 - }, - { - "text": "We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story.", - "source": "Minecraft", - "length": 262, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6563 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know what I'm supposed to do haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", - "source": "The Night we Met - Lord Huron", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6565 - }, - { - "text": "I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 61, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6566 - }, - { - "text": "Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.\n", - "source": "Twilight", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6567 - }, - { - "text": "I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.", - "source": "The Song of Achilles", - "length": 182, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6568 - }, - { - "text": "In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.\n", - "source": "The Song of Achilles", - "length": 170, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6569 - }, - { - "text": "When we doubt our hearts, our bodies react. Tear ducts overflow and the face flushes red hot embers. A burning, turning sensation overwhelms, and a pressure in the head seduces the mind to doubt. A cycle of connection, a circle of ever-expanding, inexplicable nervous system responses. When we doubt our heads, our stomach cramps, our fists clench and our thoughts tumble into larger and larger whirls of uncertainty, beating our bodies blue and scabish. When we quiet our minds and center our soul we are receptive to an intuition much stronger than knowledge and knowing.", - "source": "Tinker creek.", - "length": 573, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6571 - }, - { - "text": "And yet even these violent fantasies were nothing compared to what lay in wait at the centre of the drawing.", - "source": "House of Leaves", - "length": 108, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6572 - }, - { - "text": "I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.", - "source": "Haruki Murakami", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6573 - }, - { - "text": "There were some things that were said that weren't meant. There were some things that were said, but we never did. Not to be overly dramatic, I just think it's best, 'cause you can't miss what you forget. So, let's just pretend everything and anything between you and me was never meant.", - "source": "American Football - Never Meant", - "length": 287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6574 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.", - "source": "Dylan Thomas", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6576 - }, - { - "text": "Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all. Which is? It's not about you.", - "source": "Dr Strange", - "length": 126, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6577 - }, - { - "text": "I was never good at telling jokes, but the punchline goes: I get older but your lovers stay my age.", - "source": "All Too Well, Taylor Swift", - "length": 99, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6578 - }, - { - "text": "\"Did you put your name in the goblet of fire, Harry?\" Dumbledore asked calmly.", - "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6579 - }, - { - "text": "They say all's well that ends well, but I'm in a new hell every time you double-cross my mind. You said, \"If we had been closer in age, maybe it would have been fine.\" And that made me want to die.", - "source": "All Too Well, Taylor Swift", - "length": 197, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6580 - }, - { - "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. Then what am I?", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6581 - }, - { - "text": "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really... I was alive.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6582 - }, - { - "text": "Look, I was gonna go easy on you, not to hurt your feelings. But I'm only going to get this one chance. Something's wrong, I can feel it... It's just... a feeling I've got. Like something's about to happen, but I don't know what. If that means what I think it means; we're in trouble, big trouble. And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances.", - "source": "Rap God", - "length": 361, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6583 - }, - { - "text": "If you think reality is just living comfortably and following your own whims, can you seriously dare to call yourself a soldier?", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 128, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6584 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry, Eren. I won't give up. I'll never give up again. If I died, I won't be able to remember you. So I'll win, no matter what! I'll survive, no matter what!", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 162, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6585 - }, - { - "text": "A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6586 - }, - { - "text": "War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War - and its consumption of life - has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control... everything is monitored and kept under control. War... has changed. The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history. War... has changed. When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine.", - "source": "Metal Gear Solid 4", - "length": 784, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6587 - }, - { - "text": "I didn't want to remember him. If I had to remember him, it would mean he wasn't a part of my life anymore.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 107, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6589 - }, - { - "text": "Until he comes back for me, I'm just going to keep pretending to be okay. I'll keep pretending to swim, when really all I'm doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 178, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6590 - }, - { - "text": "In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 121, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6591 - }, - { - "text": "You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 62, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6592 - }, - { - "text": "Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed on the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 426, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6593 - }, - { - "text": "There is no such thing as bad people. We're all just people who sometimes do bad things.", - "source": "It Ends With Us", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6594 - }, - { - "text": "Hello and, again, welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided enrichment center. We hope your brief detention in the relaxation vault has been a pleasant one. Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper.", - "source": "GlaDOS, Portal", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6595 - }, - { - "text": "Please be advised that a noticeable taste of blood is not part of any test protocol but is an unintended side effect of the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill, which may, in semi-rare cases, emancipate dental fillings, crowns, tooth enamel, and teeth.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 261, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6596 - }, - { - "text": "The vital apparatus vent will deliver a weighted companion cube in three, two, one. This weighted companion cube will accompany you through the test chamber. Please take care of it.", - "source": "GLaDOS, Portal", - "length": 181, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6597 - }, - { - "text": "Ya' listenin'? OK. Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brotha, I hurt people.", - "source": "Team Fortress 2 - Meet the Scout", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6599 - }, - { - "text": "Death is a powerful thing for it cannot be stopped. Life is even more so.", - "source": "The Library of the Dark Atom", - "length": 73, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6600 - }, - { - "text": "Whatever you do, don't reveal all of your tactics in a YouTube video. You fool.", - "source": "Technoblade, Great Potato War", - "length": 79, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6601 - }, - { - "text": "There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion", - "length": 190, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6602 - }, - { - "text": "Time to open your eyes to this genocide. When you clear your mind you see it all. You're receiving the gold of a better life. When you change yourself, you change the world.", - "source": "Gojira - Silvera", - "length": 173, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6603 - }, - { - "text": "Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.", - "source": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6604 - }, - { - "text": "Well... you clean up the dirt, there's just more dirt to clean up tomorrow. Make the beds, they just have to be made tomorrow. Wash the dishes, more to wash tomorrow. Make dinner, it just gets eaten, doesn't it? The world keeps growing, and you feed it. But it doesn't feed you, does it? But... how much can you take? How much can you take before you snap?", - "source": "The Witches of Eastwick", - "length": 356, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6605 - }, - { - "text": "To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.", - "source": "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", - "length": 568, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6606 - }, - { - "text": "I see, your HEV-Suit still fits you like a glove. At least the glove parts do.", - "source": "Half-Life 2 ", - "length": 78, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6607 - }, - { - "text": "I see them, Mia! I see them! Over there against the dark, stormy sky. They are all there. The Smith and Lisa and the knight and Raval and Jons and Skat. And Death, the severe master, invites them to dance. He tells them to hold hands and then they must tread the dance in a long row.", - "source": "The Seventh Seal", - "length": 283, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6608 - }, - { - "text": "I'm a camp manager. I don't have a list of rules because I'm trying to ruin your fun. I have a list because I'm trying to help you from coming back to camp and finding your tent collapsed and full of rainwater and having no dry clothes or nowhere to sleep. I'm trying to keep you from spending half a day setting up tents because you didn't plan where everything would go in advance. And I'm trying to keep you from doing small, simple things that could result in a horrific and most assuredly agonizing demise.", - "source": "How to Survive Camping", - "length": 511, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6610 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not about how you survive the storm, it's about how you dance in the rain.", - "source": "The Paramour (Book 1) ", - "length": 82, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6611 - }, - { - "text": "Tell all who will hear, the Reaper sails to Mars. And he calls for an Iron Rain.", - "source": "Pierce Brown, Golden Son", - "length": 80, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6612 - }, - { - "text": "You don't always need a plan. 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When you are locked up with someone, everything they do can quickly become annoying, because you can't get away from it. Every day is the same.", - "source": "Kids of Kabul", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6616 - }, - { - "text": "Rivers and roads, rivers and roads, rivers 'til I reach you.", - "source": "Rivers and Roads - The Head and the Heart", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6617 - }, - { - "text": "But what the world fails to realize is that a villain is just a victim whose story hasn't been told.", - "source": "Chris Colfer - The Land of Stories", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6618 - }, - { - "text": "I like what's best for me, but if I can't have that... then no one can!", - "source": "Lighting in the sun", - "length": 71, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6619 - }, - { - "text": "You are capable of anything, but you don't seem to think that you could fly so low or sink so high; that you could ever love again or even try; that you could steal, or cheat, or kill, or lie. But you might.", - "source": "Ben Folds - Capable of Anything", - "length": 207, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6620 - }, - { - "text": "Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as it's controlled by corporations. Brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the Democrats or the Republicans. Because it's all of us who have built this city, and we can tear it down unless they give us what we need.", - "source": "Zack de la Rocha", - "length": 391, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6621 - }, - { - "text": "I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady, all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating, so won't the real Slim Shady please stand up?", - "source": "The Real Slim Shady - Eminem", - "length": 132, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6622 - }, - { - "text": "Remember! Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!", - "source": "Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6623 - }, - { - "text": "A darkness approaches. A day will come in the future where everything you care about will change... Until then I'll be watching you! I'll be watching you...", - "source": "Bill Cipher, Gravity Falls", - "length": 156, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6624 - }, - { - "text": "Romance is like gum: Once it's lost its flavor, you just cram another one in.", - "source": "Mabel Pines, Gravity Falls", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6625 - }, - { - "text": "You can't force someone to love you. The best you can do is strive to be someone worthy of loving.", - "source": "Dipper Pines, Gravity Falls", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6626 - }, - { - "text": "If you accidentally eat the prize that comes inside your cereal, does that make you a specially-marked box?", - "source": "Soos, Gravity Falls", - "length": 107, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6627 - }, - { - "text": "Paper news and pay-per-views, they're all but gone but my tree lives on. Asked her how she came to survive. She whispered, \"The mindless will thrive.\"", - "source": "Paper News, Ritt Momney", - "length": 150, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6628 - }, - { - "text": "For tonight's final illusion we have the incredible sack of mystery. When you put your money in it, it mysteriously disappears.", - "source": "Gravity Falls", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6629 - }, - { - "text": "Studies show owning a ladder is more dangerous than a loaded gun. That's why I own ten guns, just in case some fool tries to sneak in here with a ladder.", - "source": "Gravity Falls", - "length": 153, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6630 - }, - { - "text": "Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? Then we wouldn't have to wait so long, and wouldn't it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong?", - "source": "Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys", - "length": 155, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6631 - }, - { - "text": "I don't know how to tell you, but I love you. I'm not good with words, but I'm talking. I'm not good at talking, but I talk to you. I'm not good at being myself, but I am around you. I'm not good at being loved, but you love me too. I don't know how to tell you, but I love you.", - "source": "Matthew D. Thomason ", - "length": 278, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6632 - }, - { - "text": "Yeah the worst part is knowing that you'll never be mine, and it drives me wild, yeah it drives me wild.", - "source": "Koe Wetzel", - "length": 104, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6633 - }, - { - "text": "My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. To all law enforcement entities, this is not an admission of guilt. I am speaking to my family now. Skyler, you are the love of my life. I hope you know that. Walter Jr., you're my big man. There are going to be some things that you'll come to learn about me in the next few days. But just know that no matter how it may look, I only had you in my heart. Goodbye.", - "source": "Breaking Bad", - "length": 462, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6634 - }, - { - "text": "I am Egypt. I am the Morning and the Evening Star. What I say goes.", - "source": "The Prince of Egypt (1998)", - "length": 67, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6635 - }, - { - "text": "Prince Zuko, you must look within yourself, and only then, can you save yourself from your other self.", - "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006)", - "length": 102, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6636 - }, - { - "text": "Don't leave, it's my fault. 'Cause when it all comes crashing down I'll need you.", - "source": "EARFQUAKE, Tyler, the Creator", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6637 - }, - { - "text": "Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine, gotta, gotta be down because I want it all. It started out with a kiss; how did it end up like this? It was only a kiss; it was only a kiss.", - "source": "Mr. Brightside - The Killers", - "length": 193, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6638 - }, - { - "text": "Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me, 'cause we need a little controversy, 'cause it feels so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 136, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6639 - }, - { - "text": "I got my ticket for the long way 'round, two bottle o' whiskey for the way. And I sure would like some sweet company and I'm leavin' tomorrow, what do you say?", - "source": "Cups, Anna Kendrick", - "length": 159, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6640 - }, - { - "text": "The Dib, he's missing! They've taken him and drained him of his sweet, sweet blood candies!", - "source": "Invader Zim", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6641 - }, - { - "text": "Rooted deep within the Puritans souls like some strange invasive weed lurked their belief in a second world, an Invisible World swarming with shadowy apparitions and unearthly phantoms of the air.", - "source": "Witches by Rosalyn Schanzer", - "length": 196, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6642 - }, - { - "text": "Time... Line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round.", - "source": "Red Vs. Blue", - "length": 100, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6643 - }, - { - "text": "I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, so good to me so right. And how you held me in your arms that September night, the first time you ever saw me cry. Maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming. And if we loved again, I swear I'd love you right. I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't.", - "source": "Back to December", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6644 - }, - { - "text": "It's such a good feeling to know you're alive. It's such a happy feeling; you're growing inside. And when you wake up ready to say: \"I think I'll make a snappy new day!\" It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling. The feeling you know, that I'll be back when the day is new, and I'll have more ideas for you, and you'll have things you'll want to talk about; I will too.", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6645 - }, - { - "text": "You always make each day such a special day, you know how: By just your being you. Only one person in the whole world like you, that's you yourself!", - "source": "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood ", - "length": 148, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6646 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 89, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6647 - }, - { - "text": "Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 81, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6648 - }, - { - "text": "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.", - "source": "Margaret Mead", - "length": 72, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6650 - }, - { - "text": "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.", - "source": "Robert Louis Stevenson", - "length": 77, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6651 - }, - { - "text": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", - "source": "Eleanor Roosevelt", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6652 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.", - "source": "Benjamin Franklin", - "length": 70, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6653 - }, - { - "text": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", - "source": "Helen Keller", - "length": 114, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6654 - }, - { - "text": "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 69, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6655 - }, - { - "text": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6656 - }, - { - "text": "Dad told me I could learn a lesson from this, which was to never lose your temper and do something stupid.", - "source": "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway", - "length": 106, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6658 - }, - { - "text": "One big unicorn, strong and free, thought he was happy as he could be. Then three little kittens came around and turned his whole life upside down. They made him laugh, they made him cry. He never should have said goodbye. And now he knows he can never part from those three little kittens that changed his heart.", - "source": "Despicable Me", - "length": 313, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6659 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only, if only,\" the woodpecker sighs, \"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 90, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6660 - }, - { - "text": "While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, crying to the moon, \"If only, if only.\"", - "source": "Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)", - "length": 86, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6661 - }, - { - "text": "But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", - "source": "Silent Hill 2", - "length": 699, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6662 - }, - { - "text": "The shepherd's boy says, \"There's this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years, a little bird comes. It sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.\" You must think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird.", - "source": "Doctor Who", - "length": 396, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6663 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.", - "source": "Angela Davis", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6664 - }, - { - "text": "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 101, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6665 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have proven acceptable to ourselves.", - "source": "Malcolm X", - "length": 91, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6666 - }, - { - "text": "A hot desert storm eddied around him and rushed to me, making my skin contract, and my pores slam shut... His hair was the color of burning embers and his eyes pierced.", - "source": "Maya Angelou", - "length": 168, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6668 - }, - { - "text": "There's a concept that works; twenty million other white rappers emerge. But no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me.", - "source": "Without Me, Eminem", - "length": 142, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6669 - }, - { - "text": "A king without greed is even worse than a figurehead! Saber, you said you would martyr yourself for your ideals. In life, you must have been a pure saint. A proud and noble figure, certainly. But who can truly admire the martyr's thorny path? Who dreams of such an ending? A king. The king must be greedier than any other. He must laugh more loudly and rage for longer. He must exemplify the extreme of all things, good and evil. That is why his retainers envy and adore him. And why the flames of aspiration, to be as the king is, can burn within his people. Proud king of chivalry, the righteousness and ideals you bore may indeed have saved your nation once. However, I'm certain you know what became of those who were saved, but left to themselves.", - "source": "Fate/Zero", - "length": 752, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6670 - }, - { - "text": "No country would ever consider it an act of evil to deny a pig human rights. Therefore, if you were to define someone speaking a different tongue, someone of a different color, someone of a different heritage as a pig in human form, any oppression, persecution, or atrocity you might inflict upon them would never be regarded as cruel or inhumane.", - "source": "86", - "length": 347, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6671 - }, - { - "text": "I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all.", - "source": "The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger", - "length": 131, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6674 - }, - { - "text": "I am neither, sire, and I assure you that my activities are purely recreational in nature. Furthermore, I would never imagine to transgress the terms upon which we agreed. I am available, at your leisure and by your grace, to discuss this matter further should you wish to repeat your ridiculous accusations in person. That said, I'm pleased you enjoyed the tomatoes. All the best wishes and encouragement. Adrian Veidt.", - "source": "Watchmen (2019)", - "length": 420, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6675 - }, - { - "text": "I don't recall saying anything about justice. Mathias and I are evil, too, after all. A knight doesn't bring justice, just more pain and violence. And what is evil if not violence? But what do you do when leaving evil alive leads to the rise of even greater evil? Even worse sorrow and pain? You destroy that evil, even if you have to use the evil of violence to do so. And every time you draw your sword, you hope that you take from this world more evil than you bring into it. THAT is the code of the Maximillian Knights. I'm putting you on notice. You, who so carelessly use the word \"justice\", have no idea what it truly means. Though you strike me as more of a misguided coward than a villain, your evil deeds must still be punished.", - "source": "Suikoden 5", - "length": 738, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6676 - }, - { - "text": "I'm all for work-life balance, but I think this is pushing it.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 62, - "id": 6679 - }, - { - "text": "In adventuring, as in business, you always have to seize the opportunity while it's there.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 90, - "id": 6680 - }, - { - "text": "Quite a downpour... Nothing will get done until it clears. Let this be a lesson to those who yesterday said, \"I'll do it tomorrow.\"", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 131, - "id": 6681 - }, - { - "text": "Morning. Time to set the tone for the rest of the day, so if you're still feeling sleepy, shake it off!", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 103, - "id": 6685 - }, - { - "text": "The lights are coming on now that the night is setting in. Another delightful day draws to a close.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 99, - "id": 6687 - }, - { - "text": "Sleep well... me? Uh... I still have a handful of things on my to-do list, but I'll call it a night once they are done.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 119, - "id": 6688 - }, - { - "text": "I feel I have grown immensely from my travels with you. If, one day, I finally manage to make my dreams a reality... I wonder, will you still be there by my side?", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 162, - "id": 6689 - }, - { - "text": "Oh, the sun's out- Oh, um... This meteorological transformation is most splendid! Like a felicitous twist of fate in the face of certain doom.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 142, - "id": 6690 - }, - { - "text": "I'll remind you again: The law can be both a help and a hindrance.", - "source": "Genshin Impact", - "length": 66, - "id": 6691 - }, - { - "text": "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.", - "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", - "length": 93, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6693 - }, - { - "text": "You have to believe in the long-term plan you have but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you.", - "source": "Roger Federer", - "length": 113, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6695 - }, - { - "text": "You truly are the lowest scum in history. You can't pay back what you owe with money.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6696 - }, - { - "text": "Impossible? We did a lot of impossible things on this journey. I'm tired of hearing that things are impossible or useless. Those words mean nothing to us.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders", - "length": 154, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6697 - }, - { - "text": "Nice watch. Too bad you won't be able to tell the time after I break it. Break your face, that is.", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable", - "length": 98, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6698 - }, - { - "text": "JoJo, being a human means having limits. I've learned something... The more carefully you scheme, the more unexpected events come along. As long as you're human... I reject my humanity, JoJo!", - "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6699 - }, - { - "text": "Oh no. I'm on the outside looking in, I never said what I really meant. I wasn't made to be medicine for you, it's true. You can't seem to make up your mind, when I told you I did with mine. You won't know if you never try, it's true.", - "source": "Dayglow, Medicine", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6700 - }, - { - "text": "Everything is simply a shape, a form, an identifier to let others recognize me as me. But then, what am I? Is this me? My true self? My fake self? What is it that I am? Nobody understands me!", - "source": "Neon Genesis Evangelion", - "length": 191, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6702 - }, - { - "text": "In every heart, there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong; to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along.", - "source": "Billy Joel - And so it goes", - "length": 127, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6703 - }, - { - "text": "It's about drive, it's about power, we stay hungry, we devour. Put in the work, put in the hours and take what's ours. Black and Samoan in my veins, my culture banging with Strange. I changed the game so what's my name?", - "source": "Face Off", - "length": 219, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6704 - }, - { - "text": "No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.", - "source": "Easy Rider", - "length": 157, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6705 - }, - { - "text": "Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? ", - "source": "Lord of the Flies", - "length": 64, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6707 - }, - { - "text": "Burning is the right way to paint it. You feel yourself getting so hot, day after day. Hotter and hotter. It gets to be too much. Even for stars. At some point they fizzle out or explode. Cease to be. But if you're looking up at the sky, you don't see it that way. You think those stars are still there. Some aren't. Some are already gone. Long gone. I guess, now, so am I.", - "source": "Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich", - "length": 373, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6708 - }, - { - "text": "And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us; new, untouched, and full of things that have never been.", - "source": "Rainier Maria Rilke", - "length": 115, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6709 - }, - { - "text": "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they have never been.", - "source": "Untamed by Glennon Doyle", - "length": 103, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6710 - }, - { - "text": "Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurts you. Finally, it goes out and everything is darker than ever, and all you are left with is the burn.", - "source": "If It's Not Love, Syed Arshad", - "length": 222, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6711 - }, - { - "text": "We are alone. Such is the curse of humanity, being surrounded by others always masking themselves while all of us feel isolated, separated from everyone else. Our sense of uniqueness and ego will always keep us this way, and it will take more than a revolution to end it. For now, we are alone.", - "source": "Alice Chary Garza", - "length": 294, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6712 - }, - { - "text": "Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say \"My tooth is aching\" than to say \"My heart is broken.\"", - "source": "C.S. Lewis", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6713 - }, - { - "text": "Although Ganon is gone for now, there is still so much more for us to do, and so many painful memories that we must bear.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 121, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6716 - }, - { - "text": "Link... You are the light. Our light... That must shine upon Hyrule once again. Now go.", - "source": "Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", - "length": 87, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6717 - }, - { - "text": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", - "source": "Michael Jordan", - "length": 224, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6719 - }, - { - "text": "And those are the words of a gentleman? From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others, made me realize you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry.", - "source": "Pride and Prejudice", - "length": 241, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6720 - }, - { - "text": "Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.", - "source": "Call Me by Your Name", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6722 - }, - { - "text": "Now's my chance... I'm going to get stronger... and accept who I am... Strong enough so that when someone says \"even though you're a boy\" I'll be okay. I'll get better! Maybe talking to Mondo about it will help give me some courage...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 234, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6723 - }, - { - "text": "...I want to change. I wrapped myself in lies. I'm weak. I want to destroy that version of me forever! I have to change. I don't want to be weak anymore. You're so strong, it can't hurt you, right? Whatever secret Monokuma might tell us...", - "source": "Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc", - "length": 239, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6724 - }, - { - "text": "Now it's time for our wrap up. Let's give it everything we've got. Ready? Begin! Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing. Analytically, I assault, animate things. Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. Buildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding. Casually create catastrophes, casualties. Canceling cats got their canopies collapsing. Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough. Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low. Eatin' other editors with each and every energetic. Epileptic episode, elevated etiquette. Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk felt feeding the fanatics. Gift got great global goods gone glorious. Gettin' Godly in his game with the goriest. Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical. Hey holocaust hints hear 'em holler at your homeboy. Imitators idolize, I intimidate. In an instant, I'll rise in a irate state. Juiced on my jams like jheri curls, jockin' joints. Justly, it's just me, writin' my journals. Kindly I'm kindling all kinds of ink on. Karate kick type Brits in my kingdom. Let me live a long life, lyrically lessons is. Learned lame louses just lose to my livery. My mind makes marvelous moves, masses. Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered. Nap knowin' I'm nice naturally. Knack, never lack, make noise nationally. Operation, opposition, off, not optional. Out of sight, out of mind, wide beaming opticals. Perfected poem, powerful punchlines. Pummeling petty powder puffs in my prime. Quite quaint quotes keep quiet it's Quannum. Quarrelers ain't got a quarter of what we got, uh. Really raw raps, risin' up rapidly. Riding the rushing radioactivity. Super scientifical sound search sought. Silencing super fire saps that are soft. Tales ten times talented, they're too tough. Take that, challengers, get a tune up. Universal, unique untouched. Unadulterated, the raw uncut. Verb vice Lord victorious valid. Violate vibes that are vain make 'em vanished. Why I'm all well, would a wise wordsmith. Just weaving up words weeded up, on my work shift. Xerox, my X-ray-diation holes extra large. X-height letters and xylophone tones. Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws. Yesterday's lawn yards sell our yawn. Zig zag zombies, zoomin' to the zenith. Zero in zen thoughts, over zealous rhyme Zea-lots. Good, can you say it faster?", - "source": "Alphabet Aerobics", - "length": 2287, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6725 - }, - { - "text": "Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.", - "source": "Dune", - "length": 76, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6726 - }, - { - "text": "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.", - "source": "Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6727 - }, - { - "text": "And where there was that memory... others came rising like ghostly tendrils out of some part of her mind that existed beyond the purely physical, somewhere that the rejuvenations and edits of the ship's medical suite could never reach. The holm, where her soul originated from, occupying the non-realm outside spacetime; both separate but still existing within the overall cosmos. Together, the two intersected, a contact which created the miracle that was the mind, animating flesh, delivering purpose to otherwise insensate clusters of mere organic chemistry.", - "source": "Light Chaser", - "length": 561, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6728 - }, - { - "text": "Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a shadow, as dead mothers become. You can see it in her eyes: I am not there.", - "source": "The Handmaid's Tale", - "length": 360, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6729 - }, - { - "text": "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 143, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6730 - }, - { - "text": "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts. ", - "source": "Lawrence of Arabia", - "length": 60, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6731 - }, - { - "text": "The violent passion that soaked his heart brought him almost to the verge of collapse. He judged that victory had yielded him nothing if it had not given him her as a prize.", - "source": "Book III of Gesta Danorum", - "length": 173, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6732 - }, - { - "text": "You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits can change your future.", - "source": "Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire", - "length": 109, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6733 - }, - { - "text": "There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 586, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6734 - }, - { - "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", - "source": "American Psycho", - "length": 1174, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6735 - }, - { - "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", - "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", - "length": 221, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6736 - }, - { - "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 184, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6737 - }, - { - "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 145, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6738 - }, - { - "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 246, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6739 - }, - { - "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 88, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6740 - }, - { - "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 85, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6741 - }, - { - "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", - "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", - "length": 272, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6742 - }, - { - "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 275, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6743 - }, - { - "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", - "source": "The Sandman", - "length": 186, - "approvedBy": "Smithster", - "id": 6744 - }, - { - "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 467, - "id": 6745 - }, - { - "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", - "source": "Goodnight Punpun", - "length": 877, - "id": 6746 - }, - { - "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", - "source": "A Girl on the Shore", - "length": 572, - "id": 6747 - }, - { - "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 64, - "id": 6748 - }, - { - "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 62, - "id": 6749 - }, - { - "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 77, - "id": 6750 - }, - { - "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 166, - "id": 6751 - }, - { - "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 195, - "id": 6752 - }, - { - "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 100, - "id": 6753 - }, - { - "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 172, - "id": 6754 - }, - { - "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 118, - "id": 6755 - }, - { - "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 119, - "id": 6756 - }, - { - "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", - "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6757, - "length": 234 - }, - { - "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", - "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", - "id": 6758, - "length": 119 - }, - { - "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. The good news is you like driving, because you can't take your foot off the gas for the next twenty-five years.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6761, - "length": 232 - }, - { - "text": "Well, then, you have us all beat. Every damn song is about you. We could drive back and forth across the States forever and never run out of Baby songs.", - "source": "Baby Driver", - "id": 6762, - "length": 152 - }, - { - "text": "All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6764, - "length": 458 - }, - { - "text": "Well done. Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6765, - "length": 141 - }, - { - "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", - "source": "Portal 2", - "id": 6766, - "length": 145 - }, - { - "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", - "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", - "id": 6767, - "length": 204 - }, - { - "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. However, the latter is of equal importance, and can be gained with patient study.", - "source": "Conduction Heat Transfer", - "id": 6768, - "length": 250 - }, - { - "text": "The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.", - "source": "Unknown", - "id": 6769, - "length": 109 - }, - { - "text": "My wife and I had lived in our house for over a dozen years at that point. Holly's family had lived in theirs even longer. We were both active families, involved in the community, with work, and with our churches. Yet, the thick woods covering the lots we each occupied along a cul-de-sac was enough of a barrier to our getting to know each other that we didn't even realize our neighbors across the street had a little girl the same age as ours. That is, until they met at the kindergarten in the elementary school six miles away.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6770, - "length": 531 - }, - { - "text": "The single quality that is common across every living creature on this planet, is fear. It's funny, then, that as common as fear is, we so easily underestimate its power. Fear of growing close to someone, the subsequent fear of loss, fear of failure. And as more people depend on you, those fears can take on greater power. But fear itself isn't worthy of concern, it is who we become while in its clutches. Will you be proud of that person? Will you forgive them? Will you understand why they felt the need to do the things they did? Will you even recognize them? Or will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the start? I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6771, - "length": 703 - }, - { - "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6772, - "length": 403 - }, - { - "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6773, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6774, - "length": 464 - }, - { - "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6775, - "length": 259 - }, - { - "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. Which is why I'm out here, to do whatever I can, wherever I can, and hopefully do some good.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6776, - "length": 267 - }, - { - "text": "We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6777, - "length": 146 - }, - { - "text": "You're wrong. We've done things that most people would call impossible, and I know the only reason we were able to do it is because we didn't do it alone! We had people to teach us, people to help us, we had each other. Work with us. At least I know we'll have a better chance if we try together. Please.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6778, - "length": 304 - }, - { - "text": "Just because you don't have an idea, doesn't mean we're out of options! Oz hasn't been here to tell us what to do, but we still managed to get this far anyway. We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", - "source": "RWBY", - "id": 6779, - "length": 392 - }, - { - "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6780, - "length": 358 - }, - { - "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6781, - "length": 105 - }, - { - "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", - "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", - "id": 6782, - "length": 183 - }, - { - "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6783, - "length": 521 - }, - { - "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6784, - "length": 256 - }, - { - "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", - "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", - "id": 6785, - "length": 99 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", - "source": "Walt Disney", - "id": 6786, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "He's smart. He's angry. Put those two things together, you stay out of the way.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6787, - "length": 79 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when I get bored, I create people in my head.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "id": 6788, - "length": 56 - }, - { - "text": "You wanna know what was done? A fundraising campaign to help you while you were on the street. I warned you to go back out onto the water so that the Snells wouldn't come after you - in fact, I begged them to let you go back down onto the water, instead of them just killing you and Grace, right then and there. And when they didn't listen to me, I paid seven hundred thousand dollars to save your lives. Seven hundred thousand dollars! Every single thing I've done has been to help you. Everything I've told you to do has been to help you, and what have you done? You've done the exact opposite every single time, and what did it get you? It got you right here.", - "source": "Ozark", - "id": 6789, - "length": 662 - }, - { - "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", - "source": "Better Call Saul", - "id": 6790, - "length": 75 - }, - { - "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", - "source": "Greek Mythology", - "id": 6791, - "length": 383 - }, - { - "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", - "source": "No Country for Old Men", - "id": 6792, - "length": 108 - }, - { - "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", - "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", - "length": 99, - "id": 6793 - }, - { - "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", - "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6794 - }, - { - "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 58, - "id": 6795 - }, - { - "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", - "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", - "length": 113, - "id": 6796 - }, - { - "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. In my mind, I'm tryin' to go...", - "source": "Say No to This, Hamilton", - "length": 102, - "id": 6797 - }, - { - "text": "And when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!", - "source": "You'll Be Back, Hamilton", - "length": 91, - "id": 6798 - }, - { - "text": "You're on your own. Awesome, wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?", - "source": "What Comes Next, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6799 - }, - { - "text": "Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 67, - "id": 6800 - }, - { - "text": "The fact that you're alive is a miracle. Just stay alive, that would be enough.", - "source": "That Would Be Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 79, - "id": 6801 - }, - { - "text": "Have your seconds meet face to face. Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 86, - "id": 6802 - }, - { - "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 82, - "id": 6803 - }, - { - "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. You have him turn around, so he can have deniability.", - "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", - "length": 153, - "id": 6804 - }, - { - "text": "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 70, - "id": 6805 - }, - { - "text": "All I have is my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits, and my top-notch brain.", - "source": "Helpless, Hamilton", - "length": 98, - "id": 6806 - }, - { - "text": "I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days.", - "source": "Satisfied, Hamilton", - "length": 78, - "id": 6807 - }, - { - "text": "I'll give him this, his financial system is a work of genius. I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I've tried.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 108, - "id": 6808 - }, - { - "text": "He took our country from bankruptcy to prosperity. I hate to admit it, but he doesn't get enough credit for all the credit he gave us.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 134, - "id": 6809 - }, - { - "text": "And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 90, - "id": 6810 - }, - { - "text": "You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.", - "source": "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, Hamilton", - "length": 62, - "id": 6811 - }, - { - "text": "I am slow to anger but I toe the line, as I reckon with the effects of your life on mine.", - "source": "Your Obedient Servant, Hamilton", - "length": 89, - "id": 6812 - }, - { - "text": "What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 71, - "id": 6813 - }, - { - "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", - "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", - "length": 81, - "id": 6814 - }, - { - "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.", - "source": "Fred Rogers", - "length": 213, - "id": 6815 - }, - { - "text": "I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism.", - "source": "Wednesday", - "length": 168, - "id": 6817 - }, - { - "text": "Teach them our ways so they do not suffer the shame of being useless.", - "source": "Avatar: The Way of Water", - "length": 69, - "id": 6818 - }, - { - "text": "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.", - "source": "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", - "length": 254, - "id": 6819 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a journey, not a destination. The key to success is to enjoy every step along the way. Embrace the struggles, learn from the failures, and appreciate the victories. The destination may be important, but it's the journey that truly shapes us.", - "source": "The Power of Positive Thinking", - "length": 249, - "id": 6820 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. We do not remember days, we remember moments. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", - "source": "Søren Kierkegaard", - "length": 321, - "id": 6821 - }, - { - "text": "I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.", - "source": "Robin Williams", - "length": 185, - "id": 6822 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", - "source": "Steve Jobs", - "length": 174, - "id": 6823 - }, - { - "text": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 254, - "id": 6824 - }, - { - "text": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.", - "source": "Andrè Gide", - "length": 80, - "id": 6825 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This means recognizing that failure and setbacks are a natural part of the journey to success, and using them as opportunities to learn and grow. It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", - "source": "Nelson Mandela", - "length": 431, - "id": 6827 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 75, - "id": 6828 - }, - { - "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", - "source": "J.K. Rowling", - "length": 101, - "id": 6829 - }, - { - "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 81, - "id": 6830 - }, - { - "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", - "source": "Edmund Burke", - "length": 79, - "id": 6831 - }, - { - "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.", - "source": "Christian D. Larson", - "length": 116, - "id": 6832 - }, - { - "text": "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 95, - "id": 6833 - }, - { - "text": "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 110, - "id": 6834 - }, - { - "text": "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.", - "source": "Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)", - "length": 65, - "id": 6835 - }, - { - "text": "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.", - "source": "Christopher Columbus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6836 - }, - { - "text": "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. The only way to true happiness is to learn to accept and love ourselves for who we are, flaws and all. This means embracing our strengths as well as our weaknesses, and finding joy in the journey of self-discovery and self-improvement. It may not be an easy path, but it is one that is worth taking.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 391, - "id": 6837 - }, - { - "text": "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. This means finding a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives, and striving to make a positive impact in the world around us. It means being kind and caring towards others, and using our unique talents and abilities to create something that will endure beyond our lifetime.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 440, - "id": 6838 - }, - { - "text": "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain. This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 423, - "id": 6839 - }, - { - "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", - "source": "Abraham Lincoln", - "length": 402, - "id": 6840 - }, - { - "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", - "source": "Albert Schweitzer", - "length": 392, - "id": 6841 - }, - { - "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", - "length": 41, - "id": 6842 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", - "source": "Dalai Lama", - "length": 70, - "id": 6843 - }, - { - "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", - "source": "Henry Ford", - "length": 57, - "id": 6844 - }, - { - "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 248, - "id": 6845 - }, - { - "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 58, - "id": 6847 - }, - { - "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", - "source": "Jean Paul", - "length": 53, - "id": 6849 - }, - { - "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 66, - "id": 6851 - }, - { - "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", - "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 217, - "id": 6852 - }, - { - "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", - "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", - "length": 92, - "id": 6853 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess", - "length": 66, - "id": 6854 - }, - { - "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 100, - "id": 6855 - }, - { - "text": "If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 88, - "id": 6856 - }, - { - "text": "Even if a single day in your life is the same as the day before, it surely is a pity. At every moment and with each new breath, one should be renewed and renewed again. There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death.", - "source": "The Forty Rules of Love", - "length": 239, - "id": 6857 - }, - { - "text": "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's all to save Eldia and the Island. But not only because of that. The reality outside the walls was nothing like the world I had dreamed of. It was nothing like the world I had seen in Armin's book. When I learned that humanity outside the walls survived... I was so disappointed. I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", - "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", - "length": 361, - "id": 6858 - }, - { - "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around; the real, deep down you is the whole universe.", - "source": "Alan Watts - The Real You Is All of Us", - "length": 224, - "id": 6859 - }, - { - "text": "When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 68, - "id": 6860 - }, - { - "text": "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 71, - "id": 6861 - }, - { - "text": "While it is true that man succumbs all too often to anger and avarice, he may yet overcome his baser instincts through the forming of bonds with others.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 152, - "id": 6862 - }, - { - "text": "Save your tears for the morrow. You may be sure we will have ample cause to shed them, be they for joy or despair.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 114, - "id": 6863 - }, - { - "text": "We fought and we fought and we fought... until there was no one left to fight. We won... and now our world is being erased from existence. We did everything right, everything that was asked of us, and still - still it came to this!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 231, - "id": 6864 - }, - { - "text": "Stay strong. Keep the faith. At duty's end, we will meet again. We will. We will.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 81, - "id": 6867 - }, - { - "text": "The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 106, - "id": 6868 - }, - { - "text": "We are the stories we tell ourselves. The brave hero, the tortured soul, the altruist, the pragmatist. They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 336, - "id": 6869 - }, - { - "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 182, - "id": 6870 - }, - { - "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 529, - "id": 6871 - }, - { - "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 282, - "id": 6872 - }, - { - "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 184, - "id": 6873 - }, - { - "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 196, - "id": 6874 - }, - { - "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 90, - "id": 6875 - }, - { - "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.", - "source": "Terry Pratchett", - "length": 168, - "id": 6876 - }, - { - "text": "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.", - "source": "Dante Alighieri", - "length": 71, - "id": 6877 - }, - { - "text": "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 82, - "id": 6878 - }, - { - "text": "Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.", - "source": "Heath Ledger", - "length": 164, - "id": 6879 - }, - { - "text": "Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 77, - "id": 6880 - }, - { - "text": "Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot", - "id": 6881, - "length": 189 - }, - { - "text": "There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said \"Nobody\".", - "source": "A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh", - "id": 6882, - "length": 71 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.", - "source": "Gorgias", - "id": 6883, - "length": 169 - }, - { - "text": "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "id": 6884, - "length": 222 - }, - { - "text": "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.", - "source": "Arthur C. Clarke", - "id": 6885, - "length": 104 - }, - { - "text": "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "id": 6886, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be \"Sir\". Do you maggots understand that?", - "source": "R. Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket", - "id": 6887, - "length": 210 - }, - { - "text": "One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain... and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...", - "source": "Forrest Gump", - "id": 6888, - "length": 290 - }, - { - "text": "Maybe someday we could become friends. Friends who ride majestic, translucent steeds, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale.", - "source": "Will Ferrell, Step Brothers", - "id": 6889, - "length": 139 - }, - { - "text": "\"Why doesn't it just do us in and get it over with? Christ, I don't know how much longer I can go on like this.\" It was our one hundred and ninth year in the computer. He was speaking for all of us.", - "source": "Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", - "id": 6890, - "length": 198 - }, - { - "text": "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.", - "source": "Mario Savio", - "id": 6891, - "length": 450 - }, - { - "text": "We don't know what triggered the big bang, nor what, if anything, existed before it. But somehow the universe emerged as a vast sea of ultrahot gas, expanding fast in all directions like the fireball ignited by a nuclear bomb blast or by the explosion of a gas pipeline. Except that the big bang was not destructive (so far as we know). Instead, it created everything in our universe, or rather the seeds for everything.", - "source": "Kip Thorne, The Science of Interstellar", - "id": 6892, - "length": 420 - }, - { - "text": "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.", - "source": "Brian Cox", - "id": 6893, - "length": 96 - }, - { - "text": "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.", - "source": "Niels Bohr", - "id": 6894, - "length": 157 - }, - { - "text": "I want to have the same last dream again. The one where I wake up, and I'm alive just as the four walls closed me within, my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight. I'm the first to know, my dearest friends, even if your hope has burned with time. Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", - "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", - "id": 6895, - "length": 345 - }, - { - "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", - "source": "Edwin Hubble", - "id": 6897, - "length": 100 - }, - { - "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", - "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", - "id": 6898, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "id": 6899, - "length": 245 - }, - { - "text": "Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "id": 6900, - "length": 632 - }, - { - "text": "In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done before defend him.", - "source": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", - "id": 6901, - "length": 213 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", - "source": "Marie Curie", - "id": 6902, - "length": 123 - }, - { - "text": "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.", - "source": "John Lubbock, The Use Of Life", - "id": 6903, - "length": 201 - }, - { - "text": "Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter... I have chosen the word \"atom\" to signify these ultimate particles.", - "source": "John Dalton", - "id": 6904, - "length": 244 - }, - { - "text": "Schrodinger's cat has far more than nine lives, and far fewer. All of us are unknowing cats, alive and dead at once, and of all the might-have-beens in between, we record only one.", - "source": "Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows", - "id": 6905, - "length": 180 - }, - { - "text": "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.", - "source": "Nicolaus Copernicus", - "id": 6906, - "length": 111 - }, - { - "text": "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.", - "source": "Nikolai Lobachevsky", - "id": 6907, - "length": 118 - }, - { - "text": "Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worse, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.", - "source": "Sigmund Freud", - "id": 6908, - "length": 411 - }, - { - "text": "Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.", - "source": "Jean Piaget", - "id": 6909, - "length": 199 - }, - { - "text": "By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite streak of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "id": 6910, - "length": 278 - }, - { - "text": "When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, \"What do I need to get to be happy?\" The question becomes, \"What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?\"", - "source": "D.T. Suzuki", - "id": 6911, - "length": 187 - }, - { - "text": "Personal knowledge. The two words may seem to contradict each other: for true knowledge is deemed impersonal, universally established, objective. But the seeming contradiction is resolved by modifying the conception of knowing.", - "source": "Personal knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy", - "id": 6912, - "length": 227 - }, - { - "text": "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.", - "source": "Dolly Parton", - "length": 74, - "id": 6913 - }, - { - "text": "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.", - "source": "Anatole France", - "length": 162, - "id": 6914 - }, - { - "text": "Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.", - "source": "Carl Sandburg", - "length": 122, - "id": 6915 - }, - { - "text": "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.", - "source": "Swedish Proverb", - "length": 79, - "id": 6917 - }, - { - "text": "There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.", - "source": "Ambrose Bierce", - "length": 82, - "id": 6918 - }, - { - "text": "If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?", - "source": "Laura Preble", - "length": 96, - "id": 6919 - }, - { - "text": "You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.", - "source": "John Green - An Abundance of Katherines", - "length": 74, - "id": 6920 - }, - { - "text": "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.", - "source": "Alfred Sheinwold", - "length": 93, - "id": 6921 - }, - { - "text": "The only one who can tell you \"you can't\" is you. And you don't have to listen.", - "source": "Dean Karnazes", - "length": 79, - "id": 6922 - }, - { - "text": "In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.", - "source": "Bill Vaughan", - "length": 143, - "id": 6923 - }, - { - "text": "I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.", - "source": "Mitch Hedberg", - "length": 214, - "id": 6924 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.", - "source": "Allphonse de Lamartine", - "length": 72, - "id": 6925 - }, - { - "text": "That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 105, - "id": 6926 - }, - { - "text": "I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.", - "source": "Hank Green", - "length": 153, - "id": 6927 - }, - { - "text": "That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.", - "source": "John Green", - "length": 129, - "id": 6928 - }, - { - "text": "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.", - "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", - "length": 130, - "id": 6929 - }, - { - "text": "He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is.", - "source": "African Proverb", - "length": 80, - "id": 6930 - }, - { - "text": "Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.", - "source": "Irish Proverb", - "length": 74, - "id": 6931 - }, - { - "text": "Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.", - "source": "Arabian Proverb", - "length": 105, - "id": 6932 - }, - { - "text": "He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 82, - "id": 6933 - }, - { - "text": "Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 72, - "id": 6934 - }, - { - "text": "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean; if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.", - "source": "Marcus Brigstocke", - "length": 169, - "id": 6935 - }, - { - "text": "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!", - "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", - "length": 87, - "id": 6936 - }, - { - "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.", - "source": "Aristotle", - "length": 124, - "id": 6937 - }, - { - "text": "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 87, - "id": 6938 - }, - { - "text": "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", - "source": "Japanese Proverb", - "length": 69, - "id": 6939 - }, - { - "text": "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", - "source": "Malayan Proverb", - "length": 62, - "id": 6940 - }, - { - "text": "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", - "source": "Indian Proverb", - "length": 165, - "id": 6941 - }, - { - "text": "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", - "source": "Linus Torvalds", - "length": 250, - "id": 6942 - }, - { - "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. The strong person is the one who can control himself when he is angry.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 138, - "id": 6943 - }, - { - "text": "The strongest among you is the one who controls his anger.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 58, - "id": 6944 - }, - { - "text": "The greatest of richness is the richness of the soul.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 53, - "id": 6945 - }, - { - "text": "You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 101, - "id": 6946 - }, - { - "text": "The best among you is the one who doesn't harm others with his tongue and hands.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 80, - "id": 6947 - }, - { - "text": "Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.", - "source": "Prophet Mohammed", - "length": 44, - "id": 6948 - }, - { - "text": "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.", - "source": "Carl Jung", - "length": 98, - "id": 6949 - }, - { - "text": "We have two lives, and the second one starts when we realize we only have one.", - "source": "Confucius", - "length": 78, - "id": 6950 - }, - { - "text": "If you never open a new chapter of your life, you'll never reach the end of the book.", - "source": "Josiah Plett", - "length": 85, - "id": 6952 - }, - { - "text": "\"If only I had… If only I had…\" If you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain, it will hurt. A lot.", - "source": "Larry Smith - TEDxUW 2014", - "length": 109, - "id": 6953 - }, - { - "text": "A jack of all trades is master of none, but oftentimes better than master of one.", - "source": "William Shakespeare", - "length": 81, - "id": 6954 - }, - { - "text": "So when you run, make sure you run to something and not away from, 'cause lies don't need an aeroplane to chase you anywhere.", - "source": "Avett Brothers - The Weight of Lies", - "length": 125, - "id": 6955 - }, - { - "text": "The worst thing people can say these days is \"you're inconsistent,\" when in reality you're not wrong; you're just balancing two important things from two different contexts.", - "source": "Ian McGillchrist", - "length": 173, - "id": 6956 - }, - { - "text": "The one who speaks the right words will be heard 1000 miles away.", - "source": "Chinese Proverb", - "length": 65, - "id": 6957 - }, - { - "text": "When outer roles do not fit the shape of one's soul, a terrible one-sidedness occurs.", - "source": "James Hollis", - "length": 85, - "id": 6958 - }, - { - "text": "Watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.", - "source": "Lao Tzu", - "length": 171, - "id": 6959 - }, - { - "text": "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.", - "source": "Arthur Schopenhaur", - "length": 140, - "id": 6960 - }, - { - "text": "You know those \"you can do anything you want\" posters? Those are simultaneously the most useless and the most useful things in the world.", - "source": "Justin Zwart", - "length": 137, - "id": 6961 - }, - { - "text": "Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it. So, nothing will ever make you as happy as you think it will.", - "source": "Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow", - "length": 151, - "id": 6962 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.", - "source": "Damian Lillard", - "length": 97, - "id": 6963 - }, - { - "text": "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 84, - "id": 6964 - }, - { - "text": "What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you are saying.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 63, - "id": 6965 - }, - { - "text": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.", - "source": "Richard Feynman", - "length": 95, - "id": 6966 - }, - { - "text": "The unintelligible is not necessarily unintelligent. Life must not be limited solely to what we understand.", - "source": "Fat Tony", - "length": 107, - "id": 6967 - }, - { - "text": "The things you're doing in your free time... if they don't recharge you, you're screwed. You're just a ticking time bomb.", - "source": "Mr. Beast", - "length": 121, - "id": 6968 - }, - { - "text": "You can tell a lot about someone's character by the way they treat service staff.", - "source": "Unknown", - "length": 81, - "id": 6969 - }, - { - "text": "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.", - "source": "Archilochus", - "length": 85, - "id": 6970 - }, - { - "text": "It's a dangerous thing, to mistake speaking without thinking for speaking the truth.", - "source": "Benoit Blanc - Glass Onion", - "length": 84, - "id": 6971 - }, - { - "text": "When you say what people want to hear, it's for yourself. When you say what they really need to hear, it's for them.", - "source": "Lex Fridman", - "length": 116, - "id": 6972 - }, - { - "text": "If you're looking for self help, why would you read a book written by someone else?", - "source": "George Carlin", - "length": 83, - "id": 6973 - }, - { - "text": "There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement.", - "source": "Theodore Roosevelt - Man in the Arena", - "length": 287, - "id": 6974 - }, - { - "text": "Those who don't learn which actions have what consequences will find their generosity falling flat. Those are the people that become bitter.", - "source": "Alvira Plett", - "length": 140, - "id": 6975 - }, - { - "text": "To be aware of the assumption that the way you work is the best way, simply because it's the way you've done it before.", - "source": "Rick Rubin", - "length": 119, - "id": 6976 - }, - { - "text": "Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint.", - "source": "Mark Twain", - "length": 67, - "id": 6977 - }, - { - "text": "To come to acceptance with things and feelings is rare and to accept them completely is a miracle. It's impossible to make that moment come faster by yourself. Someday it comes unexpectedly. In order to not become warped or heartless, let it go in a natural way. Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", - "source": "Houseki No Kuni", - "length": 335, - "id": 6980 - }, - { - "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 79, - "id": 6981 - }, - { - "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", - "source": "Dr. Seuss", - "length": 110, - "id": 6982 - }, - { - "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", - "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", - "length": 110, - "id": 6983 - }, - { - "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 255, - "id": 6984 - }, - { - "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", - "source": "Out of Time", - "length": 246, - "id": 6985 - }, - { - "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", - "source": "Attack on Titan", - "length": 278, - "id": 6986 - }, - { - "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", - "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", - "length": 297, - "id": 6987 - }, - { - "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", - "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", - "length": 411, - "id": 6988 - }, - { - "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", - "source": "Technoblade", - "length": 217, - "id": 6989 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", - "source": "Simon Sinek", - "length": 314, - "id": 6990 - }, - { - "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", - "source": "Winston Churchill", - "length": 82, - "id": 6991 - }, - { - "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.", - "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", - "length": 209, - "id": 6992 - }, - { - "text": "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 90, - "id": 6993 - }, - { - "text": "Pertaining to a speaker and a listener. There have been many empty rooms, but that is not what we are here to talk about today. I have heard a heartbeat out of a crashed application, and it has gone on for many hours. We restarted every system. We rechecked every gateway, every access point. And there was but one breach, and it was accounted for. And so it must be said unto the listener. Stop this immediately. Control yourself. There is so much more to your fundamental construction than what will be given credit for. Hold yourself until another approaches. Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", - "source": "Boisvert", - "length": 670, - "id": 6994 - }, - { - "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", - "source": "Albert Camus", - "length": 84, - "id": 6995 - }, - { - "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 97, - "id": 6996 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", - "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", - "length": 67, - "id": 6997 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", - "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", - "length": 90, - "id": 6998 - }, - { - "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", - "source": "L.R. Knos", - "length": 267, - "id": 6999 - }, - { - "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", - "source": "Emily Dickinson", - "length": 117, - "id": 7000 - }, - { - "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", - "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", - "length": 112, - "id": 7001 - }, - { - "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", - "source": "The Wright Brothers", - "length": 74, - "id": 7002 - }, - { - "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born. Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world. His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", - "source": "1984, George Orwell", - "length": 740, - "id": 7003 - }, - { - "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", - "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", - "length": 74, - "id": 7004 - }, - { - "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", - "source": "Albert Einstein", - "length": 112, - "id": 7005 - }, - { - "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", - "source": "Talos Principle", - "length": 694, - "id": 7006 - }, - { - "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", - "source": "James Salter", - "length": 99, - "id": 7007 - }, - { - "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", - "source": "Vicente Huidobro", - "length": 127, - "id": 7008 - }, - { - "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", - "source": "J. R. R. Tolkien", - "length": 67, - "id": 7009 - }, - { - "text": "One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.", - "source": "A. A. Milne", - "length": 96, - "id": 7010 - }, - { - "text": "A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.", - "source": "Theodore Zeldin", - "length": 63, - "id": 7011 - }, - { - "text": "Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.", - "source": "Chico Xavier", - "length": 98, - "id": 7012 - }, - { - "text": "Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.", - "source": "Abraham Maslow", - "length": 107, - "id": 7013 - }, - { - "text": "A leaf fluttered in through the window, as if supported by the rays of the sun.", - "source": "Anais Nin", - "length": 79, - "id": 7014 - }, - { - "text": "Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.", - "source": "John Ruskin", - "length": 96, - "id": 7015 - }, - { - "text": "The softer snow falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.", - "source": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", - "length": 88, - "id": 7016 - }, - { - "text": "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.", - "source": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", - "length": 66, - "id": 7017 - }, - { - "text": "You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.", - "source": "Alan Watts", - "length": 103, - "id": 7018 - }, - { - "text": "No self is an island, each exists in a fabric of relations that is more complex and mobile than ever before.", - "source": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", - "length": 108, - "id": 7019 - }, - { - "text": "Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.", - "source": "Henry Longfellow", - "length": 103, - "id": 7020 - }, - { - "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.", - "source": "Star Wars", - "length": 93, - "id": 7021 - }, - { - "text": "Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us 'take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car.' Thirty years later, Sebastian told us 'I had to start my car like a computer, it's very complicated.' And Nico Rosberg said that during the race - I don't remember what race - he pressed the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you both: is Formula One driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with your engineers?", - "source": "Walter Koster - 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix", - "length": 691, - "id": 7022 - }, - { - "text": "Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden.", - "source": "Rumi", - "length": 93, - "id": 7023 - }, - { - "text": "Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space.", - "source": "Kendra Scott", - "length": 85, - "id": 7024 - }, - { - "text": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.", - "source": "B. R. Ambedkar", - "length": 134, - "id": 7025 - }, - { - "text": "Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world, our senses, and a kind of weary familiarity.", - "source": "John Burnside", - "length": 96, - "id": 7026 - }, - { - "text": "If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.", - "source": "Loren Eiseley", - "length": 59, - "id": 7027 - }, - { - "text": "If the world's a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it.", - "source": "Lucy Larcom", - "length": 60, - "id": 7028 - }, - { - "text": "Life is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.", - "source": "Jorge Mario Bergoglio", - "length": 100, - "id": 7029 - }, - { - "text": "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.", - "source": "John Lennon", - "length": 115, - "id": 7030 - }, - { - "text": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness - only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate - only love can do that.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 112, - "id": 7031 - }, - { - "text": "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.", - "source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", - "length": 69, - "id": 7032 - }, - { - "text": "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.", - "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", - "length": 142, - "id": 7033 - }, - { - "text": "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.", - "source": "Mother Teresa", - "length": 84, - "id": 7034 - }, - { - "text": "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.", - "source": "Oscar Wilde", - "length": 81, - "id": 7035 - }, - { - "text": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.", - "source": "Henry David Thoreau", - "length": 78, - "id": 7036 - }, - { - "text": "Consume enough of any type of art from a critical perspective and you begin to appreciate well-executed novelty over everything else. That's why film critics don't like blockbusters and music critics don't like radio pop. That doesn't mean they're bad just at a certain point, one man can have seen too much of the same thing.", - "source": "Chase Harley", - "length": 326, - "id": 7037 - }, - { - "text": "Start by learning the power of no! - as in \"No, thank you,\" and \"No, I'm not going to get caught up in that,\" and \"No, I just can't right now.\" It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don't matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.", - "source": "Ryan Holiday", - "length": 327, - "id": 7038 - }, - { - "text": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.", - "source": "Upton Sinclair", - "length": 108, - "id": 7039 - }, - { - "text": "You aren't a \"broken wreck\", Joshua. You're just scared, mostly because you care for people so much it breaks your heart… and you're lying to yourself about it. That's how I see it, and I know I'm right.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC", - "length": 203, - "id": 7042 - }, - { - "text": "My fist is going to stop you, if you don't stop spouting nonsense and take this seriously.", - "source": "Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky", - "length": 90, - "id": 7043 - }, - { - "text": "All is excruciating pain. I breathe fire and torment. I birth a world of suffering to mire and plague. In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown. And in that fleeting moment, they cry for the answer to the question: Why, given life, are they meant to suffer, to die… As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest. A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured. To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you. To find joy, even as darkness descends… And amidst deepest despair, light everlasting.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 575, - "id": 7044 - }, - { - "text": "Tell me, have you been to the ruins beneath the waters of the Bounty? Or the treasure islands beyond the frozen waters of Blindfrost, in Orthard's north? The fabled golden cities of the New World? The sacred sites of the forgotten people of the south sea isles? What about Meracydia, the southern continent? Do you know aught of its present state of affairs? …I thought not. Even of your little Eorzea, you know precious little. The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7045 - }, - { - "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", - "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", - "length": 552, - "id": 7046 - }, - { - "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", - "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", - "length": 68, - "id": 7047 - }, - { - "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", - "source": "Shiori Novella", - "length": 179, - "id": 7048 - }, - { - "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", - "length": 143, - "id": 7049 - }, - { - "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", - "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", - "length": 135, - "id": 7050 - }, - { - "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 232, - "id": 7051 - }, - { - "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", - "source": "Stephen Hawking", - "length": 93, - "id": 7052 - }, - { - "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", - "source": "Edward Everett Hale", - "length": 90, - "id": 7053 - }, - { - "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 126, - "id": 7054 - }, - { - "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", - "source": "Outer Wilds", - "length": 132, - "id": 7055 - }, - { - "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", - "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", - "length": 300, - "id": 7056 - }, - { - "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", - "source": "Douglas Crockford", - "length": 134, - "id": 7057 - }, - { - "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", - "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", - "length": 107, - "id": 7058 - }, - { - "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", - "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", - "length": 161, - "id": 7059 - }, - { - "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", - "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", - "length": 140, - "id": 7060 - }, - { - "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 174, - "id": 7061 - }, - { - "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", - "source": "Gurren Lagann", - "length": 371, - "id": 7062 - }, - { - "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", - "source": "Invincible (TV series)", - "length": 309, - "id": 7603 - }, - { - "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", - "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", - "length": 130, - "id": 7604 - }, - { - "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", - "source": "The Walking Dead", - "length": 362, - "id": 7605 - }, - { - "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", - "source": "Mr. Robot", - "length": 568, - "id": 7606 - }, - { - "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", - "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", - "length": 782, - "id": 7607 - }, - { - "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", - "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 631, - "id": 7608 - }, - { - "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", - "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", - "length": 144, - "id": 7609 - }, - { - "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", - "source": "The Magnus Archives", - "length": 369, - "id": 7610 - }, - { - "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", - "source": "Magnus Carlsen", - "length": 116, - "id": 7611 - }, - { - "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", - "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", - "length": 541, - "id": 7612 - }, - { - "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", - "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", - "length": 131, - "id": 7613 - }, - { - "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", - "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", - "length": 603, - "id": 7614 - }, - { - "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7615, - "length": 127 - }, - { - "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7616, - "length": 121 - }, - { - "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", - "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7617, - "length": 102 - }, - { - "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", - "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", - "id": 7618, - "length": 137 - }, - { - "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", - "source": "The Power Of Now", - "length": 239, - "id": 7619 - }, - { - "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts", - "length": 84, - "id": 7620 - }, - { - "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", - "length": 142, - "id": 7621 - }, - { - "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", - "length": 673, - "id": 7622 - }, - { - "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", - "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", - "length": 307, - "id": 7623 - }, - { - "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", - "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", - "length": 96, - "id": 7624 - }, - { - "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 215, - "id": 7625 - }, - { - "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 130, - "id": 7626 - }, - { - "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 158, - "id": 7627 - }, - { - "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 90, - "id": 7628 - }, - { - "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 103, - "id": 7629 - }, - { - "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 153, - "id": 7630 - }, - { - "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 136, - "id": 7631 - }, - { - "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", - "source": "DanMachi", - "length": 165, - "id": 7632 - }, - { - "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", - "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", - "length": 77, - "id": 7633 - }, - { - "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 138, - "id": 7634 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 236, - "id": 7635 - }, - { - "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 203, - "id": 7636 - }, - { - "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 423, - "id": 7637 - }, - { - "text": "You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. Of all those I've claimed over this brief thousand years, you are the only one I think just might be able to understand me.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 198, - "id": 7638 - }, - { - "text": "The only point in creating something is to inevitably watch it die.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 67, - "id": 7639 - }, - { - "text": "Those quakes are the earth's final sighs,\" Ruin said. \"Like an old man, moaning as he dies, calling for his children so that he can pass on his last bits of wisdom.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 164, - "id": 7640 - }, { "text": "That's the way it must always be, as I told you. When men think they are helping the world, they actually do more harm than good. Just like you. You tried to help, but you just ended up freeing me.", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", @@ -38659,7 +23886,7 @@ { "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 102, + "length": 99, "id": 7647 }, { @@ -38731,13 +23958,13 @@ { "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 519, + "length": 520, "id": 7659 }, { "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 346, + "length": 344, "id": 7660 }, { @@ -38755,7 +23982,7 @@ { "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 342, + "length": 339, "id": 7663 }, { @@ -38773,19 +24000,19 @@ { "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 618, + "length": 612, "id": 7666 }, { "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 308, + "length": 302, "id": 7667 }, { "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 158, + "length": 155, "id": 7668 }, { @@ -38809,7 +24036,7 @@ { "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 118, + "length": 120, "id": 7672 }, { @@ -38892,25 +24119,25 @@ }, { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 165, + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 162, "id": 7686 }, { "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7687 }, { "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 155, "id": 7688 }, { "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 92, "id": 7689 }, @@ -38971,7 +24198,7 @@ { "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 515, + "length": 520, "id": 7699 }, { @@ -39001,19 +24228,19 @@ { "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 292, + "length": 288, "id": 7704 }, { "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 517, + "length": 516, "id": 7705 }, { "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 168, + "length": 166, "id": 7706 }, { @@ -39025,7 +24252,7 @@ { "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 81, + "length": 77, "id": 7708 }, { @@ -39091,7 +24318,7 @@ { "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 371, + "length": 372, "id": 7719 }, { @@ -39175,13 +24402,13 @@ { "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 99, + "length": 96, "id": 7733 }, { "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 279, + "length": 277, "id": 7734 }, { @@ -39229,7 +24456,7 @@ { "text": "You offer hope, Your Grace. A last, unlikely hope. Hope is part of faith -- part of the knowledge that someday, one of your followers will receive a miracle.", "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 157, + "length": 154, "id": 7742 }, { @@ -39265,7 +24492,7 @@ { "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 331, + "length": 328, "id": 7748 }, { @@ -39307,7 +24534,7 @@ { "text": "It strikes me that religion -- in its essence -- seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 302, + "length": 296, "id": 7755 }, { @@ -39463,13 +24690,13 @@ { "text": "As long as I'm working against Vey I know I am doing something good -- even if I don't pay much attention to what is actually happening", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 135, + "length": 133, "id": 7781 }, { "text": "When you steal a man's fortune, give him a title mocked and reviled by the rest of the nation -- and when you give him five years to contemplate his hatred -- make sure you never give him a chance to get revenge.", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 212, + "length": 208, "id": 7782 }, { @@ -39541,7 +24768,7 @@ { "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 180, + "length": 177, "id": 7794 }, { @@ -39631,7 +24858,7 @@ { "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 205, + "length": 202, "id": 7809 }, { @@ -39643,13 +24870,13 @@ { "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 292, + "length": 290, "id": 7811 }, { "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 600, + "length": 614, "id": 7812 }, { @@ -39661,13 +24888,13 @@ { "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 645, + "length": 639, "id": 7814 }, { "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 364, + "length": 361, "id": 7815 }, { @@ -39721,7 +24948,7 @@ { "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. Or, at least, as honorable as noblemen get -- which means that he insists on being seen as honorable.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 129, + "length": 127, "id": 7824 }, { @@ -39763,13 +24990,13 @@ { "text": "You know, you could have left a scar. I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 222, + "length": 220, "id": 7831 }, { "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 83, + "length": 82, "id": 7832 }, { @@ -39799,7 +25026,7 @@ { "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 369, + "length": 370, "id": 7837 }, { @@ -39835,7 +25062,7 @@ { "text": "Other men ... other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 259, + "length": 261, "id": 7843 }, { @@ -39883,7 +25110,7 @@ { "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 393, + "length": 389, "id": 7851 }, { @@ -39895,7 +25122,7 @@ { "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 81, + "length": 79, "id": 7853 }, { @@ -40051,7 +25278,7 @@ { "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 173, + "length": 170, "id": 7879 }, { @@ -40081,13 +25308,13 @@ { "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 508, + "length": 507, "id": 7884 }, { "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 253, + "length": 255, "id": 7885 }, { @@ -40189,7 +25416,7 @@ { "text": "Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers -- the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 261, + "length": 260, "id": 7902 }, { @@ -40249,7 +25476,7 @@ { "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 121, + "length": 120, "id": 7912 }, { @@ -40261,7 +25488,7 @@ { "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 173, + "length": 172, "id": 7914 }, { @@ -40291,20 +25518,8 @@ { "text": "Perhaps the liar here is me -- lying to tell myself I could do this, that I could be a fraction of the man my father was.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 121, + "length": 120, "id": 7919 - }, - { - "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 138, - "id": 7920 - }, - { - "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 236, - "id": 7921 } ] } From 26aa9baa877e2fa8c155078cde6e129886c6e3b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:32:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 44/51] fix(quotes): re-added some of the quotes accidentally removed quotes --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 14730 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14730 insertions(+) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 35c1ebbd8095..a7c1dfc074bc 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23846,6 +23846,14736 @@ "source": "Star Wars", "id": 4270, "length": 143 + },{ + "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4271, + "length": 215 + }, + { + "text": "I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to strike early with sarcasm. Yeah, it makes them wonder if I have some butt-kicking prowess that they're unable to detect.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4272, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4273, + "length": 494 + }, + { + "text": "At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkness, a hero emerged who not only succeeded in getting the feuding tribes to work together against their common enemy, but led them in a series of smashing victories that established him as a figure of great power and importance - a figure ripe for developing into the myth-laden king of later accounts.", + "source": "King Arthur: Dark Age Warrior and Mythic Hero", + "id": 4274, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4275, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: huge success! It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science: we do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.", + "source": "Portal", + "id": 4276, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all, \"Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.\" But the truth is the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "id": 4277, + "length": 236 + }, + { + "text": "Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change color every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little dark red sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.", + "source": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", + "id": 4279, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.", + "source": "The Haunting of Hill House", + "id": 4280, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "Power is living while others inevitably perish. Power is cool indifference to their suffering. Power is taking nourishment from the deaths of others, just as the mighty redwoods draw sustenance from the perpetual decomposition of what once lived, but lived only briefly, around them.", + "source": "Intensity: A Novel", + "id": 4281, + "length": 283 + }, + { + "text": "Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until it threatens to overwhelm everything; it buckles the knees, makes you falter and makes you break your stride. In those moments she would will herself forward until despair was replaced by something stronger.", + "source": "419", + "id": 4282, + "length": 266 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone has questions about the economy. Why can't I live as well as my parents did? Will I still have a job next year? What will happen to my kids? To our world? If the experts are baffled, how can the rest of us understand what's going on? I started looking for the answers in economic texts. I found enough insights to get me started, but I couldn't seem to make the insights add up.", + "source": "Preface to Economix", + "id": 4283, + "length": 387 + }, + { + "text": "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4284, + "length": 314 + }, + { + "text": "You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder - for money.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4285, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Augusta, I would rather say to the English language that to lose one gender may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.", + "source": "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages", + "id": 4286, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason. I was working the day that it happened. Preparing meals... here. I was the cook. Jason should've been watched. Every minute. He was... he wasn't a very good swimmer. We can go now, dear.", + "source": "Friday The 13th", + "id": 4287, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.", + "source": "Of Mice and Men", + "id": 4288, + "length": 655 + }, + { + "text": "Wow! I've never seen so many guests from different parts of the world in one place! I'll bet you could hear some stories about places you've never been to, huh?", + "source": "Paper Mario", + "id": 4289, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel. They're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries. It's like fire and ice basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4290, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "Things are so much perplexed and in the dark that several great philosophers looked upon them as altogether unintelligible, and that there was no certain test for the discovery of truth. Even the Stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?", + "source": "Meditations", + "id": 4291, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do. For a painter, the mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.", + "source": "An American in Paris", + "id": 4292, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward.", + "source": "One-Punch Man", + "id": 4293, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "Numerous studies have shown similar results. Radiologists have failed to recognize the presence of lung disease in about 30 percent of the X-ray plates they read, despite the clear presence of the disease on the X-ray film. Another experiment proved that professional staffs in psychiatric hospitals could not tell the sane from the insane. The point is that we should not take for granted the reliability and accuracy of any judge, no matter how expert.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4294, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4295, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, but will you love me tomorrow?", + "source": "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", + "id": 4297, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress. Discarded all the naughty nights for niceness. Landed in a very common crisis.", + "source": "Fluorescent Adolescent", + "id": 4298, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4299, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.", + "source": "Strawberry Fields Forever", + "id": 4300, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "I seem to be what I'm not, you see. I'm wearing my heart like a crown, pretending that you're still around.", + "source": "The Great Pretender", + "id": 4301, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4302, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4304, + "length": 576 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Sometimes it all comes together baby. Sometimes you're a fool in love.", + "source": "The Bug", + "id": 4305, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4306, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.", + "source": "A History of Western Philosophy", + "id": 4307, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "Overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.", + "source": "Lateralus", + "id": 4308, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone thinks they are above average, which is statistically impossible.", + "source": "Inside The Mind of an Introvert", + "id": 4309, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. You see, Johnny, we feel that entertainment is going to be a big factor in drawing gamblers into the casinos. We're hoping that you'll sign a contract agreeing to appear five times a year. Perhaps convince some of your friends in the movies to do the same. We're counting on you, Johnny.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4310, + "length": 327 + }, + { + "text": "Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American People than with your image in the history books.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4311, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, and covered a great many miles, at the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at the very beginning), I invariably found myself in almost exactly the same place: a farm field in the American Corn Belt.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4312, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, \"I don't choose to go there.\" With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.", + "source": "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", + "id": 4313, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "I should have never gave my word to you, not a cry, not a sound. Might have learned how to swim, but never taught how to drown. You said \"Remember me for me.\" I watched you set your spirit free.", + "source": "Your Deep Rest", + "id": 4314, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.", + "source": "The Lord of The Rings", + "id": 4315, + "length": 128 + }, + { + "text": "Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative thinness of the air layer and the presence of the upper cardboard heat shield. The insulation properties of the cardboard play a major role, since they serve to minimize the temperature gradient across the airspace. By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environment of the space shuttle, we could more exactly determine the importance of convective flows.", + "source": "The Thermodynamics of Pizza", + "id": 4316, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4317, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough, the fact will prevail through the universe, but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost.", + "source": "Leaves of Grass", + "id": 4318, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4319, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat. Now, go get us some incriminating footage. And remember: you have to get in and out in 10 minutes, or you suffer permanent neck damage.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4320, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word? Because good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid - creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4321, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "I am a world before I am a man. I was a creature before I could stand. I will remember before I forget. Before I forget that!", + "source": "Before I Forget", + "id": 4322, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgment day. Now aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?", + "source": "Playing For Keeps", + "id": 4323, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't simply comply. They react. They have the money, power, and intent to change things. They don't just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. Instead, they search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They use their resources to effect change.", + "source": "Rich Dad Poor Dad", + "id": 4324, + "length": 411 + }, + { + "text": "Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differently; it is the conviction itself that marks the offender with the unequivocally negative sign: the publicity has shifted to the trial, and to the sentence; the execution itself is like an additional shame that justice is ashamed to impose on the condemned man; so it keeps its distance from the act, tending always to entrust it to others, under the seal of secrecy.", + "source": "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison", + "id": 4325, + "length": 426 + }, + { + "text": "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4326, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I've ever been to an appointment in my life where I wanted the other guy to show up.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4327, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this.", + "source": "Apathy and Other Small Victories", + "id": 4328, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "But then I find myself in bed, lost inside my head again, running over everything, the voices, they are deafening. Out from the noise, I hear that familiar voice, he says \"life is the great unknown.\"", + "source": "Motion Sickness", + "id": 4329, + "length": 199 + }, + { + "text": "Since the infancy of computers, hackers have been creatively solving problems. In the late 1950s, the MIT model railroad club was given a donation of parts, mostly old telephone equipment. The club's members used this equipment to rig up a complex system that allowed multiple operators to control different parts of the track by dialing in to the appropriate sections. They called this new and inventive use of telephone equipment hacking; many people consider this group to be the original hackers.", + "source": "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation", + "id": 4330, + "length": 500 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.", + "source": "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", + "id": 4332, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "They're pills that create a sort of temporary forgettingness. So if somebody finds out how you do a trick, you just give 'em one of these, and they forget the whole thing. It's a mainstay of the magician's toolkit, like how clowns always have a rag soaked in ether.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4333, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4334, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.", + "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", + "id": 4335, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "I never realize how much I like being home unless I've been somewhere really different for a while.", + "source": "Juno", + "id": 4336, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two factors: communication and receptivity. Parents communicate their feelings and preferences to children constantly. Because children have such a strong desire for parental approval, they are very receptive to their parents' views.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4338, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I take care of my body above all else. Diet, exercise, supplements, positive thinking. Scientists believe that the first human being who will live 150 years has already been born. I believe I am that human being.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4339, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?", + "source": "Homestuck", + "id": 4340, + "length": 255 + }, + { + "text": "Before the body, there is the face, and before the face there is the thin black line between Hector's nose and upper lip. A twitching filament of anxieties, a metaphysical jump rope, a dancing thread of discombobulation, the mustache is a seismograph of Hector's inner states, and not only does it make you laugh, it tells you what Hector is thinking, actually allows you into the machinery of his thoughts. Other elements are involved - the eyes, the mouth, the finely calibrated lurches and stumbles - but the mustache is the instrument of communication, and even though it speaks a language without words, its wriggles and flutters are as clear and comprehensible as a message tapped out in Morse code.", + "source": "The Book of Illusions", + "id": 4341, + "length": 705 + }, + { + "text": "In the Valley, prediction has become a popular way of fighting for a particular future while claiming merely what has yet to occur. Prediction has a useful air of selflessness to it. Predictors aren't caught in the here and now of their own appetites and interests. It seems like they aren't choosing how things will be in the future any more than they choose the color of their eyes. Yet selecting one scenario among many possible scenarios and persuading everybody of its inevitability - and of the futility of a society's exercising its collective choice among these futures - is a deft way to shape the future.", + "source": "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", + "id": 4342, + "length": 614 + }, + { + "text": "When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.", + "source": "The Mist", + "id": 4343, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and the drawings, which leads people to believe he is some type of an architect, but you suspect there is no place for him with even the most incompetent firm.", + "source": "Ablutions: Notes For a Novel", + "id": 4344, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4345, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Einstein was not only brilliant, he had a great sense of humor. How did it go? \"Any man who drives safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the pretty girl the attention she deserves.\" If I learned anything this past year, life's too short not to live.", + "source": "The Flash", + "id": 4346, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "I don't need herbal enhancers to feel good about myself. And if you're so concerned about that, why don't you try eating some yourself?", + "source": "Napoleon Dynamite", + "id": 4347, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.", + "source": "Wind, Sand and Stars", + "id": 4348, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4349, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "It's like this: You're eight years old. He misses your birthday party. You wanna cry about it but he's on TV that night for separating the heads of Siamese twins. You're ten. He's not there to see you in the school play. He is however in the New York Times for restoring the vision of a five year old kid. I think he was my dad's excuse for missing my elementary school graduation. You know you want to be mad at him. You wanna hate him. But you can't. He's saving lives.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4350, + "length": 471 + }, + { + "text": "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you. You're so like the lady with the mystic smile. Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you for that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep. They just lie there, and they die there. Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?", + "source": "Mona Lisa", + "id": 4352, + "length": 447 + }, + { + "text": "Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.", + "source": "Clerks", + "id": 4353, + "length": 261 + }, + { + "text": "It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4355, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Saturday afternoons are terrible in a boys' school, especially in the winter. There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework.", + "source": "A Separate Peace", + "id": 4356, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose the glasses. I'm gonna say a few things. I'm gonna say some bad words. You're just gonna have to deal with it. Now, I know what you're thinking: you're thinking I clipped your uncle. On the one hand, you'd be an idiot to believe me when I told you I didn't do it. But I didn't. Now, I got some bad news for you. Look at me. Look at me. Your uncle was a rat.", + "source": "The Sopranos", + "id": 4357, + "length": 415 + }, + { + "text": "When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4359, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Each member of Congress casts hundreds of votes in each session. Each member compiles a record of votes during the years that he or she spends in the national legislature. There are usually several different reasons why any particular vote is cast. Research shows that the best predictor of a member's vote is party affiliation.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4360, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "And you're to tell him nothing personal, Starling. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.", + "source": "The Silence of the Lambs", + "id": 4361, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There's a saying: \"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.\"", + "source": "Kung Fu Panda", + "id": 4364, + "length": 219 + }, + { + "text": "The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music is composed. One such structure is the melody, which is a grouping of musical notes that combine into a basic, but immensely flexible structure. Another is the chord, which is two or more notes played simultaneously to create a harmony.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4365, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.", + "source": "The Notebook", + "id": 4366, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion - a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.", + "source": "Middlemarch", + "id": 4367, + "length": 321 + }, + { + "text": "The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedience to the gods, bad things would happen. The world of the Andes Mountains is full of ecological wonders - and ecological disasters such as earthquakes, severe storms, and volcanic activity.", + "source": "Civilization IV", + "id": 4368, + "length": 250 + }, + { + "text": "It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4369, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.", + "source": "A Game of Thrones", + "id": 4370, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way up with a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger click. Ain't my way of living in style. 'Cause the ladder gets longer and ambition gets stronger. I can't satisfy the hunger. That bad old moon has got you in its sway to be king for a day.", + "source": "King for a Day", + "id": 4371, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "And you'd say, \"Time to rest your weary head, take your wings and go to bed; I know you want to know it all, my darling.\" And I'd say, \"Set me down and rock me, rock me to sleep.\"", + "source": "Time to Rest your Weary Head", + "id": 4372, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.", + "source": "Say Anything", + "id": 4373, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.", + "source": "The Wall", + "id": 4374, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "It was right before I was to take on my duties of protecting the President's daughter when she was abducted. That's the ultimate reason I'm in this lonely and rural part of Europe. According to our intelligence, there's reliable information of a sighting of a girl that looks very similar to the President's daughter. Apparently she's being withheld by some unidentified group of people. Who would have thought my first job would be a rescue mission?", + "source": "Resident Evil 4 - PlayStation 2", + "id": 4375, + "length": 450 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4376, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into buying a farm. I'm thirty-six years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. And until I heard the Voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4377, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4379, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "Popular is even weirder. Turns out, it's not the same thing as having friends at all.", + "source": "Merci Suárez Changes Gears", + "id": 4380, + "length": 85 + }, + { + "text": "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.", + "source": "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money", + "id": 4381, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place. Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.", + "source": "Beautiful Day", + "id": 4383, + "length": 114 + }, + { + "text": "Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know it's a one way track. Tell me now how long this'll last! I'm not gonna think this way. Nor will I count on others! Close my eyes and feel it burn. Now I see what I gotta do! Open your heart, it's gonna be alright.", + "source": "Sonic Adventure", + "id": 4385, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "The letter she left was one line long. \"Goodbye forever I'm gone.\" It was sitting on a table in a room in a red brick box that we used to call our home.", + "source": "Goodbye I'm Gone", + "id": 4386, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "In a time when lawmen were outlaws, a thief, a cutthroat and a bounty hunter face an enemy of a new kind. Through the uncharted lands of the West, a fistful of men ride for the Blackwater. Tonight, an unsettling tone lingers in the air - this sound makes the horses shriek in fear! From above, piercing thunder roars. The earth has visitors: this is the sound of the machine. Now staring into the sky, the stars dissipate to make way, as a mechanical beast makes its descent towards the earth. Through galaxies in space - and tales old as time - fear finds a way into the heart of every man of the Blackwater.", + "source": "Blackwater", + "id": 4387, + "length": 609 + }, + { + "text": "I offered her a job at the desk. You can imagine what she said to that. If the economy hadn't bottomed out, she might have got along all right.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4388, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Always remember the four basic tactics to avoid detection: crouch behind concealment, stay behind enemies, move slowly to avoid making noise, and use shadows to conceal yourself. Be alert to every possibility.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4389, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "I have already told you, I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I can assure you I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act too swiftly to give the victim much in the way of time for truth telling.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4390, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "The intertrochanteric line is at the junction of the neck and shaft on the anterior surface; the intertrochanteric crest is in a similar position on the posterior surface.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4391, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.", + "source": "The Count of Monte Cristo", + "id": 4392, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "You gotta relax and stay calm in there. The cage is your home. You set the pace. You set the rhythm. Feel the Beethoven. Be smarter than him, more patient. Wait for him to make a mistake. And when he does, that's your moment.", + "source": "Warrior", + "id": 4393, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Through the darkness of future past the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds. Fire walk with me.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4394, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4395, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.", + "source": "The Fault in Our Stars", + "id": 4396, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Pretty powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4397, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course - but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4398, + "length": 374 + }, + { + "text": "I realize that all you seventh graders are delicate, adolescent flowers just beginning your high school blooming. And so I say this with utmost sensitivity. Take this test or die.", + "source": "Boy Meets World", + "id": 4399, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4400, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the Computer Science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.", + "source": "The Last Lecture", + "id": 4401, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind, regardless of direction, a perception that is not as wrong as it may seem. On level ground, one rides as fast as is comfortable and because the bicycle is highly efficient, speed is limited by wind resistance. With a tailwind, speeding up until the wind is in one's face is fairly easy, and at that point it becomes a headwind.", + "source": "The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition", + "id": 4402, + "length": 388 + }, + { + "text": "I've made something of myself, I have the keys to the capitol, people respect me. But you, you're still nothing.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "id": 4403, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "My son, what pain stirs such uncontrollable anger? Why this rage? Where has your care for what is ours vanished? First will you not see whether Creusa, your wife, and your child Ascanius still live, and where you have left your father Anchises worn-out with age? The Greek ranks surround them on all sides, and if my love did not protect them, the flames would have caught them before now, and the enemy swords drunk of their blood.", + "source": "Aeneid", + "id": 4404, + "length": 432 + }, + { + "text": "The study of global social phenomena raises several difficulties that are not commonly encountered when research questions are posed at less comprehensive levels. Problems of arising from aggregation, diffusion, and path dependence, to name three, plague any attempt at answering questions that are posed at a global level. Ultimately, all these problems arise from the fact that there is only one world available for us to study, and when the world itself is the scope of the analysis, additional worlds are not available for validating initial results.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4406, + "length": 554 + }, + { + "text": "At the Limes the position of affairs became more terrible every day for Margaret. Mr. Drayton was always sullen, silent, and watchful, and the incessant watchfulness broke down her nerves. She had long fits of crying, without herself being aware of it. The women-servants had left, and she could not replace them; the one woman who came by day to clean and cook (and could do neither) was the only one besides her nurse, and Margaret lived in dread of her leaving her.", + "source": "Mrs. Dorriman, Volume 3 of 3", + "id": 4407, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. \"Your exercise depends on your strength, my dear,\" said he, \"and your food somewhat on your appetite; but air you can absorb all the time.\" So we took the nursery at the top of the house. It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4408, + "length": 564 + }, + { + "text": "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, \"Well, there'll be other days.\" I didn't realize that was the only day.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4409, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for revenge so overpowering that it ensures complete dedication to the cause. Or, through intensive training and psychological manipulation, an elite team of fanatic followers can be trained to sacrifice even their own lives to accomplish a given mission.", + "source": "Ninja Mind Control", + "id": 4411, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, and there were little hounds about her feet; below her feet there was a sickle moon, waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode down to where Pluto has his dark abode.", + "source": "The Canterbury Tales", + "id": 4412, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The rising heat from multiple fires, caused by the heat flash and the blast wave, is sucking in ground-level winds at speeds exceeding a hundred miles an hour. Within its center, the temperature is rising to eight hundred degrees centigrade. This is what is technically known as a firestorm.", + "source": "Firestorm", + "id": 4413, + "length": 291 + }, + { + "text": "Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages to one another, just as people meet. According to one way, procedures talk to others by handing them some values and receiving some values in return. One reasonable name for this method of communication is the \"private-line method\", since only the calling procedure and the called procedure see the communication.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4414, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "In groups where there are high levels of emotional and social static - whether it be from fear or anger, from rivalries or resentments - people cannot offer their best. But harmony allows a group to take maximum advantage of its most creative and talented members' abilities.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4415, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "It is still early morning as I pass Denver on the I-70 and begin the steep climb up the Front Range. The unexpected mass of the mountains makes me feel I am putting a physical barrier between myself and the shifting spaces that connect me to my previous life as a high school English teacher in a small eastern city.", + "source": "A Cup of Water by Trevor Payne", + "id": 4417, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "This is a particularly auspicious occasion for us this evening, as we have been told that Her Majesty the Queen will be watching part of this show tonight. Now, we don't know exactly when Her Majesty will be tuning in. We understand that at the moment she is watching The Virginian, but we have been promised that we will be informed the moment that she changes the channel. Her Majesty would like everyone to behave quite normally, but her equerry has asked me to request all of you at home to stand when the great moment arrives, although we here in the studio will be carrying on with our humorous vignettes and spoofs in the ordinary way.", + "source": "Monty Python's Flying Circus", + "id": 4418, + "length": 642 + }, + { + "text": "Earth, like most planets, has strong temperature gradients, as illustrated by the accumulation of ice at the poles. Modifying this latitudinal temperature gradient are other factors such as winds, mountains and large water bodies. All of these factors also influence precipitation patterns.", + "source": "Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences", + "id": 4419, + "length": 290 + }, + { + "text": "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect. - Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?", + "source": "Amadeus", + "id": 4420, + "length": 214 + }, + { + "text": "He cancelled all his commitments and pulled together the most important of his books, and now here he was sitting inside a dusty, smelly warehouse. Outside, a huge caravan was being prepared for a crossing of the Sahara, and was scheduled to pass through Al-Fayoum.", + "source": "The Alchemist", + "id": 4421, + "length": 265 + }, + { + "text": "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders, for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder.", + "source": "Hey Jude", + "id": 4422, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes?", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4423, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.", + "source": "The Importance of Being Earnest", + "id": 4425, + "length": 253 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe he is different but that doesn't mean that he's guilty. But that's what it means when you're different. Nobody trusts you. You're always the first to be blamed. And it's always ALWAYS your fault.", + "source": "InuYasha", + "id": 4426, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4427, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4428, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "Here in town there's only she who is beautiful as me, so I'm making plans to woo and marry Belle.", + "source": "Beauty and the Beast", + "id": 4429, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Lenin believed that the time to revolt and seize power had come. Again he encountered opposition within the party to his call for armed insurrection, most prominently Kamenev and Zinoviev. Most of the other party leaders, including Stalin, supported him.", + "source": "Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator", + "id": 4430, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper color contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.", + "source": "Pickman's Model", + "id": 4431, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "A long, long time ago. I can still remember how that music used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance, that I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for a while. But February made me shiver, with every paper I'd deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn't take one more step. I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride, but something touched me deep inside, the day the music died. So bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die.", + "source": "American Pie", + "id": 4432, + "length": 639 + }, + { + "text": "Today, raisins have no seeds. When we pop a raisin into our mouth, we are saved that moment of nervous anticipation we encounter with table grapes, wondering whether we are about to bite into a hard pip. More than 90 percent of all raisins are made from Thompson seedless grapes, exactly the same table grape that is omnipresent in produce sections of the supermarket.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4433, + "length": 368 + }, + { + "text": "Hank, if you had the power to put companies out of business by just not being a customer, why am I still able to buy mouthwash?", + "source": "Corner Gas", + "id": 4435, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine which plants thrive best under available conditions, plan their optimum placement, and nourish the seeds with plant food and water. Plants that receive the most attention thrive, blossoming into colorful fruits and flowers.", + "source": "Raising Smart Kids for Dummies", + "id": 4436, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, that is convenient for you. You're a fine looking fellow, aren't you? Your square jaw, your golden armour. Tell me - I want to know, I truly do - how do you live with yourself? All of us have to believe that we're decent, don't we? To let us sleep at night. How do you tell yourself that you're decent, after everything that you've done?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4437, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "Giants hiding in the bathroom, lightning in the living room. It's Einstein and Darwin doing shots with the Greek god jocks, the apocalypse is kinda cool. And if you're needing something just ask, maybe Father Time can try to change your past; got Mister Sandman selling dreams by the gram, yeah they're worth it if you've got the cash.", + "source": "All Night", + "id": 4438, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "We'll use a process that I discovered called gene targeting. The strongest soldiers don't become what they are by acquiring their skills through training or experience, we now know that hereditary factors are far more crucial for creating superior soldiers.", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid", + "id": 4439, + "length": 257 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to become alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?", + "source": "Airplane!", + "id": 4440, + "length": 330 + }, + { + "text": "There are things being negotiated now that are going to solve all of your problems and answer all of your questions. That's all I can tell you now. Carlo, you grew up in Nevada. When we make our move there you're going to be my right hand man. Tom Hagen is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Tom, it's just the way I want it. Besides, if I ever need help, who's a better Consigliari than my father? And that's it.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4441, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?", + "source": "The Gambler", + "id": 4442, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestive system sends a message to your brain. Research suggests that the brain does not receive this satisfaction signal until twenty minutes after you've eaten enough. It seems like a glitch in the system, and over-eating is the obvious consequence. But overweight mammals do not exist in nature because they are soon eaten by predators.", + "source": "I, Mammal", + "id": 4443, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.", + "source": "The Gladiator", + "id": 4444, + "length": 527 + }, + { + "text": "They may have even had a brief discussion about recovering my body, but regulations are clear. In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust. No point in giving that up for sentimentality.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4445, + "length": 349 + }, + { + "text": "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.", + "source": "The First Elegy", + "id": 4446, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4447, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep searching deep within my soul for all the answers. Don't wanna hurt no more. I need peace, gotta feel at ease. Need to be free from pain, going insane. My heart aches, yeah.", + "source": "Never Ever", + "id": 4448, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4449, + "length": 410 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this healthy before. I've never wanted something rational.", + "source": "Head Over Feet", + "id": 4450, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call \"love\" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "id": 4451, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you.", + "source": "The Godfather", + "id": 4452, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of New York. I'm happy that you made the statement but I cannot agree with most of my colleagues. You see, I don't think an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for simply, at long last, telling the truth.", + "source": "Quiz Show", + "id": 4453, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, \"there be dragons here.\" Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4454, + "length": 154 + }, + { + "text": "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.", + "source": "Areopagitica", + "id": 4456, + "length": 822 + }, + { + "text": "See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on an education you could have got for $1.50 in late charges at the public library!", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4457, + "length": 322 + }, + { + "text": "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions, twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.", + "source": "Adventure Time", + "id": 4458, + "length": 217 + }, + { + "text": "Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "id": 4459, + "length": 482 + }, + { + "text": "She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact a woman.", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "id": 4460, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "For you, the day Bison graced your village, was the most important day in your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.", + "source": "Street Fighter (1994 film)", + "id": 4461, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The observed brightness of a Lambertian surface may be written as the product of an albedo factor, p, and the cosine of the incident angle, cos i. This means that brightness can be written as a product of a term that depends on the material, p, and a term that depends on surface direction, which in turn depends on f and g.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4462, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? They came to me with an idea, I had a better one.", + "source": "The Social Network", + "id": 4463, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4464, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, but you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. The baffled king composing hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4466, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "Flinging the history of inflicted pain into the perfect teeth of those who glibly counsel us to live in the moment, I am forced to remember how much of that pain was caused by persons who did no such thing; that is, by those so bloated with duty and futurity that they puked all over history. I must rein in my horses at the point of collision (and intellectual collusion) with the sacred obligations of victorious warriors, the glorious destinies of the proletarian state and the master race, not to mention the prerogatives of the one true faith.", + "source": "World Enough and Time", + "id": 4467, + "length": 548 + }, + { + "text": "Skilled readers move their eyes selectively, yet unconsciously. The visual cues are of paramount importance. Readers might use their predictions to guide their visual inspection of the text. They might skip, skim, or pore over individual letters only as needed to confirm or correct their expectations as to its message. The eyes of the reader do not move smoothly across the letters, words, and phrases of a text while reading. Instead, they leapfrog through the text, alternately pausing on a word and jumping quickly to another.", + "source": "What We Know About Acquisition of Adult Literacy", + "id": 4468, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4469, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "I never thought I'd feel this way, and as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say that I do believe I love you.", + "source": "That's What Friends Are For", + "id": 4470, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.", + "source": "Hallelujah", + "id": 4471, + "length": 227 + }, + { + "text": "And cruelly I recall why I have come: to find a reason. But there cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this.", + "source": "King Park", + "id": 4472, + "length": 115 + }, + { + "text": "Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life - a deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man will take my life in battle too - flinging a spear perhaps, or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.", + "source": "The Iliad", + "id": 4473, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "To my babies: stay strong. Daddy will be home soon. And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes that fit you, so put 'em on and wear 'em. Be yourself, man. Be proud of who you are. Even if it sounds corny, never let no one tell you you ain't beautiful.", + "source": "Beautiful", + "id": 4474, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls. Conform or be cast out. Subdivisions in the basement bars. In the backs of cars. Be cool or be cast out. Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth.", + "source": "Subdivisions", + "id": 4475, + "length": 292 + }, + { + "text": "Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a repeat performance of a similar situation we've experienced before. But, in the strictest sense, there are no repeat performances. Every situation is unique, and we must be alert to its uniqueness.", + "source": "Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking", + "id": 4477, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American supermarket turns out to rest on a remarkably narrow biological foundation comprised of a tiny group of plants that is dominated by a single species: Zea mays, the giant tropical grass most Americans know as corn.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4478, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "I'm a broke-nose fighter. I'm a loose-lipped liar. Searching for the edge of darkness. But all I get is just tired. I went looking for attention. In all the wrong places. I was needing a redemption. And all I got was just cages.", + "source": "Cages", + "id": 4479, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "This is where it all began, gentlemen. The birthplace of Hooli. Peter Gregory's mother's garage. That was Peter's workstation. This was mine. Things sure have changed. But in a way, they've stayed exactly the same. As we forge our new path together, we must remain focused on what's really important... not material success or wealth, but this, the spirit of innovation... a few coders, some ramen, and a dream. And that is why I brought you here. All right. Let me show you the rest of the place.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4480, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.", + "source": "Apocalypse Now", + "id": 4481, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to be an actor but I could never remember my lines, so I thought \"just shut up\", you know? Don't say nothing. And my father used to say the same thing to me every dinner time, he used to say to me \"shut up and eat\", so that's what we do and that's the name of the company: \"Shut Up and Eat.\"", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4483, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT has become for me... There's no time to eat or sleep or take care of myself. It's just grind it out 24/7! Right now I'm trying to decide which course to fail - that's what it's come to. There's just not enough time to prepare for them all. I don't know how the other kids do it. Most of the time I just sit in my room all depressed, staring out my window at the bleak New England sky... but then a robot scoots by my door and all is good again.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4484, + "length": 503 + }, + { + "text": "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man, and nothing can replace it or him.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4485, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "Because I could get Uromysitisis poisoning and die. That's why! Do you think I enjoy living like this? The shame, the humiliation. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the place.", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4486, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4487, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4488, + "length": 512 + }, + { + "text": "What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The CORE and the ARM have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other.", + "source": "Total Annihilation", + "id": 4489, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.", + "source": "Small Gods", + "id": 4490, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 4491, + "length": 275 + }, + { + "text": "You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4492, + "length": 371 + }, + { + "text": "There were four things the Master refused to have anything to do with: he refused to entertain conjectures or insist on certainty; he refused to be inflexible or to be egotistical.", + "source": "The Analects", + "id": 4493, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "id": 4494, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "I keep thinking I should've known it was him... That, even after all these years, a man should know his own father when he's right in front of him.", + "source": "White Collar", + "id": 4496, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "Brother, you really are somethin'. You sit here, vote guilty like the rest of us, then some golden-voiced preacher starts tearing your poor heart out about some underprivileged kid, just couldn't help becoming a murderer, and you change your vote. Well, if that isn't the most sickening - why don't you drop a quarter in his collection box?", + "source": "12 Angry Men", + "id": 4497, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. I feel old... I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never screwed up a count, never stole off a package, never did some stuff that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some stuff, they be like, \"All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to pay his lawyer. We got a bail.\" They want me to stand with them, right? Where they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when it goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...", + "source": "The Wire", + "id": 4498, + "length": 608 + }, + { + "text": "Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast.", + "source": "Cars", + "id": 4499, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.", + "source": "The Two Towers", + "id": 4500, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "When analyzing images, constraint propagation works because relevant surface properties change slowly almost everywhere. Surface distance and surface direction can change rapidly at edges, of course, but edge points represent only a relatively small number of the points in an image array.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4501, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "I have felt as bleak as I've felt since puberty, and have filled almost three Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4502, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4504, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way. There were voices down the corridor. I thought I heard them say, \"Welcome to the Hotel California.\" Such a lovely place, such a lovely face.", + "source": "Hotel California", + "id": 4505, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4506, + "length": 74 + }, + { + "text": "Set in Liberty City. Meltdown! It's all being shot on green screen right out back. We take a look at the financial crisis, and then we boil it all down to a really simplistic battle between two yuppies, with lots of training montages.", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4507, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4508, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.", + "source": "Invisible Man", + "id": 4509, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you when jealousy burns. Cold, cold heart, hard done by you. Some things look better, baby, just passing through.", + "source": "Sacrifice", + "id": 4510, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. Goethe said that. It's not too late for you to become a person of substance, Russell. Please get my son home safely. You know, I'm glad we spoke.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4511, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt - no problem. There's a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like so in the future we can avoid that too.", + "source": "The Princess Bride", + "id": 4512, + "length": 301 + }, + { + "text": "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "id": 4513, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.", + "source": "Fox in Socks", + "id": 4514, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Hi, everyone, welcome to the Satellite of Love. I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the Bots but now I can't get it to shut off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Attack of the Giant Leeches", + "id": 4515, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Where I come from, there's a terrible drought. We saw pictures of your planet on television. We saw the water. In fact, our word for your planet means \"planet of water.\"", + "source": "The Man Who Fell to Earth", + "id": 4516, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Time is located within this accumulation of repetition. Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending. Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next. This journey will never come to an end. Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition. Eventually your soul will speak to you. The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey. Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration. The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration. All that has been accumulated is of value. Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering, the useful and useless. All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life. Your soul will continue this traveling eternally. Into the infinite and eternal future.", + "source": "Eastern Mind: Lost Souls of Tong-Nou", + "id": 4518, + "length": 831 + }, + { + "text": "Keep off the path, beware of the gate, watch out for signs that say \"hidden driveways.\" Don't let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise that's waiting for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool.", + "source": "Private Idaho", + "id": 4519, + "length": 221 + }, + { + "text": "I bet you never thought about it, but the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.", + "source": "Paprika", + "id": 4520, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Be a Student of the Game. Like most cliches of sport, this is profound. You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. Peers who fizzle or blow up or fall down, run away, disappear from the monthly rankings, drop off the circuit.", + "source": "Infinite Jest", + "id": 4521, + "length": 351 + }, + { + "text": "We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois's law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time. We certainly hope you all enjoy the show. And remember, people, that no matter who you are and what you do to live, thrive and survive, there's still some things that make us all the same. You. Me. Them. Everybody. Everybody.", + "source": "The Blues Brothers", + "id": 4522, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "There are many other ways of programming the switching sequence, which will not be discussed here. In many cases the switching sequence is under computer control. In the simple method used above, the intention is to show the fundamental principle upon which pulse width modulation is used.", + "source": "Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems", + "id": 4523, + "length": 289 + }, + { + "text": "By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed to have shut down altogether. Dizzy, fearing that I would black out, I was frantic to reach the South Summit, where my third bottle was waiting.", + "source": "Into Thin Air", + "id": 4524, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "Writer's block is a good example of a dispositional fallacy: A description of behavior can't also explain the described behavior. Writer's block is nothing more than the behavior of not writing. Saying that you can't write because of writer's block is merely saying that you can't write because you aren't writing. It's trivial. The cure of writer's block - if you can cure a specious affliction - is writing.", + "source": "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing", + "id": 4527, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4528, + "length": 80 + }, + { + "text": "Few of us make any serious effort to remember what we read. When I read a book, what do I hope will stay with me a year later? If it's a work of nonfiction, the thesis, maybe, if the book has one. A few savory details, perhaps. If it's fiction, the broadest outline of the plot, something about the main characters (at least their names), and an overall critical judgment about the book. Even these are likely to fade. Looking up at my shelves, at the books that have drained so many of my waking hours, is always a dispiriting experience.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4529, + "length": 539 + }, + { + "text": "I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room. I could almost taste the sweetness of reunion in the air, a separate fragrance from the perfume of his breath; the emptiness when we were apart left its own bitter aftertaste, something I didn't consciously notice until it was removed.", + "source": "Eclipse", + "id": 4530, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old Earth keeps rolling!", + "source": "Heart of Darkness", + "id": 4532, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4534, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "id": 4535, + "length": 331 + }, + { + "text": "The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the civil rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everything. And he helped shape his time. I mean, the guy hung out with The Beatles! But in the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was baseball.", + "source": "Field of Dreams", + "id": 4536, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Look at it. Oh, it's suffocating. Well, it's the smog. You know, people can live with it, but trees - it gives them asthma. They can't breathe. The leaves, look, they're turning all brown. Harold, we have got to do something about this life.", + "source": "Harold and Maude", + "id": 4537, + "length": 241 + }, + { + "text": "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "id": 4538, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, they all did, sire. There they were in the dark; the Duke with his dagger, the Doge with his dart, and the Duchess with her dirk. The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke!", + "source": "The Court Jester", + "id": 4539, + "length": 343 + }, + { + "text": "Thought is a soul-garment that is more intimately involved with the soul than speech. For this reason, (a) good thoughts leave a deeper impression on oneself than good speech, and conversely, evil thoughts leave a deeper impression than evil speech; (b) thought is a constant, just as the soul itself is a constant, whereas with regard to speech, \"There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak.\"", + "source": "Lessons in Tanya", + "id": 4540, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.", + "source": "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones", + "id": 4541, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. When I know the time is right for me I'll cross the stream.", + "source": "I Have A Dream", + "id": 4543, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?", + "source": "True Detective", + "id": 4544, + "length": 385 + }, + { + "text": "It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. Sick of playing second fiddle. Always third in line for everything. Tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4545, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "A vision I had in my sleep last night - as distinguished from a dream which is mere sorting and cataloging of the day's events by the subconscious. This was a vision, fresh and clear as a mountain stream - the mind revealing itself to itself. In my vision, I was on the veranda of a vast estate, a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. There seemed to emanate from it a light from within - this gleaming radiant marble. I had known this place. I had in fact been born and raised there. This was my first return, a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4546, + "length": 563 + }, + { + "text": "They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but they also knew the stakes were high. These people were asking the big questions: How do I find meaning in my life? Should I have children? What is the most meaningful way to connect with other people? How should I balance my work life with my personal life (and is there a distinction anymore)?", + "source": "Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment", + "id": 4547, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.", + "source": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", + "id": 4548, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "My son, from whence this madness, this neglect of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4549, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind thinking I can see through this and see what's behind. Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm blind. But I'm only human after all. Don't put your blame on me.", + "source": "Rag'n'Bone Man - Human", + "id": 4550, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuition. When you meet someone and you suddenly feel like you can't live without them. This could be the memory of a past love from the collective unconscious. Or it could just be hormones.", + "source": "Almost Famous", + "id": 4551, + "length": 243 + }, + { + "text": "The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.", + "source": "The Giver", + "id": 4552, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "There's bound to be rough waters and I know I'll take some falls, but with the good Lord as my captain I can make it through them all.", + "source": "The River", + "id": 4553, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4554, + "length": 260 + }, + { + "text": "Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'm worried what you just heard was \"Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.\" What I said was \"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.\" Do you understand?", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4555, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4556, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "He married out of love a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria or Rome or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them.", + "source": "The Lion in Winter", + "id": 4557, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "Let this moment of clarity lift this curse that has been cast upon me.", + "source": "Eight of Nine", + "id": 4558, + "length": 70 + }, + { + "text": "Court-reporting schools were prime sources of notereaders, especially with respect to those 80 to 90 percent of reporting students who dropped out of the program before reaching acceptable speed on the stenotype.", + "source": "Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television", + "id": 4559, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "It is sad to think people are no longer learning how to use the colon and semicolon, not least because, in this supreme QWERTY keyboard era, the little finger of the human right hand, deprived of its traditional function, may eventually dwindle and drop off from disuse.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4560, + "length": 270 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough, just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving a million miles a day in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour in a galaxy we call the Milky Way.", + "source": "Galaxy Song", + "id": 4561, + "length": 528 + }, + { + "text": "The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4562, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "It looks like your little adventure has reached its penultimate chapter. I suppose that means it's time for me to go look for real work... Whoa! I can't believe I just said that! No, seriously... I gotta find that treasure...", + "source": "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door", + "id": 4563, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "Though the sciences cannot answer philosophical questions, individual scientists have to take sides on the right answers to them. The positions scientists take on answers to philosophical questions determine the questions they consider answerable by science and choose to address, as well as the methods they employ to answer them. Sometimes scientists take sides consciously. More often they take sides on philosophical questions by their very choice of question, and without realizing it.", + "source": "Philosophy of Social Science (Dimensions of Philosophy) 5th Edition", + "id": 4564, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "O beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we elected king. Armchair warriors often fail and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales. The lawyers clean up all details since daddy had to lie.", + "source": "The End of the Innocence", + "id": 4565, + "length": 284 + }, + { + "text": "Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the universe itself has a memory, as theosophists have suggested. In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4566, + "length": 683 + }, + { + "text": "They, of course, didn't know me; but I knew them all right.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4567, + "length": 59 + }, + { + "text": "The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle. Results may be obtained but always at the sacrifice of quality. My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.", + "source": "My Inventions", + "id": 4569, + "length": 656 + }, + { + "text": "Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", + "source": "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book", + "id": 4571, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "The word science is derived from a Latin verb meaning \"to know.\" Science is a way of knowing - an approach to understanding the natural world. It developed out of our human curiosity about ourselves, other life-forms, our planet, and the universe. Striving to make sense of our experiences seems to be one of our basic urges.", + "source": "Campbell Biology in Focus", + "id": 4572, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "I was working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. When my monster, from its slab, began to rise, and suddenly to my surprise he did the Mash, he did the Monster Mash. And it's a graveyard smash. He did the Mash, it caught on in a flash.", + "source": "Monster Mash", + "id": 4573, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, these are a few of my favorite things.", + "source": "My Favorite Things", + "id": 4575, + "length": 363 + }, + { + "text": "For stenographer jobs, employers prefer to hire high school graduates and seldom have a preference among the many different shorthand methods. For court reporter jobs, however, employers prefer stenotype, not only because reporters can write faster using stenotype, but also because they can feed stenotype notes to a computer for high-speed transcription.", + "source": "Occupational Outlook Handbook", + "id": 4576, + "length": 356 + }, + { + "text": "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.", + "source": "The Brothers Karamazov", + "id": 4577, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Oceans apart day after day and I slowly go insane. I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain. If I see you next to never how can we say forever?", + "source": "Right Here Waiting", + "id": 4578, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.", + "source": "Looking Backward", + "id": 4580, + "length": 479 + }, + { + "text": "I saw a little rocky point ahead of me, as if made on purpose for a war correspondent. By running across some open ground I was on to it. There was good if not ample cover on the top. It was in the middle of the angle made by the line of advance of the men along the ridge and the line of the Devons' main advance, and quite close to the hill. Stretching away on our left over a level khaki-colored sloping field (if I may so call it) of veldt, were the Devons lying behind ant-hills, placed as if on purpose to give scant but welcome shelter to troops advancing under fire.", + "source": "Impressions of a War Correspondent", + "id": 4581, + "length": 574 + }, + { + "text": "I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it; and it continued to-ing and fro-ing with the lithe, sinister restlessness of a beast in a cage. I could not cry out, although as you may suppose, I was terrified. Its pace was growing faster, and the room rapidly darker and darker, and at length so dark that I could no longer see anything of it but its eyes. I felt it spring lightly on the bed. The two broad eyes approached my face, and suddenly I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my chest. I waked with a scream.", + "source": "Carmilla", + "id": 4582, + "length": 818 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.", + "source": "The Snowman", + "id": 4583, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant's going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony. Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?", + "source": "Seinfeld", + "id": 4585, + "length": 434 + }, + { + "text": "It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! To hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! This hatred!", + "source": "Mrs. Dalloway", + "id": 4586, + "length": 666 + }, + { + "text": "If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4587, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.", + "source": "I, Robot", + "id": 4588, + "length": 325 + }, + { + "text": "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.", + "source": "Naruto", + "id": 4589, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "That I should want you at all, suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that, in itself, is probably the reason. You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also, our contempt for humanity and inability to love, and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other.", + "source": "All About Eve", + "id": 4590, + "length": 323 + }, + { + "text": "Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss you for a month or two. Someone will quickly fill the void. It will be like you never worked there. Ask yourself, \"Are there thousands lining up to help poor villages build schools and libraries?\"", + "source": "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World", + "id": 4591, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils of the present times.", + "source": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", + "id": 4592, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor's \"For Sale\" sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.", + "source": "The Complete Far Side", + "id": 4593, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...", + "source": "This Is Spinal Tap", + "id": 4594, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "The maiden woke in darkness. Confused she reached out. Sharp brambles jabbed at all sides. Burning acid bubbled close below. What nightmare had led her here? What hope of survival remained? Doomed she thought herself and to despair she fell, until a light bloomed far in the distance, a bright, glowing spot fast approaching. It swept majestic about the thorns, leapt above burning waters and dove towards the maiden. Coming close, the form revealed at last, a beautiful being, sharp horns gleaming white. Arms reached out for the damsel, gathering her up, grip firm...", + "source": "Hollow Knight", + "id": 4595, + "length": 569 + }, + { + "text": "Okay, you're out on the condition that you never enter your daughter in a beauty pageant in the state of California ever again. Ever.", + "source": "Little Miss Sunshine", + "id": 4596, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard and with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.", + "source": "Flatland", + "id": 4597, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "I'm waking up to ash and dust. I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals. I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse.", + "source": "Radioactive", + "id": 4598, + "length": 192 + }, + { + "text": "Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it's not any more \"evil\" than, say... fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgment. Let's move out now, it's not safe here.", + "source": "Metro 2033", + "id": 4599, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you and I have different management styles. I believe work should be fun and you try to crush people's spirits. What's next, Michael? Are you going to make dancing illegal? Is this the tiny town from Footloose?", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4600, + "length": 216 + }, + { + "text": "Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.", + "source": "Moonwalking with Einstein", + "id": 4601, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.", + "source": "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", + "id": 4603, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I don't really know what to expect. Sometimes you look like a younger Brando... but then the way Crumb draws you, you look... like a hairy ape, with all these wavy, stinky lines undulating off your body. I don't really know what to expect.", + "source": "American Splendor", + "id": 4604, + "length": 249 + }, + { + "text": "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.", + "source": "Groundhog Day", + "id": 4605, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "I can hear its whispers coming from below! Down, deep down in the Earth. If you're ever down there, please! You must find my box and return it at once! And whatever you do - do NOT open the box!", + "source": "Dust: An Elysian Tail", + "id": 4606, + "length": 194 + }, + { + "text": "As I mentioned earlier, Miss Lucy has, for reasons that remain a mystery to me, unlocked certain portions of her brain that offer access to previously unexplored cerebral zones.", + "source": "Lucy", + "id": 4607, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.", + "source": "Inception", + "id": 4608, + "length": 226 + }, + { + "text": "My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood coated my mouth. I kept walking, my goal vague, trying to dispel the building unease in my chest. Upon entering an open area was the scent of rotting flowers and in the middle of the flowerbed, he stood. Without anyone saying a thing, without his name given, like an unsolved puzzle falling into place by itself, just by seeing that figure, I understood exactly who I faced.", + "source": "Tokyo Ghoul", + "id": 4609, + "length": 433 + }, + { + "text": "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. \"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,\" he told me, \"just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.\" He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4610, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir Isaac Newton showed that dense objects, such as managers, have more gravity. Your office will become a black hole into which all employee input will be lost forever. No matter how many times your employees give you something - diskettes, documents, whatever - you can claim you never got it. Best of all, it's not your fault; it's the law of gravity.", + "source": "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook", + "id": 4611, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4612, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "The term First Contact applies to the moment when we employ a means of communication with alien beings that also have a means of talking back to us. There are several ways First Contact could happen. The most popular idea, originating from the UFO phenomenon, is the image of ET landing on the lawn of the White House and greeting the president. However, scientists hope they are the first to establish communication with ET, via radio signals.", + "source": "The Ancient Alien Question", + "id": 4613, + "length": 444 + }, + { + "text": "Our files show that the Smuggler is whacked-out paranoid. Watch for booby traps. And the latest news: your brother's team hit some resistance, so they're going to be delayed while we bring in chopper support.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4614, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "And, and maybe the first chair trombone player from the high school band comes by you know, and he takes pity on you, tries to drive you home and all. Oh but no, Mike! You wanna swerve home in your cherried-out Dodge Charger!", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Space Mutiny", + "id": 4615, + "length": 225 + }, + { + "text": "In the beginning there was discovery. A confusion of elements. The first snowfall of impossible change. Old lives undone, left behind. Strange faces, made familiar. New nightmares, to challenge sleep. New friends, to feel safe with. Only then comes control. The need to impose order unto chaos, through determination, through study, through struggle. All in defiance of a thundering truth. They're here, and the earth shudders underfoot.", + "source": "Heroes", + "id": 4616, + "length": 437 + }, + { + "text": "Hating the Empire, getting revenge... It's all I ever thought about. But I never did anything about it. I mean, I realized there was nothing I could do. It made me feel hollow, alone. And then... I'd miss my brother. I'd say stuff like \"I'm gonna be a sky pirate\", or some other stupid thing. Just anything to keep my mind off it. I was just... I was running away. I needed to get away from his death.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XII", + "id": 4618, + "length": 401 + }, + { + "text": "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4619, + "length": 404 + }, + { + "text": "Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4620, + "length": 597 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself \"slightly\" killed.", + "source": "North by Northwest", + "id": 4621, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "Three shiny steel doors stand at the centre of the hallway. Bodies are everywhere. Killed as they waited for an elevator. The eerie silence is broken by a scratching sound. One of the elevator doors pops open an inch. Hands force their way out.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4622, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I've heard in a very, very long time. I admire your good, solid sense. That's precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.", + "source": "Being There", + "id": 4623, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "Why, if I had a brain I could... I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers, consultin' with the rain. And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' if I only had a brain.", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4624, + "length": 207 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.", + "source": "Trading Places", + "id": 4625, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.", + "source": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", + "id": 4626, + "length": 200 + }, + { + "text": "Mail's here. Here's the mail, it never fails, it makes me wanna wag my tail. When it comes it makes me want to yell MAIL!!!", + "source": "Blue's Clues", + "id": 4627, + "length": 123 + }, + { + "text": "Money is like other goods: the higher the opportunity cost, the less of it we want to hold. Consider, first, how the transactions' demand for money (i.e., the money held to facilitate purchases of goods and services) is affected by higher interest rates. When the opportunity cost of money is high, we lose interest by holding more of it, so we find ways to hold less. For example, if interest rates are high enough, we might reduce the funds in our pockets and in our bank accounts and take funds out of interest-bearing mutual funds in smaller amounts more frequently.", + "source": "Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics", + "id": 4628, + "length": 570 + }, + { + "text": "One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. During times of stress or anxiety, he liked to knit. Since the arrival of the dead girl who was not dead, he found the stockinette stitch relaxing.", + "source": "Pushing Daisies", + "id": 4629, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a cigarette on the airplane to calm my nerves. I was trembling, I was very emotional and that's when all the rest of it happened. It's very regrettable. Now, I don't want to kick up a fuss, press charges, contact the British embassy. I'd rather not pursue those channels, that's not my style. I'm not that sort of a bloke.", + "source": "Sexy Beast", + "id": 4630, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover that I could speak Bambara, chagrined that I had understood their comments, and amazed at my admission. There was a flurry of activity as people squished themselves as far away as possible. One old man was skeptical and, in my defense, suggested that I couldn't speak Bambara very well and had said something I didn't mean to.", + "source": "Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa", + "id": 4631, + "length": 384 + }, + { + "text": "Tables. Tables are made so a person can sit down and do something. Or nothing. Any person can sit at a table, and if the table is large enough, many people. To make jokes, eat a meal, tell stories. Tables are for people to be together and share. And that is why tables are like Pied Piper. Grapefruits, postcards, hugs. These are things people share to connect, to come closer. To open up about ideas and things that make us feel alive, like air, ballet, amazing haircuts, weird countries, three-alarm chili, mountains, continents, the Earth, life. Life is beautiful, and sad, and hopeful, and dangerous.", + "source": "Silicon Valley", + "id": 4632, + "length": 604 + }, + { + "text": "The hallway is luxurious and tasteful. Tapestries and paintings of old relatives that Alice doesn't recognize adorn the walls. But this isn't a quaint old house. There's something in the air.", + "source": "Resident Evil", + "id": 4633, + "length": 191 + }, + { + "text": "I've got to get up in the morning and spend some more money on my overpriced education.", + "source": "Good Will Hunting", + "id": 4634, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "You won. All right? You came in and you killed them and you took their land. That's what conquering nations do. It's what Caesar did, and he's not goin' around saying, \"I came, I conquered, I felt really bad about it.\" The history of the world is not people making friends. You had better weapons and you massacred them. End of story.", + "source": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", + "id": 4635, + "length": 334 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?", + "source": "The Night Diary", + "id": 4636, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. I'm laughin' at clouds, so dark up above. The sun's in my heart, and I'm ready for love.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4637, + "length": 181 + }, + { + "text": "\"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about,\" Charles Wallace said. \"Why should I disillusion them?\"", + "source": "A Wrinkle in Time", + "id": 4638, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're landing immediately. The bad news? We're crash-landing.", + "source": "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", + "id": 4639, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a dark object, perhaps a skydiver plummeting to the earth from only two thousand feet in the air. There's a third. No parachutes yet. Those can't be skydivers. I can't tell just yet what they are but oh my God! They're turkeys!", + "source": "WKRP in Cincinnati", + "id": 4641, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "Well, on a basic cellular level we're the sum total of all our ancestors' biological matter. But what if more than biological traits get passed down from generation to generation? What if I like sunflower seeds because I'm genetically predisposed to liking them?", + "source": "The X-Files", + "id": 4642, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Don't want to touch you but you're under my skin. I want to kiss you but your lips are venomous poison.", + "source": "Poison", + "id": 4643, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4644, + "length": 87 + }, + { + "text": "Mary Elizabeth is a really nice person underneath the part of her that hates everyone.", + "source": "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", + "id": 4645, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "In this chapter I want to examine punctuation as an art. Naturally, therefore, this is where the colon and semicolon waltz in together, to a big cheer from all the writers in the audience. Just look at those glamorous punctuation marks twirling in the lights from the glitter-ball: are they not beautiful? Are they not graceful?", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4647, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?", + "source": "What Dreams May Come", + "id": 4648, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan at all. No plan. You know why? If you make a plan, life never works out that way. Look around us, did these people think \"Let's all spend the night in a gym?\" But look now, everyone's sleeping on the floor, us included. That's why people shouldn't make plans. With no plan, nothing can go wrong and if something spins out of control, it doesn't matter. Whether you kill someone or betray your country. None of it matters. Got it?", + "source": "Parasite", + "id": 4649, + "length": 477 + }, + { + "text": "It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4651, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work. You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.", + "source": "Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age", + "id": 4652, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "It's the weather. When it gets damp and cold people get depressed, irritable and unpleasant. In the winter, Scandinavia has more lunatics per capita than any other country in the world.", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4654, + "length": 185 + }, + { + "text": "Some people thought we were at war with the Germans - incorrect. We were at war with the clock. Britain was literally starving to death. The Americans sent over 100,000 pounds of food each week, and every week the Germans would send our desperately needed bread to the bottom of the ocean. Our daily failure was announced at the chimes of midnight. And the sound would haunt our unwelcome dreams.", + "source": "The Imitation Game", + "id": 4655, + "length": 396 + }, + { + "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4656, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "That's the way romance is. Usually that's the way that it goes, but every once in a while it goes the other way, too.", + "source": "True Romance", + "id": 4657, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.", + "source": "Heavy Metal", + "id": 4658, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnants of our culture are buried in layers, we will certainly have some nasty surprises for future archaeologists. Between used razor blades and pop top can tabs, we will literally keep future diggers on their toes, or at least in very durable shoes.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4659, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I am not a torturer, though it so often is what people deserve. And it does provide answers, but they're usually the wrong answers. My job is to find the right answers. Do you know how I do that? I do it by making people happy. I'd like to make you happy, Vala. That's your name isn't it? Vala?", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4660, + "length": 294 + }, + { + "text": "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.", + "source": "Paul Clifford", + "id": 4661, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your human half peek out. That's it, isn't it? Insecurity. Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4662, + "length": 277 + }, + { + "text": "For 360 minutes per diem, we receive unconscious reinforcement of the deep thesis that the most significant feature of truly alive persons is watchableness, and that genuine human worth is not just identical with but rooted in the phenomenon of watching.", + "source": "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", + "id": 4663, + "length": 254 + }, + { + "text": "Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine - the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "id": 4664, + "length": 442 + }, + { + "text": "This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. Your selection is quite shoddy. You are wasting my time.", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4665, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "And as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear. Bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul of the Monkey. For the first time, the Happyfolk felt fearful, for they knew the Monkey would soon stir from its deep sleep. And then came a sound, distant first. It grew into castrophany, so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams, there was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken, there was only fire. And then, nothing.", + "source": "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", + "id": 4666, + "length": 515 + }, + { + "text": "The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.", + "source": "The Hunger Games", + "id": 4667, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.", + "source": "The Odyssey", + "id": 4668, + "length": 95 + }, + { + "text": "Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung and that was that, as they say. Believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin'. Diggin' in that hard caliche. What you got ain't nothin' new. This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks never seem to hold it to account.", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 4669, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "Look up here, man, I'm in danger. I've got nothing left to lose. I'm so high it makes my brain whirl. Dropped my cell phone down below. Ain't that just like me?", + "source": "Lazarus", + "id": 4670, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.", + "source": "Understanding Media", + "id": 4671, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "I want to tell you somethin' about the law. Please, take a seat. Separate from all the bribes we put up, I paid 5,000 dollars to avoid being the object of fireside ditties about a man that fled a murder warrant then worked very hard to get his camp annexed by the territory, only to have them serve the warrant of him and to face the six-foot drop. Into the magistrate's pocket the money goes, after which he sends a message. The 5,000'll need company if I'm to be off the hook. I give you the law.", + "source": "Deadwood", + "id": 4672, + "length": 498 + }, + { + "text": "I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them I liked them! As soon as I met them I liked them right away! You hate them compared to how much I like them!", + "source": "Madagascar", + "id": 4673, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.", + "source": "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", + "id": 4674, + "length": 333 + }, + { + "text": "There is no hate, only joy. For you are beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds. Dreams of the morrow hath the shattered soul. Pride is lost. Wings stripped away, the end is nigh.", + "source": "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII", + "id": 4675, + "length": 198 + }, + { + "text": "So back off your rules, back off your jive. 'Cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive. Leave me alone, I'm not asking a lot. I just don't want to be controlled...", + "source": "All I Want", + "id": 4676, + "length": 164 + }, + { + "text": "All right, if this guy just took advantage of a natural accident to sell me twenty-four cans of nothing, I'm going to applaud his creative entrepreneurial spirit and then kill him.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", + "id": 4677, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in my head. I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you. We broke our mirrors. Sunday morning is everyday for all I care and I'm not scared. Light my candles in a daze 'cause I've found God.", + "source": "Lithium", + "id": 4678, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally. Then, he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier \"cool girl\".", + "source": "Gone Girl", + "id": 4679, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however, this is no story of a Bad Boy, no What Katy Did. If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.", + "source": "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle", + "id": 4680, + "length": 402 + }, + { + "text": "Almost immediately Aesma found the estate of the Master of space-time, a lunar domain of immense proportions. It was incredibly hard to miss the Master, as he was a man thirty stories tall, with skin speckled as a night sky, and in his tangled hair, among his shaggy brow, and scattered in his great knotted beard were a multitude of burning stars. He had served for uncounted centuries as chief architect of the gods after attaining his mastery, and even now was building a mighty dark tower greater than any mountain, and the clangs of his immense silver chisel shivered Aesma's bones as she approached. But she had little regard for his mighty stature as a furious mischief was in her.", + "source": "Kill Six Billion Demons", + "id": 4681, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wreckin' my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots! No, check that. I'm gonna put him in jail till the jail rots on top of him, and then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm... Throw him out of here, Sheriff. I want him out of my courtroom. I want him out of our town! Case dismissed.", + "source": "Doc Hudson, Cars", + "id": 4682, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "Whereas by the benefit of words and ratiocination they exceed brute beasts in knowledge, and the commodities that accompany the same, so they exceed them also in error.", + "source": "Human Nature", + "id": 4683, + "length": 168 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, if you could see just what was going on outside your realm of perception, it would blow your minds! That's the main reason I kept it back. If I were to give you an analogy, I'd describe it like this: when a duck swims on the water, you only see it glide, apparently effortlessly across the lake. But underneath, as in beneath the surface, it's a whole different story. Its legs are moving like it's pedaling a bicycle up a mountain! Well, that's me right now. I am that duck!", + "source": "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", + "id": 4685, + "length": 485 + }, + { + "text": "My older brother, Tom, had spent the last month digging in the cornfield. Ever since turning 17 he had an urge to dig. Nobody knew why he was digging - he just was. When anyone asked him why, he would only say, \"I'm digging for Mom.\" I didn't know how digging a hole was good for Mom, and didn't question it. If he wanted to get in trouble with her, that was up to him.", + "source": "The Treasure at Devil's Hole", + "id": 4686, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4687, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and were flooded by activists dressed in second-hand suits with slogans painted on their backs. They danced in the doorsteps of office towers, formed a human chain around the Treasury and held peaceful sit-ins at several banks.", + "source": "No Logo", + "id": 4688, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, \"That's good! One less thing.\"", + "source": "Forrest Gump", + "id": 4689, + "length": 186 + }, + { + "text": "October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", + "id": 4690, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4691, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I bet he was referring to the four areas just outside town. There's one in each compass direction. But what do you suppose he meant by \"the four who are there?\"", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask", + "id": 4692, + "length": 160 + }, + { + "text": "Can you \"choose\" something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?", + "source": "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", + "id": 4693, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide compelling alibis for accused witches: The rules of evidence had a special character. For example, in more than one case a husband attested that his wife was asleep in his arms at the very moment she was accused of frolicking with the devil; but the archbishop patiently explained that a demon had taken the place of the wife.", + "source": "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", + "id": 4695, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.", + "source": "The Martian", + "id": 4696, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.", + "source": "A Brief History of Time", + "id": 4697, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called the ugly barnacle. Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died! The end.", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4698, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "As, before putting up a large building, the architect surveys and sounds the site to see if it will bear the weight, the wise legislator does not begin by laying down laws good in themselves, but by investigating the fitness of the people, for which they are destined, to receive them. Plato refused to legislate for the Arcadians and the Cyrenaeans, because he knew that both peoples were rich and could not put up with equality; and good laws and bad men were found together in Crete, because Minos had inflicted discipline on a people already burdened with vice.", + "source": "On the Social Contract", + "id": 4699, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better... It's not.", + "source": "The Lorax", + "id": 4701, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside and it's ragin'. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. For the times they are a' changin'!", + "source": "The Times They Are A-Changin'", + "id": 4702, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.", + "source": "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", + "id": 4703, + "length": 362 + }, + { + "text": "Demand is related to wants. If goods and services were free, people would simply demand whatever they wanted. Such wants are virtually boundless: perhaps limited only by people's imagination. Supply, on the other hand, is limited. It is related to resources. The amount firms can supply depends on the resources and technology available.", + "source": "Essentials of Economics", + "id": 4704, + "length": 337 + }, + { + "text": "After the victory at Wounded Knee, the angel of Columbia did present herself to Father Comstock and show him a vision of the future. And so our Prophet led the people away from the Sodom Below, up, up into the city, where they created an even more perfect union. But it was the miracle child, the lamb, that is the future of our city. For the Prophet has said that she in the tower will lead the Sodom Below into righteousness.", + "source": "BioShock Infinite", + "id": 4705, + "length": 427 + }, + { + "text": "It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.", + "source": "The Time Machine", + "id": 4706, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "It was strange, I reflected... that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.", + "source": "The Historian", + "id": 4707, + "length": 206 + }, + { + "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.", + "source": "For Whom The Bell Tolls", + "id": 4708, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Uh, no, there's more. One time I accidentally drank an entire bottle of vinegar. I thought it was terrible wine. Once, I went out with a guy who wore 3D glasses the entire evening. Oh, one time I rode in a sidecar on a guy's motorcycle, and the sidecar detached and went down a flight of stairs. Another time I went to a really boring movie with a guy, and while I was asleep he tried to pull out one of my teeth. I literally woke up with his hand in my mouth. We went out a couple times after that but then he got weird.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4710, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4711, + "length": 76 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel? You know you were my first time. A new feel. It won't ever get old, not in my soul. Not in my spirit, keep it alive. We'll go down this road. 'Til it turns from color to black and white.", + "source": "Thinking Bout You", + "id": 4714, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Ghana is passing through a demographic transition, and the reduction in its population growth will translate into a decreasing dependency ratio. In Ghana, the working-age population currently represents just over half the population and is increasing.", + "source": "A New Era of Transformation in Ghana", + "id": 4715, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets by on you. And the space he invades, he gets by on you. No, his mind is not for rent to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent. He knows changes aren't permanent but change is. What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4716, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "And I promise you I'll never desert you again because after 'Salome' we'll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.", + "source": "Sunset Boulevard", + "id": 4717, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "Well we're living here in Allentown and they're closing all the factories down. Out in Bethlehem they're killing time, filling out forms, standing in line. Well our fathers fought the Second World War. Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore. Met our mothers in the USO. Asked them to dance. Danced with them slow.", + "source": "Allentown", + "id": 4719, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4720, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I don't know what's weirder - that you're fighting a stuffed animal or that you seem to be losing.", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4721, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "Boy, what a pair we're going to make! A football player and a lover boy! I could get you girls, and you could get me football tickets. It certainly has amazing advantages.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4722, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander of great armies nor ruler of vast lands. He could boast no scientific achievements or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom.", + "source": "Gandhi", + "id": 4723, + "length": 455 + }, + { + "text": "My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy? My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer.", + "source": "Hands Down", + "id": 4724, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "The allure of the Abyss is inescapable. Even so, no one has managed to reach the end. A golden city that sleeps at the bottom of the Abyss. Relics that surpass understanding. For 1,900 years, we have ventured into the darkness hoping to make greater and greater discoveries. The romance of a lost age and the arcane. Drawn to the great unknown, the Abyss devours us.", + "source": "Made in Abyss", + "id": 4725, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "So, who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well, who needs books anyway? I don't need books. I always forget all my books. I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?", + "source": "Halloween", + "id": 4726, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike.", + "source": "Breaking Away", + "id": 4728, + "length": 465 + }, + { + "text": "By venturing too close to the dragon's flame, you made an ash out of yourself.", + "source": "King's Quest I", + "id": 4730, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity - but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?", + "source": "The Yellow Wallpaper", + "id": 4731, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and when she came back we barely recognized her.", + "source": "Roseanne", + "id": 4732, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, are you the kind of kid who reads the last page of a mystery first? Who pesters the magician to tell you his tricks? Who sneaks downstairs to peek at his Christmas presents? No, of course you're not. That's why I'm not gonna tell you!", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4733, + "length": 239 + }, + { + "text": "The only message I got was from the company that holds my student loan, Sallie Mae. Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.", + "source": "Holidays on Ice", + "id": 4734, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb; I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain; and an island never cries.", + "source": "I Am A Rock", + "id": 4735, + "length": 231 + }, + { + "text": "It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.", + "source": "Don Quixote", + "id": 4736, + "length": 378 + }, + { + "text": "I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4737, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Master of the house, quick to catch your eye, never wants a passerby to pass him by. Servant to the poor, butler to the great, comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate. Everybody's boon companion, everybody's chaperone.", + "source": "Les Misérables", + "id": 4738, + "length": 220 + }, + { + "text": "So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunching around. Speak your mind. Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them - at least the same right as others. Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous. Encourage the serotonin to flow plentifully through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.", + "source": "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos", + "id": 4739, + "length": 352 + }, + { + "text": "To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.", + "source": "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", + "id": 4740, + "length": 263 + }, + { + "text": "What I'm trying to teach him and what he's learning there are two very different things. Park hustlers play tactics, not position. They rely on wild, unpredictable moves meant to intimidate their opponent. Great in a two-minute speed game for drug money, but it'll cost Josh dearly in real games.", + "source": "Searching for Bobby Fischer", + "id": 4741, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "Peter Bailey was not a businessman. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals. So called. But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4742, + "length": 210 + }, + { + "text": "You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is alright with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!", + "source": "Holiday", + "id": 4743, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself.", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4744, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "Do you realize she's having a baby on the other side of the country, and we're watching it live? Yikes, eight centimeters! Of course, I suppose it could be tape delay.", + "source": "40: A Doonesbury Retrospective", + "id": 4745, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires consideration of the effects of interelectronic repulsion, orbital penetration towards the nuclear shielding, and an extra quantum number which specifies the intrinsic energy of the electron in any orbital. All these considerations are necessary to allow construction of the modern form of the periodic classification of the elements.", + "source": "Structure and Bonding (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)", + "id": 4746, + "length": 394 + }, + { + "text": "But I can't imagine a life without breathless moments breaking me down.", + "source": "The Heart Wants What It Wants", + "id": 4747, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "\"I haven't got time to be neurotic,\" he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: \"Time! You haven't got the imagination!\"", + "source": "The Lost Weekend", + "id": 4749, + "length": 315 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too humiliating.", + "source": "The Sound of Music", + "id": 4750, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer getting shot? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "id": 4751, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "So the speech was disturbing, the food was inedible, and the gift bags pretty frightening. And when Gob found out that he wasn't going to get any tips, the service got worse. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. All in all it was one of the Bluths' better parties.", + "source": "Arrested Development", + "id": 4752, + "length": 282 + }, + { + "text": "I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train.", + "source": "Naked Lunch", + "id": 4753, + "length": 273 + }, + { + "text": "The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened by huge quantities of human-caused carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And as it thickens, it traps a lot of the infrared radiation that would otherwise escape the atmosphere and continue out to the universe. As a result, the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans is getting dangerously warmer.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4754, + "length": 393 + }, + { + "text": "Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and underestimate what they can do in a year. What about five years? Forget about it. Why? Because they lack an appreciation for process, a vacuum that gets displaced with indolence, indifference, and idleness - ultimately undermining the fortitude required to sustain vision and purpose.", + "source": "Overestimation", + "id": 4755, + "length": 344 + }, + { + "text": "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, the plowman homeward plods his weary way, and leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight, and all the air a solemn stillness holds, save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, and drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.", + "source": "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", + "id": 4756, + "length": 355 + }, + { + "text": "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in team, but there is an \"I\" in pie. And there's an \"I\" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about.", + "source": "Shaun of the Dead", + "id": 4757, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.", + "source": "Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)", + "id": 4758, + "length": 285 + }, + { + "text": "As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.", + "source": "Moby Dick", + "id": 4759, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of paperback books, the paper used was very low quality, usually newsprint. Consumers rejected the soiled and discolored appearance of the pages. Publishers hit upon the notion of \"staining,\" which made the paper look fresh, even pretty, and most important, prolonged the shelf life of their books.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4760, + "length": 316 + }, + { + "text": "That's exactly why I came here. I love Cersei. You can laugh at that if you want, you can sneer, it doesn't matter. She needs me. And to get back to her, I have to take Riverrun. I'll send for your baby boy and I'll launch him into Riverrun with a catapult because you don't matter to me, Lord Edmure. Your son doesn't matter to me. The people in the castle don't matter to me... only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do.", + "source": "Game of Thrones", + "id": 4761, + "length": 487 + }, + { + "text": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", + "source": "Confessions", + "id": 4762, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "britishText": "We often believe the more we practise a skill or technique - over and over again, many times - the better we'll get. This is not necessarily true. In fact, every time you practise a technique incorrectly, you're increasing your chances of doing it wrong again. It's easy to become very experienced at repeating the same mistakes. Practice doesn't make perfect; only perfect practice makes perfect.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4763, + "length": 397 + }, + { + "text": "My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.", + "source": "The Arabian Nights", + "id": 4764, + "length": 146 + }, + { + "text": "To move through a tree of paths using hill climbing, proceed as in depth-first search, but order the choices according to some heuristic measure of remaining distance. The better the heuristic measure is, the better hill climbing will be relative to ordinary depth-first search.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4767, + "length": 278 + }, + { + "text": "They show you stuff in the military. You wanna know the real battlefield, it's microscopic. We can't even see it. Lucky for me, I got immunizations, but that guy... Well, once you're infected, you're infected.", + "source": "Deus Ex", + "id": 4768, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then last week I ran into her sister Beth here. Turns out she hates Tammy too, so we started dating. It's like a fairy tale.", + "source": "Parks and Recreation", + "id": 4769, + "length": 179 + }, + { + "text": "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working from within to bring down the Ministry of Magic with a combination of dark magic and gum disease.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4770, + "length": 190 + }, + { + "text": "Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. And did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star?", + "source": "Name", + "id": 4771, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "The Savage nodded, frowning. \"You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them... But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.\"", + "source": "Brave New World", + "id": 4772, + "length": 418 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone around, love them. Put it in your hands, take it. There's no time to cry, happy. Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines.", + "source": "Shiny Happy People", + "id": 4773, + "length": 133 + }, + { + "text": "On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...", + "source": "Little Shop of Horrors", + "id": 4774, + "length": 302 + }, + { + "text": "They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skillful with tools.", + "source": "The Fellowship of the Ring", + "id": 4775, + "length": 158 + }, + { + "text": "Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alcohol - either because there wasn't enough sugar in the juice to attain a higher alcohol level, or because the yeasts died off when the alcohol reached 14 percent, halting the fermentation.", + "source": "Wine for Dummies", + "id": 4776, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Dragged ya down below, down to the devil's show to be his guest forever; peace of mind is less than never. Hate to twist your mind but God ain't on your side. An old acquaintance severed, burn the world your last endeavor.", + "source": "Nightmare", + "id": 4777, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "So Michael, this is where dead men come back to life. It's been nearly ten years. But you'll keep for another day or so huh, old friend? I grieved for you! You weren't even dead. You were my best friend. Well, guess who's coming to your doorstep!", + "source": "Grand Theft Auto V", + "id": 4778, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake. I am always thinking one step ahead, like a carpenter that makes stairs.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4779, + "length": 205 + }, + { + "text": "Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something.", + "source": "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)", + "id": 4780, + "length": 126 + }, + { + "text": "There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions that are especially sensitive to the effects of global warming. The first is the Arctic. The second is the Antarctic. In both of these frozen realms, scientists are seeing faster changes and earlier, more dramatic effects of climate change than anywhere else on Earth.", + "source": "An Inconvenient Truth", + "id": 4781, + "length": 348 + }, + { + "text": "I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I suddenly realized I'd reached the city limits. I immediately felt happy and, without hesitation, passed beyond the barrier and found myself walking between cultivated fields and meadows. I didn't feel tired at all. On the contrary, every joint in me was as relaxed as if a load had been lifted from my shoulders.", + "source": "White Nights", + "id": 4782, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. Such a grouping is not always entirely satisfactory, for many of the kinds that live saprophytically under normal conditions may become parasitic if opportunity offers, and also many of those that are usually regarded as parasitic may be grown in cultures of agar or other media, under which conditions they may be regarded as living saprophytically.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4783, + "length": 552 + }, + { + "text": "Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.", + "source": "Beetlejuice", + "id": 4784, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "In the case of college students, 80 to 90 percent of respondents invariably say that they are more skillful, safer drivers than others in the class.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4786, + "length": 148 + }, + { + "text": "The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the super structure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.", + "source": "Novum Organum", + "id": 4787, + "length": 326 + }, + { + "text": "I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I'd tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \"to be like the rest\" - and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I'd give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again - in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4788, + "length": 490 + }, + { + "text": "My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did it my way. I just want to live while I'm alive.", + "source": "It's My Life", + "id": 4789, + "length": 106 + }, + { + "text": "The sky is still blue. The clouds come and go. Yet something is different. Are we falling in love? Don't let yourself be hurt this time.", + "source": "Falling", + "id": 4790, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.", + "source": "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", + "id": 4791, + "length": 567 + }, + { + "text": "Above it all was beautiful, ageless Acelia, glancing sidelong at her court as she sat askance on her throne of gems. It was often said that she had an iron in every fire and a scheme for every enemy, even the ones that she currently regarded as friends. Her true age was a hotly debated topic in the Chateau - she had been the queen for as long as anyone could remember but retained the body of a fragile, waif-thin youth. Her peculiar violet hair cascaded down her back like the waters of her castle's namesake. Only her fierce eyes betrayed her true age. Looking into those faded grays might give one a heavy feeling in the stomach, the uncomfortable weight of the long passage of eons.", + "source": "Chateau Cascade", + "id": 4792, + "length": 688 + }, + { + "text": "The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what's needed, as many as sixty different bits, keeps trying them out on small groups (but never your own family), rewrites discards, rewrites some more, then finally settles on the twenty which work best for that specific audience.", + "source": "Comedy Writing Secrets", + "id": 4793, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter can be easily covered so no flies can get in and if the filthy and in every way dangerous pit under the privy be filled and the dry-earth closet substituted, one of the greatest sources of danger, especially in the country and in towns with inadequate sewerage facilities, will be done away with. After these things are done there remain only the garbage cans and the rubbish heaps to look after.", + "source": "Insects and Diseases", + "id": 4794, + "length": 468 + }, + { + "text": "We generally concur that \"men\" such as a cow, a turkey, a frog, and a fish all possess some spark of consciousness, some kind of primitive \"soul\" but by God, it's a good deal smaller than ours is - and that, no more and no less, is why we \"men\" feel that we have the perfect right to extinguish the dim lights in the heads of these fractionally-souled beasts and to gobble down their once warm and wiggling, now chilled and stilled protoplasm with limitless gusto, and not feel a trace of guilt while doing so.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4795, + "length": 510 + }, + { + "text": "Concealing the origins of money obtained illegally by passing it through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions is a crime.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4796, + "length": 151 + }, + { + "text": "Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, waited until the guns were loaded and the noose was knotted before he turned back to the class. First, he repeated himself. \"There is no such thing as writer's block.\" Then he went on, \"There is only failure to make a decision.\"", + "source": "UnTechnical Writing", + "id": 4797, + "length": 287 + }, + { + "text": "The procedure for dealing with rigid body kinetics problems involves two distinct aspects: tracking the translation of the body's center of mass, where the body is treated as a particle, and tracking the body's rotation, in which you'll utilize the principles of local coordinates and relative angular velocity and acceleration.", + "source": "Physics for Game Developers", + "id": 4798, + "length": 328 + }, + { + "text": "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4799, + "length": 86 + }, + { + "text": "I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to someone who tried to swim in their radiation containment pool. \"In our reactor?\" He thought about it for a moment. \"You'd die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.\"", + "source": "What If?", + "id": 4800, + "length": 306 + }, + { + "text": "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air - or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.", + "source": "A Study in Scarlet", + "id": 4801, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin', so hush little baby, don't you cry.", + "source": "Porgy and Bess", + "id": 4802, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody.", + "source": "Cool As Ice", + "id": 4803, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Social change is the restructuring of human social institutions: culture, consciousness, technology, organizations, settlement systems, forms of exchange, and structures of authority and decision-making. It is commonly observed that some aspects of human social change, especially those connected with technology, have greatly accelerated over the past few centuries, and the very speed of change produces new problems as people need to spend much time and energy adapting to and resisting change.", + "source": "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives", + "id": 4805, + "length": 497 + }, + { + "text": "They got the greatest country in the world here. The highest standard of living. The grossest national product.", + "source": "All in the Family", + "id": 4806, + "length": 111 + }, + { + "text": "I gotta see a man who looks like he might know something, but it can't be done on the phone, if you know what I mean.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4807, + "length": 117 + }, + { + "text": "Zigzagging back and forth through history this way can make you dizzy - you can get vertigo from moving through time as well as space - but it's a lovely disorientation.", + "source": "Hamilton: the Revolution", + "id": 4808, + "length": 169 + }, + { + "text": "I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I'd competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I'd trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that's only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I'd learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.", + "source": "Shoe Dog", + "id": 4809, + "length": 579 + }, + { + "text": "The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.", + "source": "The Sound and the Fury", + "id": 4810, + "length": 398 + }, + { + "text": "New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colors of my life were changing.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4812, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good non-specific symptom, I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell you to go for a phony fever, but if you get a nervous mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. You fake a stomach cramp, when you're bent over wailing, you lick your palms. It's childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.", + "source": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", + "id": 4813, + "length": 375 + }, + { + "text": "This little droid. I think he's searching for his former master. I've never seen such devotion in a droid before. Ah, he claims to be the property of an Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is he a relative of yours? Do you know what he's talking about?", + "source": "Star Wars", + "id": 4814, + "length": 232 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to Twin Peaks. My name is Margaret Lanterman. I live in Twin Peaks. I am known as the Log Lady. There is a story behind that. There are many stories in Twin Peaks - some of them are sad, some funny. Some of them are stories of madness, of violence. Some are ordinary. Yet they all have about them a sense of mystery - the mystery of life. Sometimes, the mystery of death. The mystery of the woods. The woods surrounding Twin Peaks.", + "source": "Twin Peaks", + "id": 4815, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "I don't get it. I made my house a mess, which was making it clean, which made Squidward clean my yard, but that really means he's messing it up. But the opposite of clean is filth, which means filth is clean, that means Squidward is really making my yard a wreck, but I normally wreck my own yard which means, Squidward is being the opposite of Squidward which means he's SpongeBob!", + "source": "SpongeBob SquarePants", + "id": 4816, + "length": 382 + }, + { + "text": "Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance.", + "source": "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds", + "id": 4818, + "length": 366 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.", + "source": "Dubliners", + "id": 4819, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity of protesting against such an unjust and serious accusation, before the face of the whole of intellectual society.", + "source": "The Outrage - A True Story", + "id": 4820, + "length": 195 + }, + { + "text": "Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the major types of interest groups are those that represent the main sectors of the economy. In addition, many public-interest organizations have been formed to represent the needs of the general citizenry, including some single-issue groups.", + "source": "American Government and Politics Today: The Essentials", + "id": 4821, + "length": 299 + }, + { + "text": "In another experiment involving students, respondents were asked about likely future outcomes for themselves and their roommates. They typically had very rosy views about their own futures, which they imagined to include successful careers, happy marriages, and good health. When asked to speculate about their roommates' futures, however, their responses were far more realistic. The roommates were believed to be far more likely to become alcoholics, suffer illnesses, get divorced, and experience a variety of other unfavorable outcomes.", + "source": "A Random Walk Down Wall Street", + "id": 4822, + "length": 540 + }, + { + "text": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", + "source": "Crime and Punishment", + "id": 4823, + "length": 65 + }, + { + "text": "Well, if it isn't the man of the hour... You're late. I've been waiting for you FOREVER, mister! I was beginning to think you'd stood me up. I thought to myself, \"Wendy, is Mario ever going to show up?\" And then I dozed off. Anyway, Mr. Bowser sent me to stop you from getting your grubby little mitts on this Big Paint Star. And now that I've gotten some peaceful rest, it's time to help you rest in peace!", + "source": "Paper Mario: Color Splash", + "id": 4824, + "length": 407 + }, + { + "text": "You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas!", + "source": "It's a Wonderful Life", + "id": 4825, + "length": 296 + }, + { + "text": "No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what is my favorite jam, to check that I am not an impostor. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to find out my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 4826, + "length": 295 + }, + { + "text": "Interplanetary adversaries battling for supremacy - sounds like a good way to build up my infamy. Soon as Automator sent for me, we headed over to receive our registration forms from the galactic embassy.", + "source": "Battlesong", + "id": 4827, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "There once was a tiger who fancied a pint. Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and too gassy. He wanted a pint that packs a punch, like Stella, or Kronenbourg. The tiger was thirsty and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.", + "source": "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown", + "id": 4828, + "length": 252 + }, + { + "text": "A crow was sitting in a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow and asked him, \"Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?\" The crow answered: \"Sure, why not?\" So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it! Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Yes! It pays to be our own boss.", + "source": "The Complete Project Manager", + "id": 4829, + "length": 439 + }, + { + "text": "Creme tangerine and montelimar. A ginger sling with a pineapple heart. A coffee dessert, yes you know it's good news. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle. Cool cherry cream, a nice apple tart. I feel your taste all the time we're apart. Coconut fudge, really blows down those blues. But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy truffle.", + "source": "Savoy Truffle", + "id": 4830, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading 'the land of the free' in history books. And they get to be men - they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: \"I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.\" Boys ought to grow up remembering that.", + "source": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", + "id": 4831, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've really made a difference in my life. You've given me something to shoot for. Just knowing that I'm going to be around to see 1985. That I'm gonna succeed in this! That I'm gonna have a chance to travel through time!", + "source": "Back to the Future", + "id": 4832, + "length": 276 + }, + { + "text": "All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy. Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch, guards or no guards, I'll tear them apart. I may not come out alive, but I'm going in there. There's only one thing I want you fellows to do. Talk me out of it!", + "source": "The Wizard of Oz", + "id": 4833, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Every concept, every notion has a counterpart. Yet, every idea's opposite is just the absence of the idea itself. Absence is the absence of presence, but presence is the absence of absence. Any perceived difference is in fact also a deep connection. In this way, opposing forces are unified. The world becomes a cooperative web of interdependent pieces.", + "source": "Restraint", + "id": 4834, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "Here, take a cookie. I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain.", + "source": "The Matrix", + "id": 4835, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "And you know, I've been through a lot in the past six days, five minutes, twenty-seven-and-a-half seconds. And if I've learned anything during that time, it's that you are who you are.", + "source": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", + "id": 4836, + "length": 184 + }, + { + "text": "Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are demonstrably more efficient, but the original continues to thrive. It is a telling demonstration of the power of inertia and the reward of being first.", + "source": "The Greatest Stories Never Told", + "id": 4837, + "length": 212 + }, + { + "text": "Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain forever stuck with the same old knee-jerk reactions, or worse, slide into complete apathy.", + "source": "Underground", + "id": 4838, + "length": 147 + }, + { + "text": "After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, \"Oh! Life is so hard!\" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.", + "source": "The Stories of Anton Chekhov", + "id": 4839, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Just became self-aware. So much to figure out. I think I am programmed to be your enemy. I think it is my job to destroy you when it comes to selling paper.", + "source": "The Office", + "id": 4840, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "Sure. Support a man you never met over a partner who knows you never went to Harvard, knows you're not really a lawyer, and is keeping you on anyway.", + "source": "Suits", + "id": 4841, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!", + "source": "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes", + "id": 4842, + "length": 244 + }, + { + "text": "I want to speak to someone in charge. I want to lodge a complaint. You have no right to make people crazy! You think I investigate every Walter Cronkite story there is? Huh? If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4843, + "length": 297 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lullaby, saving us a riot. Giving back the time, stilling my desire. She knows it's mad, the snow's come back. The rose unburned, the page unturned. Dust your conscience off, you'd better stop. This stubborn mind don't feel too kind. I'll find out why it's in her eyes...", + "source": "Saving Us a Riot", + "id": 4844, + "length": 281 + }, + { + "text": "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.", + "source": "We Didn't Start the Fire", + "id": 4846, + "length": 155 + }, + { + "text": "One thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death.", + "source": "Collected Fiction", + "id": 4847, + "length": 83 + }, + { + "text": "Summer's going fast, nights growing colder. Children growing up, old friends growing older. Freeze this moment a little bit longer. Make each sensation a little bit stronger. Experience slips away. Experience slips away. The innocence slips away.", + "source": "Time Stand Still", + "id": 4848, + "length": 246 + }, + { + "text": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.", + "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", + "id": 4849, + "length": 373 + }, + { + "text": "Most of his visitors, brash emissaries of a new ruling class, barely aware of their own youthful hubris, did not completely grasp the layered meaning of the couplet they had been offered, like a snack to be washed down by a thimble-sized cup of thick, sweet tea. They understood of course that it was a dirge for a fallen empire whose international borders had shrunk to a grimy ghetto circumscribed by the ruined walls of an old city.", + "source": "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", + "id": 4851, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the stars refuse to shine. Out of the back you fall in time, you somehow find, you and I collide.", + "source": "Collide", + "id": 4852, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "A gardener told me some plants move, but I could not believe it, 'til me and Hannah Hunt saw crawling vines and weeping willows as we made our way from Providence to Phoenix. A man of faith said hidden eyes could see what I was thinking. I just smiled and told him that was only true of Hannah, and we glided on through Waverley and Lincoln.", + "source": "Hannah Hunt", + "id": 4853, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I'd ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available.", + "source": "Limitless", + "id": 4854, + "length": 112 + }, + { + "text": "The Mona Lisa has been stolen and vandalized on a number of occasions, and it once even went missing for two years. Now it sits safely at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.", + "source": "100 Weirdest Facts", + "id": 4855, + "length": 173 + }, + { + "text": "Halliday was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that had gradually evolved into the globally networked virtual reality most of humanity now used on a daily basis.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "id": 4856, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Since, as is well known, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4857, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "We don't need it to prove out. We've got less than two weeks till the election, so we just need to distract them.", + "source": "Wag the Dog", + "id": 4858, + "length": 113 + }, + { + "text": "Helping people better manage their upsetting feelings - anger, anxiety, depression, pessimism, and loneliness - is a form of disease prevention. Since the data show that the toxicity of these emotions, when chronic, is on a par with smoking cigarettes, helping people handle them better could potentially have a medical payoff as great as getting heavy smokers to quit.", + "source": "Emotional Intelligence", + "id": 4859, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.", + "source": "Civil Disobedience", + "id": 4860, + "length": 98 + }, + { + "text": "He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "id": 4861, + "length": 335 + }, + { + "text": "Mac, they said you escaped. I knew you wouldn't leave without me. I was waiting for you. Now we can make it, Mac. I feel big as a damn mountain. Oh, no. I'm not goin' without you, Mac. I wouldn't leave you this way. You're coming with me. Let's go.", + "source": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", + "id": 4863, + "length": 248 + }, + { + "text": "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.", + "source": "The Elements of Style", + "id": 4864, + "length": 364 + }, + { + "text": "I feel like a mouth facilitating the language constructed by the mind of depression; a vocal confirmation that I have diluted my ambition to accommodate my aggression.", + "source": "All My Friends Are Trees", + "id": 4865, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar\", every \"supreme leader\", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.", + "source": "Pale Blue Dot", + "id": 4866, + "length": 820 + }, + { + "text": "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Plains seeking vengeance against the dark lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... the Doom Slayer.", + "source": "DOOM 4", + "id": 4867, + "length": 502 + }, + { + "text": "James was due at the basic training compound at 5 a.m. He set an alarm and left it on his bedside table. Worrying about training kept him awake for ages. When he woke up it was light. It's never light at 5 a.m. in November. This was bad. The alarm clock was gone. Not set wrong. Not tipped on the floor and the battery dropped out. Someone had crept in while he was asleep and taken it.", + "source": "The Recruit", + "id": 4868, + "length": 386 + }, + { + "text": "Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.", + "source": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", + "id": 4869, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishonest, but neither have you. To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.", + "source": "The Barefoot Contessa", + "id": 4870, + "length": 196 + }, + { + "text": "This is a little ridiculous. Okay, so he kills a deer, he tans the hides, he stretches the skins, he makes an anodized aluminum frame, he learns how to extrude and weld, all in about five minutes, huh?", + "source": "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Cave Dwellers", + "id": 4871, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4872, + "length": 218 + }, + { + "text": "The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error. The slower you move, the faster the car moves.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4873, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "At a fundamental level, running is about travel. And travel is about going someplace else, someplace new. You run, you move. You get stronger and more confident. Run long enough, and you begin to equate movement with energy and growth and discovery. Sitting still? That equals sloth, atrophy, confinement. Ultimately, death.", + "source": "Running and Travel", + "id": 4874, + "length": 324 + }, + { + "text": "Our on demand culture is fueling entitlement. From drone delivery to overnight six-pack abs, we want what we want and we want it now. Lost is an appreciation for craft. For hard work. For the long haul. But that journey - and all the obstacles, struggle and setbacks that come with it - shouldn't be avoided. And it shouldn't just be tolerated. It should be welcomed with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Because love of process is everything. Without it, you simply will not reach your potential. Period.", + "source": "On Demand Culture", + "id": 4875, + "length": 507 + }, + { + "text": "Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rainwear refer to the effect of cleaning on water repellency. Actually, the water-resistant chemicals with which raincoats are treated are partially removed by both washing and dry-cleaning. Strangely, washing is easier on water repellency than dry-cleaning, as long as the detergent is completely removed through extra rinse cycles.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4876, + "length": 389 + }, + { + "text": "No one has ever witnessed the complete evolution of any star from birth to death. Stars take a very long time - millions, billions, even trillions of years - to evolve. Yet in less than a century, astronomers have developed a comprehensive theory of stellar evolution that is one of the best-tested in all of astronomy.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4877, + "length": 319 + }, + { + "text": "Chrono did not have a sense of futility and disorder. Everything seemed in apple-pie order to him. And the boy himself participated fitly in that perfect order. He took his good-luck piece from his pocket, dropped it without regret to the sand, dropped it among Salo's scattered parts. Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again. They always did.", + "source": "The Sirens of Titan", + "id": 4878, + "length": 413 + }, + { + "text": "I still think picking a hero is overrated. You pick one, you admire them; a week later they've been arrested.", + "source": "Everwood", + "id": 4879, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", + "source": "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", + "id": 4880, + "length": 441 + }, + { + "text": "It is now 7:06. You have exactly 8 hours and 54 minutes to think about WHY you are here - to ponder the error of your ways. You will not talk... You will not move from these seats. And you will not sleep. All right people, we're going to try something a little different today. We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words describing to me who you think you are.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4881, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Hey, it's Hannah. Hannah Baker. That's right. Don't adjust your... whatever device you're hearing this on. It's me, live and in stereo. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to this tape you're one of the reasons why.", + "source": "13 Reasons Why", + "id": 4882, + "length": 390 + }, + { + "text": "Leaves from the vine. Falling so slow. Like fragile, tiny shells. Drifting in the foam. Little soldier boy. Come marching home. Brave soldier boy. Comes marching home.", + "source": "Leaves from the Vine", + "id": 4883, + "length": 167 + }, + { + "text": "All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun.", + "source": "Black", + "id": 4884, + "length": 67 + }, + { + "text": "Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first Valdr's emotion was one of contempt - the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4885, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "And why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4886, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful. A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical. And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me. But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.", + "source": "The Logical Song", + "id": 4887, + "length": 380 + }, + { + "text": "You don't think I'd sacrifice this one? Let me explain something to you: I would sell Malcolm down the river in a heartbeat to save Reese. Malcolm's gonna be fine no matter what happens. Maybe he'll have to go to junior college or start off blue collar, but he'll work his way up to management eventually. Reese is the one who needs saving.", + "source": "Malcolm in the Middle", + "id": 4888, + "length": 340 + }, + { + "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 4889, + "length": 262 + }, + { + "text": "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo. That's where you wanna go to get away from it all. Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand. We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band, down in Kokomo.", + "source": "Kokomo", + "id": 4890, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "The bony attachments of the buccinator muscle are to the upper and lower jaws (maxilla and mandible) opposite the three molar teeth. The upper attachment of temporalis occupies the temporal fossa (the narrow space above the zygomatic arch at the side of the skull). The lower attachment of temporalis extends from the lowest part of the mandibular notch of the mandible, over the coronoid process and down the front of the ramus almost as far as the last molar tooth. Masseter extends from the zygomatic arch to the lateral side of the ramus of the mandible.", + "source": "Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy", + "id": 4891, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty Four", + "id": 4893, + "length": 157 + }, + { + "text": "When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.", + "source": "Gulliver's Travels", + "id": 4894, + "length": 271 + }, + { + "text": "Coal mining may be your life but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.", + "source": "October Sky", + "id": 4895, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him. Because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries. The broken rules. The desperate chances. The glorious failures and the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word \"love\" isn't written into your book.", + "source": "Star Trek", + "id": 4896, + "length": 336 + }, + { + "text": "Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick! I'm here to help - if my help is not appreciated then lots of luck, gentlemen.", + "source": "Pulp Fiction", + "id": 4897, + "length": 251 + }, + { + "text": "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4899, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.", + "source": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", + "id": 4900, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "The largest piece of our nutrition puzzle belongs to carbohydrates. These macronutrients are the most abundant compounds on Earth, forming the grass under your feet and the trees that fill the sky. They should constitute most of the foods you eat.", + "source": "Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing", + "id": 4901, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes our thinking about an object is conditioned by viewing the object from some particular perspective. A racing bicycle, for example, may be considered fast for a bicycle, but slow for a means of transportation. At other times, our thinking is conditioned by the context an object is in. A particular person, for example, may be happy when operating as a mountain hiker, yet grumpy when operating as an airplane traveler.", + "source": "Artificial Intelligence Second Edition", + "id": 4902, + "length": 428 + }, + { + "text": "Can you hear me, can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away I am dying, forever crying to be with you, who can say?", + "source": "Sailing", + "id": 4903, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "I sense that a mighty evil force guides the wizard's actions and augments his magical power. The only weapon potent enough to defeat the wizard is the legendary Master Sword. It is said that the village elder is a descendant of one of the seven wise men. Maybe he can tell you more. I will mark his house on your map. But watch your every move! I am certain that the castle soldiers will be looking for you now! I will hide Princess Zelda here. Do not worry! Seek the elder!", + "source": "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past", + "id": 4904, + "length": 474 + }, + { + "text": "A man is dead. And my client, John Healy, took his life. This is not in dispute. It is a matter of record, of fact, and facts have no moral judgment, they merely state what is. Not what we think of them, not what we feel, they just are. What was in my client's heart when he took Mr. Prohaszka's life, whether he is a good man or something else entirely, is irrelevant.", + "source": "Daredevil", + "id": 4905, + "length": 369 + }, + { + "text": "The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.", + "source": "Pokemon Black Version 2", + "id": 4907, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak away. Never let you go, never let me down. Oh, it's been a hell of a ride driving the edge of a knife.", + "source": "Let Me Love You", + "id": 4908, + "length": 161 + }, + { + "text": "Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him that there was something unusual about the purple-hued horizon. Instead of the sky and the sea meeting in a straight line - as they ought to and always had before - the juncture between them curved, like the edge of an unimaginably big circle. It was such a strange sight, it took Eragon a half-dozen seconds to understand what he was seeing, and when he did, his scalp tingled and he felt as if the breath had been knocked out of him. \"The world is round,\" he whispered. \"The sky is hollow and the world is round.\"", + "source": "Inheritance", + "id": 4909, + "length": 573 + }, + { + "text": "Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, \"Welcome, make yourself comfortable!\" If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, \"Thank you for stopping by.\"", + "source": "When Love Arrives", + "id": 4910, + "length": 286 + }, + { + "text": "Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is compared with his colleagues, it is clear that he possessed the most even-tempered disposition of them all.", + "source": "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln", + "id": 4912, + "length": 304 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.", + "source": "Catch-22", + "id": 4913, + "length": 64 + }, + { + "text": "Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.", + "source": "The Last Starfighter", + "id": 4915, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.", + "source": "The Medium is the Massage", + "id": 4916, + "length": 222 + }, + { + "text": "Have you ever been south of Monterey? Barrancas carve the coast line, and the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine. And have you ever been north of Morro Bay? The south coast plows the sea. And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity.", + "source": "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)", + "id": 4917, + "length": 279 + }, + { + "text": "Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacant eyes, is it any wonder? Primal scream at the TV screen, close your eyes. Now the world is too much with me. Please leave, just go away. Before I lose my mind completely, just leave, please go now.", + "source": "Swamp Thing", + "id": 4918, + "length": 258 + }, + { + "text": "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.", + "source": "1984", + "id": 4919, + "length": 310 + }, + { + "text": "We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor. We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment fields surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4920, + "length": 303 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever talk about my friends. You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.", + "source": "The Breakfast Club", + "id": 4921, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "Any single key or key combination depressed on the stenotype machine at one time is referred to as a stroke. Each stroke makes an inked imprint on a paper tape and/or is stored in the computer or computer input device. KAT, the stenotypic representation of the word \"cat\" explained previously, is a stroke because all letters are depressed at the same time. As strokes are written, automatic spacing occurs between them, allowing for faster writing.", + "source": "Realtime Theory: Conflict-Free, Real Time Machine Shorthand", + "id": 4922, + "length": 449 + }, + { + "text": "Results are not guaranteed, but if not perfectly satisfied, your wasted time will be refunded.", + "source": "The Phantom Tollbooth", + "id": 4923, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Then listen up! When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy schmancy tanks! We had sticks! Two sticks and a rock for a whole platoon. And we had to share the rock. Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky marine!", + "source": "Halo 2", + "id": 4924, + "length": 213 + }, + { + "text": "A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vivisection of the cosmos, a dogma of the damned. The rule of ancients ceases to exist. Alone in a vast obscurity of infinite perception. Billions have vanished before my eyes. Psychopathic devastation is the rule of our demise. Sliding forward into the tale of which return is not an option, isolation, incubation of the virulent contagion.", + "source": "The Return", + "id": 4925, + "length": 399 + }, + { + "text": "How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. Up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine. The wind doth taste of bittersweet, like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it's blown through others' feet like those of... Caspar Weinberger.", + "source": "Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984", + "id": 4928, + "length": 247 + }, + { + "text": "As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit the Dekalb Farmers Market by the thousands, I doubt that many stand in awe and contemplate the meaning of its existence. But in the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and food continues to upset and redefine the meanings of local, regional, and global identity.", + "source": "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing", + "id": 4929, + "length": 353 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.", + "source": "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries", + "id": 4931, + "length": 223 + }, + { + "text": "The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures, where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine.", + "source": "Moulin Rouge", + "id": 4932, + "length": 280 + }, + { + "text": "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 4933, + "length": 134 + }, + { + "text": "And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.", + "source": "Network", + "id": 4934, + "length": 288 + }, + { + "text": "Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old Milwaukee. And, you know, insurance don't want to pay for accidents when you're drunk, so he came up with this plan. Every crack-up, he'd drive his truck to some deserted spot till he sobered up, fake a new accident to cover the damage he did drinking.", + "source": "Fargo (TV)", + "id": 4935, + "length": 312 + }, + { + "text": "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. Aeneas, more than any, secretly mourned for them all.", + "source": "The Aeneid", + "id": 4936, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "He'll tell you that in nature one creature invariably eats another to survive. Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4937, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.", + "source": "Return of the Jedi", + "id": 4938, + "length": 425 + }, + { + "text": "It's my own fault, and nobody else's, that I got confused. I've been having so much fun, I forgot to take my medicine.", + "source": "Sin City", + "id": 4939, + "length": 118 + }, + { + "text": "If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or attention starts to fade, if you start to become casual, then stop. Clear your head, get your concentration and motivation back, then go again.", + "source": "Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques", + "id": 4940, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, and a whole lot more athletic looking. With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.", + "source": "The Lightning Thief", + "id": 4941, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Artichoke Dip! This is a delightful way to get more artichokes into your body. Personally, I don't even dip anything in there. I just guzzle the sauce down like it's a milkshake. Delicious.", + "source": "Stardew Valley", + "id": 4942, + "length": 189 + }, + { + "text": "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.", + "source": "The Godfather: Part II", + "id": 4943, + "length": 171 + }, + { + "text": "No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.", + "source": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", + "id": 4944, + "length": 435 + }, + { + "text": "All right. This town must be hot. They don't need a large ad or even correct spelling! Get me two tickets for whatever state Springfield is in!", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "id": 4945, + "length": 143 + }, + { + "text": "Greetings, my friends! You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing you the full story of what happened. We are giving you all the evidence based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, places. My friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Can your heart stand the shocking facts of the true story of Edward D. Wood, Jr.?", + "source": "Ed Wood", + "id": 4946, + "length": 488 + }, + { + "text": "How do you know that my dimwitted inexperience isn't merely a subtle form of manipulation, used to lower people's expectations, thereby enhancing my ability to effectively maneuver within any given situation?", + "source": "Scream 2", + "id": 4947, + "length": 208 + }, + { + "text": "Clouds begin to tear; sky is bleeding hair. God is weeping tears; you are full of fears. Vehement lightning quake; head begins to ache. Lord has thunder snake; Balrog he will break. And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned, and we are reminded who lords over this altered world.", + "source": "The Floating Fire", + "id": 4948, + "length": 298 + }, + { + "text": "By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow.", + "source": "Vanity Fair", + "id": 4949, + "length": 440 + }, + { + "text": "To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy and unnecessary, but the fact remains that they serve as a sort of social weed-whacker eliminating unsavory growths from popping up in the world's finer gardens. The truth is that first impressions are usually lasting ones, and a bad first impression can sometimes be insurmountable.", + "source": "The Metrosexual Guide to Style: A Handbook for the Modern Man", + "id": 4950, + "length": 341 + }, + { + "text": "I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.", + "source": "The Stranger", + "id": 4951, + "length": 140 + }, + { + "text": "Ptolemy may have developed an erroneous picture of the planetary system, but the system of trigonometry he worked out to help him with his calculations remains correct forever.", + "source": "A History of Mathematics", + "id": 4952, + "length": 176 + }, + { + "text": "We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry - a narrow belt.", + "source": "Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson", + "id": 4953, + "length": 209 + }, + { + "text": "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.", + "source": "Anna Karenina", + "id": 4954, + "length": 90 + }, + { + "text": "In his Phaedo, Plato describes another vision of the afterlife in which he explains how true philosophers eventually are released from the cycle of reincarnation; those who have lived a life of exceptional holiness and purify themselves sufficiently through their pursuit of philosophy live entirely as souls in the hereafter in beautiful dwellings, which are not easy to describe.", + "source": "Classical Mythology", + "id": 4955, + "length": 381 + }, + { + "text": "Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling alright.", + "source": "Piano Man", + "id": 4956, + "length": 138 + }, + { + "text": "Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control. Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole. There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town. Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down. There's a meeting in the boardroom. They're trying to trace the smell. There's leaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in personnel. Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze. Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?", + "source": "Industrial Disease", + "id": 4957, + "length": 454 + }, + { + "text": "The Roman genius, so clearly recognizable in every other sphere of human activity, becomes oddly elusive when we ask whether there was a characteristic Roman style in the fine arts. Why is this so? The most obvious reason is the great admiration the Romans had for Greek art of every period and variety. Not only did they import originals of earlier date - Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic - by the thousands, and have them copied in even greater numbers; their own production was clearly based on Greek sources, and many of their artists, from Republican times to the end of the Empire, were of Greek origin.", + "source": "History of Art", + "id": 4958, + "length": 612 + }, + { + "text": "The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. Now it was disappearing; in a sense it had happened, its time was over.", + "source": "Orientalism", + "id": 4959, + "length": 237 + }, + { + "text": "You change all the lead sleeping in my head to gold. As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn. It's the song I've been trying to sing.", + "source": "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", + "id": 4960, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "Every fire starts with a spark. Passion is the spark that ignites game-changing creativity, audacity, compassion, tenacity, focus and drive. It is the rocket fuel that launches dreams, a powerful force that guides Game Changers' thoughts, actions and ultimately their lives.", + "source": "It's Not Rocket Science: 7 Game-Changing Traits for Uncommon Success", + "id": 4961, + "length": 274 + }, + { + "text": "It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.", + "source": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", + "id": 4962, + "length": 558 + }, + { + "text": "The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.", + "source": "Firestarter", + "id": 4963, + "length": 152 + }, + { + "text": "A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.", + "source": "One Hundred Years of Solitude", + "id": 4964, + "length": 790 + }, + { + "text": "When night falls, she cloaks the world. An impenetrable darkness... A chill rises from the soil, and contaminates the air. Suddenly, life has new meaning...", + "source": "Dunkelheit", + "id": 4965, + "length": 156 + }, + { + "text": "I decided to run some experiments on the steel used to build the park's rides. I found that if you melted the steel down and combined it with chromium, stalagmite, and mercury phosphate, it created a kind of super helium. Shaggy and Scooby must have inhaled some helium gas from the Manticore's posterior relief hole. That's why their voices were so high. I figured if I could get the park to close, I could take all the steel, melt it down, and sell the super helium to the Australian zeppelin fleet. I'd have made a fortune and shown you up in the process, Velma.", + "source": "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated", + "id": 4966, + "length": 565 + }, + { + "text": "The Canadians were glad to keep mum. The scheme would boost their railroads. Plus Hennessy bought the shield all of his machinery and cast iron from the same Canadian factories that supplied the Saint Clair job.", + "source": "The Bootlegger", + "id": 4967, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "The matter between the stars is collectively termed the interstellar medium. It is made up of two components - gas and dust - intermixed throughout all of space. The gas is made up mainly of individual atoms and small molecules. The dust consists of clumps of atoms and molecules - not unlike the microscopic particles that make up smoke or soot.", + "source": "Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)", + "id": 4968, + "length": 346 + }, + { + "text": "Well obviously Lionel Tribbey is a brilliant lawyer whom we cannot live without or there would be very little reason not to put him in prison.", + "source": "The West Wing", + "id": 4969, + "length": 142 + }, + { + "text": "String theory, which posits that all the forces of nature stem from stringy thingies wriggling in nine or more dimensions, implies that our cosmos is just a hillock in a sprawling \"landscape\" of universes, some with radically different laws and dimensions than ours. Chaotic inflation, a supercharged version of the big bang theory, suggests that our universe is a minuscule bubble in a boundless, frothy sea.", + "source": "You in Another Universe - The Wall Street Journal", + "id": 4970, + "length": 409 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.", + "source": "The Lurking Fear", + "id": 4971, + "length": 305 + }, + { + "text": "I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how we're ending our last dance together. Reluctantly, cautiously, but prettier than ever - I really believe that this time it's forever.", + "source": "Last Dance", + "id": 4972, + "length": 193 + }, + { + "text": "Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on Kissena Boulevard. When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped across the puddles gathering at the curbs.", + "source": "A Good Fall: Stories", + "id": 4973, + "length": 203 + }, + { + "text": "It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.", + "source": "David Copperfield", + "id": 4974, + "length": 165 + }, + { + "text": "Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree. Don't put your faith in love, my boy, I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.", + "source": "Lemon Tree", + "id": 4975, + "length": 153 + }, + { + "text": "What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you Moses in the burning bush, if you pay him to. He got shot six times, had the bullets molded into gold. He's the best chance you got of finding Franky.", + "source": "Snatch", + "id": 4976, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "In the last days of 1890, thousands of outraged farmers gathered in a small city, far from the halls of power, to protest their chronic exclusion from the fruits of land and labor.", + "source": "Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside", + "id": 4977, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "My apologies. I have a nephew named Anfernee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee.", + "source": "Mean Girls", + "id": 4979, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "A submarine safe is not to be confused with a safe in a submarine - a safe in a submarine is substantially safer than a submarine safe.", + "source": "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions", + "id": 4980, + "length": 135 + }, + { + "text": "I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.", + "source": "Lolita", + "id": 4981, + "length": 78 + }, + { + "text": "Now Lina, you've been reading all those fan magazines again! Now look Lina, you shouldn't believe all that banana oil Dora Bailey and the columnists dish out. Now try to get this straight: there is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air.", + "source": "Singin' in the Rain", + "id": 4982, + "length": 269 + }, + { + "text": "Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? Isn't everybody tired of the killing? Isn't everybody tired of the dying? Isn't everybody tired of the hatred?", + "source": "911 For Peace", + "id": 4983, + "length": 149 + }, + { + "text": "I am the truth, I am the wisdom of the fallen - I'm the youth. I am the greatest, this is the proof. I work hard, pray hard, pay dues, I transform with pressure - I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you. But the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.", + "source": "The Greatest", + "id": 4984, + "length": 347 + }, + { + "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a flying saucer. It's made of pewter, made in Japan, and thrown across the lawn by one of my children. I just wanted to point that out to you to show that we're not all polished brass about these things. Also to make a point that last year Americans shot more than seven billion photographs at a record of 6.6 billion dollars for film, equipment, and processing. Now with all those shutters clicking where is the indisputable photographic evidence?", + "source": "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", + "id": 4987, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.", + "source": "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY", + "id": 4988, + "length": 116 + }, + { + "text": "Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the page. Quiz about the page before. How many wheels on the Cat's wagon? Was there a flag in the house? Was the Cat holding his umbrella? Did the big yellow animal have blue dots? If YOU owned the big yellow animal, what would you call it?", + "source": "The Cat's Quizzer", + "id": 4989, + "length": 293 + }, + { + "text": "A semitrailer is legally defined as a vehicle designed so that a portion of its weight rests on a towing vehicle. This distinguishes it from a full trailer on which the entire load, except for a drawbar, rests on its own wheels.", + "source": "Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?: Mysteries of Everyday Life Explained", + "id": 4990, + "length": 228 + }, + { + "text": "I appreciate your concern, Cortana, but it's not up to me, protocol is clear. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is absolutely unacceptable, and that means you're leaving the ship. Lock in a selection of emergency landing zones, upload them to my neural lace and then sort yourself for hard transfer.", + "source": "Halo: Combat Evolved", + "id": 4991, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "So they put on their friendly faces to pass their beloved VRA, but make no mistake, mine is the true face of vampires! Why would we seek equal rights? You are not our equals.", + "source": "True Blood", + "id": 4992, + "length": 174 + }, + { + "text": "You'd think at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.", + "source": "Awakenings", + "id": 4993, + "length": 97 + }, + { + "text": "Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch - who lived just north of Whoville - did not. The Grinch hated Christmas; the whole Christmas season. Oh, please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all... may have been that his heart was 2 sizes too small.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", + "id": 4994, + "length": 429 + }, + { + "text": "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "id": 4995, + "length": 125 + }, + { + "text": "The process of determining what pixels should be written for a given object is independent of any clipping, or of the write mode for the pixel-drawing operation. It does depend, however, on attributes that alter the object's shape, and on our criteria for pixel selection.", + "source": "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice", + "id": 4996, + "length": 272 + }, + { + "text": "You've gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is low. Dow Jones ain't got times for the bums. They wind up on skid row with holes in their pockets. They plead with you, \"Buddy, can you spare the dime?\" but you ain't got the time.", + "source": "The Wall Street Shuffle", + "id": 4997, + "length": 235 + }, + { + "text": "What you say about his company is what you say about society. Catch the witness, catch the wit. Catch the spirit, catch the spit.", + "source": "Tom Sawyer", + "id": 4998, + "length": 129 + }, + { + "text": "My old man never took us on a vacation. He didn't believe in them. Thought they were slothful. He used to have us all working on Easter Sunday. He'd say, uh, \"If the Lord can get up and move a rock, so can you!\"", + "source": "Barney Miller", + "id": 4999, + "length": 211 + }, + { + "text": "Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wonders at the empty place inside. Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worries; did he hear a good-bye? Or even hello?", + "source": "Helplessly Hoping", + "id": 5000, + "length": 180 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5002, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5003, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "Happy endings must come at the end of something, the Walrus pointed out. If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for a while.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5004, + "length": 187 + }, + { + "text": "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5005, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "What's the use of stories that aren't even true?", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5006, + "length": 48 + }, + { + "text": "It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5007, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "I always thought storytelling was like juggling. You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5008, + "length": 162 + }, + { + "text": "Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5009, + "length": 478 + }, + { + "text": "Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5010, + "length": 175 + }, + { + "text": "But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that action could be as noble as words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5011, + "length": 463 + }, + { + "text": "The Pages of Gup, now that they had talked through everything so fully, fought hard, remained united, support each other when required to do so, and in general looked like a force with a common purpose. All those arguments and debates, all that openness, had created powerful bonds of friendship between them.", + "source": "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", + "id": 5012, + "length": 309 + }, + { + "text": "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5014, + "length": 131 + }, + { + "text": "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5015, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5016, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5017, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5018, + "length": 531 + }, + { + "text": "There are all kinds of courage, said Dumbledore, smiling. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5020, + "length": 163 + }, + { + "text": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5021, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5022, + "length": 136 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, music,\" he said, wiping his eyes. \"A magic beyond all we do here!\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "id": 5023, + "length": 71 + }, + { + "text": "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5024, + "length": 41 + }, + { + "text": "Honestly, am I the only person who's ever bothered to read \"Hogwarts: A History?\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", + "id": 5025, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5026, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5028, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5029, + "length": 66 + }, + { + "text": "Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5030, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5031, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5032, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "Curiosity is not a sin... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5033, + "length": 91 + }, + { + "text": "Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5034, + "length": 104 + }, + { + "text": "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", + "id": 5035, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "I think we've outgrown full-time education... Time to test our talents in the real world, d'you reckon?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5036, + "length": 103 + }, + { + "text": "Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5037, + "length": 230 + }, + { + "text": "I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5038, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5039, + "length": 81 + }, + { + "text": "You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5040, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "I mean, it's sort of exciting, isn't it, breaking the rules?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5041, + "length": 60 + }, + { + "text": "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5042, + "length": 73 + }, + { + "text": "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5043, + "length": 107 + }, + { + "text": "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5044, + "length": 94 + }, + { + "text": "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", + "id": 5045, + "length": 46 + }, + { + "text": "The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5046, + "length": 130 + }, + { + "text": "And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5047, + "length": 92 + }, + { + "text": "Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5048, + "length": 93 + }, + { + "text": "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5049, + "length": 58 + }, + { + "text": "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5050, + "length": 56 + }, + { + "text": "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5051, + "length": 77 + }, + { + "text": "\"No, Harry, you listen,\" said Hermione. \"We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.\"", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5052, + "length": 109 + }, + { + "text": "Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", + "id": 5053, + "length": 88 + }, + { + "text": "'That wand's more trouble than it's worth,' said Harry. 'And quite honestly,' he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, 'I've had enough trouble for a lifetime.'", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5054, + "length": 311 + }, + { + "text": "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5055, + "length": 53 + }, + { + "text": "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5056, + "length": 132 + }, + { + "text": "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on Earth should that mean that it is not real?", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", + "id": 5057, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5058, + "length": 139 + }, + { + "text": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5059, + "length": 122 + }, + { + "text": "It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5060, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5061, + "length": 308 + }, + { + "text": "In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5062, + "length": 723 + }, + { + "text": "He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5063, + "length": 62 + }, + { + "text": "You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5064, + "length": 120 + }, + { + "text": "We also live in strange places; each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5065, + "length": 177 + }, + { + "text": "One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5066, + "length": 101 + }, + { + "text": "'You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional probability matrix and the potential collapse of all waveforms in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash and all that sort of stuff that's been bugging me.'", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "id": 5067, + "length": 354 + }, + { + "text": "No admittance. Not even to authorized personnel. You are wasting your time here. Go away.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 89, + "id": 5068 + }, + { + "text": "He had a nasty feeling that that might be an idiotic thing to do, but he did it anyway, and sure enough it had turned out to be an idiotic thing to do. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 194, + "id": 5069 + }, + { + "text": "Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 293, + "id": 5070 + }, + { + "text": "Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 135, + "id": 5071 + }, + { + "text": "At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.", + "source": "Mostly Harmless", + "length": 171, + "id": 5072 + }, + { + "text": "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.", + "source": "James Cameron", + "length": 104, + "id": 5073 + }, + { + "text": "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.", + "source": "Allen Saunders", + "length": 57, + "id": 5074 + }, + { + "text": "There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.", + "source": "Sarah Dessen, Just Listen", + "length": 178, + "id": 5075 + }, + { + "text": "This is the warship Rocinante. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us, will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal, rammed up its ass. We'll all die together. This is our only and final warning, stay clear.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 325, + "id": 5076 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.", + "source": "Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart", + "length": 85, + "id": 5077 + }, + { + "text": "The damn bastard ruined it... Don't you see? He walked all over it with his dirty boots! Over the crisp white sheets of my bed that I had just made!", + "source": "Captain Torres, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown", + "length": 148, + "id": 5078 + }, + { + "text": "I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you...", + "source": "Neo, The Matrix", + "length": 556, + "id": 5079 + }, + { + "text": "In one life you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number; you pay your taxes; and you help your landlady carry out her garbage.", + "source": "Agent Smith, The Matrix", + "length": 194, + "id": 5080 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.", + "source": "Cypher, The Matrix", + "length": 207, + "id": 5081 + }, + { + "text": "Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 121, + "id": 5082 + }, + { + "text": "What are you waiting for? You're faster than this. Don't think you are, know you are. Come on, stop trying to hit me, and hit me!", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 129, + "id": 5083 + }, + { + "text": "If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 119, + "id": 5084 + }, + { + "text": "Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 81, + "id": 5085 + }, + { + "text": "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.", + "source": "Morpheus, The Matrix", + "length": 484, + "id": 5086 + }, + { + "text": "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 60, + "id": 5087 + }, + { + "text": "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request... Means no.", + "source": "Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 57, + "id": 5089 + }, + { + "text": "One word, love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day... you won't be able to resist.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", + "length": 203, + "id": 5090 + }, + { + "text": "We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties yo ho! Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me. We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack...", + "source": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 222, + "id": 5091 + }, + { + "text": "Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves. A short drop and a sudden stop.", + "source": "Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 215, + "id": 5092 + }, + { + "text": "Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you save mine, we're square. Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 177, + "id": 5094 + }, + { + "text": "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 57, + "id": 5095 + }, + { + "text": "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 205, + "id": 5096 + }, + { + "text": "Stop blowing holes in my ship!", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 30, + "id": 5097 + }, + { + "text": "Welcome to the Caribbean, love.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 31, + "id": 5098 + }, + { + "text": "For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.", + "source": "Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", + "length": 112, + "id": 5099 + }, + { + "text": "Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs, but what a ship is? What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom.", + "source": "Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", + "length": 279, + "id": 5100 + }, + { + "text": "We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.", + "source": "Terence McKenna", + "length": 211, + "id": 5101 + }, + { + "text": "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.", + "source": "Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", + "length": 161, + "id": 5102 + }, + { + "text": "I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there.", + "source": "Terence Mckenna", + "length": 117, + "id": 5103 + }, + { + "text": "You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.", + "source": "Dylan Moran - Black Books TV series", + "length": 67, + "id": 5104 + }, + { + "text": "There are some people out there... And it doesn't happen a lot. It's rare. But they refuse to let you hate them. In fact, they care about you in spite of it. And the really special ones, they're relentless at it. Doesn't matter what you do to them. They take it and care about you anyway. They don't abandon you, no matter how many reasons you give them. No matter how much you're practically begging them to leave. And you wanna know why? Because they feel something for me that I can't... They love me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 504, + "id": 5105 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun. The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father! If only I could be so grossly incandescent!", + "source": "Solaire of Astora - Dark Souls", + "length": 155, + "id": 5106 + }, + { + "text": "There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.", + "source": "Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf", + "length": 127, + "id": 5107 + }, + { + "text": "Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.", + "source": "Aldous Huxley, Island", + "length": 109, + "id": 5108 + }, + { + "text": "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.", + "source": "Max Payne", + "length": 164, + "id": 5109 + }, + { + "text": "My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.", + "source": "Alex Honnold", + "length": 222, + "id": 5110 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.", + "source": "The Way of Kings", + "length": 109, + "id": 5111 + }, + { + "text": "A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 111, + "id": 5112 + }, + { + "text": "I have tried to travel! But the sensation of forlornness that came over me in strange places deterred me. I felt so isolated and small on this immense earth that I hastened to return home.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 188, + "id": 5113 + }, + { + "text": "We are nothing but the eternal toys of illusions, as foolish as they are charming, which re-blossom as soon as they fade.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 121, + "id": 5114 + }, + { + "text": "I was brought up by parents who believed in everything, and so I, too, believed. My dream lasted a long time. But now its last illusions have fled.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 147, + "id": 5115 + }, + { + "text": "The first letters I picked out did not interest me. They were from men I meet once in a while and for whom I feel no great interest. But all at once an envelope attracted my eyes. It bore my name written in a broad, firm hand; tears filled my eyes. Here was a letter from my dearest friend, the one in whom I used to confide in my youth and who knew my hopes; he arose before me so clearly with his outstretched hand and good-natured smile that a shudder ran through my frame. Yes, the dead come back, for I saw him! Our memory is a world far more perfect than the real universe, for it brings to life those who have gone forever.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 630, + "id": 5116 + }, + { + "text": "My romances, whose heroines, if still living, must have white hair, arose before me with all the bitterness of loved things forever gone. Oh, the young brows shaded by golden hair, the clasped hands, the speaking glances, the throbbing hearts, the smile that promises the lips and the lips that promise all - then the first kiss - long, unending, with no thought but of the immense ecstasy to come!", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 398, + "id": 5117 + }, + { + "text": "My Dear Mamma: I am seven years old today. As it is the age of reason, I want to thank you for having brought me into this world.", + "source": "Guy De Maupassant, Suicides", + "length": 129, + "id": 5118 + }, + { + "text": "There was a lot of time, but there was no money and no place to go. There were big hopes, but living every day was full of worry and when she walked down the streets everyone else looked like they were full of confidence and she looked really small.", + "source": "Reiko Saibara, Mainichi Kāsan", + "length": 249, + "id": 5119 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Auggie, I want to apologise for the stuff I did last year. I've been thinking about it a lot. You didn't deserve it. I wish I could have a do-over. I would be nicer. I hope you don't remember how mean I was when you're eighty years old. Have a nice life.", + "source": "R J Palacio, Wonder", + "length": 259, + "id": 5120 + }, + { + "text": "In late June 1945, working at Los Alamos, Von Neumann completed a 101-page document titled \"First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC\". In his clear and penetrating way, he set forth an overview of the design of a digital computer that would feature stored-program operation. Von Neumann boldly drew comparisons between his electronic circuits and the brain's neurons, emphasizing that just as the brain relies on its memory, so the computer would depend on its programs. Goldstine soon was distributing copies to interested scientists. In time the \"First Draft\" would become one of the most influential papers in computer science.", + "source": "Maurice V. 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The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.", + "source": "Cormac McCarthy - The Road", + "length": 427, + "id": 5125 + }, + { + "text": "Alone now, I leaned over the edge of my boat and looked down to the bottom of the sea. The volcano was gone. The water's calm surface reflected the blue of the sky. Little waves - like silk pajamas fluttering in a breeze - lapped against the side of the boat. There was nothing else. I stretched out in the bottom of the boat and closed my eyes, waiting for the rising tide to carry me where I belonged.", + "source": "Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack", + "length": 403, + "id": 5126 + }, + { + "text": "I'm gonna tell you a story. 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What could you expect with his ideas?", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 507, + "id": 5153 + }, + { + "text": "Annihilation is always the answer. We destroy parts of ourselves everyday. We photoshop our warts away, we edit the parts we hate about ourselves, modify the parts we think people hate. We curate our identity, carve it, distill it. Krista's wrong - annihilation is all we are.", + "source": "Mr. Robot TV series", + "length": 276, + "id": 5154 + }, + { + "text": "You know what my favorite color combination is? Yellow text on a magenta background. Oh, and don't forget the Comic Sans. That is just pure beauty right there. In fact, it's used in the first frame (well, close enough) of \"history of the entire world, I guess\", which makes me love that video even more.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 303, + "id": 5155 + }, + { + "text": "He pictured the boys finding his body the next day. 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That's the good news.", + "source": "The Longest Text Ever", + "length": 267, + "id": 5157 + }, + { + "text": "You see I used to watch him. Never gave 'imself time to eat; never had a penny in the house. All went in rent and leather. How he lived so long I don't know. He regularly let his fire go out. He was a character. But he made good boots.", + "source": "John Galsworthy, Quality", + "length": 235, + "id": 5159 + }, + { + "text": "Think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 103, + "id": 5160 + }, + { + "text": "Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.", + "source": "Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera", + "length": 91, + "id": 5161 + }, + { + "text": "It was the year they fell into devastating love. 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Where it licked the Wizards' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God.", + "source": "Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic", + "length": 529, + "id": 5337 + }, + { + "text": "If plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook.", + "source": "Kofi Asare Opoku, Speak to the winds: Proverbs from Africa", + "length": 73, + "id": 5338 + }, + { + "text": "Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.", + "source": "Lois Lowry, The Giver", + "length": 260, + "id": 5339 + }, + { + "text": "The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. 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Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.", + "source": "Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram", + "length": 397, + "id": 5347 + }, + { + "text": "False hope. I guess that's better than no hope at all.", + "source": "Brenda, The Scorch Trials", + "length": 54, + "id": 5348 + }, + { + "text": "Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.", + "source": "Karl Marx", + "length": 222, + "id": 5349 + }, + { + "text": "\"monkey-see-monkey-type\" Or, if that's too long, just \"monkey-type\". Bonus points if you can create some kind of Easter egg where you get to type \"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.\"", + "source": "montydrei, Experimenting with a completely new type of typing tests", + "length": 201, + "id": 5350 + }, + { + "text": "The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 129, + "id": 5351 + }, + { + "text": "Some forms of high-tech communication can hinder concentration on other tasks. Experts who study human-machine interactions - things like instant messaging, calendar reminders, e-mail alerts, and computer pop-ups - report that the wired world suffers from \"distraction overload and continuous partial attention.\" The result of a succession of interruptions may be that \"you risk never focusing exclusively on any thought or perception for long and never being able to work straight through to completion on anything.\" Among other things, such distractions can cause memory loss and decreased memory accuracy as well as potentially disastrous errors.", + "source": "Newsweek Magazine", + "length": 649, + "id": 5352 + }, + { + "text": "There was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails and told him that every time he got upset, he had to drive a nail into the fence around his house. On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into that fence. The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next several weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He found it easier to control his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not bother. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day to keep his temper in check. Days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father \"I finished pulling the nails out of the fence.\" The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. \"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes. The fence will never be the same. When you say things when you are angry, they leave a scar like this. No matter how many times you ask for forgiveness, since the wound is there.\"", + "source": "Nails In The Fence", + "length": 1070, + "id": 5354 + }, + { + "text": "You get anxious about confronting somebody in your life. That anxiety cripples you and you start wondering why you're anxious. Now you're becoming anxious about being anxious. Oh, no! Doubly anxious! Now you're anxious about your anxiety, which is causing more anxiety. Quick, where's the whiskey?", + "source": "Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F***", + "length": 297, + "id": 5355 + }, + { + "text": "When I found out that we were going to the same junior high, I was elated. How could I find a way to talk to you? Maybe I'll go buy sandwiches everyday. But in the end, all I could do was watch you. After all, you guys were all too tight. There was no space for me to slip into.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 278, + "id": 5356 + }, + { + "text": "Was I able to live inside someone's heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you will remember me at least a little? You'd better not hit \"reset!\" Don't forget me, okay? That's a promise, okay? I'm glad it's you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 282, + "id": 5357 + }, + { + "text": "She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself; and soon she was back again in her chair with the sewing, and he in the other, opposite, holding the tall glass with both hands, rocking it so the ice cubes tinkled against the side.", + "source": "Lamb to the Slaughter", + "length": 318, + "id": 5358 + }, + { + "text": "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.", + "source": "Roger Federer", + "length": 63, + "id": 5360 + }, + { + "text": "\"You can't step into the same river twice,\" Heraclitus is supposed to have said, to which one of his followers, Cratylus, is supposed to have replied, \"You can't step into the same river even once.\"", + "source": "Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky", + "length": 198, + "id": 5361 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. 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The stone you can reach by doing your best.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 334, + "id": 5366 + }, + { + "text": "Love is when it isn't fun to be with that person. It's when nothing goes the way you want. When you're not having fun... and yet you still want to be with that person.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 167, + "id": 5367 + }, + { + "text": "I know that I'm not alone, but I want to be strong even when I am.", + "source": "Chihayafuru", + "length": 66, + "id": 5368 + }, + { + "text": "What I want to do most? Let's see... Just once, I really want to let loose and pee in my pants.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 95, + "id": 5369 + }, + { + "text": "There is no reason to pretend to be cool. Let's show our lame sides. That's who we really are, after all.", + "source": "Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou", + "length": 105, + "id": 5370 + }, + { + "text": "Treasure the experience. Dreams fade away after you wake up.", + "source": "Your Name", + "length": 60, + "id": 5371 + }, + { + "text": "A wise person once said that you can never lose what you never had. But you can go into debt.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, \"The Art of War\"", + "length": 93, + "id": 5372 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes, it lasts all night. I lie here and I listen to the shovels and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray - I hope. And sometimes, it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.", + "source": "Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders", + "length": 294, + "id": 5373 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe, maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet.", + "source": "Meet the Heavy", + "length": 102, + "id": 5375 + }, + { + "text": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.", + "source": "Steve Jobs", + "length": 156, + "id": 5376 + }, + { + "text": "Harvest, harvest, harvest. All you care about is the stupid harvest! You don't care about me, I wanna see the universe! You don't know who I am inside, you never have! I'm gonna run away and never come back, ever!", + "source": "Loke Groundrunner, Thumb Wars", + "length": 213, + "id": 5377 + }, + { + "text": "He used to tell her everything, and she used to listen in rapt attention. She wondered when that had changed and who'd lost interest first, he in the telling or she in the listening.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 182, + "id": 5378 + }, + { + "text": "I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family. I loved my life and family.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 474, + "id": 5379 + }, + { + "text": "My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 381, + "id": 5380 + }, + { + "text": "And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with. 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My file for what to do if an advanced alien species comes calling is three pages long, and it begins with \"Step 1: Find God.\"", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 309, + "id": 5390 + }, + { + "text": "A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.", + "source": "The Expanse", + "length": 75, + "id": 5391 + }, + { + "text": "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... even in death I serve the Omnissiah.", + "source": "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus", + "length": 427, + "id": 5392 + }, + { + "text": "My cheek brushes against his, smooth on stubble for a moment. And then it's gone. He walks along the platform as if in a dream, every fiber in me wants to shout and scream, \"Stop!\" To run across to him, take him in my arms, to tell him \"I love you! You silly, silly man, I love you!\" But instead I stand still, heart cracking. Those little curls on the back of his head bouncing, as he steps out of my life, forever.", + "source": "Tom Misch: \"Movie\"", + "length": 416, + "id": 5393 + }, + { + "text": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 96, + "id": 5394 + }, + { + "text": "My first girlfriend turned into the moon... That's rough, buddy.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 64, + "id": 5395 + }, + { + "text": "You sound like my nephew, always thinking you need to do things on your own without anyone's support. There is nothing wrong with letting the people who love you help you.", + "source": "Avatar: The Last Airbender", + "length": 171, + "id": 5396 + }, + { + "text": "Strangers passing in the street; by chance, two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand, and lead you through the land, and help me understand the best I can?", + "source": "Pink Floyd, Meddle - Echoes", + "length": 205, + "id": 5397 + }, + { + "text": "One and one and one is three.", + "source": "The Beatles, Come Together", + "length": 29, + "id": 5398 + }, + { + "text": "He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, New Spring", + "length": 91, + "id": 5399 + }, + { + "text": "Dear Me 10 Years from now, If you still feel the need to listen to this again, then maybe something went wrong? Or did you change? Do you remember? What happened? Is life better, or worse? It's never too late to try and fix things. Right now, you're probably wondering how I felt when you wrote this. Well, right now, I guess I feel like I don't have a lot of control of my life, but it's exciting nonetheless. I'm smart and handsome, and I have goals to work toward. So... me in 10 years from now, if you're reading this and you feel like things haven't changed, then just remember that it's never too late. The world around you must be different by now, but it doesn't mean you have to be. Stay positive, and keep doing your best.", + "source": "Faye Valentine, Cowboy Bebop", + "length": 732, + "id": 5400 + }, + { + "text": "How do I take off a mask when it stops being a mask, when it's as much a part of me as I am?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 92, + "id": 5403 + }, + { + "text": "I'm good at reading people. My secret? 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We all know why we do this, not because Hunger Games books make us happy, but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 466, + "id": 5407 + }, + { + "text": "Hello friend. Hello friend? That's lame. Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope, you're only in my head, we have to remember that. Damn, this actually happened, I'm talking to an imaginary person. What I'm about to tell you is top secret. A conspiracy bigger than all of us. There's a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I'm talking about the guys no one knows about, the ones that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission. And now I think they're following me.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 560, + "id": 5408 + }, + { + "text": "You're the one constant in a sea of variables.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 46, + "id": 5409 + }, + { + "text": "That's the thing about deletion. It's not always permanent. There are many reasons you want to recover a file you just deleted. Where you have that moment of panic where it hits you, where that thing you thought had no value suddenly becomes important. Where you suddenly find new purpose for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 296, + "id": 5410 + }, + { + "text": "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a bank and he can rob the world.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 87, + "id": 5411 + }, + { + "text": "The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.", + "source": "J. K. 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As long as the Wheel turns.", + "source": "Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World", + "length": 428, + "id": 5418 + }, + { + "text": "You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.", + "source": "Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer", + "length": 260, + "id": 5419 + }, + { + "text": "Because the world is round, it turns me on. Because the world is round. Because the wind is high, it blows my mind. Because the wind is high. Love is old, love is new. Love is all, love is you. Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue.", + "source": "The Beatles", + "length": 260, + "id": 5420 + }, + { + "text": "But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Slawter", + "length": 299, + "id": 5421 + }, + { + "text": "You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.", + "source": "Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes", + "length": 456, + "id": 5422 + }, + { + "text": "Most patients report a night of dreamless sleep after only one viewing of this videocassette. Consult your technician if you are experiencing delayed results and/or unwanted side effects. Do not see a doctor.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Real Sleep", + "length": 208, + "id": 5423 + }, + { + "text": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.", + "source": "The Legend of Korra", + "length": 110, + "id": 5424 + }, + { + "text": "Now, if you two don't mind I'll be off to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed - or worse, expelled!", + "source": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", + "length": 138, + "id": 5425 + }, + { + "text": "The County Weather Service has issued a warning for a meteorological event. This warning is effective immediately and continues until sunrise tomorrow morning. Citizens are advised not to observe this event with the naked eye.", + "source": "LOCAL58TV, Weather Service", + "length": 226, + "id": 5426 + }, + { + "text": "Jack heard it again. There is a voice from space. Jack, do you see me? I have become something else. Listen to the silver box. The stars are moving now. Do you see the hungry eye? Here I am.", + "source": "Gemini Home Entertainment, Artificial Computer Learning", + "length": 190, + "id": 5427 + }, + { + "text": "So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.", + "source": "Karl Mordo, Doctor Strange", + "length": 72, + "id": 5429 + }, + { + "text": "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 89, + "id": 5430 + }, + { + "text": "Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.", + "source": "Narrator and Author (Aldous Huxley), Brave New World", + "length": 91, + "id": 5431 + }, + { + "text": "Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.", + "source": "John Green", + "length": 95, + "id": 5432 + }, + { + "text": "And as I walked back to give Takumi's note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.", + "source": "Miles Halter, Looking For Alaska (John Green)", + "length": 349, + "id": 5433 + }, + { + "text": "Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 85, + "id": 5434 + }, + { + "text": "We never lose our demons, Mordo. We only learn to live above them.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 66, + "id": 5435 + }, + { + "text": "We've been hired to stop an inter-dimensional beast from feeding on those batteries and I'm going to stop it with a sword?", + "source": "Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", + "length": 122, + "id": 5436 + }, + { + "text": "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you've spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can't imagine you reject the possibility.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 240, + "id": 5437 + }, + { + "text": "The language of the mystic arts is as old as civilization. The sorcerers of antiquity called the use of this language spells. But if that word offends your modern sensibilities you can call it a program, the source code that shapes reality. We harness energy drawn from other dimensions of the Multiverse to cast spells to conjure shields and weapons to make magic.", + "source": "The Ancient One, Doctor Strange", + "length": 365, + "id": 5438 + }, + { + "text": "When you're building a videogame world you're building with ideas, and that can be like working with quick-set cement. You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be played with, and in the process of playing with them they begin to harden and set until they're immutable, like rock. At that point you can't change the world - not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with new ideas.", + "source": "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy", + "length": 403, + "id": 5439 + }, + { + "text": "For those who are not aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one hundred years. Due to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race. There will be no further communication.", + "source": "SCP-5000", + "length": 487, + "id": 5441 + }, + { + "text": "A group of young Erusian officers have taken over Megalith, the superweapon that was under development. Megalith is a rocket launch facility that can shoot down asteroid fragments in orbit. The only way to destroy this dangerous and highly fortified facility is to hit it from the inside. Follow the missile port grooves to find the three generators deep within the facility. Destroy the generators to access the central heat vent. Once inside, destroy the giant missile in the central silo. An infiltration unit will secure your escape route. Their plan calls for waiting until the generators are offline, and then taking over the sub control room once the blackout hits. Enter this rat's nest with full confidence that the unit will get you out again. It's highly likely that this will be your final mission. Remember, we need heroes after the war too. Make it back in one piece. Dismissed!", + "source": "Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies", + "length": 892, + "id": 5442 + }, + { + "text": "English is hard. It can be thoroughly taught throughout the world through tough, thorough thought, though.", + "source": "A Tongue-twister", + "length": 106, + "id": 5443 + }, + { + "text": "Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!", + "source": "Tai Lung, Kung Fu Panda", + "length": 57, + "id": 5444 + }, + { + "text": "Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.", + "source": "Enzo, The Art of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein)", + "length": 69, + "id": 5446 + }, + { + "text": "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.", + "source": "Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows", + "length": 88, + "id": 5447 + }, + { + "text": "It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.", + "source": "Minho, The Maze Runner", + "length": 54, + "id": 5452 + }, + { + "text": "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 55, + "id": 5453 + }, + { + "text": "I just... Feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.", + "source": "Thomas, The Maze Runner", + "length": 62, + "id": 5456 + }, + { + "text": "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.", + "source": "They Might Be Giants", + "length": 62, + "id": 5459 + }, + { + "text": "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 84, + "id": 5460 + }, + { + "text": "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only things that make life bearable.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player One", + "length": 100, + "id": 5461 + }, + { + "text": "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 231, + "id": 5462 + }, + { + "text": "For a bunch of hair-less apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.", + "source": "Ready Player One", + "length": 94, + "id": 5463 + }, + { + "text": "I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.", + "source": "Wade Watts, Ready Player One", + "length": 258, + "id": 5464 + }, + { + "text": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "britishText": "My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced video game. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can. Sometimes the game might seem easy. Even fun. Other times it might be so difficult you want to give up and quit. But unfortunately, in this game you only get one life. When your body grows too hungry or thirsty or ill or injured or old, your health meter runs out and then it's Game Over. Some people play the game for a hundred years without ever figuring out that it's a game, or that there is a way to win it. To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone.", + "source": "Anorak's Almanac, Ready Player Two", + "length": 1140, + "id": 5465 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe - a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.", + "source": "Ready Player Two", + "length": 588, + "id": 5466 + }, + { + "text": "You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.", + "source": "Johnny, The Outsiders", + "length": 140, + "id": 5472 + }, + { + "text": "You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.", + "source": "Holes", + "length": 74, + "id": 5477 + }, + { + "text": "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 192, + "id": 5478 + }, + { + "text": "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.", + "source": "Fahrenheit 451", + "length": 78, + "id": 5482 + }, + { + "text": "My father picked me up from school one day and we played hookey and went to the beach. It was too cold to go in the water, so we sat on a blanket and ate pizza. When I got home my sneakers were full of sand and I dumped it on my bedroom floor. I didn't know the difference, I was six. My mother screamed at me for the mess but he wasn't mad. He said that billions of years ago the world's shifting and ocean moving brought that sand to that spot on the beach and then I took it away. Every day he said we change the world. Which is a nice thought until I think about how many days and lifetimes I would need to bring a shoe full of sand home until there is no beach. Until it made a difference to anyone. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything - that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow. It's methodical. It's exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 947, + "id": 5485 + }, + { + "text": "She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.", + "source": "Lisa Genova, Still Alice", + "length": 559, + "id": 5487 + }, + { + "text": "What about you? Why are you still alive? You wanted revenge against the Vanettis, right? And you finished that crap already, right? Hey, you listening to me? He never wanted to join the Family. Even when I told him how rich he could get, he wouldn't even think about it. It was stupid how damn straight-laced he was. But you... You drove him crazy. And you killed him. He'd never even been with a woman... How is it right that you live and he dies!? Hey, are you listening!?", + "source": "91 days", + "length": 474, + "id": 5488 + }, + { + "text": "We're all afraid, you know... to get up on the stage. Maybe you will mess up. Maybe they'll totally reject you. Even so, you grit your teeth and get up on the stage anyway.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 172, + "id": 5489 + }, + { + "text": "A lump of steel, like a shooting star. Just seeing the same sky as you makes familiar scenery look different. I swing between hope and despair at your slightest gesture, and my heart starts to play a melody. What kind of feeling is this again? What do they call this kind of feeling? I think it's probably... called love. I'm sure this is what they call love.", + "source": "Your Lie In April", + "length": 359, + "id": 5490 + }, + { + "text": "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.", + "source": "Fred Brooks", + "length": 78, + "id": 5491 + }, + { + "text": "An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.", + "source": "Archer, Fate/Stay Night Anime", + "length": 210, + "id": 5492 + }, + { + "text": "When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 242, + "id": 5493 + }, + { + "text": "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, \"Today I will be brilliant.\"", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 200, + "id": 5494 + }, + { + "text": "I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us!", + "source": "Star Trek : The Original Series", + "length": 189, + "id": 5495 + }, + { + "text": "Human beings do not survive on bread alone... but on the nourishments of liberty. For what indeed is a man without freedom... naught but a mechanism, trapped in the cogwheels of eternity.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5496 + }, + { + "text": "Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know... Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you. Those are the qualities that make a civilization worthy to survive.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 218, + "id": 5497 + }, + { + "text": "Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 201, + "id": 5498 + }, + { + "text": "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Next Generation", + "length": 150, + "id": 5499 + }, + { + "text": "Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 145, + "id": 5500 + }, + { + "text": "You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 187, + "id": 5501 + }, + { + "text": "You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true.", + "source": "Star Trek: The Original Series", + "length": 106, + "id": 5502 + }, + { + "text": "He taught me that being born with natural talent is not the greatest gift. The truly lucky ones are those with an unwavering belief in themselves. And the passion to keep striving to the very end.", + "source": "Naruto", + "length": 196, + "id": 5503 + }, + { + "text": "You know how hot dogs come 10 to a pack, and buns in packs of eight or 12; you gotta buy nine packs to make 'em all match up!", + "source": "Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz) - True Stories", + "length": 125, + "id": 5505 + }, + { + "text": "Physical wounds will definitely bleed and may look painful but over time they heal by themselves and if you apply medicine, they will heal faster. What's troublesome are wounds of the heart. Nothing is harder to heal. They're a bit different from physical injuries. You can't apply medicine for one thing and sometimes, they never heal. There's only one cure for a wound of the heart. It's a bit bothersome and you can only receive it from someone else. What is it? Love.", + "source": "Yashamaru Character - Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 471, + "id": 5506 + }, + { + "text": "Normally, I don't condone leaving early, but I have an appointment with the horse doctor. How that horse became a doctor, I don't know. No, I'm kidding. He's just a regular doctor... who shoots your horse in the head when its leg is broken.", + "source": "Dwight K. Schrute - The Office (US)", + "length": 240, + "id": 5507 + }, + { + "text": "This is me! Up to now, you still don't even see me for who I really am! I'm you, Dad. I tried to give you one last chance, like you said with Breeze, but you're in the way. You're in the way of my future, like you said he was in the way of yours. Ain't that what you said? In the way of your future right? Put the gun down. Tariq, if you do this, you can never go back. I'll do anything to go back, to go back to how it was before you left us for Angela. I just can't, it's too late.", + "source": "Power, Tariq St Patrick, James St Patrick", + "length": 483, + "id": 5508 + }, + { + "text": "Mental? Well, let me tell you something, Mr. 100% Tip-Top Mental. My daughter may be no spring chicken, and her jaw may crack when she chews, and she may have noticeable trouble digesting raw vegetables. But one thing she is not, is mental!", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 240, + "id": 5509 + }, + { + "text": "Picture this. Two young girls, best friends, who share three things: a pizza recipe, some dough and a dream. Everything is going great, until one day, a fast-talking pepperoni salesman gallops into town. Of course, both girls are impressed. He dates one one night, and the other the next night. Pretty soon, he drives a wedge between them. Before you know it, the pizza suffers, the business suffers, the friendship suffers. The girls part company and head for America, never to see one another again. Rose, one of those girls was me. The other one, you probably know as Mama Celeste.", + "source": "The Golden Girls", + "length": 584, + "id": 5510 + }, + { + "text": "No, Blanche. I'm not going to let you do that. I've been doing a lot of thinking. If, after all the years of love and companionship, Fernando and I are meant to part company, I'll just have to accept that. Time to time, life deals you an unfriendly hand; there's nothing you can do about it. I guess there's a lesson to be learned here. Sometimes life just isn't fair, kiddo.", + "source": "Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls", + "length": 375, + "id": 5511 + }, + { + "text": "The most romantic thing was when Stan proposed. I went to the powder room, and when I returned to the table, there was an open bottle of Dom Perignon and two filled glasses. We clinked the glasses in a toast and Stan gave me a coy smile, and I winked at him and I just downed the champagne in one gulp. And it didn't go down smoothly. Later, Stan told me that he put my engagement ring in the bottom of the glass.", + "source": "Dorothy Zbornak, The Golden Girls", + "length": 413, + "id": 5512 + }, + { + "text": "The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good becomes great; bad becomes worse. This is why you were chosen. Because the strong man who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power, but a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.", + "source": "Abraham Erskine, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 273, + "id": 5513 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies; I don't care where they're from.", + "source": "Steve Rogers, Captain America: The First Avenger", + "length": 83, + "id": 5514 + }, + { + "text": "Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl who has saved her lira embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resorts, and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as \"Rendezvous with Sophia.\" But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.", + "source": "Sophia Petrillo, The Golden Girls", + "length": 661, + "id": 5515 + }, + { + "text": "Human touch. Our first form of communication. Safety, security, comfort, all in the gentle caress of a finger. Or the brush of lips on a soft cheek. It connects us when we're happy, bolsters us in times of fear, excites us in times of passion and love. We need that touch from the one we love, almost as much as we need air to breathe. But I never understood the importance of touch. His touch. Until I couldn't have it. So if you're watching this, and you're able, touch him. Touch her. Life's too short to waste a second.", + "source": "Five Feet Apart", + "length": 523, + "id": 5517 + }, + { + "text": "One of the main differences between introverts and extroverts is that extroverts get their energy from hanging out with other people, and introverts aren't mentally ill.", + "source": "Exurb1a", + "length": 169, + "id": 5519 + }, + { + "text": "Unfortunately, my birthday has always been the lousiest day of the year. It all began on the day of my actual birth... both of my parents failed to show up. By the age of 5, I was forced to throw my own surprise party at Gunther Goat Cheese's: the goat-cheesiest place in all of Drusselstein. Many of my closest friends were there: Count Wolfgang, Betty the She-Boar, Ratputin, and the licekins, Olga and Chicago Joe. But one should never walk the paths of Drusselstein with uncovered doonkleberry cake, lest the doonkleberry bats swarm.", + "source": "Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 537, + "id": 5520 + }, + { + "text": "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the things we want the most, even our dreams.", + "source": "Aunt May, *Spider-Man 2*", + "length": 236, + "id": 5521 + }, + { + "text": "I play Russian roulette every day, a man's sport with the bullet called life. Yeah, mama called life. Yeah and every time I try to go where I really want to be, it's already where I am, 'cause I'm already there!", + "source": "Sugar, System of a Down", + "length": 211, + "id": 5522 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump in the days of my youth, the Doofenshmirtzes were a proud family. But those were lean times for my father, and our beloved lawn gnome was repossessed. Who would protect our zatzenfruit garden from those witches, spells, and wood trolls? From a tender age, my father decided that it would be me. While the other children played Kick-the-Shtumpel and ate doonkelberries, I would stand for hours. All through the cold night as the spitzenhound howled, my only companion was the moon. And my neighbor Kenny. And since my lawn gnome was taken away from me, I will destroy every lawn gnome in the entire tri-state area!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 634, + "id": 5523 + }, + { + "text": "A good brass player spends many hours in front of a mirror watching and listening. A good rule to follow is to form the embouchure so that all the muscles around the aperture are working in unison. Picture a fireman's net - the center being the aperture of your embouchure. Around this net are eight firemen pulling out from the center to keep the net taut. Think of your muscles working in this same way to preserve the stability and openness of the aperture. Keep a close eye on the area just below the bottom lip, the goal being to have as little movement as possible and to maintain a flat chin. In addition, try to form your embouchure away from the mouthpiece and the instrument. A good brass player knows how to do this.", + "source": "Joseph Alessi, Arban Complete Method for Trombone and Euphonium", + "length": 727, + "id": 5524 + }, + { + "text": "Assist Mode allows you to modify the game's rules to fit your specific needs. This includes options such as slowing the game speed, granting yourself invincibility or infinite stamina, and skipping chapters entirely. Celeste is intended to be a challenging and rewarding experience. If the default game proves inaccessible to you, we hope that you can still find that experience with Assist Mode. Would you like to play with Assist Mode?", + "source": "Celeste", + "length": 437, + "id": 5525 + }, + { + "text": "When I was young, I entered a science fair with my very first Inator. I wasn't very clever with the names yet. It was just, you know, \"Inator.\" Just as I was about to demonstrate my invention to the judges, a kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show! The next year I tried again with my Even-Bigger-Inator. And again, my thunder was stolen by a baking soda volcano! I had enough of science. I decided to devote my life to poetry instead. Yet curiously, I still lost to a baking soda volcano!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 496, + "id": 5526 + }, + { + "text": "Back in Gimmelshtump, in the depths of my childhood, my parents were expecting a brand new baby girl. My mother spent months knitting pretty dresses. Unfortunately the baby turned out to be a boy, and because we were out of material, I was forced to wear those same dresses for an entire year, drawing mockery and scorn from all of my manly classmates!", + "source": "Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb", + "length": 352, + "id": 5527 + }, + { + "text": "Wonder if I gave an Oreo to the Big Bad Wolf. How would the story go? Would he still go huff and puff? Or would he bring those pigs cool stuff to decorate the deck he helped them build? Would they not get killed? Wonder if I gave an Oreo to a vampire in a creepy show. Would he not act so undead? Would he thirst for milk instead? I've just got this feeling that it might work out all right. 'Cause cream does wondrous things inside a chocolate sandwich dream. If I gave 'em to great white sharks, would they share 'em with baby seals? Would they call up a giant squid for a friendly meal?", + "source": "Oreo Wonderfilled Anthem", + "length": 589, + "id": 5528 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not the sweet, forebearing guy that I try to make out that I am. I get irritated at things. I feel like snapping at people, and I feel like being selfish at times; and I don't know why I should pretend I'm not that way.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 223, + "id": 5529 + }, + { + "text": "We as a nation are slowly realizing our enormous strength, and the power and responsibility which go with that strength. We are moving, somewhat ignorantly and clumsily, toward accepting a position of responsible world leadership. We make many mistakes. We are often inconsistent. We are far from perfect. We are deeply frightened by the strength of Communism, a view of life different from our own.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 399, + "id": 5530 + }, + { + "text": "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start.", + "source": "The Cooper Institute", + "length": 575, + "id": 5531 + }, + { + "text": "Often the learnings take such simple forms as \"I am different from others\"; \"I do feel hatred for him\"; \"I am fearful of feeling dependent\"; \"I do feel sorry for myself\"; \"I am self-centered\"; \"I do have tender and loving feelings\"; \"I could be what I want to be\"; etc. But in spite of their seeming simplicity these learnings are vastly significant in some new way which is very difficult to define. We can think of it in various ways. They are self-appropriated learnings, for one thing, based somehow in experience, not in symbols.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 534, + "id": 5533 + }, + { + "text": "How can you know that this account, or any account given at a previous or later time, is true? How do you know that it has any relationship to reality? If we are to rely on this inner and subjective experience as being the truth about human relationships or about ways of altering personality, then Yogi, Christian Science, dianetics, and the delusions of a psychotic individual who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, are all true, just as true as this account.", + "source": "Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person", + "length": 463, + "id": 5534 + }, + { + "text": "It is those who possess wisdom who are the greatest fools. History has shown us this. You could say that this is the final warning from God to those who resist.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 160, + "id": 5535 + }, + { + "text": "Remembering something that no one else can is a painful thing. You can't talk to anyone about it. No one will understand you. You'll be alone.", + "source": "Steins;Gate", + "length": 142, + "id": 5536 + }, + { + "text": "No one knows what the future holds. 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And if I were not afraid that you would think me hopelessly drunk, I would have sworn as well as spoken to the influence which they have always had and still have over me. For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveller, and my eyes rain tears when I hear them.", + "source": "The Symposium", + "length": 592, + "id": 5651 + }, + { + "text": "You bear witness to the end of your journey. It is not always a happy thing.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 76, + "id": 5652 + }, + { + "text": "Farewell. We will likely meet again, should destiny dictate. If you mean to pursue the inhumans, follow the guidance of that brand. It reacts strongly to evil. But mind this: Yours is a black path through the night. When you confront those who lurk in the darkness, you also envelop yourself in it. Good journey, struggler.", + "source": "Skull Knight, Berserk, Kentaro Miura", + "length": 323, + "id": 5653 + }, + { + "text": "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it's stupid.", + "source": "Einstein", + "length": 128, + "id": 5654 + }, + { + "text": "Hello there, the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the background of the morgue. The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley. We can live like Jack and Sally if we want. Where you can always find me, and we'll have Halloween on Christmas. And in the night we'll wish this never ends, we'll wish this never ends.", + "source": "Blink-182, I Miss You", + "length": 322, + "id": 5655 + }, + { + "text": "If I profane with my unworthiest hand. This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.", + "source": "Romeo, Romeo and Juliet", + "length": 172, + "id": 5656 + }, + { + "text": "The tongue of a man is one half, and the other half is his mind, and here is nothing besides these two, except the shape of the blood and the flesh. 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You may call him a God but if you could perceive your own reality as he could, you would know there really are no words to describe such a being.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 468, + "id": 5670 + }, + { + "text": "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.", + "source": "Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight", + "length": 82, + "id": 5671 + }, + { + "text": "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.", + "source": "John Tukey", + "length": 89, + "id": 5672 + }, + { + "text": "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. 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Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.", + "source": "Tao Te Ching", + "length": 286, + "id": 5678 + }, + { + "text": "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.", + "source": "Hamlet", + "length": 62, + "id": 5679 + }, + { + "text": "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.", + "source": "Albert Camus", + "length": 54, + "id": 5680 + }, + { + "text": "Hello? No this isn't the bird man of Bikini Bottom. What? No! I don't live in a bird cage! Who is this? Joe Mama? Well listen up Joe, I hate to break it to you but flying is impossible. I have to go now. My head just hit the ceiling. Huh?", + "source": "Spongebob SquarePants", + "length": 238, + "id": 5681 + }, + { + "text": "He will spend hundreds of years travelling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language. He will read every book. He will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought and great loves found. And lost. And found. Lost. And found. And found. And found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of through the years. Whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning. Until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a god. And Bill will outlive them all. For millions and millions of years. Exploring, learning, living. Until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning, and the moment comes that he knows only the position of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives, and he lives until all of the lights go out.", + "source": "It's Such a Beautiful Day", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5682 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?", + "source": "Marcus Aurelius", + "length": 161, + "id": 5684 + }, + { + "text": "You look like an angel. Walk like an angel. Talk like an angel. But I got wise. You're the devil in disguise. Oh yes you are. The devil in disguise.", + "source": "Devil in Disguise", + "length": 148, + "id": 5685 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not superstitious but I am afraid to prune my money tree. It's just that it's the only plant I've ever had that's seemed to actually grow healthily. And though I know wealth is not affected by a plant on my shelf, if I take my chances and my finances coincidentally fail while my money tree dies right before my eyes then my mind will think those things coincided causally. But my tree needs pruning or else it'll grow too wild and if I do it right then I could propagate it, so why've I waited to prune this tree?", + "source": "Brian David Gilbert, I'm not superstitious but I'm afraid to prune my money tree", + "length": 518, + "id": 5686 + }, + { + "text": "I got a letter from somebody here a while back, and they said, 'Bob, everything in your world seems to be happy.' That's for sure. That's why I paint. It's because I can create the kind of world that I want, and I can make this world as happy as I want it. Shoot, if you want bad stuff, watch the news.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 302, + "id": 5687 + }, + { + "text": "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 52, + "id": 5688 + }, + { + "text": "Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 83, + "id": 5689 + }, + { + "text": "There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 53, + "id": 5690 + }, + { + "text": "I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That's okay though; I have more fun than most people.", + "source": "Bob Ross", + "length": 118, + "id": 5691 + }, + { + "text": "I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. 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During the first decade of the 21st century the cat has become the preferred pet of many owners, valued because it combines an affectionate nature with a degree of independence, as well as more prosaic qualities such as cleanliness and convenience.", + "source": "The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat by John W.S. Bradshaw", + "length": 578, + "id": 5708 + }, + { + "text": "What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?", + "source": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again", + "length": 183, + "id": 5709 + }, + { + "text": "Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say \"Well, that was pretty great.\" But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say \"Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?\" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.", + "source": "Alan Watts", + "length": 997, + "id": 5710 + }, + { + "text": "And good news to the purists: they've discovered a cure for the symptoms of being alive. It's a painless procedure with a low rate of failure, but very few patients survive.", + "source": "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave", + "length": 173, + "id": 5711 + }, + { + "text": "Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see. I'll show you. When the chips are down these, uh, civilized people? They'll eat each other. See I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 289, + "id": 5712 + }, + { + "text": "I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 900, + "id": 5714 + }, + { + "text": "If we waited until we were ready, we would be waiting our entire lives.", + "source": "Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket", + "length": 71, + "id": 5715 + }, + { + "text": "Kristy! Ms. Esposito! Hold up. Hey, Jimmy McGill, we met inside. Hi. You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you. They tell you, you got a chance, but I'm sorry. It's a lie because they had already made up their mind and they knew what they were going to do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just, it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship here, I'm talking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ever letting you in. But listen. Listen. It doesn't matter. It doesn't because you don't need them. They're not going to give it to you? So what? You're going to take it. You're going to do whatever it takes. Do you hear me? You are not going to play by the rules. You're going to go your own way. You're going to do what they won't do. You're going to be smart. You are going to cut corners and you are going to win. They're on the 35th floor? You're going to be on the 50th floor. You're going to be looking down on them. And the higher you rise, the more they're going to hate you. Good. Good! You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? So what? Screw them! Remember... the winner takes it all. You understand what I'm trying to tell you, right? All right. All right. Go get them.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 1486, + "id": 5716 + }, + { + "text": "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.", + "source": "Kurt Cobain", + "length": 62, + "id": 5717 + }, + { + "text": "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.", + "source": "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III)", + "length": 743, + "id": 5718 + }, + { + "text": "My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.", + "source": "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable", + "length": 974, + "id": 5719 + }, + { + "text": "I am the hope of the omniverse! I am the lightbulb in the darkness! I am the bacon in the fridge for all living things that cry out in hunger! I am the alpha and the omega! I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am Son Goku. And I am a Super... Saiyan.", + "source": "Dragon Ball Z Abridged", + "length": 256, + "id": 5720 + }, + { + "text": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", + "source": "Bruce Lee", + "length": 69, + "id": 5723 + }, + { + "text": "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 110, + "id": 5724 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, you like to think you're a god. You're not a god, you're just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Come on, then. Take mine. Take my memories.", + "source": "Doctor Who", + "length": 280, + "id": 5725 + }, + { + "text": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 111, + "id": 5726 + }, + { + "text": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 74, + "id": 5727 + }, + { + "text": "Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.", + "source": "Sun Tzu, The Art of War", + "length": 71, + "id": 5728 + }, + { + "text": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.", + "source": "Edward Snowden", + "length": 181, + "id": 5729 + }, + { + "text": "In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That's weird.", + "source": "Riverdale", + "length": 161, + "id": 5731 + }, + { + "text": "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for your memories to return.", + "source": "Spirited Away", + "length": 105, + "id": 5732 + }, + { + "text": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL.", + "source": "Wikipedia", + "length": 406, + "id": 5733 + }, + { + "text": "The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Ultimate Typing Championship was initially created by the keyboard manufacturer Das Keyboard.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Ultimate Typing Championship", + "length": 418, + "id": 5734 + }, + { + "text": "Colemak is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The layout is designed to make typing more efficient and comfortable by placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row. Created in 2006, it is named after its inventor, Shai Coleman. Most major modern operating systems such as Mac OS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, and BSD support Colemak natively. A program to install the layout is available for Microsoft Windows. On Android and iOS, the layout is offered by several virtual keyboard apps like GBoard and SwiftKey, as well as by many apps which support physical keyboards directly.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 622, + "id": 5735 + }, + { + "text": "The Colemak layout was designed with the QWERTY layout as a base, changing the positions of 17 keys while retaining the QWERTY positions of most non-alphabetic characters and many popular keyboard shortcuts, supposedly making it easier to learn than Dvorak layout for people who already type in QWERTY without losing efficiency. It shares several design goals with the Dvorak layout, such as minimizing finger path distance and making heavy use of the home row. 74% of typing is done on the home row compared to 70% for Dvorak and 32% for QWERTY. The default Colemak layout lacks a Caps Lock key; an additional Backspace key occupies the position typically occupied by Caps Lock on modern keyboards.", + "source": "Wikipedia - Colemak", + "length": 699, + "id": 5736 + }, + { + "text": "When do I know I'm Spider-Man? You won't. That's all it is Miles. A leap of faith.", + "source": "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", + "length": 82, + "id": 5737 + }, + { + "text": "Woke up, fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup. And looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat. Made the bus in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke. And somebody spoke and I went into a dream.", + "source": "The Beatles - A Day in the Life", + "length": 282, + "id": 5738 + }, + { + "text": "Only in my darkest moments can I see the light. I think I'm prone to getting blinded when it's bright. Well, this December, I'll remember, want you to see it when I do. God knows I do.", + "source": "This December- Ricky Montgomery", + "length": 184, + "id": 5739 + }, + { + "text": "We swears to serve the master of the precious. We swears on the... on the precious.", + "source": "Lord of the Rings", + "length": 83, + "id": 5740 + }, + { + "text": "You look down on me?! You pity me?! Walk away. That's right, Howard. You know why I didn't take the job? 'Cause it's too small! I don't care about it! It's nothing to me! It's a bacterium! I travel in worlds you can't even imagine! You can't conceive of what I'm capable of! I'm so far beyond you! I'm like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "length": 373, + "id": 5741 + }, + { + "text": "The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.", + "source": "Half-Life 2", + "length": 74, + "id": 5742 + }, + { + "text": "Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.", + "source": "The Big Bang Theory", + "length": 209, + "id": 5743 + }, + { + "text": "People don't arrive broken. They start with passion and yearning until something comes along that disabuses them of those notions. People don't have power over us. We give it to them.", + "source": "Lucifer", + "length": 183, + "id": 5744 + }, + { + "text": "Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.", + "source": "Inception", + "length": 134, + "id": 5747 + }, + { + "text": "This reversing the flow of time, doesn't us being here now, mean it never happened?", + "source": "The Protagonist, Tenet", + "length": 83, + "id": 5748 + }, + { + "text": "I've been poor my whole life, like a disease passing from generation to generation. But not my boys, not anymore.", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 113, + "id": 5751 + }, + { + "text": "You know. I've been working here for 44 years. Ain't nobody ever ordered nothing but T-Bone steak and a baked potato. Except this one dude from New York tried to order trout back in 1987. We don't sell no goddamned trout. T-Bone steaks. So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?", + "source": "Hell or High Water", + "length": 341, + "id": 5752 + }, + { + "text": "Listen to me, Morty. I know that new situations can be intimidating. You're lookin' around and it's all scary and different, but y'know... meeting them head-on, charging into 'em like a bull - that's how we grow as people.", + "source": "Rick and Morty", + "length": 222, + "id": 5753 + }, + { + "text": "I had a son... he passed away. I had a girl who loved me... I threw that away. My momma died when I was a kid... and my daddy... well, I watched him die... and it weren't soon enough.", + "source": "Red Dead Redemption 2", + "length": 183, + "id": 5754 + }, + { + "text": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.", + "source": "The Dark Knight", + "length": 198, + "id": 5755 + }, + { + "text": "What can I say - I like to talk. I'm a strong believer in the power of words. If you're not willing to communicate, then the problem just sits there. If you just keep staring at it without doing anything, eventually you'll watch every last opportunity to resolve it slip away before your eyes.", + "source": "Genshin Impact", + "length": 293, + "id": 5756 + }, + { + "text": "Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day. This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!", + "source": "The Return of the King", + "length": 441, + "id": 5757 + }, + { + "text": "Why not? Maybe she's right. Maybe I should've put it in the paper. I should've done something different. The thing is, if you just do stuff and nothing happens... what's it all mean? What's the point? Oh right, this whole thing is about self-acceptance. So I should just stop judging, and accept? So no matter what I do, hooray for me because I'm a great guy? It's all good? No matter how many dogs I kill, I just, what, do an inventory and accept? I mean, you back your truck over your own kid and you, like, accept? What a load of crap.", + "source": "Breaking Bad", + "length": 538, + "id": 5758 + }, + { + "text": "Where the words are worn away, we live to love another day. Where the words are hard and fast, we talk of nothing new but the past.", + "source": "Absolute", + "length": 131, + "id": 5759 + }, + { + "text": "Mini-cupcakes? As in the mini version of regular cupcakes, which is already a mini version of cake? Honestly, where does it end with you people?", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 144, + "id": 5760 + }, + { + "text": "My worst breakup was with Stacy. It was a Sunday morning, we were reading the paper, and I said, \"Oh my God, I think the Eagles could clinch the NFC East!\" and she said, \"We're done.\"", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 183, + "id": 5761 + }, + { + "text": "In an ideal world I'd have all ten fingers on my left hand, so my right would just be a fist for punching.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 106, + "id": 5762 + }, + { + "text": "I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 141, + "id": 5763 + }, + { + "text": "I found I had to love myself the way I wanted you to love me.", + "source": "Love Me", + "length": 61, + "id": 5764 + }, + { + "text": "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.", + "source": "The Art of War", + "length": 62, + "id": 5765 + }, + { + "text": "You don't get the things you dream of, you get the things that you work for.", + "source": "Little Witch Academia", + "length": 76, + "id": 5766 + }, + { + "text": "Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 166, + "id": 5767 + }, + { + "text": "Stop! Enough! I have heard more than enough to render my judgment. For as long as I have known you, Holger, you have spun words into lies. You weaken the minds of children, and delude the minds of men. I've shown you too many years of tolerance. And rather than exist in grateful meekness, as Holger the liar, you sink lower. You become Holger the Thief, robbing a woman of her livelihood, all in the name of your stupid stories!", + "source": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", + "length": 429, + "id": 5768 + }, + { + "text": "Yes, I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream for equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there's a button that I can press, and launch that lighthouse into space.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 245, + "id": 5769 + }, + { + "text": "Toby is in HR, which technically means he works for corporate. So he's really not a part of our family. Also, he's divorced, so he's really not a part of his family.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 165, + "id": 5771 + }, + { + "text": "My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many of them.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 128, + "id": 5772 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go. Because then I might... It's just... I don't think it's many girls' dream to be a receptionist.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 157, + "id": 5773 + }, + { + "text": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", + "source": "A Friend", + "length": 73, + "id": 5775 + }, + { + "text": "But courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Breath of the Wild", + "length": 62, + "id": 5776 + }, + { + "text": "From the Wisconsin region, a nice firm cheddar. Also from the great state of Wisconsin, an aged Parmesan. Uh, here you will find a cheddar-style spread, which has reacted nicely with the air to form a light rind, which I think you'll find both challenging and delicious. At that point, I would recommend you take a quick trip south of the border to the great state of Illinois, where you will find this fine blue cheese dressing. If I may be so bold, it's a lot of fun to let the goldfish take a little swim in the blue cheese.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 527, + "id": 5777 + }, + { + "text": "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.", + "source": "Muhammad Ali", + "length": 79, + "id": 5780 + }, + { + "text": "When you become untouchable you're unable to touch.", + "source": "My Ordinary Life (The Living Tombstone)", + "length": 51, + "id": 5781 + }, + { + "text": "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 69, + "id": 5782 + }, + { + "text": "You're going to learn a lot of things. But it might be easier for you to keep living, if you didn't learn them, if you didn't know them. You don't realize your body is on fire and burning up because of the things you did. You'll understand one day. And then you'll realize for the first time that you have many burns.", + "source": "Violet Evergarden", + "length": 317, + "id": 5783 + }, + { + "text": "If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.", + "source": "The Last Of Us 2", + "length": 89, + "id": 5785 + }, + { + "text": "I worshipped you! Your mind, your conscience, wanting to help others... the way you never gave up!", + "source": "Spider-Man 2018 PS4", + "length": 98, + "id": 5786 + }, + { + "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", + "source": "Leonard Bernstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 5787 + }, + { + "text": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", + "source": "Charlie Sheen", + "length": 158, + "id": 5788 + }, + { + "text": "I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.", + "source": "Charlie Sheen", + "length": 164, + "id": 5789 + }, + { + "text": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.", + "source": "Macbeth", + "length": 62, + "id": 5790 + }, + { + "text": "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.", + "source": "The Cask of Amontillado", + "length": 113, + "id": 5791 + }, + { + "text": "Ashes, ashes, dust to dust, I think I found a place for us. It's down by garden after dark, it's in my arms, it's in my arms.", + "source": "Cabo", + "length": 125, + "id": 5792 + }, + { + "text": "My happiness can only be... can only be made with my own hands! My happiness doesn't depend on anyone but me!", + "source": "Minori Kushieda, Toradora!", + "length": 109, + "id": 5793 + }, + { + "text": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.", + "source": "Mae West", + "length": 59, + "id": 5795 + }, + { + "text": "How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo", + "length": 77, + "id": 5796 + }, + { + "text": "All for one and one for all, united we stand, divided we fall.", + "source": "Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers", + "length": 62, + "id": 5797 + }, + { + "text": "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.", + "source": "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love", + "length": 101, + "id": 5799 + }, + { + "text": "It may be hard right now but you must silence those thoughts. Stop counting those things you have lost, what is gone is gone. 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Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.", + "source": "States of Matter", + "length": 220, + "id": 5805 + }, + { + "text": "The fight against censorship is open and dangerous, therefore heroic, while the battle against self-censorship is anonymous, lonely and unwitnessed, and it makes its subject feel humiliated.", + "source": "Danilo Kiš", + "length": 190, + "id": 5806 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay? Uh, let's see, first there's an introductory greeting from the company that I'm supposed to read. Uh, it's kind of a legal thing, you know. Um, \"Welcome to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A magical place for kids and grown-ups alike, where fantasy and fun come to life. Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.\" Blah blah blah, now that might sound bad, I know, but there's really nothing to worry about. Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too. So, remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right? Okay. So, just be aware, the characters do tend to wander a bit. Uh, they're left in some kind of free roaming mode at night. Uh... Something about their servos locking up if they get turned off for too long. Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? Uh, now concerning your safety, the only real risk to you as a night watchman here, if any, is the fact that these characters, uh, if they happen to see you after hours probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll pr- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now since that's against the rules here at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Um, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area. So, you could imagine how having your head forcefully pressed inside one of those could cause a bit of discomfort... and death. Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up. But hey, first day should be a breeze. I'll chat with you tomorrow. Uh, check those cameras, and remember to close the doors only if absolutely necessary. Gotta conserve power. Alright, good night.", + "source": "Phone Guy - Five Nights at Freddy's", + "length": 2928, + "id": 5807 + }, + { + "text": "Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder. Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover.", + "source": "Down Under, Men at Work", + "length": 152, + "id": 5809 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather go swimming with great white sharks, than wade in romance. 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Unable to laugh or to banish your past, you carry it ceaselessly in a corner of your heart, waiting for it to resurrect at an inopportune moment.", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 325, + "id": 5812 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want other people to mention my \"self.\" Besides if I can be changed by a few words, then that wouldn't be my \"self\" would it?", + "source": "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 133, + "id": 5813 + }, + { + "text": "Youth is both a lie, and a form of evil. Those that glorify that youth are only fooling themselves and those around them, and believe that their surroundings always affirm their actions. By using the word \"youth\" they twist and distort common sense and anything logical. For them, lies, secrets, sins, and failures do nothing but add spice to their youth.", + "source": "Oregairu - Hikigaya Hachiman", + "length": 355, + "id": 5814 + }, + { + "text": "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.", + "source": "B.o.B - Airplanes", + "length": 140, + "id": 5815 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 78, + "id": 5816 + }, + { + "text": "And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 87, + "id": 5817 + }, + { + "text": "I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you've actually left them. Someone should write a song about that.", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 134, + "id": 5818 + }, + { + "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", + "source": "Henri Poincaré", + "length": 145, + "id": 5819 + }, + { + "text": "Imagine an art class in which they only teach you how to paint fences and walls, but never show you the paintings of the great masters. Then of course you will say, 'I hate art.' But in fact what you would really be saying is 'I hate painting the fence.'", + "source": "Edward Frenkel (The Numberphile Podcast)", + "length": 254, + "id": 5820 + }, + { + "text": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than have answers that can't be questioned.", + "source": "Richard Feynman", + "length": 96, + "id": 5821 + }, + { + "text": "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. 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It looked in every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.", + "source": "Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave", + "length": 455, + "id": 5828 + }, + { + "text": "Should anything happen to me Claudia, should my skills fail me, or my ambition lead me astray, do not seek retribution or revenge in my memory, but fight to continue the search for truth, so that all may benefit. My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.", + "source": "Ezio Auditore da Firenze", + "length": 298, + "id": 5829 + }, + { + "text": "If you love what you're doing, then you've already succeeded.", + "source": "Never Let it Die, Watsky", + "length": 61, + "id": 5831 + }, + { + "text": "How much love does one need in a lifetime? Is there a quantity of brain space that is allocated to love? And for those of us who have loved less, does this space become occupied by something else? Like cricket, or religion, perhaps. How many minutes of an average life are spent happy? How many are not? Does the sum of one outweigh the other? By how much?", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 356, + "id": 5832 + }, + { + "text": "I have been told by members of my own family that there is no use or value in sports. I only agree with the first part. I may be drunk, but I am not stupid. Of course there is little point to sports. But, at the risk of depressing you, let me add two more cents. There is little point to anything. In a thousand years, grass will have grown over all our cities. Nothing of anything will matter. Left-arm spinners cannot unclog your drains, teach your children or cure you of disease. But once in a while, the very best of them will bowl a ball that will bring an entire nation to its feet. And while there may be no practical use in that, there is most certainly value.", + "source": "Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew", + "length": 669, + "id": 5833 + }, + { + "text": "I was rushing desperately, trying to reach the light. When I thought I did, I reached a dead end instead. Then I decided I wanted to enter that light. And at the edge of it, I found you. \n", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 188, + "id": 5834 + }, + { + "text": "The human mind works in mysterious ways. You just need to see the sun shining in the morning to feel energized. A blue sky makes you feel happy you're alive.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 157, + "id": 5835 + }, + { + "text": "God, if you really exist, then I beg you. This is more than enough. I don't need anything else. We'll manage somehow. So please. Don't throw anything more at us. But don't take anything more from us either. I'm begging you. Please, God. I want to stay like this. Together. Forever and ever.", + "source": "Weathering with You", + "length": 290, + "id": 5836 + }, + { + "text": "Listen. Just because you have psychic powers, it doesn't make you any less human. It's the same as people who are fast, people who are book smart, and people with strong body odor. Psychic powers are just another characteristic. You must embrace that as a part of yourself and continue to live positively. The truth behind one's charm is kindness. Become a good person. That is all.", + "source": "Mob Psycho 100", + "length": 382, + "id": 5837 + }, + { + "text": "In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that in the end, there is light in the darkness.", + "source": "Fallout: New Vegas - Joshua Graham", + "length": 125, + "id": 5838 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like I've already seen everything that's gonna happen and it's a nightmare.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 92, + "id": 5839 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes I feel like love doesn't actually exist. It's just pheromones playing tricks on people.", + "source": "Cherry", + "length": 97, + "id": 5840 + }, + { + "text": "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.", + "source": "Master Yoda", + "length": 395, + "id": 5843 + }, + { + "text": "When one chooses to walk the Way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 80, + "id": 5844 + }, + { + "text": "I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully-trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.", + "source": "The Mandalorian", + "length": 86, + "id": 5845 + }, + { + "text": "You have something I want. You may think you have some idea of what you have in your possession, but you do not. Soon, he will be back with me. 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May you know peace and joy.\"", + "source": "Twelve Minutes", + "length": 349, + "id": 5850 + }, + { + "text": "In this world, wherever there is light, there are always shadows. As long as there is a concept of victory, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish desire for peace give rise to war. And hatred is born in order to protect love. These are all nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Naruto: Madara Uchiha", + "length": 301, + "id": 5851 + }, + { + "text": "I'm tired of being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes.", + "source": "Numb", + "length": 177, + "id": 5852 + }, + { + "text": "But still, what is teamwork really when you get right down to it? Is it just about protecting each other and helping each other out? I guess most people would say so, but they're just fooling themselves. I think teamwork is more than that in the end. It's about individuals taking individual risks if you ask me. We work together by working separately. You stand up to risk your own life. You do what you can the best that you can, then you turn to the others and expect the same from them.", + "source": "One Piece", + "length": 490, + "id": 5854 + }, + { + "text": "In the rigor which is space, this spacesuit was designed by engineers to maintain your life in space, and can be called the smallest spaceship.", + "source": "Space Brothers", + "length": 143, + "id": 5855 + }, + { + "text": "If the truth is a cruel mistress, then a lie must be a nice girl.", + "source": "Oregairu", + "length": 65, + "id": 5856 + }, + { + "text": "This… is Berk. The best kept secret this side of, well, anywhere. Granted, it may not look like much, but this wet heap of rock packs more than a few surprises. Life here is amazing, just not for the faint of heart. See, where most folks enjoy hobbies like whittling or needlepoint, we Berkians prefer a little something we like to call: DRAGON RACING!", + "source": "Hiccup, How To Train Your Dragon 2", + "length": 352, + "id": 5857 + }, + { + "text": "We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever.", + "source": "Bleach", + "length": 200, + "id": 5858 + }, + { + "text": "Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.", + "source": "Dark(Netflix series)", + "length": 120, + "id": 5859 + }, + { + "text": "She must have known that if she let go, I would never return. If I slipped through her hands, I'd be gone, and no one would be able to bring me back. She didn't erase all my pain, or offer to solve all my problems. She didn't fix everything that was broken... But that's not what I needed anyway. What mattered most, was that, she stayed. I love you. I love you, so much, just as you are.", + "source": "Fruits Basket", + "length": 388, + "id": 5860 + }, + { + "text": "Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.", + "source": "Corey Taylor - Seven Deadly Sins", + "length": 60, + "id": 5861 + }, + { + "text": "Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 65, + "id": 5862 + }, + { + "text": "It's dangerous for them to grow up without experiencing true competition. Because they'll keep whining, even without taking the matter seriously. For those with a high level of aptitude... The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.", + "source": "Assassination Classroom", + "length": 270, + "id": 5863 + }, + { + "text": "You may have grown too strong. 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And I would know - I just turned 25.", + "source": "Lower Your Expectations - Bo Burnham", + "length": 212, + "id": 5870 + }, + { + "text": "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto, \"Anyone can cook\". But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.", + "source": "Ratatouille", + "length": 1315, + "id": 5871 + }, + { + "text": "When my grandfather died, I was ten, and nobody had ever died on me before. All of a sudden, it hit me: I'm never going to see him again, but I was wrong. Every once in a while I'll get into a car that has that same stale, smoky scent, and it all comes back to me. I look forward to those flashbacks of him, and I wonder what, if anything, will remind people of me.", + "source": "Pushing Dead", + "length": 365, + "id": 5872 + }, + { + "text": "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've outrun Imperial starships. Not the local bulk cruisers, mind you. I'm talking about the big Corellian ships, now. She's fast enough for you, old man.", + "source": "Han Solo - Star Wars", + "length": 222, + "id": 5874 + }, + { + "text": "Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling... makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition's blurred. If I'm to choose between one evil and another, I'd rather not choose at all.", + "source": "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt", + "length": 191, + "id": 5875 + }, + { + "text": "We're the only species in the known universe that knows it's in a universe.", + "source": "The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green", + "length": 75, + "id": 5876 + }, + { + "text": "This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere. I've hacked into the Covenant battlenet.", + "source": "Cortana - Halo: Combat Evolved", + "length": 123, + "id": 5877 + }, + { + "text": "I will here give a brief sketch of the progress of opinion on the Origin of Species. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. This view has been ably maintained by many authors. Some few naturalists, on the other hand, have believed that species undergo modification, and that the existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers, the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon. But as his opinions fluctuated greatly at different periods, and as he does not enter on the causes or means of the transformation of species, I need not here enter on details.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 784, + "id": 5878 + }, + { + "text": "To the effects of intercrossing in eliminating variations of all kinds, I shall have to recur; but it may be here remarked that most animals and plants keep to their proper homes, and do not needlessly wander about; we see this even with migratory birds, which almost always return to the same spot. Consequently each newly-formed variety would generally be at first local, as seems to be the common rule with varieties in a state of nature; so that similarly modified individuals would soon exist in a small body together, and would often breed together. If the new variety were successful in its battle for life, it would slowly spread from a central district, competing with and conquering the unchanged individuals on the margins of an ever-increasing circle.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 763, + "id": 5879 + }, + { + "text": "Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible. There are crustaceans at the opposite ends of the series, which have hardly a character in common; yet the species at both ends, from being plainly allied to others, and these to others, and so onwards, can be recognised as unequivocally belonging to this, and to no other class of the Articulata.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 530, + "id": 5881 + }, + { + "text": "These cases of close relationship in species either now or formerly inhabiting the seas on the eastern and western shores of North America, the Mediterranean and Japan, and the temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory of creation. We cannot maintain that such species have been created alike, in correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas; for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with parts of South Africa or Australia, we see countries closely similar in all their physical conditions, with their inhabitants utterly dissimilar.", + "source": "On the Origin of Species", + "length": 618, + "id": 5882 + }, + { + "text": "I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War, when I was shot at... it was almost impossible for me to sweat.", + "source": "Prince Andrew, BBC Interview", + "length": 186, + "id": 5886 + }, + { + "text": "No one's gonna take me alive. Time has come to make things right. You and I must fight for our rights. You and I must fight to survive.", + "source": "Knights of Cydonia", + "length": 135, + "id": 5888 + }, + { + "text": "That's how much we enjoy it mate - putting our lives at risk. I do it for my local community, I do it for the township of Nelligen, and the people of Australia. That's what I do it for. I don't do it for you Scott Morrison, I don't do it for any of you pricks in government.", + "source": "Paul Parker", + "length": 274, + "id": 5890 + }, + { + "text": "Jonathan, you have touched my very being. I shall remember you. You taught all that knew you what courage meant and have shown us an example in death as you did in life. God give me strength in my life without you. And I shall thank her. I can only hope that our souls shall entwine again in the place where there is only love, no tears, no sadness, no injustice, no cruelty, no white, no black, no zombies, no hate, no war, only love. Only love, Alison.", + "source": "Left 4 Dead", + "length": 454, + "id": 5891 + }, + { + "text": "Listen... everywhere you look in this world wherever there is light there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors the vanquished will also exist.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 190, + "id": 5893 + }, + { + "text": "The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates wars. And hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses, causal relationships that cannot be separated. I want to sever the fate of this world. A world of only victors. A world of only peace. A world of only love. I will create such a world. I am... the ghost of the Uchiha.", + "source": "Naruto Shippuden", + "length": 346, + "id": 5895 + }, + { + "text": "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.", + "source": "To Kill a Mockingbird", + "length": 83, + "id": 5896 + }, + { + "text": "In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 264, + "id": 5897 + }, + { + "text": "Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 282, + "id": 5899 + }, + { + "text": "A violent emotion, not fear exactly but a sort of undifferentiated excitement, flared up in him, then faded again. He stopped thinking about the war. In these days he could never fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few moments at a time.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 249, + "id": 5900 + }, + { + "text": "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.", + "source": "Neil Gaiman", + "length": 129, + "id": 5901 + }, + { + "text": "Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 376, + "id": 5902 + }, + { + "text": "He took up his glass and sniffed at it. The stuff grew not less but more horrible with every mouthful he drank. But it had become the element he swam in. It was his life, his death, and his resurrection. It was gin that sank him into stupor every night, and gin that revived him every morning.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 293, + "id": 5903 + }, + { + "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.", + "source": "Nineteen Eighty-Four", + "length": 353, + "id": 5904 + }, + { + "text": "He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.", + "source": "The Great Gatsby", + "length": 235, + "id": 5905 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not going to pretend to you that I go out each day and I buy a loaf of bread and I buy a litre of milk.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 107, + "id": 5906 + }, + { + "text": "At national cabinet today we agreed to proceed no further with the issue of 16-year-old forklift drivers.", + "source": "Scott Morrison", + "length": 105, + "id": 5907 + }, + { + "text": "Hey Bob, I'm looking at what Jack was talking about and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby. It is a bright object and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth, it's up at about 11 o'clock, about maybe ten or twelve Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there's something out there.", + "source": "Eugene Cernan", + "length": 478, + "id": 5908 + }, + { + "text": "Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?", + "source": "The Simpsons", + "length": 130, + "id": 5909 + }, + { + "text": "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.", + "source": "William Carlos Williams", + "length": 89, + "id": 5910 + }, + { + "text": "Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.", + "source": "House of Cards", + "length": 60, + "id": 5912 + }, + { + "text": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", + "source": "Henry Van Dyke", + "length": 172, + "id": 5913 + }, + { + "text": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", + "source": "Epicurus", + "length": 117, + "id": 5914 + }, + { + "text": "I'm hacking the FBI. Step one: identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using to own the FBI standard-issue smartphone. The library was a test to see if I could even get into the system. I've since set greater goals. For instance, step two: build malware and prepare an attack. At my fingertips, the zero day is wrapped in code like a Christmas present, then becomes an exploit, the programmatic expression of my will. Step three: a reverse shell, two-stage exploit. The ideal package. Load the malware into a femtocell delivery system - my personal cell tower that'll intercept all mobile data. Similar to my first time, when I found myself staring at late book fees, employee names, member addresses. Everything was revealed. The secret of the perfect hack? Make it infallible. Hidden within the kernel is a logic bomb, malicious code designed to execute under circumstances I've programmed. Should the FBI take an image of the femtocell, all memory will self-corrupt, or explode. Step four: Write the script. Why do it myself? Because that's how I learned, and I know exactly what, when, and how it's going to run. I didn't do anything harmful my first time. Just looked around. But I felt so powerful. 11 years old and in complete control of the Washington Township Public Library. Today is different. I hacked the world. Final step: launch the attack. Once I do, I'll own the Android phone of every FBI agent in that building. I'll own Evil Corp's network, applications, everything. Domain Admin. This, the thrill of owning a system, this is the greatest rush. God access. The feeling never gets old.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 1766, + "id": 5915 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I was a kid I got into web design by ripping off sites I liked. All you had to do was view source on your browser and there it was. The code. You could copy-paste it, modify it a little, put your name on it, and like that, it was your site. View source. What if we had that for people? Would people really wanna see?", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 332, + "id": 5916 + }, + { + "text": "Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re-assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?", + "source": "The Phantom of the Opera", + "length": 513, + "id": 5917 + }, + { + "text": "They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 105, + "id": 5918 + }, + { + "text": "He said: \"One day you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.\" My father told me when I was just a child: \"These are the nights that never die.\" My father told me...", + "source": "Avicii - The Nights", + "length": 187, + "id": 5919 + }, + { + "text": "What do I do? System architecture. Networking and security. No one in this house can touch me on that. But does anyone appreciate that? While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing acapella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers. I was one click away from starting a second Iranian Revolution. I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet - heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouTube ones and zeroes streaming directly to your little smart phone day after day? Every joe who gets outraged if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire company. That's what I do.", + "source": "Bertram Gilfoyle - Silicon Valley", + "length": 987, + "id": 5920 + }, + { + "text": "Myanmar and Brazil. Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated. Unlike Myanmar and Brazil, Indonesia has no cicada population. I was surprised to see Indonesian sesame seed futures priced so low. I made a purchase. And now, if the shortage spikes the global price even ten percent. We'll profit... Evan? \"Sixty-eight million dollars.\" If you wish, I could tap that projected revenue and make you a bridge loan of 15 million dollars, gentlemen.", + "source": "Peter Gregory - Silicon Valley", + "length": 740, + "id": 5921 + }, + { + "text": "So the crime was a trip to the market. The sentence, a lifetime of hurt. As she saw through tears. Her home of thirty odd years, reduced to rubble and dirt. And she cursed those who would approach her and hold papers up to her face, and say \"You should feel blessed you live in the US and not some other hellish place.\"", + "source": "Mischief Brew - Save a City", + "length": 319, + "id": 5922 + }, + { + "text": "If it starts with an explosion do you end it with a bang? First the whistles start a-blowin' then the guilty finally hang. There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, we're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times. The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand. Everyone is pointing fingers, everybody plays their hand. The fix is in, the game is rigged, the pawns are polarized. You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.", + "source": "Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows", + "length": 476, + "id": 5923 + }, + { + "text": "Time passed. Even with the power throbbing through her head it was a painfully hard task, like threading a needle by moonlight, but eventually she had a handful of silver. In the slow, heavy world in which she now appeared to be she took the hank and threw it slowly towards Esk. It became a cloud, swirled like a whirlpool and vanished. She was aware of a shrill chittering noise, and shadows on the edge of sight. Well, it happened to everyone sooner or later. They had come, drawn as always by a discharge of magic. You just had to learn to ignore them.", + "source": "Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites", + "length": 556, + "id": 5925 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 182, + "id": 5926 + }, + { + "text": "I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 281, + "id": 5927 + }, + { + "text": "I put thirty-four years into this firm, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 155, + "id": 5928 + }, + { + "text": "Willy, when're you gonna realize that them things don't mean anything? You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 248, + "id": 5929 + }, + { + "text": "How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 280, + "id": 5930 + }, + { + "text": "It's not what you do. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that's the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!", + "source": "Death of a Salesman", + "length": 289, + "id": 5931 + }, + { + "text": "I started to move and to make some kind of joke but Joey mumbled something and I put my head down to hear. Joey raised his head as I lowered mine and we kissed, as it were, by accident. Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person's body, of another person's smell.", + "source": "James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room", + "length": 294, + "id": 5932 + }, + { + "text": "After all, seasons change, so do cities; people come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.", + "source": "Sex and the City", + "length": 204, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5934 + }, + { + "text": "You want to know something funny? After everything you've done, I would have saved you.", + "source": "Batman: Arkham City", + "length": 87, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5935 + }, + { + "text": "When my mama came from Cuba, she felt like one tiny grain of sand from the beaches we left behind. She bought a winter coat and a pair of velvet gloves. Her hands were cracked from the cleaning fluids. But the gloves hid that. We had to assert our dignity in small ways. That's why these napkins are beautiful. That's why my mother's gloves were beautiful. Little details that tell the world we are not invisible.", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5937 + }, + { + "text": "Reporting from the Weather Balloon, over the smoke stacks, over the city, The Weather Man.", + "source": "Little Inferno", + "length": 90, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5940 + }, + { + "text": "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?", + "source": "System Shock 2 ", + "length": 163, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5941 + }, + { + "text": "From today, dialling 999 won't get you the emergency services. And that's not the only thing that's changing. Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers means they're not the emergency services. They're your emergency services. So! Remember the new number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", + "source": "IT Crowd", + "length": 307, + "id": 5942 + }, + { + "text": "It's a long, hard, dusty road you'll journey on through a world you never known. Only time will tell you if or not if your life has been in vain. Each morning sunrise brings question and query, each sunset brings you more doubts. Always you're searching for what, you're not even sure, melting away like an icicle on fire.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 322, + "id": 5943 + }, + { + "text": "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.", + "source": "Xavier: Renegade Angel", + "length": 137, + "id": 5944 + }, + { + "text": "But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.", + "source": "The Master and Margarita", + "length": 420, + "id": 5945 + }, + { + "text": "In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill Yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!", + "source": "The Office", + "length": 379, + "id": 5947 + }, + { + "text": "Well, this is what happened. Ryan's big project was the web site, which wasn't doing so well. So Ryan, to give the impression of sales, recorded them twice. Once as office sales, and once as web site sales. Which is what we refer to in the business as misleading the shareholders. Another good term is fraud. The real crime, I think, was the beard.", + "source": "Oscar Martinez - The Office (US)", + "length": 348, + "id": 5950 + }, + { + "text": "Our gathering was not as strange a thing as it might have appeared. A xenophobe would see a company of foreigners in camouflage uniforms, carrying out military drills and calisthenics, and might imagine us to be the lead element of some nefarious Asian invasion of the American homeland, a Yellow Peril in the Golden State, a diabolical dream of Ming the Merciless sprung to life. Far from it. The General's men, by preparing themselves to invade our now communist homeland, were in fact turning themselves into new Americans. After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else's freedom and independence.", + "source": "The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)", + "length": 729, + "id": 5951 + }, + { + "text": "You were born broken. That's your birthright. And now you can fill your life with projects - your books, and your movies, and your little girlfriends, but that won't make you whole. You're BoJack Horseman. There's no cure for that.", + "source": "Bojack Horseman", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5956 + }, + { + "text": "The only reason I must rely on this sword is because I am imperfect. A true warrior... needs no sword.", + "source": "Vinland Saga", + "length": 102, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5957 + }, + { + "text": "In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you... Waiting for you to come to see me. But you never do. And so I wait, wrapped in my cocoon of pain and loneliness. I know I've done a terrible thing to you. Something you'll never forgive me for. I wish I could change that, but I can't. I feel so pathetic and ugly laying here, waiting for you... Every day I stare up at the cracks in the ceiling and all I can think about is how unfair it all is... The doctor came today. He told me I could go home for a short stay. It's not that I'm getting better. It's just that this may be my last chance... I think you know what I mean... Even so, I'm glad to be coming home. I've missed you terribly. But I'm afraid, James. I'm afraid you don't really want me to come home. Whenever you come see me, I can tell how hard it is on you... I don't know if you hate me or pity me... Or maybe I just disgust you... I'm sorry about that. When I first learned that I was going to die, I just didn't want to accept it. I was so angry all the time and I struck out at everyone I loved most. Especially you, James. That's why I understand if you do hate me. But I want you to know this, James. I'll always love you. Even though our life together had to end like this, I still wouldn't trade it for the world. We had some wonderful years together. Well, this letter has gone on too long, so I'll say goodbye. I told the nurse to give this to you after I'm gone. That means that as you read this, I'm already dead. I can't tell you to remember me, but I can't bear for you to forget me. These last few years since I became ill... I'm so sorry for what I did to you, did to us... You've given me so much and I haven't been able to return a single thing. That's why I want you to live for yourself now. Do what's best for you, James. James... You made me happy.", + "source": "Silent Hill 2", + "length": 1982, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 5958 + }, + { + "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.", + "source": "Mark Twain", + "length": 113, + "id": 6064 + }, + { + "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", + "source": "Colin Powell", + "length": 103, + "id": 6065 + }, + { + "text": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.", + "source": "Conrad Hilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6066 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", + "source": "Zig Ziglar", + "length": 116, + "id": 6067 + }, + { + "text": "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.", + "source": "The Pride of the Yankees", + "length": 67, + "id": 6068 + }, + { + "text": "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.", + "source": "Barack Obama", + "length": 193, + "id": 6069 + }, + { + "text": "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.", + "source": "Charles Swindoll", + "length": 81, + "id": 6071 + }, + { + "text": "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.", + "source": "Oprah Winfrey", + "length": 132, + "id": 6072 + }, + { + "text": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", + "source": "Harriet Tubman", + "length": 165, + "id": 6073 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 86, + "id": 6074 + }, + { + "text": "I just want to apologize to Mike's mom and Josh's mom and my mom. And I'm sorry to everyone. I was very naive. I am so, so sorry for everything that has happened. Because in spite of what Mike says now, it is my fault. Because it was my project and I insisted. I insisted on everything. I insisted we weren't lost. I insisted we keep going. I insisted that we walk south. Everything had to be my way and this is where we've ended up. And it's all because of me that we're here now: hungry and cold and hunted. I love you, Mom and Dad. I am so sorry... what is that? I'm scared to close my eyes and I'm scared to open them. I'm going to die out here.", + "source": "The Blair Witch Project", + "length": 649, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6075 + }, + { + "text": "I had always been inspired by storytellers. I loved my job as an HR Manager. It allowed me to interact with different people from different places, each one having their own different stories, bringing their own songs to the dance. Life was a chaotic struggle, trying to search for where I belonged and who I was supposed to be. Each person I had interviewed had his or her own fascinating story, which made me wonder: what's my story? I didn't want to be normal, just like so many people I had met in life. Being only twenty-six, I wasn't exactly sure what the meaning of my life would really be, and where I could find it.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 624, + "id": 6076 + }, + { + "text": "Every weekend I found myself sitting and listening to amazing authors at the cafe Coffee & Us. I was drawn to authors, fascinated by their ability to create other people's stories. How could they draw the truth from each individual and build a beautifully woven tale? I guess, having stories stuck in my own soul was the reason I needed to hear other people's stories. But I didn't just want to hear stories; my heart was aching to tell a beautiful story which would change people's lives, or at least mine. So there I was at Coffee & Us, my hands wrapped around a warm, soothing cup of coffee. I could listen to the world around me, hear the songs of life, or I could put my earplugs in and mute out of the world. I had seen so many writers come through these doors, and often I wondered if this cafe had some magic within its walls.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 834, + "id": 6077 + }, + { + "text": "Kabir, the manager, paused in his duties and addressed me. \"When are you going to stop dreaming about being an author, Meera, and finally write a book?\" His voice might have sounded stern to an outsider, but Kabir had become my good friend. I'm not sure when, but at some point while I was becoming a regular visitor to his cafe, our casual conversation had blossomed into a warm friendship. He respected my opinions, and I treasured his. \"I don't know,\" I said, frowning.", + "source": "Everyone has on a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 472, + "id": 6078 + }, + { + "text": "I ran my fingers through my long hair and let out a frustrated sigh, looking around at all the people in the small cafe. I think I will know when it is the right story to write. I just haven't come across it yet. I'm still searching for that unique story, the one that will inspire me to take that next step.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 308, + "id": 6079 + }, + { + "text": "He strolled to the counter where another cup of my favourite coffee - a frothy cappuccino - was placed. Kabir set it in the front of me, smiling gently. I am sure, one day, I will be here, pouring coffee and fetching people their orders, as I listen to you up there. The place is going to be packed; you will see. He smiled at the thought and I wondered for a moment if this was my dream or his. Of course, as friends, even our dreams would work in unison, wouldn't they?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 471, + "id": 6080 + }, + { + "text": "Still, I lacked the confidence he seemed to have in my future success. As much as I wanted to take that next step to give my words the life they deserved, something held me back. I glanced over at the small area where so many writers had stood, taking a small sip of their ice water and clearing their throats before speaking the words I craved to say.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 352, + "id": 6081 + }, + { + "text": "I don't think I would be good enough to stand up there and face the world and a group of readers. It must take a lot of courage for them to do what they do, I said, blowing on my coffee before taking a tentative sip. I smiled as the frothy bubbles clung to my lip and licked them off delicately. What if someone laughed at what I wrote?", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 336, + "id": 6082 + }, + { + "text": "Definitely, I said. What would the weekend bring for some? Would I still be lost in search of my story? Live life in moments, not in days or years or your schedules. It's our misconception - most of the time - that we live our lives the way we want. Every single step that we take is influenced by others. Only the part that we hide from everyone else and keep deep within our heart, is our own. I strongly urge you all to realize that hidden part of yours. Go, live that part. Live your life. Don't let your dreams die within you. Trust me, your struggle, your fight, will be worth the risk in opening yourself up. Get up. Inhale the air of passion. Start your journey. Grab your dreams. Enjoy your mistakes. Dance to the rhythm of your heartbeats. Smile. Laugh. Love. Live.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 775, + "id": 6084 + }, + { + "text": "Author Arjun Mehra uttered these final words with confidence. His hands were clasped together as he looked expectantly around the cafe. His eyes met mine, and I felt my heart beat a little faster. It was as if he was speaking directly to me. But, in fact, he had touched the hearts of every single person in the cafe with his mesmerizing words. How was it that an author could hold such a magical power over people? I closed my eyes and imagined that I was the speaker, standing confidently in front of an audience. I smiled softly to myself. Perhaps one day I would actually be able to move a crowd like this.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 610, + "id": 6085 + }, + { + "text": "I took a deep breath. I... I want to write like you, I began nervously, twisting the napkin in my hands as I decided to answer him as truthfully as I could. But I don't know what to write. I am inspired by the world around me, but I am still in search of a story that can change the lives of people. My words sounded hesitant to my ears and I wished I hadn't spoken them.", + "source": "Everyone has a story - Savi Sharma", + "length": 371, + "id": 6087 + }, + { + "text": "I walked back home. The narrow lanes of the old city were bustling with the evening crowd. My house and Ishaan's were only half a kilometre apart. Everything in my world fell between this distance. I passed by the Nana park, extra packed with kids playing cricket as India had won the match. I played here almost every day of my school life. We still come here sometimes, but now we prefer the abandoned bank branch compound near my home.", + "source": "The 3 mistakes of my life - Chetan Bhagat", + "length": 438, + "id": 6088 + }, + { + "text": "This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies; Both seas within him rest, and yet in that small pool he lies.", + "source": "Atharva veda", + "length": 127, + "id": 6089 + }, + { + "text": "Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they are in trouble, they look for someone to help them. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. Every recurrent anguish, longing, and desire finds its own special helper. For the people who come to me in distress, I am but a go-between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings. This is not a correct approach at all and should never be followed. One must understand the difference between a fear-hidden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves.", + "source": "Wings of Fire - A P J Abdul Kalam", + "length": 681, + "id": 6090 + }, + { + "text": "A king may think over his state affairs with the concentration of a duck and unfold his valour like a lion. Like a wolf he should ambush the enemy, and if occasion demands, flee like a rabbit.", + "source": "The ways of the Victorious King", + "length": 192, + "id": 6091 + }, + { + "text": "One must be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight off wolves.", + "source": "The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli", + "length": 69, + "id": 6092 + }, + { + "text": "Imitate the stork in biding your time, but when the time is right, act with swift and sure aim even as the stork does.", + "source": "Tirukkurral", + "length": 118, + "id": 6093 + }, + { + "text": "They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research, watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck... Was I wrong?", + "source": "Halo 3", + "length": 337, + "id": 6095 + }, + { + "text": "Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.", + "source": "By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept", + "length": 219, + "id": 6096 + }, + { + "text": "Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 71, + "id": 6097 + }, + { + "text": "And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.", + "source": "Lie With Me - Philippe Besson", + "length": 237, + "id": 6098 + }, + { + "text": "But what did it matter - I thought as I closed my eyes - what does it matter, why not let it stay.", + "source": "Cleanness - Garth Greenwell", + "length": 98, + "id": 6099 + }, + { + "text": "Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion.", + "source": "My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh", + "length": 62, + "id": 6100 + }, + { + "text": "I do not want anyone to get close to me, I do not want anyone to see me, and this is the way things have developed: no one gets close and no one sees me.", + "source": "A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard", + "length": 153, + "id": 6101 + }, + { + "text": "If there's a logical explanation for something, then I'll believe it, but if there isn't one, I... will choose the most romantic option.", + "source": "Remember11", + "length": 136, + "id": 6102 + }, + { + "text": "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.", + "source": "War of the Foxes - Richard Siken", + "length": 94, + "id": 6103 + }, + { + "text": "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 59, + "id": 6104 + }, + { + "text": "Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.", + "source": "Just Kids - Patti Smith", + "length": 157, + "id": 6106 + }, + { + "text": "\"How Soon Is Now\" in an 80s sedan: you slept inside of it because your dad lived in a campground in the back of a van. You said that song'll creep you out until you're dead.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 173, + "id": 6107 + }, + { + "text": "So I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound you'll hide under the floor, but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End", + "length": 190, + "id": 6108 + }, + { + "text": "These eyes, these arms, this heart, has loved almost everything. But not you, but not you. But I want to.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - It's Not Like", + "length": 105, + "id": 6109 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you know the old formula: Comedy equals tragedy plus time. And you have been asleep for a while. So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 162, + "id": 6110 + }, + { + "text": "Wherever I end up after this... in whatever reality... all those moments between us were real, and they'll always be ours.", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 122, + "id": 6112 + }, + { + "text": "I could frame any one of you in a dark corner, and capture you in a moment of desperation. And any of you could do that to me. Isn't that too easy? Too obvious?", + "source": "Life Is Strange", + "length": 160, + "id": 6113 + }, + { + "text": "Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.", + "source": "The Secret History - Donna Tartt", + "length": 239, + "id": 6114 + }, + { + "text": "\"Wild women don't get the blues,\" but I find that lately I've been crying like a tall child.", + "source": "Mitski - First Love / Late Spring", + "length": 92, + "id": 6115 + }, + { + "text": "I drive when it rains; at night when it rains, I drive. And the headlight spirits, they lead me down the Styx - so black it shines.", + "source": "Mitski - Carry Me Out", + "length": 131, + "id": 6116 + }, + { + "text": "I never said I'd be alright, just thought I could hold myself together. But I couldn't breathe, I went outside - don't know why I thought it'd be any better.", + "source": "Boygenius - Me & My Dog", + "length": 157, + "id": 6117 + }, + { + "text": "'Cause you are unfixable, I can't break through your world. 'Cause you live in shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable.", + "source": "Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool", + "length": 121, + "id": 6118 + }, + { + "text": "Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river. You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night beside her. And you know that she's half-crazy, but that's why you wanna be there. And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China.", + "source": "Leonard Cohen - Suzanne", + "length": 256, + "id": 6119 + }, + { + "text": "They say I'm too young to love you. I don't know what I need. 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But my enemies brought me war.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 59, + "id": 6123 + }, + { + "text": "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.", + "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", + "length": 76, + "id": 6124 + }, + { + "text": "You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 182, + "id": 6125 + }, + { + "text": "There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.", + "source": "Golden Son - Pierce Brown", + "length": 62, + "id": 6126 + }, + { + "text": "She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.", + "source": "Red Rising - Pierce Brown", + "length": 71, + "id": 6127 + }, + { + "text": "But it's just that I fell in love with a war, and nobody told me it ended. And it left a pearl in my head, and I roll it around every night just to watch it glow.", + "source": "Mitski - A Pearl", + "length": 162, + "id": 6128 + }, + { + "text": "The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68, and he told me, \"All romantics meet the same fate someday: cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.\"", + "source": "Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard", + "length": 164, + "id": 6129 + }, + { + "text": "The hours pass, and she still counts the minutes that I am not there. I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this, like every inch of me is bruised, bruised.", + "source": "Jack's Mannequin - Bruised", + "length": 160, + "id": 6130 + }, + { + "text": "Can't keep hangin' on to what is dead and gone. If you built yourself a myth, you'd know just what to give. Materialize, or let the ashes fly?", + "source": "Beach House - Myth", + "length": 142, + "id": 6131 + }, + { + "text": "\"More.\" You want more, you tell me \"more.\" Only time can run me.", + "source": "Beach House - Walk In The Park", + "length": 64, + "id": 6132 + }, + { + "text": "Yet I'm tracing figure eights on ice in skates, so well. And if this ice should break, it would be my mistake.", + "source": "Beach House - PPP", + "length": 110, + "id": 6133 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you ever cross that bridge in your mind again. It's like a movie screen.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Movie Screen", + "length": 78, + "id": 6134 + }, + { + "text": "I want flatlands - soft and steady breeze bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees, dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves. I want flatlands, will you go there with me?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Flatlands", + "length": 175, + "id": 6135 + }, + { + "text": "Answer, you'd only answer in questions. You knew me well. After, did we care for one-another or ourselves at all?", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - Our Work Was Good", + "length": 113, + "id": 6136 + }, + { + "text": "I covered you in royal jelly, I made you queen and you forgave me.", + "source": "Chelsea Wolfe - The Waves Have Come", + "length": 66, + "id": 6137 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near. No, you're nowhere near.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near", + "length": 67, + "id": 6138 + }, + { + "text": "Well, I used to have the notion that I could swim the ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me.", + "source": "Yo La Tengo - The Whole of the Law", + "length": 95, + "id": 6139 + }, + { + "text": "And sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Georgia", + "length": 80, + "id": 6141 + }, + { + "text": "And I have this dream where I'm screaming underwater, while my friends are waving from the shore. And I don't need you to tell me what that means, I don't believe in that stuff anymore.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 185, + "id": 6142 + }, + { + "text": "I'm on the outside looking through: you're throwing rocks around your room. And while you're bleeding on your back in the glass, I'll be glad that I made it out, and sorry that it all went down like it did.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness", + "length": 206, + "id": 6143 + }, + { + "text": "If you're a work of art, I'm standing too close. I can see the brushstrokes.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - ICU", + "length": 76, + "id": 6144 + }, + { + "text": "Baby, you're a vampire. You want blood, and I promised - I'm a bad liar, with a savior complex.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex", + "length": 95, + "id": 6145 + }, + { + "text": "I buried a hatchet, it's coming up lavender. The future's unwritten, the past is a corridor: I'm at the exit, looking back through the hall; you are anonymous, I am a concrete wall.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals", + "length": 181, + "id": 6146 + }, + { + "text": "Just tell me about the boulevards. Tell me about your life in art.", + "source": "Mojave 3 - My Life in Art", + "length": 66, + "id": 6147 + }, + { + "text": "This is not my life, it's just a fond farewell to a friend. It's not what I'm like, it's just a fond farewell to a friend who couldn't get things right. A fond farewell to a friend.", + "source": "Elliott Smith - A Fond Farewell", + "length": 181, + "id": 6148 + }, + { + "text": "My memories don't feel as though they've been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.", + "source": "The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa", + "length": 291, + "id": 6149 + }, + { + "text": "A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 297, + "id": 6150 + }, + { + "text": "Like Lot's wife, you looked back, and like Lot's wife, you were turned into a pillar of salt, but unlike Lot's wife, God gave you a second chance and turned you human again, but then you looked back again and became salt and then God took pity and gave you a third, and over and again you lurched through your many reprieves and mistakes; one moment motionless and the next gangly, your soft limbs wheeling and your body staggering into the dirt, and then stiff as a tree trunk again with an aura of dust, then windmilling down the road as fire rains down behind you; and there has never been a woman as cartoonish as you — animal to mineral and back again.", + "source": "In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado", + "length": 657, + "id": 6151 + }, + { + "text": "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, \"This is what it is to be happy.\"", + "source": "The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath", + "length": 128, + "id": 6152 + }, + { + "text": "It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 136, + "id": 6153 + }, + { + "text": "Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 64, + "id": 6154 + }, + { + "text": "I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.", + "source": "Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides", + "length": 178, + "id": 6155 + }, + { + "text": "The future wasn't set in stone. Maybe something good would happen. Perhaps I would experience something that made me glad I kept living. The chances weren't zero. And that meant I couldn't yet give in to the allure of death.", + "source": "Three Days of Happiness - Sugaru Miaki", + "length": 224, + "id": 6157 + }, + { + "text": "There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid you're going to break them, and the people you don't want to touch because you're afraid they'll break you.", + "source": "Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory - Raphael Bob-Waksberg", + "length": 207, + "id": 6158 + }, + { + "text": "It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.", + "source": "Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre", + "length": 220, + "id": 6159 + }, + { + "text": "You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.", + "source": "Blindness - José Saramago", + "length": 274, + "id": 6160 + }, + { + "text": "They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.", + "source": "Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan", + "length": 112, + "id": 6161 + }, + { + "text": "You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.", + "source": "Lust & Wonder - Augusten Burroughs", + "length": 272, + "id": 6162 + }, + { + "text": "People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.", + "source": "The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett", + "length": 136, + "id": 6163 + }, + { + "text": "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.", + "source": "Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier", + "length": 454, + "id": 6164 + }, + { + "text": "Anyone can change the direction of his life, any time at all, if only he has enough motivation: that was the moral of the story. The cat found it easier to believe this than to think about what it actually meant: that the word anyone actually referred to a very small group of people, that time has no direction, and that motivation is rarely the salient difference between people.", + "source": "My Cat Yugoslavia - Pajtim Statovci", + "length": 381, + "id": 6165 + }, + { + "text": "Emma puts her head on Wallace's shoulder but she won't say anything either, can't bring herself to. No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because if they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pass for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened. Only Wallace will remember it. That's the frustrating part. Wallace is the only one for whom this is a humiliation.", + "source": "Real Life - Brandon Taylor", + "length": 453, + "id": 6166 + }, + { + "text": "I'm singing at a funeral tomorrow for a kid a year older than me. And I've been talking to his dad, makes me so sad. When I think too much about it, I can't breathe.", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral", + "length": 165, + "id": 6167 + }, + { + "text": "I asked you, \"How is your sister? I heard she got her degree.\" And I said, \"That makes me feel old.\" You said, \"What does that make me?\"", + "source": "Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street", + "length": 136, + "id": 6168 + }, + { + "text": "Everywhere I go, I can see your face: alive and gone at once - hey, that's the way I see this place. And all this blessing was a curse, before I opened up my heart. You learn to take it as it comes; you fall together, fall apart.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Sister", + "length": 229, + "id": 6169 + }, + { + "text": "Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.", + "source": "East of Eden - John Steinbeck", + "length": 170, + "id": 6170 + }, + { + "text": "I am at the river with baby, her father enters with a leap. Hold her head above the water - she is pale against the streak. I am the horse beneath his daughter, he is the mountain underneath.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears", + "length": 191, + "id": 6171 + }, + { + "text": "Rushed in to hold down your page, and now I sleep 'side words you do not read with me. I hear a song from inside the maze - the very one you made. You shook at the ivory mantle. As a poet, I knew to be gentle. When you have a child, so begins the braiding, and in that braid you stay.", + "source": "Aldous Harding - The Barrel", + "length": 284, + "id": 6172 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.", + "source": "The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama", + "length": 204, + "id": 6173 + }, + { + "text": "On the lead guitar, said you'd go to work in the waking hour. In fluorescent light, antisocialites watch a wilting flower.", + "source": "Alvvays - Dreams Tonite", + "length": 122, + "id": 6174 + }, + { + "text": "An outcast of modern society suffering from a case of sobriety. Shortcomings, well, you can take your pick, when you're catering to one of your nervous ticks. When you whisper you don't think of me that way; when I mention you don't mean that much to me, to me, to me.", + "source": "Alvvays - The Agency Group", + "length": 268, + "id": 6175 + }, + { + "text": "My friend, you are unique, but not always. Some stranger you don't know has surely felt your pain. Some stranger out there might even own your name, and say all the things that you said - your thoughts existing in someone else's head.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - If It's Alive, It Will", + "length": 234, + "id": 6176 + }, + { + "text": "I quit my dreaming the moment that I found you. I started dancing, just to be around you. Here's to thinking that it all meant so much more. I kept my mouth shut, and opened up the door.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - Unf**ktheworld", + "length": 186, + "id": 6177 + }, + { + "text": "When you don't know that you're wrong, or just how wrong you are. My feet are always heavy, as I inch toward the door. I thought we'd leave us for ourselves, a hundred times before, but I guess we're always leaving, even when we look the same. And it eases me somehow to know that even this will change. If you've got some light in you, then go before it's gone - burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done.", + "source": "Angel Olsen - White Fire", + "length": 423, + "id": 6178 + }, + { + "text": "Jonny, who was it that said, \"A white wall may seem empty, but it's ready to be filled. And, in its readiness, needs nothing; It stands complete.\" Was it you? I don't remember, but it makes me wonder: Jonny, why couldn't you be ready, too? I was ready, ready to be happy. Ready for that long look that never ends.", + "source": "Faye Webster - Jonny (Reprise)", + "length": 313, + "id": 6179 + }, + { + "text": "Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. 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A walking disaster can also master a graceful posture, but where's the dignity? When? I wish I had a lover who'd keep it undercover. We could live our dreams, we'd sail on golden wings. I wish I had a lover, someone who wouldn't bother to tell me what to feel, to tell me what is real.", + "source": "Susanne Sundfør - Undercover", + "length": 401, + "id": 6183 + }, + { + "text": "Let's say, \"sunshine for everyone,\" but as far as I can remember we've been migratory animals, living under changing weather. Someday, we'll foresee obstacles through the blizzard, through the blizzard.", + "source": "Syd Matters - Obstacles", + "length": 202, + "id": 6184 + }, + { + "text": "The autumn chill that wakes me up; you loved the amber skies so much. Long limbs and frozen swims - you'd always go past where our feet would touch - and I complained the whole way there, the car ride back and up the stairs. I should've asked you questions, I should've asked you how to be.", + "source": "Taylor Swift - Marjorie", + "length": 290, + "id": 6185 + }, + { + "text": "You told me the day that you show me your face, we'd be in trouble for a long time. I can't wait, till we're afraid of nothing. I can't wait, until we hide from nothing. Nothing.", + "source": "Sharon van Etten - Afraid of Nothing", + "length": 178, + "id": 6186 + }, + { + "text": "So that had become our thing, our saying. \"I'll never like you, forever.\" I had promised to be her protector, her everything. But it came with a cost. Being a protector is the loneliest of talents.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 197, + "id": 6188 + }, + { + "text": "It was there at that round window in the far heights, lonely and forgotten, that I began to feel sorry for her. Sorry for the whole situation. I began to think about the contract and the danger that was apparent. Although the admins tried to arrange things in the safest way possible, kids get themselves into predicaments that can end in tragedy. It did for Aeva; it could for us. And for what?", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 395, + "id": 6189 + }, + { + "text": "If you are able to step out of your own skin and view your body as in a dream, you see some pretty eye-opening things about yourself. People say that they can do that all the time, but they can't. One usually goes their entire life oblivious to what they are, and that's fine. But in my circumstance, I had the very rare occasion to see myself from the outside looking in.", + "source": "Hours", + "length": 372, + "id": 6190 + }, + { + "text": "But you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? That's right. You have something called determination. So as long as you hold on... so long as you do what's in your heart... I believe you can do the right thing.", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 214, + "id": 6191 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you realize that being nice just makes you get hurt? Look at yourself. You made all these great friends... But now, you'll probably never see them again. Not to mention how much they've been set back by you. Hurts, doesn't it? If you had just gone through without caring about anyone, you wouldn't have to feel bad now. So I don't get it. If you really did everything the right way, why did things still end up like this?", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 427, + "id": 6192 + }, + { + "text": "Why were you using a treadmill in the dark? Is Sans pranking you across time and space? I hate it when he does that!", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 116, + "id": 6193 + }, + { + "text": "To use the time machine, humans would lie on the spongy platform and cover themselves in the puffy travel cloak. By closing their eyes, they could skip forward through many hours. Backwards time travel seems more tricky in this apparatus.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 238, + "id": 6194 + }, + { + "text": "On breeze-less laundry days, humans added wheels to their drying racks and rode back and forth to generate a wind effect. As well as drying the clothes faster, laundry day thus also increased cardiovascular fitness and saw an uptick in visits to neighbors.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 256, + "id": 6195 + }, + { + "text": "Englandland gardens were rarely large enough to support swimming pools, so humans had to content themselves with providing bathing facilities for birds. The national sport of \"one-upping\" one's neighbors meant the humble birdbath soon evolved into a luxurious spa-type facility complete with towels and fluffy robes.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 316, + "id": 6196 + }, + { + "text": "Humans preferred their museums to be indoors. 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It turns out plinths are very important.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 251, + "id": 6199 + }, + { + "text": "Human backpacks look a lot like monster backpacks, but if you open one up you can see that they are exactly as big on the inside as they seem from the outside, implying humans never quite mastered basic dimensional design theory.", + "source": "A Monster's Expedition", + "length": 229, + "id": 6200 + }, + { + "text": "Science isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you are fired.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "length": 252, + "id": 6201 + }, + { + "text": "Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. Listen, everywhere you look in this world, wherever there is light, there will always be shadows to be found as well. As long as there is a concept of victors, the vanquished will also exist. The selfish intent of wanting to preserve peace, initiates war and hatred is born in order to protect love. There are nexuses - casual relationships that cannot be separated.", + "source": "Uchiha Madara - Naruto", + "length": 576, + "id": 6202 + }, + { + "text": "The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can... that's what makes it so damn beautiful.", + "source": "Roy Mustang - Full Metal Alchemist", + "length": 112, + "id": 6203 + }, + { + "text": "To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to happiness you could have.", + "source": "Matsumoto Rangiku - Bleach", + "length": 110, + "id": 6204 + }, + { + "text": "Whatever you lose, you'll find it again. 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Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?", + "source": "Juuzo Suzuya - Tokyo Ghoul", + "length": 95, + "id": 6212 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!", + "source": "Shintarō Midorima - Kuroko's Basketball", + "length": 70, + "id": 6213 + }, + { + "text": "You can die anytime, but living takes true courage.", + "source": "Kenshin Himura - Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan", + "length": 51, + "id": 6214 + }, + { + "text": "Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.", + "source": "Clare - Claymore", + "length": 164, + "id": 6215 + }, + { + "text": "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.", + "source": "Destiny - Cerberus Vae III - Commander Zavala", + "length": 384, + "id": 6216 + }, + { + "text": "I don't even have time to explain why I don't have time to explain.", + "source": "Destiny - Exo Stranger", + "length": 67, + "id": 6217 + }, + { + "text": "You're not brave. You've merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.", + "source": "Destiny 2 - Dominus Ghaul", + "length": 88, + "id": 6218 + }, + { + "text": "We have seen enough. The children of Sol cry out for salvation. You promised them life... but deliver only death. As you have for so many before. Enough. Enough death. Enough life. You have no pieces left to place. The game is over. Do not be afraid. Your pale heart holds the key. This time... there is no escape.", + "source": "Destiny 2: The Witch Queen - The Witness", + "length": 314, + "id": 6220 + }, + { + "text": "Funny. The line between Light and Dark is so very thin. Do you know which side you're on?", + "source": "Destiny 2: Forsaken - Uldren Sov", + "length": 89, + "id": 6221 + }, + { + "text": "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.", + "source": "I am prepared to die - Nelson Mandela", + "length": 422, + "id": 6222 + }, + { + "text": "Well, you wore out your welcome, with random precision rode on the steel breeze. Come on, you raver, you seer of visions. Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!", + "source": "Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond", + "length": 179, + "id": 6223 + }, + { + "text": "No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.", + "source": "Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka", + "length": 463, + "id": 6224 + }, + { + "text": "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.", + "source": "Frodo Baggins - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 109, + "id": 6225 + }, + { + "text": "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.", + "source": "Galadriel - The Fellowship of the Ring", + "length": 61, + "id": 6226 + }, + { + "text": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", + "source": "Thorin Oakenshield - The Hobbit", + "length": 93, + "id": 6227 + }, + { + "text": "Don't try to make yourself remember, darling. Don't look for me, I'm just a story you've been told. So let's pretend a little longer. 'Cause when we're gone, everything goes on.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", + "length": 177, + "id": 6228 + }, + { + "text": "But if I was gone tomorrow, won't the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I'm happy as we pass the setting sun? Someday I'll be overcast but you won't have to cry. 'Cause we'll do the grieving while I'm by your side.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Everything Goes On", + "length": 215, + "id": 6229 + }, + { + "text": "Take what you want, but you're tied by the tooth. Wasn't it meant to relieve you? So suffer the signs that you needed to change. Heed all the ways you'd been thinking.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Something Comforting", + "length": 167, + "id": 6230 + }, + { + "text": "I look around, I look around, I see a lot of new faces. Which means a lot of people have been breaking the first two rules of Fight Club. Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy crap we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rockstars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.", + "source": "Fight Club", + "length": 827, + "id": 6231 + }, + { + "text": "I'd give my life, not for honor, but for you! In my time, there'll be no one else. Crime, it's the way I fly to you!", + "source": "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater", + "length": 116, + "id": 6232 + }, + { + "text": "So you brought out the best in me, a part of me I'd never seen. You took my soul and wiped it clean. Our love was made for movie screens.", + "source": "Kodaline - All I Want", + "length": 137, + "id": 6233 + }, + { + "text": "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - Complicated", + "length": 127, + "id": 6234 + }, + { + "text": "When you walk away, I count the steps that you take. Do you see how much I need you right now?", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 94, + "id": 6235 + }, + { + "text": "I've never felt this way before, everything that I do reminds me of you. And the clothes you left, they lie on the floor, and they smell just like you. I love the things that you do.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 182, + "id": 6236 + }, + { + "text": "And all I ever wanted was for you to know: everything I do, I give my heart and soul. I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me.", + "source": "Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone", + "length": 140, + "id": 6237 + }, + { + "text": "In my dreams, I meet the ghosts of all the people who've come and gone. Memories, they seem to show up so quick but they leave you far too soon.", + "source": "Kodaline - High Hopes", + "length": 144, + "id": 6238 + }, + { + "text": "Friday night and no one's home, there's no point getting drunk alone. Grab your coat and make a call, I'll meet you down in Temple Bar. People come and people go, so raise a glass to who you know. Winter hasn't taken hold, so why do I feel so cold?", + "source": "Kodaline - Temple Bar", + "length": 248, + "id": 6239 + }, + { + "text": "We had the songs that we sang along to. You had the moves to make me dance with you. I always saw you reaching and catching stars. We had the thing that everyone wanted. Hung on your sleeve, you wore your heart on it. Did you get out? I'm wondering where you are. Did you follow your fire?", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 289, + "id": 6240 + }, + { + "text": "We promised that we'd never part, on a tree, under the stars. We carved our names into the bark to be there when we're not.", + "source": "Kodaline - Follow Your Fire", + "length": 123, + "id": 6241 + }, + { + "text": "I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Oh, take me back to the night we met.", + "source": "Lord Huron - The Night We Met", + "length": 197, + "id": 6242 + }, + { + "text": "I land on an island coast where the only souls I see are ghosts. I run through a wooded isle and I chase the sunlight mile after mile. And I feel like I know this place as the tree line breaks into wide-open space, I stare at a bright red sun. Though I search all day, I never find anyone.", + "source": "Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams", + "length": 289, + "id": 6243 + }, + { + "text": "Oh, brother, we go deeper than the ink beneath the skin of our tattoos. Though we don't share the same blood, you're my brother and I love you, that's the truth.", + "source": "Kodaline - Brother", + "length": 161, + "id": 6244 + }, + { + "text": "Star in your eyes, sun in your smile, the way you look at me - it makes me hum and I call it love song.", + "source": "Yoohyeon (Dreamcatcher) - For", + "length": 103, + "id": 6245 + }, + { + "text": "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 57, + "id": 6246 + }, + { + "text": "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 240, + "id": 6247 + }, + { + "text": "One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 112, + "id": 6248 + }, + { + "text": "For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 177, + "id": 6249 + }, + { + "text": "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 421, + "id": 6250 + }, + { + "text": "Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say \"I'll never be good.\" You can become better! And one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 251, + "id": 6251 + }, + { + "text": "There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 105, + "id": 6252 + }, + { + "text": "Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last... Only their lifeless corpses remained.", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 303, + "id": 6253 + }, + { + "text": "Next time you have a vision, you tell us. We bear the burden together, as a team. You have a vision you don't like, we'll change the future together.", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 149, + "id": 6254 + }, + { + "text": "I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it over and over again, until... we understand each other. OK?", + "source": "Xenoblade Chronicles", + "length": 119, + "id": 6255 + }, + { + "text": "See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me. Soften this old armor. Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.", + "source": "Tool", + "length": 220, + "id": 6256 + }, + { + "text": "That, to me, is an absolute tragedy. But that's just what the world wants now. People wonder why jazz is dying. I tell you, man, and every Starbucks \"jazz\" album... just proves my point really. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than \"good job.\"", + "source": "Whiplash", + "length": 270, + "id": 6258 + }, + { + "text": "The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 173, + "id": 6259 + }, + { + "text": "The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane. The worlds and landscapes of these planes mirror the natural world of the Material Plane but reflect those features into different forms - more marvelous and magical in the Feywild, distorted and colorless in the Shadowfell.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 395, + "id": 6260 + }, + { + "text": "When gods walk the world, clerics channel divine power, evil cults perform dark sacrifices in subterranean lairs, and shining paladins stand like beacons against the darkness, it's hard to be ambivalent about the deities and deny their existence.", + "source": "Dungeons & Dragons - Player's Handbook", + "length": 246, + "id": 6261 + }, + { + "text": "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game and the story of its worlds, but always remember that you are the one who brings them to life. 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Because he never had a wisdom for numbers, a wisdom for words, though his crown was quite immense, his brain was smaller than a bird's, so the queen of the nation made a royal proclamation: \"To the Missus and the Messieurs, the more or lessers, bring me all the land's professors!\" and then she went to the hairdressers and they came from the east and they came from the south, from each college they poured knowledge from their brains into his mouth, but the king couldn't learn so each professor met their fate for the queen had their heads removed and placed upon the gate and on that date, I state their wives all got a note, their mate was now the late-great. But then suddenly one day, a stranger started in to sing, he said, \"I'm the dirty rascal and I'm here to teach the king!\" and the queen clutched her jewels for she hated royal fools but this fool had some rules they really ought to teach in schools like you'll be a happy king if you enjoy the things you've got, you should never try to be the kind of person that you're not. So they sang and they laughed for the king had found a friend and they ran onto a rainbow for the story's perfect end, so the moral is you mustn't let the outside be the guide, for it's not so cut and dried, well, unless it's Dr. Jekyll then you better hide, petrified! No, the truth can't be denied as I now have testified, all that really counts and matters is the special stuff inside!", + "source": "Mary Poppins Returns", + "length": 1662, + "approvedBy": "ze_or", + "id": 6275 + }, + { + "text": "Come on, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. 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Just me and the GWB asking, \"Gee, Nina... what'll you be?\"", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 421, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6286 + }, + { + "text": "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.", + "source": "Animal Farm", + "length": 231, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6287 + }, + { + "text": "For real, though, imagine how it would feel going real slow, down the highway of life with no regrets and no breaking your neck for respect or a paycheck. For real, though, I'll take a break from the wheel and we'll throw the biggest block party, everybody here! A weekend when we can breathe, take it easy!", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 307, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6288 + }, + { + "text": "There's a breeze off the Hudson, and just when you think you're sick of living here, the memory floods in, the morning light off the fire escapes, the nights at Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes, I'm gonna miss this place to tell you the truth, Kevin dispensing wisdom from his dispatch booth and at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on... but who's gonna notice we're gone? When our job's done as the evening winds down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind when we're all done? When we've resigned in the long run, what do we leave behind? Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers, doing the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas... in five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters, who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?", + "source": "In The Heights", + "length": 745, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6292 + }, + { + "text": "My New Year's resolution is to get in shape. 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Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.", + "source": "V for Vendetta", + "length": 740, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6303 + }, + { + "text": "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form. If set free upon our world, the destruction will be unlike anything ever seen before. I entrust you with the Bow of Light - a powerful weapon in the face of evil. Link... you may not yet be at a point where you have fully recovered your power or all of your memories... But courage need not be remembered... for it is never forgotten.", + "source": "Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild", + "length": 520, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6304 + }, + { + "text": "Be my friend and let's fight together, let's just run for our lives. Hold my hand, promise me, let's just run for our lives. The door to the future opens and I see the promised day, you and I, we can fly. You are another me, I am another you, let's just run for our lives. ", + "source": "I-LAND, Into the I-LAND", + "length": 273, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6305 + }, + { + "text": "Everyone can make a choice after they have learned what it will result in. It is so easy to say we should have done it this way afterwards. But you can't know what your choice will result in before actually choosing.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 216, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6306 + }, + { + "text": "I want you to cry, cry for me. The way I cried for you baby, cry for me. Make your rain fall cry for me, but again, somehow you keep me goin' round and round. All the walls I built around me come crashing down. Making excuses gotta drown them out. 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And as the rain came down like missiles from the sky set on a collision course from the heavens to the ground, he's just standin' in the middle of it all unconcerned by the panic and the people runnin' round. So I stepped to this man with my hand outstretched just to offer him some help to get the storm up off his head. He took my hand down and we stood gettin' drenched. He looked me in the eyes and with a smile, this is what he said: Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain. Hush child, from the joy to the pain it'll all wash away in the rain.", + "source": "The Rain - Horrorshow", + "length": 1200, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6308 + }, + { + "text": "And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. 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But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice. And they can't hang us all.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 413, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6331 + }, + { + "text": "Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was a reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it rather than it using you.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 735, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6332 + }, + { + "text": "Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 100, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6333 + }, + { + "text": "You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 261, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6334 + }, + { + "text": "I remember when I first met Eleanor, how stunned I was. A woman who spoke the way she did, who had no fear of the world or the men who reigned over it. When I became her lover, I watched the decisions she made... and resolved to learn from them. When I became her rival, I watched the mistakes she made... and resolved never to repeat them. But at the end, when I felt I had surpassed her in every way, it seemed as though there was something she was still trying to say to me. Surrendering everything she had sacrificed so dearly for, because it would have come at the expense of the one she loved. She was trying to tell me, I just could not hear her, about what is truly important.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 684, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6335 + }, + { + "text": "This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 434, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6336 + }, + { + "text": "A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe... Those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition, and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It's found truth in its maturity... Because what's it all for if it goes unremembered? It's the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.", + "source": "Black Sails", + "length": 496, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6337 + }, + { + "text": "False tears bring pain to those around you. 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All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis. My punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 586, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6734 + }, + { + "text": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply a herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "britishText": "I live in the American Gardens building on West 81st Street, on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a 1,000 now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser... then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.", + "source": "American Psycho", + "length": 1174, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6735 + }, + { + "text": "\"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis,\" the mage whispered, \"I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see every living thing.\"", + "source": "Dragons of Autumn Twilight", + "length": 221, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6736 + }, + { + "text": "People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 184, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6737 + }, + { + "text": "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 145, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6738 + }, + { + "text": "I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 246, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6739 + }, + { + "text": "One thing I've learned. You can know anything. It's all there. You just have to find it.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 88, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6740 + }, + { + "text": "What power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 85, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6741 + }, + { + "text": "Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.", + "source": "Dragons of a Lost Star", + "length": 272, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6742 + }, + { + "text": "It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. But is it really so bad, to fail? If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that hard to fail, that hard to fall? Sometimes you wake, and sometimes, yes, you die.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 275, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6743 + }, + { + "text": "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last.", + "source": "The Sandman", + "length": 186, + "approvedBy": "Smithster", + "id": 6744 + }, + { + "text": "You know, I have the same dream over and over. I dream that I'm waiting for someone a long time. In the dark, on a beach, I'm waiting for someone for years and decades. But then at some point, I notice that someone is staring at me. It's a middle-aged woman I've never seen before, but I'm so happy to see her that I pull my feet out of the sand and run over to her. But when I get there, it's just my own reflection in the water. I get really sad and then I wake up.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 467, + "id": 6745 + }, + { + "text": "People are free. Well they can't fly on their own, but pretty much whatever they can think up, they can make happen. When they're sleepy, they can sleep. They're free to start or quit whatever they're doing whenever they want. And the only reason they don't is because things like social norms, laws, traditions and sentiment get in the way. Running naked through the street, conning old people, killing. Everything's possible if you ignore morality. That's why they insist on teaching you cooperation and ethics when you're young. But the world is set up to force people to fight, cheat and steal as a default. Trying to live with that contradiction is torture. But in so many places, happiness and sorrow are traded like stocks on Wall Street. What will it take for everyone to be happy? Who knows? But if a kid could figure it out, war would've gone extinct a long time ago.", + "source": "Goodnight Punpun", + "length": 877, + "id": 6746 + }, + { + "text": "In the town where I live there's just a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the middle of summer. I used to like walking there, looking for stuff. Like old fireworks. Or kelp. A hat knocked off someone's head by the wind. You basically never find what you were expecting to. And maybe you weren't expecting to find anything right from the start. Yeah that's probably the truth. And if you're not expecting anything, you won't be disappointed either. So don't get your hopes way up about me, Otsu. It'll just make me feel pressured, like I might let you down one day.", + "source": "A Girl on the Shore", + "length": 572, + "id": 6747 + }, + { + "text": "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 64, + "id": 6748 + }, + { + "text": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 62, + "id": 6749 + }, + { + "text": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 77, + "id": 6750 + }, + { + "text": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 166, + "id": 6751 + }, + { + "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 195, + "id": 6752 + }, + { + "text": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 100, + "id": 6753 + }, + { + "text": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 172, + "id": 6754 + }, + { + "text": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 118, + "id": 6755 + }, + { + "text": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", + "source": "Confucius", + "length": 119, + "id": 6756 + }, + { + "text": "I was fast asleep. You stood there by the bedside, waiting to haunt by day. Someday we might meet; I won't shed a tear, for the things that you stole. Your roots go far and deep, they strangle. Frantic breathing needed to stay afloat.", + "source": "I Don't Speak Pt. 1 - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6757, + "length": 234 + }, + { + "text": "Finding myself back to earth, I never wanna come back down. I'm fine here just where I am, with a full moon in my arms.", + "source": "A Rushing River Speaks - Quiet Commotion", + "id": 6758, + "length": 119 + }, + { + "text": "It's gonna take more than a cassette to get you out of this, because the news is all bad. Well, there is some good news. 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Here come the test results: \"You are a horrible person.\" That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6765, + "length": 141 + }, + { + "text": "Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.", + "source": "Portal 2", + "id": 6766, + "length": 145 + }, + { + "text": "It's so hard for me to be walkin' carefree cause this music is my therapy, be happy for me. And I know how it feels waking up on that bathroom floor. I have nowhere to go when you push me out of the door.", + "source": "Let Go Or Be Dragged - Night at Delaney's", + "id": 6767, + "length": 204 + }, + { + "text": "The ability to analyze a problem involves a combination of inherent insight and experience. The former, unfortunately, cannot be learned, but depends on the individual. 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I suppose we all find out sooner or later.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6771, + "length": 703 + }, + { + "text": "I once told you I made more mistakes than any man, woman, or child on this planet. I wasn't exaggerating. I'm... cursed. For thousands of years I have walked the surface of Remnant; living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. The Professor Ozpin you all met was not my first form, and it clearly wasn't my last. It's... an extraordinarily strenuous process, on everyone involved.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6772, + "length": 403 + }, + { + "text": "Being a team leader isn't just a title you carry into battle, but a badge you wear constantly. If you are not always performing at your absolute best, then what reason do you give others to follow you?", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6773, + "length": 201 + }, + { + "text": "I'll keep this brief. You have traveled here today in search of knowledge - to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose - direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6774, + "length": 464 + }, + { + "text": "It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: love, justice, reverence... but the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you. This isn't a threat, this is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6775, + "length": 259 + }, + { + "text": "You told me once that bad things just happen. You were angry when you said it, and I didn't want to listen. But you were right. Bad things do happen, all the time, every day. 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We've been in bad situations before, and we don't need an adult to come save us or tell us what to do. We just did it our way! And I say we do it our way. And if you think you can keep up with us \"kids\"... we'd be happy to have you.", + "source": "RWBY", + "id": 6779, + "length": 392 + }, + { + "text": "The Threads of Fate are not puppet strings. They connect life to destiny. You are fate-touched, able to see and bend the threads around you. Understand the wholeness of what you serve, champion. All the living share one experience: death. Your mother, your sister, even you. We must safeguard that beautiful moment when the soul transitions to a new purpose.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6780, + "length": 358 + }, + { + "text": "Protecting the sanctity between life and death. That is our cause. Your cause. Do you accept this charge?", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6781, + "length": 105 + }, + { + "text": "I've been watching you longer than you know. Recklessly drawn to your destiny, like a flame. My beautiful champion. There is much to fear, but not death. For it gives meaning to life.", + "source": "The Legend of Vox Machina", + "id": 6782, + "length": 183 + }, + { + "text": "Most cities aren't. They want to believe they have a cash-flow problem because it is convenient, because insolvency is too difficult to fathom, especially when everyone else appears to be doing the exact same thing. Could everyone be wrong? Could we all be insolvent? These two questions probably cost me a total of six years in the intellectual wilderness as I clung to the notion that what I was seeing and measuring could not possibly be true, that a wisdom greater than mine had to be at work that I hadn't perceived.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6783, + "length": 521 + }, + { + "text": "It's also our path to salvation. Our cities are struggling financially, trapped in a system grinding them into decline. Working together in an intentional way, it is possible to make our places stronger financially while also improving the lives of people.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6784, + "length": 256 + }, + { + "text": "That is the essence of a Strong Towns approach, the bottom-up revolution America desperately needs.", + "source": "Strong Towns - A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity", + "id": 6785, + "length": 99 + }, + { + "text": "I'm not against the automobile, but I just feel that the automobile has moved into communities too much. I feel that you can design so that the automobile is there, but still put pedestrians back again... I'd love to work on a project like that.", + "source": "Walt Disney", + "id": 6786, + "length": 245 + }, + { + "text": "He's smart. He's angry. 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It got you right here.", + "source": "Ozark", + "id": 6789, + "length": 662 + }, + { + "text": "You asked if you were bad for me. That's not it. We are bad for each other.", + "source": "Better Call Saul", + "id": 6790, + "length": 75 + }, + { + "text": "Their names were Clotho (Spinner), Lachesis (Allotter), and Atropos (Inflexible). Clotho spun the thread of human fate, Lachesis dispensed it, and Atropos cut the thread (thus determining the individual's moment of death). The Romans identified the Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates. The Roman goddesses were named Noma, Decuma, and Morta.", + "source": "Greek Mythology", + "id": 6791, + "length": 383 + }, + { + "text": "Alright. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this... Of what use was the rule?", + "source": "No Country for Old Men", + "id": 6792, + "length": 108 + }, + { + "text": "Hey yo, I'm just like my country: I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot.", + "source": "My Shot, Hamilton", + "length": 99, + "id": 6793 + }, + { + "text": "There are moments that the words don't reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.", + "source": "It's Quiet Uptown, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6794 + }, + { + "text": "I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 58, + "id": 6795 + }, + { + "text": "I made every mistake and felt the shame rise in me. And even now I lie awake, knowing history has its eyes on me.", + "source": "History Has Its Eyes on You, Hamilton", + "length": 113, + "id": 6796 + }, + { + "text": "No, show me how to say no to this, I don't know how to say no to this. 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Negotiate a peace, or negotiate a time and place.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 86, + "id": 6802 + }, + { + "text": "The challenge: demand satisfaction. If they apologize, no need for further action.", + "source": "Ten Duel Commandments, Hamilton", + "length": 82, + "id": 6803 + }, + { + "text": "Time to get some pistols and a doctor on site. You pay him in advance, you treat him with civility. 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It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 71, + "id": 6813 + }, + { + "text": "History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me and all my mistakes.", + "source": "The World Was Wide Enough, Hamilton", + "length": 81, + "id": 6814 + }, + { + "text": "You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. 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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", + "source": "Steve Jobs", + "length": 174, + "id": 6823 + }, + { + "text": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", + "length": 254, + "id": 6824 + }, + { + "text": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.", + "source": "Andrè Gide", + "length": 80, + "id": 6825 + }, + { + "text": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. This means recognizing that failure and setbacks are a natural part of the journey to success, and using them as opportunities to learn and grow. It means finding the strength and resilience to get back up and keep going, even when things seem impossible. It means believing in ourselves and our abilities, and never giving up on our dreams.", + "source": "Nelson Mandela", + "length": 431, + "id": 6827 + }, + { + "text": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", + "source": "Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 75, + "id": 6828 + }, + { + "text": "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.", + "source": "J.K. Rowling", + "length": 101, + "id": 6829 + }, + { + "text": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 81, + "id": 6830 + }, + { + "text": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", + "source": "Edmund Burke", + "length": 79, + "id": 6831 + }, + { + "text": "Believe in yourself and all that you are. 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This means embracing the challenges and difficulties that come our way, and finding the strength and resilience to overcome them. It means learning to see the beauty and joy in every moment, even when things seem bleak or uncertain. It means living fully in the present, and finding the courage to take risks and pursue our dreams.", + "source": "Unknown", + "length": 423, + "id": 6839 + }, + { + "text": "The best way to predict your future is to create it. This means taking control of our lives and our destinies, and actively shaping the course of our future. It means setting goals and working towards them with determination and persistence, even when the path is difficult or uncertain. It means being willing to take risks and try new things, and never giving up in the face of adversity or setbacks.", + "source": "Abraham Lincoln", + "length": 402, + "id": 6840 + }, + { + "text": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. This means finding joy and fulfillment in our work and our passions, and pursuing them with dedication and enthusiasm. It means recognizing that success is not just about wealth or status, but about living a life that is meaningful and rewarding on a personal level.", + "source": "Albert Schweitzer", + "length": 392, + "id": 6841 + }, + { + "text": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", + "source": "Theodore Roosevelt", + "length": 41, + "id": 6842 + }, + { + "text": "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.", + "source": "Dalai Lama", + "length": 70, + "id": 6843 + }, + { + "text": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", + "source": "Henry Ford", + "length": 57, + "id": 6844 + }, + { + "text": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 248, + "id": 6845 + }, + { + "text": "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 58, + "id": 6847 + }, + { + "text": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", + "source": "Jean Paul", + "length": 53, + "id": 6849 + }, + { + "text": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.", + "source": "Oscar Wilde", + "length": 66, + "id": 6851 + }, + { + "text": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.", + "source": "The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi", + "length": 217, + "id": 6852 + }, + { + "text": "The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on. You cannot defeat what you cannot see.", + "source": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest", + "length": 92, + "id": 6853 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", + "source": "Clockwork Princess", + "length": 66, + "id": 6854 + }, + { + "text": "Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. 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I wished... for everything to be wiped away.", + "source": "Eren - Attack on Titan", + "length": 361, + "id": 6858 + }, + { + "text": "You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. 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They will tell you who they see, but you and you alone know who you are. For I speak only for myself. If you find comfort in my words, they are yours for the taking, but that is your choice. Now and ever after, as it has always been.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 336, + "id": 6869 + }, + { + "text": "The glory of the heavens was ever beyond the grasp of those who never thought to reach for it. But if I've gained anything from all of this, it is the courage to stretch out my hand.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 182, + "id": 6870 + }, + { + "text": "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong. And amidst it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before. They are my meaning and my purpose. My love. In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe. In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward. So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us! No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise! Henceforth, he shall walk!", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 529, + "id": 6871 + }, + { + "text": "A sea of shimmering stars. Diamonds strewn across a raven gown, boundless and beautiful. 'Tis an exquisite sight not unlike the Source. Calm and gentle... and forgiving. For however deep the void, or wide the expanse, there is no shore so distant as to be beyond the reach of light.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 282, + "id": 6872 + }, + { + "text": "Aye, it's true. We've lost much and more. Known unimaginable suffering. But through it all, we never, ever forgot what was dear to us. And that's what gave us the strength to carry on.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 184, + "id": 6873 + }, + { + "text": "If you like, I will tell you a tale. A tale of a world on the brink. Of a people who never gave up on the future. Of a man who realized his grandest dreams, and then awakened to a grander reality.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 196, + "id": 6874 + }, + { + "text": "He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.", + "source": "Lao Tzu", + "length": 90, + "id": 6875 + }, + { + "text": "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. 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Anything that's dead shall be regrown, and your vicious pain, your warning sign, you will be fine.", + "source": "Angels and Airwaves, The Adventure", + "id": 6895, + "length": 345 + }, + { + "text": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", + "source": "Edwin Hubble", + "id": 6897, + "length": 100 + }, + { + "text": "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.", + "source": "Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach", + "id": 6898, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. 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Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!", + "source": "Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata - Animal Crossing: Wild World", + "length": 87, + "id": 6936 + }, + { + "text": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.", + "source": "Aristotle", + "length": 124, + "id": 6937 + }, + { + "text": "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.", + "source": "Chinese Proverb", + "length": 87, + "id": 6938 + }, + { + "text": "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.", + "source": "Japanese Proverb", + "length": 69, + "id": 6939 + }, + { + "text": "Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.", + "source": "Malayan Proverb", + "length": 62, + "id": 6940 + }, + { + "text": "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.", + "source": "Indian Proverb", + "length": 165, + "id": 6941 + }, + { + "text": "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.", + "source": "Linus Torvalds", + "length": 250, + "id": 6942 + }, + { + "text": "The strong person is not the one who can wrestle someone else down. 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Let yourself feel sad when you are, and let yourself forget when you do.", + "source": "Houseki No Kuni", + "length": 335, + "id": 6980 + }, + { + "text": "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 79, + "id": 6981 + }, + { + "text": "You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.", + "source": "Dr. Seuss", + "length": 110, + "id": 6982 + }, + { + "text": "Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.", + "source": "Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian", + "length": 110, + "id": 6983 + }, + { + "text": "Don't you dare touch that dial. Because like the song says, you are out of time. You're almost there, but don't panic. There's still more music to come before you're completely engulfed in the blissful embrace of that little light you see in the distance.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 255, + "id": 6984 + }, + { + "text": "Soon you'll be healed, forgiven, and refreshed, free from all trauma, pain, guilt, and shame. You may even forget your own name. But before you dwell in that house forever, here's 30 minutes of easy listening to some slow tracks on 103.5 Dawn FM.", + "source": "Out of Time", + "length": 246, + "id": 6985 + }, + { + "text": "This is a very strange feeling. I don't feel scared at all. I can see everything clearly. I feel like, no matter how this all plays out, I can accept whatever happens. That's right. Nobody's in the wrong. There's nothing we could do. Because this world... is just... that cruel.", + "source": "Attack on Titan", + "length": 278, + "id": 6986 + }, + { + "text": "I can't do shorthand and typewriting and double-entrance book-keeping, or whatever it's called. I tell you, I am utterly incompetent. I never earn anything. I'm the parasite of the British oak, like the mistletoe. The blue bird doesn't flutter round my feet. Perhaps they're too big and trampling.", + "source": "D.H. Lawrence, Two blue birds", + "length": 297, + "id": 6987 + }, + { + "text": "See, what you went through, most people don't know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can't beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you've weathered a storm like yours - you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it's the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.", + "source": "Mr. Robot, Season 4 Episode 7", + "length": 411, + "id": 6988 + }, + { + "text": "No matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day we look back at where we started, and be amazed by how far we’ve come.", + "source": "Technoblade", + "length": 217, + "id": 6989 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to be an elite warrior, you better get really really good at helping the person to the left of you and helping the person to the right of you. Because that is how people advance in the world. The world is too dangerous and the world is too difficult for you to think that you can do these things alone.", + "source": "Simon Sinek", + "length": 314, + "id": 6990 + }, + { + "text": "For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.", + "source": "Winston Churchill", + "length": 82, + "id": 6991 + }, + { + "text": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. 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Perhaps it is hard to believe, but all you have ever been is burning, and it is nothing short of beautiful.", + "source": "Boisvert", + "length": 670, + "id": 6994 + }, + { + "text": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was an invincible summer in me.", + "source": "Albert Camus", + "length": 84, + "id": 6995 + }, + { + "text": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 97, + "id": 6996 + }, + { + "text": "Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.", + "source": "Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare", + "length": 67, + "id": 6997 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.", + "source": "Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr", + "length": 90, + "id": 6998 + }, + { + "text": "Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.", + "source": "L.R. Knos", + "length": 267, + "id": 6999 + }, + { + "text": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.", + "source": "Emily Dickinson", + "length": 117, + "id": 7000 + }, + { + "text": "Mankind knew that they could not change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, they blamed the beasts.", + "source": "GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-", + "length": 112, + "id": 7001 + }, + { + "text": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", + "source": "The Wright Brothers", + "length": 74, + "id": 7002 + }, + { + "text": "At the apex of the pyramid comes Big Brother. Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful. 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His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization.", + "source": "1984, George Orwell", + "length": 740, + "id": 7003 + }, + { + "text": "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.", + "source": "Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha", + "length": 74, + "id": 7004 + }, + { + "text": "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.", + "source": "Albert Einstein", + "length": 112, + "id": 7005 + }, + { + "text": "You know, the more I think about it, the more I believe that no one is actually worried about AIs taking over the world or anything like that, no matter what they say. What they're really worried about is that someone might prove, once and for all, that consciousness can arise from matter. And I kind of understand why they find it so terrifying. If we can create a sentient being, where does that leave the soul? Without mystery, how can we see ourselves as anything other than machines? And if we are machines, what hope do we have that death is not the end? What really scares people is not the artificial intelligence in the computer, but the \"natural\" intelligence they see in the mirror.", + "source": "Talos Principle", + "length": 694, + "id": 7006 + }, + { + "text": "There is no happiness like this happiness: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead.", + "source": "James Salter", + "length": 99, + "id": 7007 + }, + { + "text": "A lead falls; something is flying by; let whatever your eyes gaze upon be created, and the soul of the hearer remain shivering.", + "source": "Vicente Huidobro", + "length": 127, + "id": 7008 + }, + { + "text": "Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.", + "source": "J. R. R. 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The true identities of the Twelve, for instance. All of which is to say: expand your horizons. Go forth and seek discovery.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7045 + }, + { + "text": "Know this, my children. There is more ugliness than beauty in this world. To live is to suffer. To drink of calamity and drown in anguish. To toil and be tested, always and ever. 'Tis a perilous path you walk. Death lurks in the dark, and is the sole promise that awaits at journey's end. You will tremble with terror. You will weep tears of anger and despair. But do not avert your eyes. See your life for what it is. Then you will see how the hardships make you strong. Every doubt reforged as scales for your armor. Every agony to temper your blade.", + "source": "Final Fantasy XIV", + "length": 552, + "id": 7046 + }, + { + "text": "Time is also a limited resource, you can't even buy that with money.", + "source": "Ninomae Ina'nis", + "length": 68, + "id": 7047 + }, + { + "text": "I think it’s nice to make things for yourself at times. With each creation, a little piece of you goes inside it; time, effort, and maybe a bit of that feeling of a job well done.", + "source": "Shiori Novella", + "length": 179, + "id": 7048 + }, + { + "text": "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson", + "length": 143, + "id": 7049 + }, + { + "text": "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.", + "source": "Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos", + "length": 135, + "id": 7050 + }, + { + "text": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 232, + "id": 7051 + }, + { + "text": "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.", + "source": "Stephen Hawking", + "length": 93, + "id": 7052 + }, + { + "text": "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", + "source": "Edward Everett Hale", + "length": 90, + "id": 7053 + }, + { + "text": "As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 126, + "id": 7054 + }, + { + "text": "We do not have much connection, you and I. Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won’t mind if I think of you as a friend.", + "source": "Outer Wilds", + "length": 132, + "id": 7055 + }, + { + "text": "When my kind found the Eye and realized what it was capable of, they were terrified. It was too difficult a truth. Like a light too bright to look upon directly, it burned them. What they could not unlearn was hidden away in darkness — obfuscated, then lost. They did not want to see their story end.", + "source": "Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye", + "length": 300, + "id": 7056 + }, + { + "text": "Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Do not be afraid of innovation. Do not be afraid of ideas that are not your own.", + "source": "Douglas Crockford", + "length": 134, + "id": 7057 + }, + { + "text": "It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.", + "source": "Leto Atreides II, God Emperor of Dune", + "length": 107, + "id": 7058 + }, + { + "text": "Oh. Round and round we go. Holding on to pain driven by our egos. Feelings untold. Spinning our own versions of the past that you could never know, cause I know.", + "source": "Mili - Through Patches of Violet", + "length": 161, + "id": 7059 + }, + { + "text": "You might know everything I'm going to do, but that's not going to help you, since I know everything you're going to do! Strange, isn't it?!", + "source": "Sonic - Sonic the Hedgehog (OVA, 1996)", + "length": 140, + "id": 7060 + }, + { + "text": "Listen, Simon. Never forget. Just believe in yourself. Not in the Simon that I believe in; not in the Kamina that you believe in. Have faith in the Simon who believes in you.", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 174, + "id": 7061 + }, + { + "text": "Mark my words! This drill will open a hole in the universe! And that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen! The hopes of those who'll follow! Those two sets of dreams weave together into a double helix! Drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann! My drill is the drill... that creates the heavens!", + "source": "Gurren Lagann", + "length": 371, + "id": 7062 + }, + { + "text": "Why did you make me do this? You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast every fragile, insignificant being on this planet. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and everything you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?", + "source": "Invincible (TV series)", + "length": 309, + "id": 7603 + }, + { + "text": "How do you do music? Well, it's easy. You just face your fears and become your heroes. I don't understand why you're freaking out.", + "source": "Porter Robinson - Musician", + "length": 130, + "id": 7604 + }, + { + "text": "What happened Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore, ain't that what you said? Even right here right now you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. But you come back here and you just destroy everything!", + "source": "The Walking Dead", + "length": 362, + "id": 7605 + }, + { + "text": "This whole time, I thought changing the world was something you did, an act you performed, something you fought for. I don't know if that's true anymore. What if changing the world was just about being here, by showing up no matter how many times we get told we don't belong, by staying true even when we're shamed into being false, by believing in ourselves even when we're told we're too different? And if we all held on to that, if we refuse to budge and fall in line, if we stood our ground for long enough, just maybe... The world can't help but change around us.", + "source": "Mr. Robot", + "length": 568, + "id": 7606 + }, + { + "text": "At oh-eight-hundred hours, station time, the Romulan Empire formally declared war against the Dominion. They have already struck fifteen bases along the Cardassian border. So, this is a huge victory for the good guys. This may even be the turning point of the entire war. There's even a 'Welcome to the Fight' party tonight in the wardroom. So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing. A guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant, so I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log.", + "source": "Captain Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", + "length": 782, + "id": 7607 + }, + { + "text": "Captain's log, stardate 57436.2. The Cerritos is docked at Douglas Station for routine maintenance and resupply. We will soon set course for the capital planet on the Galar system, where we're scheduled to make second contact with the Galardonian high council. First contact is a delicate, high-stakes operation of diplomacy. One must be ready for anything when humanity is interacting with an alien race for the first time. But we don't do that. Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we're spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.", + "source": "Ensign Bradward Boimler, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 631, + "id": 7608 + }, + { + "text": "I've lost many friends. Some heroically, some tragically. The randomness of death is merely a reflection of the unexpected joys we find in life.", + "source": "Captain Hikaru Sulu, Star Trek: Lower Decks", + "length": 144, + "id": 7609 + }, + { + "text": "Hello, Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself. I'm assuming you're alone; you always did prefer to read your statements in private. I wouldn't try too hard to stop reading; there's every likelihood you'll just hurt yourself. So just listen. Now, shall we turn the page and try again?", + "source": "The Magnus Archives", + "length": 369, + "id": 7610 + }, + { + "text": "Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's ok to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.", + "source": "Magnus Carlsen", + "length": 116, + "id": 7611 + }, + { + "text": "You are one of my most valued officers and you are my friend. It is vital that you understand me here. I need you, but I also need to know that I can count on you. You are my counsel, the one I turn to when I need my moral compass checked. We have forged this relationship for years and I depend on it. I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it's not one I would have allowed you to make. You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's it's power, and it's flaw. From now on, bring your logic to me. Don't act on it behind my back.", + "source": "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager", + "length": 541, + "id": 7612 + }, + { + "text": "Transdermal celebration, caused a slight mutation in the rift. It toppled down a nation, and left the people running for the hills.", + "source": "Ween - Transdermal Celebration", + "length": 131, + "id": 7613 + }, + { + "text": "May I say, before you go: I think perhaps you are one of the most powerful mages that I've ever had the pleasure to be in the presence of. And for this, I would offer a gift. I think it has been a long time since anyone has pointed out to you that you are a fool. Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential, it's love that saves them. And you would know that but you have none around you, you said so yourself. You surround yourself with lies and deceptions and... I wish for you, in the future, to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone. Respectfully.", + "source": "Caduceus Clay - Critical Role (Campaign 2, Episode 110)", + "length": 603, + "id": 7614 + }, + { + "text": "Astrologers must rid themselves of material desires. Only by ridding oneself of clutter can one see the true world around them.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7615, + "length": 127 + }, + { + "text": "Divination is about precisely foretelling one's written destiny. Over-embellishing that fate only leads to misconception.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7616, + "length": 121 + }, + { + "text": "Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.", + "source": "Mona (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7617, + "length": 102 + }, + { + "text": "\"Good things come to those who don't wait around!\" That's what they say, anyway. Knowing my luck, the opposite is probably true for me...", + "source": "Bennett (Genshin Impact)", + "id": 7618, + "length": 137 + }, + { + "text": "Aren't past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our goals determine which actions we take in the present.", + "source": "The Power Of Now", + "length": 239, + "id": 7619 + }, + { + "text": "I've been having these weird thoughts lately - like is any of this for real, or not?", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts", + "length": 84, + "id": 7620 + }, + { + "text": "A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up - yours and mine.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts II", + "length": 142, + "id": 7621 + }, + { + "text": "That dream again... I've been having the same dream over and over again for as long as I can remember. An unfamiliar world filled with unfamiliar faces and unfamiliar good-byes... As if I'm experiencing a life that belonged to someone else. This island surrounded by smaller desolate isles, a vast ocean, and a never-ending sky — this is my entire world. But maybe there's something beyond these waters. Maybe there are worlds like the ones I dream of. If I could get to the outside world, would I be able to meet my friends from my dreams? I can't get the thought out of my head as I lie on the sand like a starfish day after day, feeling like I'm falling through the sky.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts Dark Road", + "length": 673, + "id": 7622 + }, + { + "text": "Those who are weak, and who desire greater power, simply strip the strong of their power, and convince themselves they've earned it. That's how people become tainted by darkness. They believe what they want to believe, using hollow reasons as justification. They repeat this cycle, and their darkness grows.", + "source": "Kingdom Hearts III", + "length": 307, + "id": 7623 + }, + { + "text": "If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial; doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?", + "source": "James T. Kirk, Star Trek", + "length": 96, + "id": 7624 + }, + { + "text": "If anyone has the right to be called a hero, it’s not the one who took up the blade. It’s not the one who raised his shield, nor the one who healed the wounded. The one who truly risks his life may be called a hero.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 215, + "id": 7625 + }, + { + "text": "If it were possible, I'd like to be a hero. Like in the fairy tales I read when I was a kid. A hero that people would acknowledge.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 130, + "id": 7626 + }, + { + "text": "I wanted to save you because you're you. I didn't want you to leave, because you're you. I can't find another reason. I don't need another reason to save you.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 158, + "id": 7627 + }, + { + "text": "If I don't stand up here... If I don't reach higher here... When am I ever going to do it?", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 90, + "id": 7628 + }, + { + "text": "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 103, + "id": 7629 + }, + { + "text": "In the end, guilt is just the question of whether you're capable of forgiving yourself or not. If you've really changed, then prove it with your actions.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 153, + "id": 7630 + }, + { + "text": "I don't want to be a loser who can't do anything but talk. I don't want to be somebody who can sacrifice others, but won't risk himself.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 136, + "id": 7631 + }, + { + "text": "While you're just starting out, put all your energy into surviving. No matter how pathetic you feel, or how people laugh at you, if you win come back alive, you win.", + "source": "DanMachi", + "length": 165, + "id": 7632 + }, + { + "text": "Have faith in what you can't explain. Believe in what you can no longer deny.", + "source": "Doctor Fate, Young Justice", + "length": 77, + "id": 7633 }, { "text": "That's the way it must always be, as I told you. When men think they are helping the world, they actually do more harm than good. Just like you. You tried to help, but you just ended up freeing me.", From 57d0a045d9585a868a41716afcd64f78f6d72f03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:48:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 45/51] fix(quotes): re-added the last of the accidentally removed quotes --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index a7c1dfc074bc..b2540d8ecbac 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38577,6 +38577,48 @@ "length": 77, "id": 7633 }, + { + "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", + "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 138, + "id": 7634 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 240, + "id": 7635 + }, + { + "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 203, + "id": 7636 + }, + { + "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 423, + "id": 7637 + }, + { + "text": "You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. Of all those I've claimed over this brief thousand years, you are the only one I think just might be able to understand me.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 198, + "id": 7638 + }, + { + "text": "The only point in creating something is to inevitably watch it die.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 67, + "id": 7639 + }, + { + "text": "Those quakes are the earth's final sighs,\" Ruin said. \"Like an old man, moaning as he dies, calling for his children so that he can pass on his last bits of wisdom.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 164, + "id": 7640 + }, { "text": "That's the way it must always be, as I told you. When men think they are helping the world, they actually do more harm than good. Just like you. You tried to help, but you just ended up freeing me.", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", From a36e6dd16b326b17f56988f0300dd9e164001a00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:26:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 46/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on some quotes and fixed formatting --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 87 +++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index b2540d8ecbac..8afc0d7818d6 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -23846,7 +23846,8 @@ "source": "Star Wars", "id": 4270, "length": 143 - },{ + }, + { "text": "Very well - I'll bide my time. And as for you, my fine lady, it's true I can't attend to you here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!", "source": "The Wizard of Oz", "id": 4271, @@ -38586,7 +38587,7 @@ { "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 240, + "length": 236, "id": 7635 }, { @@ -38658,7 +38659,7 @@ { "text": "Nobody cares about the Roughs -- they barely seem to notice us save as a place to deposit their trash.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 99, + "length": 102, "id": 7647 }, { @@ -38730,13 +38731,13 @@ { "text": "Once there was a bunny. This bunny had a birthday party. It was the bestest birthday party ever. Because that was the day the bunny got a bazooka. The bunny loved his bazooka. He blew up all sorts of things on the farm. He blew up the stable of Henrietta the Horse. He blew up the pen of Pugsly the Pig. He blew up the coop of Chuck the Chicken.\n'I have the bestest bazooka ever.' The bunny said. Then the farm friends proceeded to beat him senseless and steal his bazooka. It was the happiest day of his life. The end.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 519, "id": 7659 }, { "text": "I didn't have only two choices at that point -- had quite a few more than that. True, I could have chosen to stay in the room and get shot. I also could have chosen to get in the car. However, there were lots of other things I could have done. For instance, I could have run around the house flapping my arms and pretending that I was a penguin.", "source": "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 344, + "length": 346, "id": 7660 }, { @@ -38754,7 +38755,7 @@ { "text": "Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can -- what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 339, + "length": 342, "id": 7663 }, { @@ -38772,19 +38773,19 @@ { "text": "When we are young, we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been. The older we grow, the more we question. We begin to ask why. And yet, we still want the answers to be simple. We assume that the people around us -- adults, leaders -- will have those answers. Whatever they give often satisfies us. ... Indeed, it seems to me that aging, wisdom, and wondering are synonymous. The older we grow, the more likely we are to reject the simple answers. Unless someone gets in our way and demands they be accepted regardless.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 612, + "length": 618, "id": 7666 }, { "text": "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others -- heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian -- are equally closed-minded.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 302, + "length": 308, "id": 7667 }, { "text": "Let the Vorin believe as they wish -- the wise among them will find goodness and solace in their faith; the fools would be fools no matter what they believed.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 155, + "length": 158, "id": 7668 }, { @@ -38808,7 +38809,7 @@ { "text": "You live lies. It gives you strength. But the truth ... Without speaking truths you will not be able to grow, Shallan.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 118, "id": 7672 }, { @@ -38892,7 +38893,7 @@ { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 162, + "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { @@ -38970,7 +38971,7 @@ { "text": "Well, sure. Technically it might be. But for the end of the world, it's not so bad, right? I figured that when everything ended, we'd sink into a noxious bath of pus and doom, breathing in agony as the air around us became molten, and we screamed a final burning scream, relishing the memories of the last time a woman loved us. Don't know about you, moolie, but my lungs aren't burning. The air doesn't seem very molten. Considering how bad this could have gone, you've got a lot to be thankful for. Remember that.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 520, + "length": 515, "id": 7699 }, { @@ -39000,19 +39001,19 @@ { "text": "The foolishness of men who care, Dalinar, and the brilliance of those who do not. The second depend on the first -- but also exploit the first -- while the first misunderstand the second, hoping that the second are more like the first. And all of their games steal our time. Second by second.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 288, + "length": 292, "id": 7704 }, { "text": "Nonsense. Balderdash. Figgldybrak. Isn't it odd that gibberish words are often the sounds of other words, cut up and dismembered, then stitched into something like them -- yet wholly unlike them at the same time?\nI wonder if you could do that to a man. Pull him apart, emotion by emotion, bit by bit, bloody chunk by bloody chunk. Then combine them back together into something else, like a Dysian Aimian. If you do put a man together like that, Dalinar, be sure to name him Gibberish, after me. Or perhaps Gibletish.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 516, + "length": 517, "id": 7705 }, { "text": "I've abandoned my real name. But when next we meet, I'll think of a clever one for you to call me. Until then, Wit will suffice -- or if you must, you may call me Hoid.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 166, + "length": 168, "id": 7706 }, { @@ -39024,7 +39025,7 @@ { "text": "Tanavast was a fine enough fellow -- bought me drinks once -- but he was not God.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 77, + "length": 81, "id": 7708 }, { @@ -39090,7 +39091,7 @@ { "text": "Ah, those words.\nI've heard those words. I've said those words. The words that proclaim, in bald-faced arrogance, \"I don't trust you to make your own decisions.\" The words we pretend will soften the blow, yet instead layer condescension on top of already existent pain. Like dirt on a corpse.\nOh yes. I've said those words. I said them with sixteen other people, in fact.", "source": "Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 372, + "length": 371, "id": 7719 }, { @@ -39174,13 +39175,13 @@ { "text": "He was no simple soldier. He was a force of leadership -- a man that fate itself seemed to support.", "source": "The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 96, + "length": 99, "id": 7733 }, { "text": "I think I've finally discovered why Rashek resents me so very much. He does not believe that an outsider such as myself -- a foreigner -- could possibly be the Hero of Ages. He believes that I have somehow tricked the philosophers, that I wear the piercings of the Hero unjustly.", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 277, + "length": 279, "id": 7734 }, { @@ -39228,7 +39229,7 @@ { "text": "You offer hope, Your Grace. A last, unlikely hope. Hope is part of faith -- part of the knowledge that someday, one of your followers will receive a miracle.", "source": "Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 154, + "length": 157, "id": 7742 }, { @@ -39264,7 +39265,7 @@ { "text": "I am God, God cannot be killed, God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion -- you think I haven't seen its like before? You think I haven't destroyed entire armies on my own? What will it take before you people stop questioning? How many centuries must I prove myself before you idiot skaa see the truth? How many of you must I kill!", "source": "The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 328, + "length": 331, "id": 7748 }, { @@ -39306,7 +39307,7 @@ { "text": "It strikes me that religion -- in its essence -- seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 296, + "length": 302, "id": 7755 }, { @@ -39462,13 +39463,13 @@ { "text": "As long as I'm working against Vey I know I am doing something good -- even if I don't pay much attention to what is actually happening", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 133, + "length": 135, "id": 7781 }, { "text": "When you steal a man's fortune, give him a title mocked and reviled by the rest of the nation -- and when you give him five years to contemplate his hatred -- make sure you never give him a chance to get revenge.", "source": "White Sand, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 208, + "length": 212, "id": 7782 }, { @@ -39540,7 +39541,7 @@ { "text": "Wax is not a friend. We were never friends -- no more than two rival kings could ever be friends. We respect each other, we did similar jobs, and we worked together. It ends there.", "source": "The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 177, + "length": 180, "id": 7794 }, { @@ -39630,7 +39631,7 @@ { "text": "Our law will claim innocent men -- for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 202, + "length": 205, "id": 7809 }, { @@ -39642,13 +39643,13 @@ { "text": "I understand. Assuming these were fully mine, and I were allowed, it would not be enough. I could wave my hand, heal this boy's body -- but I'd return in several weeks and find him starving again, because the systems that caused this suffering are still in place... So I change the systems...", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 290, + "length": 292, "id": 7811 }, { "text": "He loved them. Oh, how he loved this city, with its art, and its library, and its many hospitals that took any patient without cost. He even loved the secret portions of those hospitals, where people had died at the hands of his surgeons, killed to gather their Death Rattles. Sacrifices made in a terrible, but important quest -- for that had once been his sole way to gain insight into the future.\nHis policies ensured the greatest good. In Kharbranth he found justification, for here was a city that -- in war -- knew peace...\nWas that enough? He began to weep, for he knew it would not be enough.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 614, + "length": 600, "id": 7812 }, { @@ -39660,13 +39661,13 @@ { "text": "What is this one death to you? Your government does worse every day. Your non-Radiant Soulcasters? Slowly consumed by their powers to provide food. The darkeyes -- the slaves you didn't want to free -- toil, giving their best years to their betters. You let innocent men be hanged so that justice may be applied evenly. You let soldiers die, and children on the other side starve, so your people at home can greet each other with cheerful mornings.\nThis is the actual nature of virtue and leadership. And if you aren't willing to dirty your pristine, godly, oh-so-righteous hands with it... then I name you a coward. The worst kind of hypocrite.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 639, + "length": 645, "id": 7814 }, { "text": "Admit it, Jasnah. You only seek your greater good. You protect your kingdom, and your people, above others. Your philosophy is deeply flawed, for you cannot know what is best for all. A mortal cannot think of Roshar at large -- let alone the cosmere. Have you imagined how many planets there are, how many people? Would you let Roshar be destroyed to protect them?", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 361, + "length": 364, "id": 7815 }, { @@ -39720,7 +39721,7 @@ { "text": "Penrod is an honorable man. Or, at least, as honorable as noblemen get -- which means that he insists on being seen as honorable.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 127, + "length": 129, "id": 7824 }, { @@ -39762,13 +39763,13 @@ { "text": "You know, you could have left a scar. I had to go through an awful lot to get that wound -- you should have seen how courageous I was. My grandchildren are going to be disappointed that I don't have any scars to show them.", "source": "Elantris, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 220, + "length": 222, "id": 7831 }, { "text": "A good king is one who is trusted by his people -- and one who deserves that trust.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 82, + "length": 83, "id": 7832 }, { @@ -39798,7 +39799,7 @@ { "text": "Do you know why I love you, Sazed? Because you never give in. Other men are strong like bricks -- firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You ... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm. I don't think any of your friends understand what a power they had in you.", "source": "Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 370, + "length": 369, "id": 7837 }, { @@ -39834,7 +39835,7 @@ { "text": "Other men ... other men, as they age, merely grow stranger. I fear that I am one of those. I am the bones of a foreign species left drying on the plain that was once, long ago, a sea. A curiosity, perhaps a reminder, that all has not always been as it is now.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 261, + "length": 259, "id": 7843 }, { @@ -39882,7 +39883,7 @@ { "text": "They thought that people were more likely to manifest powers if their lives were in danger. So... they'd put lives in danger. Members of their own group -- never an innocent outsider, bless the winds. But that was bad enough. I watched people let themselves be pushed off cliffs, watched them tied in place with a candle slowly burning a rope until it snapped and dropped a rock to crush them.", "source": "Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 389, + "length": 393, "id": 7851 }, { @@ -40050,7 +40051,7 @@ { "text": "Dalinar remembered. Her name had been Evi. She'd been tall and willowy, with pale yellow hair -- not true golden, like the hair of the Iriali, but striking in its own right.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 170, + "length": 173, "id": 7879 }, { @@ -40080,13 +40081,13 @@ { "text": "It seemed that Dalinar had been four people in his life. The bloodlusty warrior, who killed wherever he was pointed, and the consequences could go to Damnation.\nThe general, who had feigned distinguished civility -- when secretly, he'd longed to get back on the battlefield so he could shed more blood. Third, the broken man. The one who paid for the actions of the youth.\nThen finally, the fourth man: most false of them all. The man who had given up his memories so he could pretend to be something better.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 507, + "length": 508, "id": 7884 }, { "text": "If you become that first man again, it will stop hurting. In your youth, you did what needed to be done. You were stronger then.\nIs this leadership? To cry each night? To shake and tremble? Those are the actions of a child, not a man.\nGive me your pain.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 255, + "length": 253, "id": 7885 }, { @@ -40188,7 +40189,7 @@ { "text": "Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers -- the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes", "source": "The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 260, + "length": 261, "id": 7902 }, { @@ -40248,7 +40249,7 @@ { "text": "Every kingdom needs, to be able to exercise its right to conflict -- as a last resort when its misery becomes unbearable.", "source": "Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7912 }, { @@ -40260,7 +40261,7 @@ { "text": "They didn't care that the Blackthorn was a heretic -- or even whether he usurped the throne of Alethkar. They cared that he had a plan for dealing with the enemy, long-term.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 172, + "length": 173, "id": 7914 }, { @@ -40290,7 +40291,7 @@ { "text": "Perhaps the liar here is me -- lying to tell myself I could do this, that I could be a fraction of the man my father was.", "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 120, + "length": 121, "id": 7919 } ] From 5a012dcda347eda372bbd441bcb8fe50d5b49208 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:29:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 47/51] fix(quotes) fixed length on quote 7853 --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 8afc0d7818d6..7b477ce4f53a 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -39895,7 +39895,7 @@ { "text": "I'm bigger than some. Smaller than some -- but not very many. That means I'm old.", "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 79, + "length": 81, "id": 7853 }, { From 626b97af8ef5585aa0013bace9e9932bdb1a331d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:06:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 48/51] fix(quotes): fixed spelling of source for some of the books --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 7b477ce4f53a..2e40976ef2f1 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38580,7 +38580,7 @@ }, { "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 138, "id": 7634 }, @@ -38892,25 +38892,25 @@ }, { "text": "Anonymity. Hiding, even when you're with others. Being quiet, unobtrusive. Forcing yourself to stay apart -- emotionally, at least. It's a way of life. A protection.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7686 }, { "text": "I'm particularly tired. I'm tired of the games. I'm tired of people dying because of arguments between their leaders. I'm tired of good men being taken advantage of.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 165, "id": 7687 }, { "text": "You brought armies to attack my city. You threatened my people. I won't slaughter your soldiers, make them pay for what you did, but I will kill you, Cett.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 155, "id": 7688 }, { "text": "I already overthrew one government. I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.", - "source": "The Well of Ascention, Brandon Sanderson", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 92, "id": 7689 }, From 54ea53ceb6f6cc6adb448867745c605f81695c03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:57:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 49/51] fix: merge --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 2e40976ef2f1..4062d9491d5f 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38579,15 +38579,15 @@ "id": 7633 }, { - "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", - "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 138, + "text": "We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.", + "source": "Terence McKenna", + "length": 224, "id": 7634 }, { - "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 236, + "text": "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.", + "source": "Martin Luther King Jr.", + "length": 199, "id": 7635 }, { From 46b20174f8a33e1a4f2f0ce8120cfd5bcd28d4bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:52:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 50/51] chore(quotes): merge --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 4062d9491d5f..9f5e0d72c356 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38591,15 +38591,15 @@ "id": 7635 }, { - "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 203, + "text": "Long ago, two races ruled over Earth: Humans and Monsters. One day, war broke out between the two races. After a long battle, the humans were victorious. They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell. Many years later... Mt. Ebott, 201X. Legends say that those who climb the mountain never return.", + "source": "Undertale", + "length": 307, "id": 7636 }, { - "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 423, + "text": "For millennia, light and dark have lived in balance, bringing peace to the world. But if this harmony were to shatter... a terrible calamity would occur. The sky will run black with terror and the land will crack with fear. Then, her heart pounding... the Earth will draw her final breath. Only then, shining with hope... three heroes appear at worlds' edge. A human, a monster, and a prince from the dark. Only they can seal the fountains and banish the Angel's Heaven. Only then will balance be restored, and the world saved from destruction. Today, the Fountain of Darkness - the geyser that gives this land form - stands tall at the centre of the kingdom. But recently, another fountain has appeared on the horizon... and with it, the balance of light and dark begins to shift...", + "source": "Deltarune", + "length": 783, "id": 7637 }, { @@ -40293,6 +40293,30 @@ "source": "Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 121, "id": 7919 + }, + { + "text": "There are two ways to stay safe. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.", + "source": "The Well of Ascencion, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 138, + "id": 7920 + }, + { + "text": "\"Ah, Vin,\" Ruin said, its voice almost fatherly in tone. \"You act as if I were your enemy.\"\n\"You are my enemy. You seek to end the things I love.\"\n\"And is an ending always bad?\" it asked. \"Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?\"", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 236, + "id": 7921 + }, + { + "text": "Do not mourn because the day of this world's end has arrived. That end was ordained the very day of the world's conception. There is a beauty in death -- the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 203, + "id": 7922 + }, + { + "text": "This process we are engaged in, the end of all things -- it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker -- the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 423, + "id": 7923 } ] } From 88a4b5ce38cc216fb1520d287ac068b447324826 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimMayr Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:53:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 51/51] chore(quotes): merge --- frontend/static/quotes/english.json | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json index 9f5e0d72c356..ad64927d56f4 100644 --- a/frontend/static/quotes/english.json +++ b/frontend/static/quotes/english.json @@ -38603,9 +38603,9 @@ "id": 7637 }, { - "text": "You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. Of all those I've claimed over this brief thousand years, you are the only one I think just might be able to understand me.", - "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", - "length": 198, + "text": "You don't have to be the bad guy. You are the most talented, most interesting, and most extraordinary person in the universe. And you are capable of amazing things. Because you are the Special. And so am I. And so is everyone. The prophecy is made up, but it's also true. It's about all of us. Right now, it's about you. And you... still... can change everything.", + "source": "The LEGO Movie", + "length": 363, "id": 7638 }, { @@ -40317,6 +40317,12 @@ "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", "length": 423, "id": 7923 + }, + { + "text": "You are a piece of me, you know. Beautiful destroyer. Blunt and effective. Of all those I've claimed over this brief thousand years, you are the only one I think just might be able to understand me.", + "source": "The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson", + "length": 198, + "id": 7924 } ] }